Give Yourself Some Slack: Self-Compassion (Part 1)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 702 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we're going to focus on the difficulties of self-compassion and then talk a little about mindfulness - next week we'll be going into the ideas of self-kindness, common humanity, and some other ideas I've been playing with.

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This Episode's Top Tips

Self-compassion can help with ADHD because it can help us realize that our self-image and self-doubts are not hardwired - we can change and we don't have to beat ourselves up to make that change happen.
We need to understand the difference between guilt and shame. Guilt is: I did a bad thing. Shame is: I'm a bad person. Guilt is a healthy coping mechanism, while shame can lead to self-destructive habits and behaviors.
One of the most effective ways to counteract shame is to shine a spotlight on it, but be sure to do so only when you're in a safe supportive environment.
Mindfulness is a way that we can practice seeing the world for how it really is - a great mindfulness exercise is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding exercise where you list 5 things you can see, 4 things you can feel, 3 things you can hear, 2 things you can smell and 1 thing that you can taste.

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0:32.3	Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network. I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have
0:39.7	ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work
0:45.1	with your ADHD brain. So I started working on this episode a few weeks ago when I first
0:50.1	started my series on giving yourself some slack. And you know what? I really thought I'd be
0:55.0	able to bang out the whole self-compassion thing in one episode. I mean, how hard can this whole
0:59.7	self-compassion thing be, right? Oh. Oh. Yeah. So I had to split this episode into two parts.
1:09.3	I just didn't think through everything that I was going to want to include, and as that
1:13.1	list grew and grew, I realized that I didn't want to try and jam everything into a single
1:16.9	episode.
1:18.2	In this episode, we're going to be focusing on the difficulties of self-compassion, and then talk
1:22.3	a little bit about mindfulness.
1:24.1	Next week, we'll be going into the ideas of self-kindness, common humanity, and some other
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