The Importance of Self Compassion

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I think that this is highly common in this generation, especially because we have so many points to elicit social comparison. We can look at a million different pitches of other people's perfect lives and perfect bodies and perfect jobs and just feel inherently really crappy. So I don't think that that is forever. I think that's something that we can act out against and we can push back against. And I just hope that this episode gave you some valuable insight firstly and psychoeducation, but also some tips and some strategies. Like I said, radical self compassion, life changing, so life changing, cognitive diffusion, also incredible.

So often in life, we are our own worst enemies. The meanest and loudest voice in our head is our own. So why are we so hard on ourselves? In this episode we break down the psychological underpinnings behind our inner critic, from the proposed evolutionary role of negative self talk, to the influence of our upbringing including the distinction between conditional and unconditional positive regard, parental expectations and childhood bullying. We examine how social comparison and overthinking can contribute to a poor self perception but, also, how we can adopt the methods of radical self compassion and cognitive diffusion to silence that inner voice and be free from self judgement. Listen now!

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