Best of Anxious Achiever: Pressure, Achievement, and Self-Compassion
The Anxious Achiever
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The Importance of Mindfulness in Self-Compassion
We have to fake caring for ourselves, even if we really don't feel we care for ourselves. In some ways, fake it so you make it. Self-compassion doesn't like self-pity. It's just saying, hey, the human experience is one of imperfection. We all struggle. No one's perfect. There's nothing wrong with me for feeling this way. This is part of what it means to be human. I'm not alone. And then when we do that, we can be most helpful to ourselves. That's great. Why are we as humans so self-critical? Some of us. The decks are stacked against us either in our brain or
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