Blog Topic: Self-Compassion
Self-Love
To be honest, it has taken me a long time. And continues to be a daily practice. MSC teaches that self-compassion is a strength and a skill anyone can learn. Mindful Self-Compassion Training is designed to help us learn about, cultivate and integrate self-compassion...
When it comes to healing…
...let’s remember that when it comes to healing, our symptoms and negative behaviors don’t want to be fixed, they want to be heard. They want to have space. They want to be honored and explored in their complexity, and in their divinity. From this space of radical...
Making Compassion a Verb and a Movement
COMPASSION IT is a nonprofit organization and social movement that inspires compassionate actions in the lives of every person we reach. When you "compassion it" in your daily life, you can positively impact the entire world. With something as simple as a smile to a...
Compassion Heals All of Us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQijrruP9c4
With That Moon Language
Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me." Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise someone would call the cops. Still though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye...
Loving Our Broken Bits: Japanese Bowls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOAzobTIGr8
The Journey by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice- though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what...
Affectionate Breathing
Affectionate Breathing is a core meditation practice in cultivating mindful self-compassion.
Change Your Thoughts and Change Your World
Backdraft
When we start practicing more self kindness and self compassion, we may be surprised to experience an increase in uncomfortable sensations and emotions. This is normal. It can help to understand this by thinking about the metaphor of Backdraft that is offered to us...