Handling Waves of Grief with Self-Compassion

About this episode

This episode discusses how to navigate the complex emotions of grief through the practice of self-compassion.

Grief comes in waves – successive, unpredictable, fierce or tumbling – and with each wave, we get swept up and taken to another place. It's often a mixed bag of emotions and thoughts, a place of anger, shame, nostalgia and memory, great sorrow, or even laughter and gratitude. How can we steady ourselves when faced with all these conflicting feelings? With self-compassion. 💝 In today's episode, I talk about: the three elements of self-compassion: self-kindness, common humanity, and mindf...

People in this episode

Host: Jill Hodge

Topics covered

• grief
• self-compassion
• emotional health
• mental wellness
• personal growth

Keywords

• grief
• self-compassion
• emotions
• mental health
• personal growth

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