This book offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling readers to achieve their highest potential and a more contented, fulfilled life. Dr. Neff provides practical exercises and action plans based on state-of-the-art research, helping readers deal with various emotionally debilitating struggles such as parenting, weight loss, and everyday challenges. The book emphasizes the importance of self-compassion over self-esteem, promoting emotional resilience, personal growth, and a deeper sense of inner peace and happiness[1][4][5].
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion by Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and practicing self-compassion. The book combines theoretical insights with practical exercises and meditations to help readers cultivate self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness. Germer and Neff emphasize the importance of self-compassion in overcoming self-criticism, shame, and other negative emotions. The book offers a step-by-step approach to developing self-compassion, making it accessible to readers of all levels of experience. It is a valuable resource for anyone seeking to improve their emotional well-being and build more fulfilling relationships.
This book, a companion to 'Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy,' offers powerful new techniques and exercises to help readers cope with a range of everyday problems. It includes methods to free oneself from fears, phobias, and panic attacks, overcome self-defeating attitudes, improve intimate communication, resolve marital conflicts, and conquer procrastination. The book also provides information on commonly prescribed psychiatric drugs and anxiety disorders such as agoraphobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder, aiming to help readers feel good about themselves and their relationships.
Dr. Hanson and Forrest continue their exploration of depression and depressed mood with an episode focused on some of the tactics and strategies people can use, both in their own mind and out in the world, to help manage, and even overcome, a depressed mood.
Depression and depressed mood are major problems for many people, and the material we’re going to get into today will be sensitive in nature. If this is sensitive territory for you, please be kind to yourself. Feel free to skip around or turn off the episode altogether.
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Key Ideas:
02:50: The causes of depressed mood, and some places where we can intervene to create positive changes.
05:59: Why it’s so challenging for someone with depressed mood to make psychological changes.
16:22: Using mindfulness to work with a current episode, or prevent relapse.
21:52: Other psychological interventions.
26:30: Overcoming the lack of motivation that accompanies depressed mood.
27:43: How do you get out of the depression slump?
37:37: What can we do to help other people with their depressed mood?
42:40: Recap
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