Dose of Dignity: Self-Compassion - What is it good for and how do you develop it?

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Self-compassion is being open to and moved by one's own suffering, experiencing feelings of caring and kindness towards oneself, and taking an understanding, non-judgmental attitude towards one's inadequacies and failures.
Self-compassion has three main components: self-kindness, recognizing our common humanity, and mindfulness. It reduces stress, anxiety, and depression, improves emotional resilience and coping skills, enhances motivation and personal growth, promotes healthier behaviors and well-being, and provides a more stable sense of worth. It increases our capacity for compassion towards others, improves relationship quality, reduces burnout, and enhances the ability to take responsibility for our mistakes and repair relationships.
In this episode, Jennifer describes practices to develop self-compassion, responds to objections people may have with the word self-compassion, and shares a meditation listeners might find helpful for themselves or others.

Resources

• Center for Mindful Self-Compassion
• Online self-compassion course
• Self-Compassion: Theory, Method, Research, and Intervention
• What is compassion and how can we measure it? A review of definitions and measures
• The influence of self-compassion on emotional well-being among early and older adolescent males and females
• Self-Compassion, a poem by James Crews

Key Takeaways
Self-compassion

• involves treating ourselves with kindness, understanding, and acceptance.
• has three main components: self-kindness, recognizing our common humanity, and mindfulness.
• reduces stress, anxiety, and depression, improves emotional resilience and coping skills, enhances motivation and personal growth, promotes healthier behaviors and well-being, and provides a more stable sense of worth.
• increases our capacity for compassion towards others, improves relationship quality and support for others, reduces burnout, and enhances the ability to take responsibility for our mistakes and repair relationships.
• involves self-kindness, recogn

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