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Best of Anxious Achiever: Pressure, Achievement, and Self-Compassion

The Anxious Achiever

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The Importance of Being Warm and Compassionate

The self-compassion world says the goal of practice is simply to be a compassionate mess. Instead of being perfect or always getting it right, your goal is just to be warm and supportive. People think that this will mean you're going to get it wrong more often but it's actually the opposite. The piece of ourselves that is always expected to be the best "has no time," she writes.

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