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Healing Your Shame and Guilt Through Self-Forgiveness

By Beverly Engel — 2017

These four avenues can lead you toward self-forgiveness.

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Personalize Your Loving-Kindness Meditation

Self-compassion is one of the greatest gifts you can offer yourself. Use this guide to craft loving-kindness phrases that feel meaningful for you.

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Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer
2019
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Too Hard on Yourself? Why a Little Self-Compassion Can Take You a Long Way

Let’s face it, if there’s one thing many of us are good at, it is beating up on ourselves. Despite how kind we can be to those around us in difficult moments, many people can be outright cruel to themselves. Let's change that.

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Margie Warrell
2018
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Why Self-Compassion Trumps Self-Esteem

Researcher Kristin Neff reveals the benefits of going easy on yourself: less anxiety, less conflict, and more peace of mind.

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Kristin Neff
2011
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Why Women Need Fierce Self-Compassion

Compassion isn’t always soft and gentle; sometimes it means being forceful and fierce.

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Kristin Neff
2018
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The Five Myths of Self-Compassion

Kristin Neff tackles the misconceptions that stop us from being kinder to ourselves.

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Kristin Neff
2015
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Why Self-Compassion Works Better Than Self-Esteem

Boosting your ego won’t make you feel better. Instead, try talking to yourself like you would your best friend.

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Olga Khazan
2016
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Tara Brach’s Non-Radical Approach to ‘Radical Compassion’

Through the acronym RAIN (Recognize-Allow-Investigate-Nurture) we can awaken the qualities of mature compassion—an embodied, mindful presence, active caring, and an all-inclusive heart.

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Susan Pascal
2020
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Remember RAIN: Four Steps to Stop Being So Hard on Ourselves

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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Tara Brach
2019
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RAIN Dissolves Limiting Beliefs

One of the great blocks to realizing the gold of who we are is our conviction that something is wrong with me.

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Tara Brach
2020
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