Blog Topic: Self-Compassion
Hardwiring Happiness
Confessions of a Jewish Mother
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Our Deepest Fear
By Marianne Williamson Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness That most frightens us. We ask ourselves Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually,...
The Journey by Mary Oliver
Leaving the self-critical voice behind and choosing kindness. Enjoy this poem by the late 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...
More than 1500 studies now show that being self-compassionate, rather than self-critical, is more likely to help us rebound from difficult situations and cultivate more success and happiness over time. Dr. Paul Gilbert of The Compassionate Mind Foundation describes...
The Word by Tony Hoagland
Down near the bottom of the crossed-out list of things you have to do today, between “green thread” and “broccoli,” you find that you have penciled “sunlight.” Resting on the page, the word is beautiful. It touches you as if you had a friend and sunlight were a...
Compassion by Miller Williams
HAVE COMPASSION FOR EVERYONE YOU MEET EVEN IF THEY DON'T WANT IT WHAT APPEARS BAD MANNERS, AN ILL TEMPER OR CYNICISM IS A SIGN OF THINGS NO EARS HAVE HEARD, NO EYES HAVE SEEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WARS ARE GOING ON DOWN THERE WHERE THE SPIRIT MEETS THE BONE adapted with...
The Summer Day – Mary Oliver
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down -...
