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Feeling Overwhelmed? Remember RAIN: Four Steps to Stop Being So Hard on Ourselves
By Tara Brach — 2019
In order to flower, self-compassion depends on honest, direct contact with our own vulnerability. Compassion fully blossoms when we actively offer care to ourselves.
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