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06: Is Too Much Self-Compassion a Bad Thing? with Dr. Lesley Cook
Struggle Care
Compassion Is a Distancing Observer
When we say self-compassion is a sympathetic, and I would say sympathetic by nature is gentle, right? A gentle concern for the suffering of ourselves. And when you think about permission, that's an attachment to something not this kind of observational lens. So if there's cups all over my house that have old coffee in them and I'm allowed to do that and I don't care what impact that has on me or anybody else, that’s an anxious attachment to that as a way to not have to feel. Or standing back and being an observer that is not attached to that, I can come from a place of compassion which is like, wow, this is really a
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