How to Use Self Compassion to Break the Rumination Cycle

Right after that breakup happened I drank like, you know, three forts of a bottle of whiskey and smoked two packs of cigarettes in a day. And I went to a doctor and she said you're punishing yourself. How do you break that cycle? Well one of the most powerful outcomes of self compassion is less rumination because we can't accept that something that we didn't want to happen. Remember that hey you aren't alone. Nothing wrong with you, something abnormal this is just it happens.