Dr. Kristin Neff: ...having self-compassion is a superpower

Nobody Told Me!

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Do you practice self-compassion? Do you give yourself the same kindness and care that you’d give to a good friend? If not, why not? Our guest on this episode, Dr. Kristin Neff, is one of the world’s experts on self-compassion. She’s the author of several books on the topic including the latest, which is called, "FIERCE SELF-COMPASSION: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive". Her website is self-compassion.org.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens and I'm Jan Black.
0:16.0	And here's a question for you to think about. Do you practice self-compassion? Do you give yourself the same kindness
0:22.3	and care that you'd give to a good friend? And if not, why not? Our guest on this episode,
0:27.7	Dr. Kristen Neff, is one of the world's experts on self-compassion. She's the author of several
0:33.2	books on the topic, including the latest, which is called fierce self-compassion, how women can
0:38.9	harness kindness to speak up, claim their power, and thrive. Thank you so much for joining us.
0:45.2	Oh, thank you so much for having me. I'm really happy to be here. How do you define self-compassion?
0:51.1	What is it in your view? Well, the easy way to think about it is simply treating
0:55.9	yourself with the same kindness, care, and support that you would naturally show to a good
1:01.5	friend or anyone you cared about. So compassion actually, passion means suffer, calm means with.
1:09.3	So it's the way of being with yourself when you're struggling, when you're feeling inadequate
1:13.3	or something difficult is happening in your life in a very supportive, helpful way that
1:19.0	helps alleviate suffering.
1:21.5	It's quite simple, actually.
1:23.6	When have you needed to show more compassion to yourself?
1:29.7	A lot of times.
1:40.3	When am I? You know, it's like this morning, you know. I like to joke that I've been at this for 25 years and I'm still, I like to say I'm a compassionate mess.
1:48.0	It's still a mess. I love it. But I have learned how to be compassionate toward that mess. Yeah. No, but yeah, so I'll give you one example. My son was diagnosed with autism. He's 19 now and he's driving and he's
1:55.4	doing great. But I can tell you when it first hit. It was really, really hard on me. And thank goodness I had my
2:01.6	self-compassion practice. It helped me, first of all, I accept my feelings about it. I'll admit
2:08.0	it. I was feeling some disappointment, a lot of fear. It was a very difficult time. And then also
2:13.9	when he was, he wasn't even potty train until he was five years old. So, you know, the early years were rough.
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