Ep. 80: How Practicing Self-Respect Can Lead to Self-Compassion

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

Kimberley Quinlan, LMFT | Anxiety & OCD Specialist

Self-improvement, Education, Anxietymindfulnessmeditation, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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How Practicing Self-Respect Can Lead to Self-Compassion

ow Practicing Self-Respect Can Lead To Self-Compassion Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD Anxiety Depression CBT Mindfulness Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast Kimberley Quinlan Hello there CBT School Family! I am so thrilled to share another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast with you.

You guys know me well enough to know that I am a huge fan and advocate for the practice of self-compassion. I love sharing the benefits of self-compassion and helpful ways to put it into practice.

However, over the past few months, I have heard the hopelessness in some of your voices when you share with me that self-compassion just feels too hard and too triggering. Maybe you feel like you don’t deserve to be kind to yourself, which is common in Anxiety, Depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), or you are afraid that practicing self-compassion will mean you lose control and become a lazy, useless bum (none of this is true, BTW).

For those of you who are struggles with self-compassion, this podcast is for you. Today we are talking all about how practicing self-respect can lead to self-compassion. Self-respect is all about honoring your right to be treated fairly and kindly. It is all about not treating yourself in a way that is disrespectful and hurtful. We all deserve to be treated equally and fairly, and this is a practice that is crucial if you ever want to master the practice of self-compassion. In this episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast, we will discuss effective ways to practice self-respect and learn how self-respect leads us towards the beneficial practice of self-compassion.

During the podcast episode, we take a look at how you can improve self-respect by addressing these important questions.

1) Do my behaviors represent and reflect self-respect?

2) Do my behaviors respect my values?

3) Do my behaviors respect my beliefs?

4) Do my behaviors allow me to achieve my goals and values?

5) What are some times I have felt a true sense of self-respect?

6) Does my behavior lead me towards a sense of mastery (of a skill or a situation)?

7) What behaviors am I doing that damage my sense of self-respect?

I hope this podcast episode brings you closer to the practice of self-respect and self-compassion. These are two concepts I am very invested in and I hope you find them helpful.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Your Anxiety Toolkit, episode number 80.
0:09.5	Welcome to Your Anxiety Toolkit.
0:12.2	I'm your host, Kimberly Quinlan.
0:14.3	This podcast is fueled by three main goals.
0:17.3	The first goal is to provide you with some extra tools to help you manage your anxiety.
0:22.9	Second goal, to inspire you. Anxiety doesn't get to decide how you live your life. And number three,
0:30.0	and I leave the best for last, is to provide you with one big, fat virtual hug, because experiencing
0:37.0	anxiety ain't easy. If that sounds good to you, let's go.
0:44.9	Hello everybody. Welcome back to your anxiety toolkit. I am so happy to be here with you and so just filled with joy that you would spend your very
0:57.5	precious time with me. And I'm really actually really very, very grateful for that because,
1:03.9	you know, again, your time is valuable and I am just so thrilled to get to spend some of that
1:09.9	with you. So I was just reflecting, to get to spend some of that with you.
1:19.0	So I was just reflecting, actually, as I went to record this, that I have a habit of always telling you guys what the weather is like.
1:22.6	I'll say it's a really beautiful summer day or it's a beautiful spring day or it's raining
1:27.1	or there's raining or there's
1:27.8	fires or whatever. And I wondered why I do that. Is it because I grew up on a farm where
1:33.7	weather is so important to the success of a farm? Or and or it made me realize that it's actually
1:43.4	an internal thing that I do often that I didn't even know I was doing,
1:48.6	which is unconsciously connect with the present, right?
1:52.1	I think that's me trying to just share like, okay, I'm here with you guys, where am I, what's happening?
1:57.8	And I'm really centering around just being with you guys and it made me think I
2:02.4	really should share that with you now that I've recognized and I'm aware of that because I want
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