when you're struggling or things are difficult or maybe you make a mistake or you

look in the mirror you don't like what you see and just ask yourself really simply

what I say this to someone I really cared about a good friend or maybe my child

and if the answer is no right you can just say well what would I say to someone I cared about

and you can use that as the template for how to speak to yourself

I'm Amy and I'm Abby and as women we are constantly comparing ourselves to others

but your life isn't supposed to look like hers being your best self means standing firm in your

decisions and always being willing to grow with a purpose we get vulnerable and real with an

honest look into the challenges and triumphs we all face every woman listening gets the opportunity

to choose what life looks like for herself

today we have an incredibly special treat for you we have the pleasure of interviewing Dr.

Kristen Nath Kristen is an absolute legend and pioneer in the field of self compassion

we've been wanting to interview her forever because we know that a lot of women struggle with

giving themselves compassion Kristen is a professor of educational psychology at the

University of Texas at Austin and she received her doctorate from the University of California

at Berkeley she is the author of the book self compassion the proven power of being kind to

yourself of what I very much enjoyed Kristen please introduce yourself for our audience

and I would love to hear how you got started in the field of self compassion oh sure okay wonderful

thank you so much for having me on so yeah so really my life's work is self compassion I've been

doing research on this topic for about 20 years and about the last 10 years I've really been

focused on how to teach people to be more self compassionate but I certainly didn't come up with

the idea I first learned about it about 25 years ago is when I was finishing up my PhD at University

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