Welcome to a bonus episode of The Whole View. I'm Stacy Toth of Real Everything and I'm here each week to dive deeper into how we can find happiness and help inside and out through self-love, body positivity, and discovering new ways to be our best selves.

Before we get started, a reminder this podcast is for general educational purposes and is not intended to diagnose,

advise or treat any physical or mental illness.

We always recommend that you see a licensed

teleprofessional accordingly.

And this month, you get two bonus shows listeners

because I wanted to tackle the month of romance. It is February, but it's also the month of love for yourself. And as we consider self love and self care. It also brings in self compassion and I'm excited to introduce you to

Natalie Kogan who is here to walk us through two practices that are great to incorporate journaling and practicing

emotional fitness skills.

Natalie is on a mission to help millions of people cultivate their happier skills by making simple scientifically backed practices part of their daily life.

Natalie has appeared on hundreds of media outlets including the New York Times,

Wall Street Journal, TEDX Boston, South by Southwest, the Harvard Women's Leadership Conference,

and the Dr. A show. And she lives with her family outside of Boston, and you can find more about

her and her socials at happier.com, but you recently published the

awesome human journal, a toolkit for tough days, the good days and all the days in between,

which is a fantastic resource for those of us looking to incorporate more

self-compassion. It's bright yellow with cheerful art, so I'm wondering if you can tell us a little more about it and yourself, maybe some about your past and what

inspired you into your current work before we get into more about the journal?

Sure.

Nothing in my past would suggest to me that I would spend my life teaching people how to practice more

self-compassion.

I came to the US as a refugee from Russia when I was a teenager and it was a really difficult experience as you can

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