Owning It: The Science of Self Compassion for Reducing Anxiety with TED Talker DR Kristen Neff

Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast

Caroline Foran

Overwhelm, Education, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Caroline Foran, Stress, Anxiety

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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For this episode I am joined by one of my heroes: Dr Kristin Neff. She is so ridiculously qualified there just isn't enough room in the podcast notes to fill you in on why she's the business but we do discuss her background at the beginning of this episode. Her main topic is self-compassion and when I first came across her TED Talk, it was an instant game changer for me. Here she talks me through the science of self-compassion, how to bring more of it into our life, what we get wrong about it, how it can benefit us and what exactly happens in the brain and body when we choose to take the self-compassionate route. It is my ultimate anxiety reducing tool these days and I hope, upon listening to this episode, that it's the same for you. For more on self-compassion, go to Dr Neff's brilliant website, https://self-compassion.org.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to Owning It. If you would like to support the series, the best thing you can do is just tell a friend or better yet share it on social media.
0:08.0	If you really, really want to support, you can subscribe to me on Substack where I write a weekly column.
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0:18.7	Thank you.
0:21.4	Hello, dear listener and welcome back to to owning it the anxiety podcast with me,
0:25.5	your host and author, Caroline Forin. It is now time for a deep dive into one of my favorite
0:30.3	all-time subjects, self-compassion. Yes, I've talked about it a lot before, and I do so often,
0:35.9	but this time we're hearing from the Queen of Self-compassion,ion, the TED talking world-renowned Dr. Kristen Neff, who was one of the
0:42.4	first researchers to operationally define self-compassion and be able to measure it.
0:47.1	It has become one of my most valuable tools for then regulating my stress response whenever it
0:51.0	flares up and I really hope that after listening to this episode it'll be the same for you. Don't take my word for it though let Kristen win you over with the
0:57.7	science. Thanks for listening. Thanks for supporting and if you like this episode please
1:01.8	do share it with a friend who might find it beneficial or tip the series over on
1:05.6	www. patreon.com forward slash Caroline Forn and you can also do a one-time supporter tip by the supporter
1:12.0	button on ACAST. Now let's hear from this absolute wonder woman. Dr. Kristen Neff, thank you so
1:19.4	so much for joining me on owning it the anxiety podcast all the way from America. We're over Zoom right
1:25.0	now. We're in the middle of the pandemic, so we can't be in person. And so
1:28.9	and I really appreciate you taking the time to talk to me. Thank you so much for joining.
1:32.2	Oh, you're welcome. I'm happy to be here. Looking at your resume, I suppose, online, there's so
1:37.5	many different strings to your bow. You're an associate professor of educational psychology at the
1:41.7	University of Texas. Is that right? Yes, that's right. You're an
1:45.1	international bestselling author. You're a TED Talker and you're the co-founder of the Center for
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