48: Being Intentional About Self-Compassion with Lilit Lewis
Well To The Core
Robin Long
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re talking about self-talk and self-compassion - this is something we talk a lot about at The Balanced Life and is so important to our overall health.
Many of us will start a health + fitness journey and focus on all the physical components, but sometimes we fail to address what is going on inside our head, thoughts, and mind. We also fail to look at how that impacts the way we feel and act, our relationships, and our self-worth. All of this is connected. It can be a huge mistake to embark on a health and wellness journey without addressing the mental side of things. That includes mental health, emotional health, and how we talk to ourselves.
How we’re talking to ourselves, and the thoughts we’re thinking, affect the way we feel and affect our ability to be successful and make positive changes in our lives as a whole
Join Robin and her guest, Lilit Lewis, as they address the topic of self-talk and self-compassion. Lilit is a licensed marriage and family therapist and is a proponent of self-compassion. She has a wealth of information to share. This episode is one that everyone needs to hear.
Show highlights:
- What self-compassion looks like.
- How self-compassion speaks to our self-talk.
- Some tips for becoming more aware of your thoughts and recognizing negative self-talk.
- Ways to break out of the habit of negative self-talk.
- The pay-off you get from making the shift to practice more self-compassion.
- Why you need to step in and practice self-compassion with purpose and intent.
- What self-compassion looks like when there have been negative consequences to your choices.
- The best place to start with self-compassion.
- Some tips for when you’re struggling to have compassion for yourself and find yourself having negative self-talk.
- The impact on the other relationships in our lives when we change to have a more positive relationship with ourselves.
Links in this episode:
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Book mentioned: Mindful Compassion by Paul Gilbert
Lilit’s website: Lilit Lewis Therapy
Lilit on Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Robin Long, Pilates instructor and founder of the balanced life. |
| 0:12.4 | Here on the Balance Life podcast, you'll find honest conversations on health, wellness, self-care, work-life balance, and everything in between. We'll cover it all and provide |
| 0:22.8 | inspiration, resources, and practical tips to help you create your own uniquely balanced life |
| 0:29.6 | and become the healthiest version of yourself, inside and out. Hi, friends, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm so excited about today's episode. We're going to be diving into a topic that I am very passionate about and it's something that we talk about quite a bit |
| 0:45.3 | here at the balanced life. We're going to be talking about self-talk and self-compassion. This is |
| 0:51.0 | something that is unique about the balanced life approach to health and wellness. |
| 0:55.3 | While you might join a fitness program or go to a specific gym or do something for your health |
| 1:01.8 | where they purely focus on your exercises, your muscles, your calorie burn, all of those physical |
| 1:08.5 | components, but fail to address the really important part of |
| 1:12.9 | the picture that is what's going on inside our heads, what's going on in our thoughts and in our |
| 1:18.8 | mind, and how does that impact the way we feel, the way we act, our relationships, our level |
| 1:25.7 | of self-worth. It's all connected. And I think it's a huge mistake |
| 1:29.7 | to embark on a health and wellness journey and not address the mental side of things, |
| 1:34.6 | the mental health, the emotional health, and how we're talking to ourselves. Because how we're |
| 1:39.2 | talking to ourselves and the thoughts that we're thinking not only affects the way we feel, |
| 1:43.4 | but also our ability |
| 1:44.6 | to be successful and make changes and positive changes in our lives that affect us |
| 1:50.1 | and also the lives around us. So I'm super excited for today's guest. I invited an old friend |
| 1:57.0 | of mine to address this topic with me and to share her expertise and wisdom. Her name is |
| 2:03.7 | Lilith Lewis and she's a licensed marriage and family therapist. We went to college together and |
| 2:09.4 | she recently started seeing clients online virtually and she has such a great perspective on all of |
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