22 Dec 2023 What is Self Compassion?
Compassion is the ability to show empathy, love, and concern to people who are in difficulty, and self-compassion is simply the ability to direct these same emotions within. Think about what the...
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15 Nov 2022 Managing Mixed Emotions
We often talk about feeling particular emotions, like feeling anxious, feeling sad, feeling angry or feeling happy. But what about the experience of having multiple emotions at once? Is this...
04 Jun 2022 What to do when you’re feeling lonely
What is loneliness? Loneliness is a feeling that we experience when there is a gap between what we desire for our connections with others and what we have. As loneliness is...
24 Apr 2022 Improving self esteem through self compassion
Self esteem refers to the way in which we view and think about ourselves, and the subsequent value we attribute to ourselves. When our self esteem is low, we have...
01 Apr 2022 What is self confidence?
What is confidence? When you think of the word ‘confidence’, what comes to mind? Does it look like someone who has everything together? Someone who feels no fear? Highly calm and...
07 Dec 2020 How self compassionate are you?
Whilst it is perhaps not possible to be too kind to ourselves, there are certainly those out there that could benefit from an injection of self-compassion. Perhaps you are wondering...
07 Dec 2020 Why is being kind to yourself important?
Many people are good are caring for others but not themselves. But caring for ourselves (Self-compassion) is an essential part of maintaining health and wellbeing. We have described self-compassion elsewhere...
07 Dec 2020 5 ways to be more self compassionate
In most cases we are not taught to be kind to ourselves. In fact, quite the opposite. Our society often expects that we chastised ourselves, put ourselves down and beat...
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