You Are Already Enough EP 328

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of self-compassion and how it can enhance resilience and motivation.

This is for the today version of you and me too. Not future you or future me. Not the version of you that has it all figured out, hits every goal, and never forgets to reply to emails. This is for right now you. Exactly as you are, in whatever state you've arrived in today. Let’s chat about self-compassion, which, fair warning, is the thing that sounds like a luxury but is actually a survival skill. Somewhere along the way, self-compassion, self-love somehow has come to mean a spa day which I like as much as anyone. The more I learn about these 2 concepts, the more I realize that a spa day is self-care, which is also important but not the same thing. At all. Research by psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff shows that people who practice self-compassion are more resilient, less anxious, and this might surprise you, more motivated. Not less. More. Because when you're not spending all your energy beating yourself up, you actually have energy left over to try again. But here's the thing most of us were never taught: self-compassion isn't letting yourself off the hook. It's treating yourself the way you'd treat a friend who was struggling. With patience. With honesty, yes, but also with…

People in this episode

Host: Phyllis Nichols

Topics covered

• self-compassion
• mental health
• resilience
• self-love
• motivation

Keywords

• self-compassion
• mental health
• resilience
• self-love
• motivation
• psychology
• self-care

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