Category: Self Compassion

Self-Compassion: Six Ways to Practice Showing Up For Yourself

6/10/2022

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Self-Compassion Helped Me Survive

It was during my daughter’s cancer treatment that I had a lot of practice being there for myself. We stayed in the hospital for seven months, and everyday I lived in terror that she might not make it. My number one priority was to be there for her, but in order to do that, I had to function alongside many intense and overwhelming emotions.

Grieving Awake: When There Are No Words

6/3/2022

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Sometimes, in grief, there are no words to describe what we have experienced or the depth of the pain that we feel. There are just no words. I often find myself in this place, and it can be really lonely. I want to tell people how much I miss my daughter, how I’d give anything to hold her again, to go back in time to before she got sick. I want to say these things, but often I just can’t. It feels like too much and not enough, all at the same time.

Accepting Your Inner Critic

4/29/2022

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Help Your Inner Critic Relax

Having an activated inner critic—a voice that’s constantly telling us all the ways in which we aren’t good enough or how we should be different—sucks. It’s painful and usually goes hand-in-hand with guilt, anxiety, and low self-esteem. So, it’s completely normal to wish your inner critic would just disappear.

Anger: The Canary in the Coal Mine

4/8/2022

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Anger as a Wise Messenger

Out of all the emotions, anger might be the most demonized and misunderstood. But anger is a wise messenger that has a very specific purpose. Anger is our body’s way of telling us that something isn’t right. That something needs to change (even if the factor that needs to adjust in the situation is us).

Often it’s trying to tell us that a boundary has been crossed. Sometimes it’s letting us know that there are other emotions in our system that need our attention—it’s common for us to discover that under anger is a deep well of unacknowledged disappointment, sadness, or grief.

But regardless of the exact message of your anger in the moment, one thing is certain, anger is an alarm system. It’s the canary in the coal mine. It’s our body’s way of alerting us to a problem, and learning to listen to it is imperative.

We are Taught to Suppress Our Anger

Working Mindfully with "Shoulds": Recognizing Your Inner Critic

3/18/2022

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