New year’s resolutions can be a fun way to motivate ourselves, so long as we don’t use them to punish ourselves.
Ways to help you feel calm during the time of coronavirus
Fear robs us of balance. It hijacks our brains and makes rational thinking hard – and we can let it go.
7 Emotional Life Hacks to Save Time and Pain
My life hacks are a bit different to some. They won’t make you into an efficiency robot, but they will save the time and energy you expend on these daily activities:
a) beating yourself up
c) ruminating on all the times you forgot to follow life hacks
d) beating yourself up, yet again
How To Be Your Own Friend Through Sadness And Disappointment
When things are going well for us, it’s (mostly) easy enough to feel good about ourselves, and to feel compassion towards others. But when life throws us those old curveballs every other day, or several times a day, it’s not so easy. Yet that’s when we need compassion the most – both to feel it for others and to feel … Read More
What Self-Compassion Isn’t (and What It Is) #1000Speak
Self compassion won’t make you selfish or lazy but it will make you kinder.
It’s Okay To Be You – a #1000Speak post
I was a shy teenager, particularly around boys. If one of those scary creatures looked at me, I went red, even though I knew he would actually be looking beyond me to the gorgeous blonde girl or bubbly chatterbox behind. If there was nobody behind me – then he’d made a mistake and for a moment thought I was someone … Read More
Self Compassion – Does it Work?
Self-compassion one year on. It’s a little over a year since I read Kristin Neff’s book Self Compassion and the topic seems to keep cropping up everywhere – in conversations with other bloggers, and just in life in general. So it seems a good time to write about how my life has changed in the year since I read that book. … Read More
Self Compassion by Kristin Neff: a Review
You only need to read a few of the posts on this blog to know that I am not a newbie at self-development. I’ve attended workshops in The Work of Byron Katie, The Sedona Method and Non-Violent Communication. I’ve meditated, and released tension with yoga. I’ve also read copious books by other writers, psychologists, coaches and one by a hypnotherapist. … Read More
Let Go of Guilt and Shame
Guilt and shame are insidous feelings, hard to spot and sometimes also hard to stop. First, it helps to understand why we feel guilt – what we unconsciously hope to get from it and why we won’t ever get that. For me, understanding that felt like permission to treat myself with more kindness. If you struggle with guilt or shame, … Read More
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