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.
In the second part of their conversation with Dr. Kristin Neff, Forrest and Dr. Hanson speak with her about how we can be compassionate under challenging circumstances. Particularly, how can we bring strength to compassion without tipping into anger?
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Timestamps:
01:52: Can we have too much mindfulness? And what do we need in addition to mindfulness to support self-compassion?
06:30: Is there a gender bias in the material on self-compassion? How do people of different genders respond to it differently?
12:22: How can a person be both forceful and compassionate?
16:31: So if you had the opportunity to go back and talk to yourself as a child or young adult, what is something that you would want to say to that person?
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