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

Hi everyone, I'm Anne Kelly and Sue and I are preparing to launch our third season of therapist uncensored and we really think it's going to be our best yet.

And for the next couple weeks as we prepare, we've decided we really think it's going to be our best yet.

And for the next couple of weeks as we prepare,

we've decided to replay a few of our personal favorites

or our most popular episodes

that we want to make sure you didn't miss, especially on topics that we feel like are really relevant to our entire show.

So today's episodes on self-compassion, I interview Dr. Kristen Neff who's an internationally recognized expert and a teacher on

self-compassion.

So she is an associate professor of human development and culture at the University of Texas

and Austin and she teaches internationally on the topic and she's even been

featured on a TED Talk I think you're I know you're really going to enjoy it

you know we believe self-compassion is core to psychological health and

while it sounds you know like just be nice to yourself it is actually much richer

and at times a really difficult process to achieve and Dr. Neff has a way of

breaking it down and teaching it to us that it really comes alive. Let's get

started. In your recent TED Talk, you described yourself as a, I loved it, a self-compassioned evangelist.

Yes, I really am.

Yeah, it's kind of my, kind of my life's work and my goal to help as many people as possible learn about self-compassion and more recently to practice it.

So although I still do basic research on self-compassion, I'm really

focused on how do we teach this to people so they can be kinder to themselves.

Because you've seen so much about how important it really is to the well-being.

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