Welcome to the Cure for Chronic Pain Podcast with me, Nicole Sachs. You are here.

Hello everybody, how are you today? This is Nicole and you have reached my podcast,

The Cure for Chronic Pain with me, Nicole Sachs.

Happy to be here with you guys today.

I am in my new recording studio, which I'm loving.

Hopefully I will figure out how to put this video out here as well,

now that I have a great space in which to record.

So look out for that on Instagram.

But anyway, I am just, I'm in a really great creative space in terms of mentally in addition to physically and I'm excited to come here and just hang out with you guys a little bit today and talk about the concept

of what does it really mean to be self-compassionate?

What does it really mean to practice the third facet of my work, which is

patience and kindness for yourself?

And it's something that I really know that we need to talk about in detail because it's so easy

for self-compassion to seem really light or really unimportant. Like of course you know like you have to be nice to yourself

duh of course you know but it's actually almost a scientific necessity.

And I'm going to explain it, I'm going to explain it all, but this episode was

sparked by a friend of mine who was doing the work and she wrote to me and said,

please do a whole podcast episode on what does it actually mean to be kind to yourself because I'm losing my

footing. You know, I don't actually know what to do. And sometimes what to do is a mindset and sometimes what to do are actionable steps.

So I want to take a minute and we'll talk about all of that today.

And like I said, please do not dismiss this episode as light or additive. This is a foundational

episode. There are three facets to my work. Believe, do the work and

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