{"id":59774,"date":"2025-10-28T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=59774"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:36:32","slug":"motivational-monday-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=59774","title":{"rendered":"Motivational Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

October 27, 2025 – Empathy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Empathy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

the ability to understand and share the feelings of another<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEmpathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n– Alfred Adler (1870-1937)
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\u201cAn exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>

\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n– Tarana Burke (born 1973)
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Tarana Burke – Activist<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Tarana Burke<\/strong> (born September 12, 1973) is an American activist from New York City, who started the MeToo movement. In 2006, Burke began Me Too<\/strong> as a youth program for junior and high school students with the goal of addressing the rampant sexual violence in the community.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Over a decade later, in 2017, #MeToo<\/strong> became a viral hashtag when Alyssa Milano<\/strong> encouraged women to tweet the words if they had experienced abuse and harassment in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases. The phrase and hashtag quickly developed into a broad-based, and eventually international viral movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time <\/strong>named Burke<\/strong>, among a group of other prominent activists dubbed “the silence breakers”<\/em>, as the Time Person of the Year for 2017. Burke founded me too. International in 2018, as a container for the movement and serves as Chief Vision Officer.<\/p>\nWikipedia<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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