Welcome to the feel good podcast with Kimberly Snyder. My goal is to help you develop a holistic lifestyle based on our four cornerstone philosophy, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth.

This holistic approach will help you feel good, which I define as being connected to your

most authentic highest self, and this is the place from which your energy, confidence,

creativity, true power and true beauty will start to explode. Every week we

provide you with interviews from top experts in their field or a solo cast from yours truly to support you in living your most beautiful, healthy and joyful life.

I'm your host, Kimberly Snyder, founder Saluna, New York Times best-selling author and holistic wellness, nutrition and meditation teacher.

Let's get started.

I love to welcome back to our Monday interview show. I am so excited to have a very special

guest on our podcast today. Dr. Kristen Neff, who is the author of this wonderful book,

Fierce self-compassion,

how women can harness kindness to speak up,

claim their power, and thrive.

Kristen is an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at

Austin and she is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research.

She's been doing studies on self-compassion for over 20 years.

So Dr. Kristen, thank you so much for joining us here today and this very important topic around self-compassioned.

Oh, thanks for having me.

Yeah, I'm excited to talk with you.

I'm so excited to get into this because there's a part in the book in the beginning where you talk about how there's some kind of practice where you write out how you would speak to your friend and how you would speak to yourself and how different it is and for many of us

we'll get up to the gender part in a moment Kristen but all of us it seems to be so

much easier to be compassionate with others.

Is that just, yeah, and there are some pretty strong reasons.

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