Radical Self-Compassion: Embracing the Five Love Languages for Self-Love

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Emulate the love we would typically receive from others and give it to ourselves. Practice self-compassion in the five love languages: words of affirmation, quality time, receiving gifts, acts of service, and physical touch. Be kind to yourself and express pride in your accomplishments. Make time for solo dates to reflect and journal about your feelings and goals. This is self-love.

So often in life, we are our own worst enemies. The meanest and loudest voice in our head is our own. So why are we so hard on ourselves? In this episode we break down the psychological underpinnings behind our inner critic, from the proposed evolutionary role of negative self talk, to the influence of our upbringing including the distinction between conditional and unconditional positive regard, parental expectations and childhood bullying. We examine how social comparison and overthinking can contribute to a poor self perception but, also, how we can adopt the methods of radical self compassion and cognitive diffusion to silence that inner voice and be free from self judgement. Listen now!

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