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I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

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from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

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Hello and welcome to episode 153 of the Mindful Kain podcast.

I hope you're having a really lovely week and I'm so excited to be chatting with you today about self-compassion. I really want to start this episode with

some honesty and let you know that I struggle with self-compassion. So if you try any of the tips in

this episode and they feel

difficult or strange or uncomfortable, I'm right here in the same boat with you. If you've spent

a lot of time criticizing yourself or being criticized by others or avoiding feelings because

you thought they were bad or regretting mistakes you think that you've

made, then being self-compassionate might be tricky, especially at the start. So I just want to

reassure you that if you do find it difficult to be kind and understanding towards yourself,

you are not alone and it can definitely get so much easier.

So you might be wondering what self-compassion actually is. When we are self-compassionate,

we are able to treat ourselves with respect and kindness, use positive and supportive self-talk.

It's about recognising and acknowledging pain or vulnerability or challenging emotions when we feel them and having empathy for ourselves. Being

self-compassionate means we see ourselves as human beings, mistakes and flaws and faults and all, and we embrace all of

that with love and acceptance. I thought I'd take a little bit of time to share an example of

self-compassion. So imagine you've just completed a big work project that you spent a lot of time on and your boss has given it

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