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Hi everyone, this is Dr. Kristen Neff your guest host for the week. Welcome to Radio Headspace and Wednesday.

So today we're going to get into how self-compassion is actually a more effective

motivator than self-criticism and how we can use encouragement rather than

cruelty to try to motivate a change in our lives.

So research shows that actually the number one reason people aren't more

self-compassionate is they think it's going to undermine their motivation, you know,

they'll lose their edge if they're too soft on themselves. In fact, they really cling to their self-criticism. They think they need their self-criticism in order to like meet that deadline or meet that sales goal or make that change.

Believe it or not, the research... meet that sales goal or make that change.

Believe it or not, the research shows that self-compassion

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