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Podcast: Tiny Bites of Wagaliciousness
Episode: Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites - Finding Compassion for a Jerk
Description: Did someone cause you pain? It might have been emotional pain or physical pain, and it hurt. A lot. It’s tempting to want to get back at them, or to defend yourself or explain your side of the story to others.
Tempting, and for your wellbeing, please resist the temptation.
The desire for revenge is a deep-seated human desire that lights up the same place in our brains that being rewarded lights up. That means that it feels good to think about exacting revenge, and might even feel good in the moment that we ge...