Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

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

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 169 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, I thought it might be nice to talk about

self-acceptance, including what self-acceptance is and 11 tips for being more accepting of

ourselves. Just a quick warning, this episode was getting really long, so I've broken it down into

two parts.

You'll hear the first four tips in this episode and the rest of the tips in episode 170.

Before I dive into it, I'd just like to share a lovely review from iTunes, which was written on the 20th of January 2019 by Amazing Alice Magic. She wrote, I'm quite new to the podcast world and have struggled to find podcasts to engage me until the mindful kind. Listening to the podcast is like

sitting down, chatting with a friend, relaxing and natural. Great content, mindful practices to try and very calming.

Looking forward to your book this year. This was such a sweet review and I'm incredibly grateful

for all of my lovely listeners who take the time to write reviews. So thank you so much.

Now as I mentioned, this episode is all about self-acceptance, and I'm so excited to talk about

this because it's been a huge journey for me personally.

I've worked really hard over the last few years to positively change the way I think about

myself and how I talk to myself and how I perceive myself.

I used to struggle a lot with accepting myself and it was really hard sometimes.

I think a lot of my anxiety and experiences with depression, particularly as a teenager,

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