Blog Topic: Self-Compassion
Self-Compassion isn’t always Soft and Cuddly
Some of us care tend to care for ourselves when things get touch by getting more comfortable, cocooning, soothing and comforting ourselves. This is the 'yin' aspect of self-compassion. Some of us are first inspired to move into action, protecting our best interests...
Fall 2018 Programs
New Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher
Kristy is a new family doctor in Nanaimo with a strengths based, wellness oriented, trauma informed approach. She trained specifically with a focus on Indigenous health. Kristy took our 8 week Mindful Self-Compassion Training a few years ago, worked the practices into...
How are you doing? What do you need?
Checking in' is a simple mindfulness practice that can help us start to cultivate a kind and loving relationship with ourselves. Try setting a lovely chime on your phone for every hour during the day as a reminder to check in with yourself. Choose a sound that you...
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes...
The Link between Health, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion
Self-criticism does more than make us feel badly. It is actually bad for our health. Self-Criticism activates the nervous threat response system stimulating the hormones designed to help us deal with danger through a 'fight, fight or freeze'. When our threat...
How To Open Your Own Heart
by Jeff Foster Do not try to open your heart now. That would be a subtle movement of aggression towards your immediate embodied experience. Never tell a closed heart it must be more open; it will shut more tightly to protect itself, feeling your resistance. A heart...
Self-Compassion Quiz
Compassionate Self-Care Changing the Nation
Michael Moore gets to the essence of compassionate self-care and invites others to join him.
Transforming Food and Body Image Struggles with Self-Compassion
Self-Compassion is one of the key tenets for transformation of eating and body image struggles. Compassion inspired Eating workshops offer a holistic approach that integrates self-compassion, mindful eating, eating psychology, clinical nutrition, holistic nutrition...