063: How to Cultivate Self-Compassion with Dr. Kristin Neff
Feel Good Effect
Robyn Conley Downs
4.9 • 725 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today’s guest is self compassion expert, Dr. Kristin Neff, an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas, Austin and a pioneer in field of self compassion research.
In this conversation, we dive into how to cultivate self compassion in your own life, what it has to do with well being, and how to use self compassion to reach wellness goals.
Dr. Neff talks about how to use mindfulness, kindness in response, and framing imperfection in light of the human experience to experience compassion. She talks about how self compassion is not self esteem, self pity, weak, or selfish.
Listen to learn more about why self compassion is so important, and how to make it a part of your life.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Feel Good Effect. Today, we are going deep into self-compassion. So what |
| 0:06.0 | does that even mean? How to cultivate self-compassion in your own life? What it has to do with |
| 0:11.7 | well-being and how to use self-compassion to reach your wellness goals. This is a must listen, |
| 0:17.0 | so let's make it happen. Welcome to the Feel Good Effect. I'm your host, Robin Conley |
| 0:25.3 | Downs, and I help people find time and create space in their lives for what matters most |
| 0:31.1 | by sharing simplified strategies for wellness. This podcast is all about real talk, real wellness, and unpacking what it really |
| 0:40.3 | means to be healthy. Hey, feel good effect community. I am so glad you're here. Today we are |
| 0:48.8 | talking with self-compassional expert Dr. Kristen Neff. And to be honest with you guys, |
| 0:53.7 | I've been trying to get her on the show forever. |
| 0:55.6 | I think since we started this podcast, she's extremely busy, but also just really devoted to the work. |
| 1:01.4 | She's not someone that's out there on the PR circuit. And so I just really appreciate that she's giving us this gift of her time and her knowledge. |
| 1:08.7 | So a little more about Kristen. She's the associate professor |
| 1:11.6 | of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and she's a pioneer in the field |
| 1:16.7 | of self-compassion research. She conducted the first empirical studies on self-compassion |
| 1:21.5 | over a decade ago and has written numerous articles, book chapters, and her own books and programs |
| 1:27.0 | as well that will mention. I talk about gentle over perfect all the chapters, and her own books and programs as well that will mention. I talk about |
| 1:29.1 | gentle over perfect all the time. And at its core, gentle over perfect is about embracing and |
| 1:34.7 | cultivating self-compassion. So here's the thing. As someone who's been in the industry for a while |
| 1:39.3 | now, I can tell you a sure path to success is to make up a new diet or a new trendy exercise program |
| 1:45.0 | to tell people how to lose 10 pounds into 30 days or change their lives into what is not as |
| 1:50.0 | popular is talking about mindset and embracing self-compassion. But here's the truth, the secret that |
| 1:56.3 | may be missing for you. Self-compassion is linked with overall well-being, but also reaching your |
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