Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

To make a donation, please visit tarabrock.com. Namaste, welcome, friends. A couple of weeks ago, Kristen Neff interviewed me on the theme of compassion.

It's part of a series of conversations that she's doing

for her community. And to find out more about her compassion community or self-compassion

community, you can go to self-compassion.org and click on community. So as you'll see in this,

it includes both of us talking, but also some wonderful back

forths with participants, really wonderful questions.

You know, more than anything, these times call for us to pause and open to the vulnerability

that we feel.

And it's only possible to do that if we hold ourselves and each other

with much gentleness and kindness. I was recently reminded of a short verse by Wendell Berry. He wrote it

in 1968. So I just wanted to share this.

In the dark of the moon,

in flying snow in the dead of winter,

war spreading, families dying,

the world in danger,

I walk the rocky hillside,

sewing clover.

In times of upheaval and challenge, whether it's personal, whether you feel it collectively,

we have this capacity to seed a growing compassion in our lives and in our world. So I hope you find this, this time

with me and Kristen and her extended community valuable. Thank you. I've got to tell you with the

story of how I first got to know Tara and Tara's work. So I had learned about self-compassion from a Tick-Not-Hong group in 96,

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