How to Quiet Your Inner Critic with Dr. Kristin Neff

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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348. How to Quiet Your Inner Critic with Dr. Kristin Neff Dr. Kristin Neff shares the secret to self-compassion and how to lessen our inner critic’s voice in order to build self-worth. Discover: -The 20-second daily practice you need to increase your self-compassion; -How to use your compassion for others as a template for how to treat yourself; -How to give your inner-critic a software update; and -The “fierce” self-compassion and what it has to do with drawing boundaries. On The Guest: Dr. Kristin Neff is an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and co-founder of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. She is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion more than twenty years ago. Kristin runs the Self-Compassion Community, an online learning platform where people can learn the skill of self-compassion with the help of others. She is author of the bestselling books Self-Compassion and Fierce Self-Compassion. She also co-wrote The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and has a new book called Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout coming out in Fall 2024. Order her latest book here: https://self-compassion.org/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. We have the Dr. Kristen Neff here who we have
0:19.6	we have been hoping to speak to for so long and recently Amanda was talking about how it would
0:29.2	be nice if she could silence the critic in her mind.
0:35.0	And we just thought, now's the time, Dr. Neff.
0:38.1	Beautiful, I'm so glad you have me on.
0:40.7	Yeah, there's so much resonance, you know, I think in your book and actually your book,
0:46.7	Untame, came out in the same year my book, Fear, Self Compassion, came out.
0:51.0	So I feel like there's a little sisterly resonance there maybe I'm presuming
0:54.9	but I love that book. Oh I love that sister books. Amanda why don't you let us know why you
1:02.4	were so excited to have Dr. Neff on?
1:05.4	Okay, well first I want to talk to the Pod Squad because I know that many Pod Squaders are like me and I want to speak to them and tell them to hang tight with this and and keep
1:18.0	listening to us because this episode is for all of us who have a mean voice in our head and to think that actually we need that constant self-critic in our head in order to keep us motivated that if we didn't
1:35.5	have the self-critic we would just be lazy and complacent and our life would be
1:39.1	crap and it turns out that's not the case.
1:46.1	Like at all, which I thought that this self-compassioned idea
1:49.0	was very woo-woo, but it turns out that it's all counterintuitive.
1:54.6	The more self-compassion you have, the greater motivation you have,
1:59.0	the like greater self-responsibility that you have,
2:02.3	less depression, less anxiety anxiety less perfectionism so what I'm saying is I've been trying it out for a tiny beat and
2:09.7	Just hang with us because I think that this is good for the woo-w-woo people and also the people who are like, yikes, that sounds kind of soft to the touch.
2:20.6	So Dr. Neff, she's saying, if like Glennon you'll like this and if you're
2:26.8	like Amanda you'll like this great we've got everybody okay covers everyone let'm going to introduce Dr. Neff. Dr.
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