Bringing Strength to Compassion with Kristin Neff
Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
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Is There a Gender Bias in Self Compassion?
For many young men raised inside of a Western culture, you're taught from a relatively young age by society that compassion and softening emotions are inherently weak. So I'm just wondering if you find that there's a gender bias in the material and self compassion for each gender to kind of put it another way. Any of my workshops are typically about 80 to 85% woman. It's a barrier for men to get through the door. For women is selfish. Isn't it selfish to give it to myself as another barrier? And the way that I've addressed it lately, kind of like the next phase of my work, which I'm my next book and I'm really excited about it.
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