Hello and welcome to the ESG Fitness podcast.

This podcast is designed to make you think critically, question yourself and me.

Learn new things, improve your mindset, become a happier, healthier,

better version of yourself.

And now here's your host, also me. Should I do intros like that? No, probably not.

Probably not. Hello. Today I want to talk about self-compassion, which has come up a few times

and check-ins this week especially for some reason. By the way,

if you're wondering how to pick topics that people actually want or need to hear about,

then listen to what they are struggling with and make podcasts or content to solve that problem or to discuss that problem.

So that is the reason that today's podcast is on self-compassion.

And please don't turn off if you're anything like me, probably up until about a year ago. like whenever I heard someone talk about self-compassion

or self-care, I would kind of switch off. Like, I used to think self-compassion was just

wishy-washy crap for like hippie type people who basically wanted an excuse to accept mediocrity, avoid hard work and meditate all day.

Needless to say, I was wrong. And I do wonder if other people feel like this.

So do let me know if that is you as well and you can sort of resonate

with that feeling. And I think part of the problem was that I really didn't resonate with a lot of

the people who were talking about it or maybe the way in which they would talk about it. And to be

quite honest, I still don't with a lot of people who are maybe like the

biggest names in self-compassion, or the people who speak about it a lot.

And I think what I've realised from doing a bit of research is actually they aren't the sort of

leaders in the field, unsurprisingly.

They're just random hippies who probably

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