Fierce Self-Compassion - with Dr. Kristin Neff

Breaking Down Patriarchy

Amy McPhie Allebest

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this updated episode, originally aired in Season Two, Amy is joined by Dr. Kristin Neff to discuss the generative power of anger, the danger of rote gender roles, and the radical power of self-compassion.

Kristin Neff (she/her) received her doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, and is currently an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.

During Kristin’s last year of graduate school she became interested in Buddhism and has been practicing meditation in the Insight Meditation tradition ever since. While doing her post-doctoral work she decided to conduct research on self-compassion – a central construct in Buddhist psychology and one that had not yet been examined empirically. Kristin is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, creating a scale to measure the construct almost 20 years ago. She has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential research psychologists. In addition to writing numerous academic articles and book chapters on the topic, she is author of the book Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, and her latest Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power and Thrive.

In conjunction with her colleague Dr. Chris Germer, she has developed an empirically supported training program called Mindful Self-Compassion, which is taught by thousands of teachers worldwide. They co-authored The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook as well as Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program: A Guide for Professionals. She is also co-founder of the nonprofit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Amy and I just wanted to share a quick programming update.
0:04.9	As I'm recording this, it's mid-December 2024, and I know many of us are still experiencing a lot of difficult feelings from November's election.
0:15.0	With that in mind, I'd like to wrap up our year here at Breaking Down Patriarchy by resharing an episode from season two with the
0:22.2	incredible Dr. Kristen Neff. Kristen is famous for her work on self-compassion. And in this episode
0:29.6	on fierce self-compassion, she teaches some really helpful skills like how to stand up in
0:35.9	situations of injustice and how we can let our anger
0:39.4	energize us, making us brave and helping us fight for ourselves and our communities. These skills may
0:46.3	come in handy during the holiday season, and we will certainly need them in the coming year.
0:51.6	The Breaking Down Patriarchy team will be taking a little time off for the next
0:55.3	couple of weeks. So enjoy your holidays and we'll kick off season five on January 7th with
1:01.8	drum roll Sharon McMahon. Sharon will be speaking about her book, The Small and the Mighty. And after
1:09.1	Sharon, we have an entire season focused on real
1:12.2	doable actions that we can take to break down patriarchy in our families, our communities,
1:18.5	and the world. It's going to be our best season yet. And I can't wait for you all to listen.
1:23.4	So be sure to come back for all of that and more in January. And now without further ado, I'll turn you over to 2022, Amy, and Dr. Kristen Neff, discussing
1:33.7	fierce self-compassion.
1:35.6	Enjoy.
1:38.5	Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy.
1:40.5	I'm Amy McPhee, all the best.
1:42.6	One of the questions I get most often from listeners is,
1:46.2	how do you handle all the anger that comes up as you read all of these books and confront all of
1:51.8	these issues from patriarchy? And a recent episode that we released in season two dealt with
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