by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | Mar 20, 2022 | Cancer, Caring, Currency of Empathy, Empathy, Empathy for Self, Empathy with Our Bodies, Fun, Healing, Healing from Cancer
Sharon and Jackie enjoying Istanbul, March 2022 While living in Istanbul, I’m learning Turkish. It’s not an easy language to pick up, but it’s a fun, rhythmic, and poetic language to practice. It’s also succinct. A few words say a lot. People appreciate that I try and...
by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | Mar 12, 2022 | #CurrencyOfEmpathy, Empathy, Politics, Uncategorized
This discussion of the power of #empathy to heal our world is one of the most thoughtful I’ve had. Timely too. Longtime friend Daniel Stid* poses some excellent questions as usual, and I did my best to answer them....
by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | Mar 4, 2022 | Cancer, Empathy, Empathy in Medicine, Empathy with Our Bodies, Entrepreneurship, Healing from Cancer, Ovarian Cancer
Jackie and John, Istanbul, March 2, 2022 (2nd anniversary of ovarian cancer surgery) Maybe. At the beginning, those of us with difficult cancer diagnoses hope to do the unlikely: survive the treatment, ring the bell, and be in “remission.” We imagine all the ways and...
by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | Feb 23, 2022 | Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Cancer Treatment, Entrepreneurship, Ovarian Cancer
Jacob Butze, on vacation in France, before being diagnosed with ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia) As an ovarian cancer warrior/survivor/patient/victim/thriver over 2 years, I’ve been told countless times to: Be brave! Be strong! Be positive! Here’s what I can...
by Jackie Acho, Ph.D. | Feb 15, 2022 | Cleveland Police, Culture of Empathy, Empathy, Police, Police reform
For the past 6 years, we have been successfully working with the Cleveland Police on empathy-centered cultural reform. NYPD and the National Fraternal Order of Police have inquired about this potential national model, which is unprecedented and widely needed. In a 6...