BITESIZE | How to Silence Your Inner Critic (and Why You Should) | Dr Kristin Neff #589

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Self-compassion is a crucial ingredient that is often overlooked when it comes to living a happier and healthier life. Feel Better Live More Bitesize is my weekly podcast for your mind, body, and heart. Each week I’ll be featuring inspirational stories and practical tips from some of my former guests. Today’s clip is from episode 163 of the podcast with one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion Dr Kristin Neff. In this clip, she explains why self-compassion is so important for our wellbeing and our physical and mental health. She also gives some great tips to help us all silence our own inner critic. Kristin takes us through a beautiful practical exercise in finding self-compassion that I think you will really enjoy. This is such an important topic that doesn’t get spoken about enough in the conversation around health. Thanks to our sponsor ⁠⁠⁠https://www.drinkag1.com/livemore⁠⁠ Show notes and the full podcast are available at https://drchatterjee.com/163 Support the podcast and enjoy Ad-Free episodes. Try FREE for 7 days on Apple Podcasts ⁠⁠https://apple.co/feelbetterlivemore⁠⁠ For other podcast platforms go to ⁠⁠https://fblm.supercast.com. DISCLAIMER: The content in the podcast and on this webpage is not intended to constitute or be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or other qualified health care provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking it because of something you have heard on the podcast or on my website.

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1:13.6	Welcome to Feel Better Live More bite size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend.
1:24.6	Today's clip is from episode 163 of the podcast with one of the world's leading experts
1:31.4	on self-compassion, Dr. Kristen Neff.
1:35.7	In this clip, she explains why self-compassion is so important for our health and shares
1:42.0	some tips that can help all of us silence our own inner critic.
1:49.8	Something I've observed over the years is when you look at the patients who really transform and
1:59.6	change their lives, not just in the short term, but also in the medium
2:04.8	term and long term, I'm seeing that it actually is because of self-compassion. It's those
2:11.3	ones who start to quieten down and then ultimately eliminates that inner voice, that nasty inner voice in their
2:19.4	heads, that actually starts to change things. So I feel that self-compassion is really important
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