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Why is it often so much easier to be compassionate towards others, than it is to be compassionate towards ourselves? In my conversation with Kristin Neff, author of the bestselling books Self-Compassion and Fierce Self-Compassion, we discuss how having compassion for oneself is really no different than having compassion for others. We are all worthy of compassion, it is not something to be earned, but is intrinsic to all humans.

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3 Takeaways

  1. Ask yourself, “Would I say this, what I'm saying to myself, to someone I really cared about?”
  2. We need both tender self-compassion and fierce self-compassion.
  3. We can harness the energy of anger and focus it on what we are trying to achieve.
  4. Kristin Neff is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion nearly twenty years ago. She is author of the bestselling books Self-Compassion and Fierce Self-Compassion.

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