A Powerful Lesson in Self-Compassion: Are You Allergic to Honey?
āIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.ā ~Dalai Lama
When things donāt go as planned, is your go-to explanation that itās because you did something wrong, or because thereās something wrong with you? For many people, self-compassion is a real challenge.
Most of us want to be kinder to ourselves, but our self-critical, perfectionistic patterns are often well-established, and itās hard to know how to interrupt them.
When I was in graduate school, I was driving home from school one evening when I noticed that my car was overheating. …
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