Empathy Is the New Mindfulness

It’s a skill and a practice

Kelli María Korducki
Forge
Published in
4 min readMar 13, 2020

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EEarlier this month, I got into a political disagreement with an old friend online. At that moment, the electoral outcomes of Super Tuesday loomed much larger in my mind than the fear of COVID-19 pandemic — truly, a different time. But each of these anxiety-inducing scenarios leads to a similar lesson: We have to look out for each other, in big ways and small. We…

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Kelli María Korducki
Forge
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