Kristin Neff

The One You Feed

Eric Zimmer

Education, Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Buddhism, Mental Health

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This week we talk to Kristin Neff about self compassion

Kristin Neff is a self-compassion researcher, author, and Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She got her Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley in 1997 in the field of moral development.
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.
In addition to her pioneering research into self-compassion, she has developed an 8-week program to teach self-compassion skills. The program, co-created with her colleague Chris Germer, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, is called Mindful Self-Compassion. Her book, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself was recently released in paperback.
She and her family were recently featured in the documentary and book called The Horse Boy.

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In This Interview, Kristin and I Discuss...

The One You Feed parable
The difference between self-esteem and self-compassion
What self compassion is
The research on self-compassion and its benefits
How self-compassion increases motivation
The more self-compassionate you are, the less afraid of failure you are
How self-compassion reduces performance anxiety
The three pillars of self-compassion
Learning to soothe and comfort ourselves
Remembering that all people struggle and suffer
The damaging psychological effects of isolation
Learning to turn towards our own pain in order to work with it
How to practice self-compassion
Learning to talk to ourselves like we would a friend

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0:00.0	Somehow, everyone else in the world is living a perfectly normal, perfect life, and it's just me who's failed.
0:15.2	Welcome to the One You Feed.
0:17.3	Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts we have,
0:21.9	quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true.
0:27.5	And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us.
0:31.7	We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear.
0:36.4	We see what we don't have instead of what we do.
0:39.3	We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit.
0:42.8	But it's not just about thinking.
0:44.8	Our actions matter.
0:46.3	It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living.
0:51.2	This podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction,
0:55.5	how they feed their good walls.
1:09.5	In the 70s, the warehouse took over Chicago Nightlife, and the club's DJ would go on to make history.
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1:35.0	Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:40.2	Thanks for joining us.
1:41.4	Our guest on this episode is Kristen Neff, a self-compassion researcher, author,
1:46.3	and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
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