Ep. 147: How to Access Your Compassionate Voice
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & Depression
Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist
4.9 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast. Today I want to share with you one of my favorite topics of all time: how to access your compassionate voice.
You may be thinking what exactly does that mean? Well it means helping you to get in touch with the compassion that lives inside each of you. So often my clients and patients say to me "I don't know how to access compassion" or "I don't know what that even feels like." Here is the thing. Your compassionate voice has always been inside of you, but sometimes other messages are simply louder. If you learn to listen deeply for it than it becomes so much easier to pick up. That little voice inside of you is ready to speak up and it is ready to fill you with a loving sense of self-compassion.
During this episode, I walk you through how to begin to access your compassionate voice. You start by closing your eyes, following your breath and asking yourself some questions. These questions help you to tap into your compassionate voice and to start to become familiar with it. First, what does your compassionate voice sound like? What tone does your compassionate voice speak in? How would you like your compassionate voice to show up for you? How do you relate to your compassionate voice? Finally, what do you need from your compassionate voice?
I really hope you will be open and experiment with this practice. It is such a beautiful exercise and the more you do it, the more you will hear and feel your compassionate voice. Even if it seems unnatural at first, I hope you will still give it a try because it can be really helpful for your mental health. Try viewing it as a type of emotional training. You are giving yourself a tool that one day you may need and then you will have it with you and know how to use it. Remember compassion is not about making the pain go away; rather, it is about meeting your suffering with safety. It is about showing up for yourself during the hard times.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 147. |
| 0:10.1 | Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit. I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan. This podcast is fueled by three |
| 0:17.0 | main goals. The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your |
| 0:22.2 | anxiety. Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And number |
| 0:29.7 | three, and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because |
| 0:36.8 | experiencing anxiety ain't easy. |
| 0:39.1 | If that sounds good to you, let's go. |
| 0:47.2 | Hello, hello, welcome back to your anxiety toolkit. |
| 0:52.4 | Hi, how are you doing? |
| 0:53.6 | How are you all doing? |
| 0:56.3 | We are on week, I think it's seven or eight of COVID-19. |
| 1:03.8 | And I think we're going strong. |
| 1:05.5 | We will be here for a little bit longer for as far as I understand. |
| 1:08.9 | So this week is, you know, hold your head up high and just |
| 1:15.2 | do the next best thing and put one foot in front of the other. And I coach myself like that all |
| 1:21.6 | day long, right? It's sort of what we have to do when things are the way that they are. Okay. |
| 1:27.3 | Well, let's get into it. It's episode |
| 1:30.1 | 147 and I already gave you cues last week on what we are talking about today. I wanted to |
| 1:37.8 | extend on the compassion content and really get deeper into you accessing compassion for yourself and understanding and |
| 1:50.1 | knowing where that compassion comes from within you. So this is one of my favorite, favorite |
| 1:55.8 | topics. It's one that, like I said, it's probably my favorite topic of all time. So I'm going to be |
| 2:02.4 | really enjoying working through this with you. Before we do that, let's have the I did a hard thing |
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