This has been a hard year. But what if we could learn to transform our losses, grief, and challenges into healing, wholeness, and hope? As humans, we have done it before and we can do it again. Recent discoveries in neuroscience confirm what wisdom traditions have taught for ages: compassion is a heartfelt awareness of suffering and a willingness to respond skillfully which can be deliberately learned, practiced, and strengthened. In fact, a growing body of research shows that training…