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A Gift Idea Worth Paying – Attention To

In this season of giving, psychiatrist and renowned authority in consciousness research David Hawkins offers a gift idea worth paying attention to: “Make a gift of your life by being kind, considerate, forgiving,...

Hope In Seasons Of Discouragement

All of us have to deal with discouragement. At different times in our lives, circumstances seem to conspire against us, beat us down, and leave us feeling unequal to the task and overwhelmed by challenges. When we...

The Magic of Love

It is amazing what love can do. How strong and resilient and determined and kind it is. How it enables us to endure difficulties and find our True North in the middle of the inevitable storms of life. Sometimes it...

Celebrating the 2019 Employee Catalyst Awardees

The early December morning last week brought a refreshing briskness to the day outside, while stories of compassion filled hearts with warmth and energized spirits inside at the 2019 Empath Health Catalyst Awards...

A Poem For Hope

A beautiful poem about hope. Hope not only for the future but for the past. Do you have hope for the future? Someone asked Robert Frost, toward the end. Yes, and even for the past, he replied, That it will turn out...

What Fills Your Life With Joy and Meaning? A Thanksgiving Reflection

Thanksgiving is a time to pause and reflect upon all of the things that fill our lives with joy and meaning. The love and loyalty of family and friends. The fulfillment of meaningful work. The thrill of adventure....

A Meaningful Life

As human beings, we are “meaning-makers.” Our actions and our relationships are potentially filled with meaning. This meaning isn’t something that we have to search for and hopefully find; it is something that...

Making an Impact on Care – JillAnne Fowler

Congratulations to our October Impact Award winner, JillAnne Fowler, teen volunteer coordinator serving central Pinellas County. Fowler joined Empath Health in 2007 and has helped shaped the lives of close to 1,500...

Joy, Sorrow and Unexpected Guests

What would it look like if we imagined Joy and Sorrow as guests in our home? Sorrow usually walks right in, uninvited, demanding all of our attention. Meanwhile, Joy stands outside, quietly and politely knocking,...