Cultivate a Compassionate Relationship With Michelle Becker
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How Can Self-Compassion Change Our Compassion for Our Partner?
When we are in our threat defense system, something has come up and we're distressed, we think the other person needs to change so that we can feel better. That's self-compassion. We can tend to ourselves in that kind of a way. We don't always have to get it from our partner. So now we can still go back to our partner and say, I need something different. It was really painful when you did this, whatever it might be. But now we're saying it with calm or physiology and some love in our hearts.
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