You may think you know everything you need to know about self-compassion, but after reading this post, you may decide to rethink your understanding. For example, you might be surprised to learn that ...

Some people find it easy to be kind, until they have to turn that compassion inward. Here are the signs you might be lacking in self-compassion. It’s not at all an uncommon experience to be deeply ...

What does it mean to be self-compassionate? It refers to being able to be emotionally connected to yourself, to give yourself support and care, to step back and hold a wider outlook, and to extend an ...

To be truly compassionate toward others, do we first have to be compassionate toward ourselves? Some researchers have suggested that these two types of compassion are linked, although this might not ...

When I teach self-compassion to kids in schools, I do an exercise in which kids imagine that a friend of theirs has lost or broken something special. How would they respond to their friend? I then ask ...