Kristin Neff & Caverly Morgan: Self-Compassion as a Lifeboat
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
Tami Simon
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
What if every moment of self-compassion is actually a moment of waking up? In this very special episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami sits down with pioneering self-compassion researcher Kristin Neff and meditation teacher Caverly Morgan—two friends and compelling authors whose collaboration reveals how treating ourselves with kindness can become a lifeboat for our deepest nature.
This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.
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| 0:00.0 | The Sounds True Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.3 | Every moment of self-compassion is a moment of being awake. |
| 0:11.2 | It's some level. |
| 0:12.1 | Every moment of self-compassion is a moment of letting go of identification with that small, |
| 0:17.3 | separate, limited, inadequate self and moving into something bigger, more connected, |
| 0:22.7 | and more heartful. |
| 0:32.2 | Welcome, friends, to this special episode of Insights at the Edge where we're going to be exploring, |
| 0:38.7 | deepening our self-compassion. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm here with two women who have dedicated a large portion of their professional life |
| 0:49.1 | to exploring this topic and who teach together on deepening self-compassion. I'm here with Kristen Neff and |
| 0:58.5 | Caverley Morgan. Let me tell you a little bit more about them. 20 years ago, Kristen Neff was the |
| 1:05.1 | first researcher to empirically examine and measure self-compassion. |
| 1:12.2 | She's joined by Caverley Morgan, who after eight years as a Zen monk, discovered something |
| 1:19.4 | unexpected. |
| 1:21.4 | Nothing was missing. |
| 1:23.7 | I'm so happy to be with both of you talking about a topic that is dearly important to me and I think to many insights at the edge listeners. |
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