Welcome to Therapist Unsensored, a podcast where therapists freely speak their minds about real life matters.

Welcome back to Therapist Uncensored. We are very excited about this episode, Number 23.

And before I introduce that, I wanted to let you all know that we have been compiling our survey results and we really

appreciate those of you who have taken the time to complete the questions that we ask you so

that we could get to know our audience. It was extremely helpful and as a matter of fact

we are excited to announce that in direct response to requests from that survey we

have an upcoming episode specifically on grief that will be

probably be coming out in about a week if it's not too late to fill out that survey or

just in general to request topics and to give us feedback.

So thanks again for each and every one of you

who filled out that survey.

And today, let's get to today's episode,

which we are very excited about.

We have with us Dr. Kristen Neff. Our co-host Dr. Ann Kelly will be interviewing her.

Dr Neff is an associate professor with human development and culture at the

University of Texas at Austin.

So even though she is local with us here in Austin, Texas,

she's actually an internationally recognized researcher

in the area of self-compassion.

And lest you think that is a super soft squishy subject it is not so

stay tuned and I think you'll be really really happy to stick with this it's a good

one in your recent TED Talk you

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