What is Self-Compassion?
Compassion is the ability to understand the feelings of others and act with kindness. It plays an important role in our relationships and our well-being.
Self-compassion is just as important. When we have self-compassion, we can recognize our emotions and respond in a caring way.
Self-compassion is essential to having a healthy relationship with ourselves. We are kind and understanding. We give ourselves support and encouragement.
Self-compassion is just as important. When we have self-compassion, we can recognize our emotions and respond in a caring way.
Self-compassion is essential to having a healthy relationship with ourselves. We are kind and understanding. We give ourselves support and encouragement.
Why is it important?
Research indicates that self-compassion is one of the most powerful sources of coping and resilience we have available to us. It radically improves our mental and physical wellbeing.
While many studies have found it to be associated with well-being in adults, few researchers have investigated if practicing self-compassion helps kids as well. Now, new studies suggest that self-critical kids from 8-18 can also benefit from a dose of self-compassion—and this might be especially true for girls.
Overall, they found that self-compassion was associated with higher life satisfaction and lower perceived stress and negative feelings. Numerous studies have found higher rates of depression associated with less self-compassion.
Self-compassion, unlike self-esteem, allows us to accept shortcomings with kindness, rather than judging ourselves or avoiding our flaws. High self-esteem can be great, but we often encounter situations that cause us to doubt ourselves.
Self-compassion is a key to maintaining a healthy, balanced view of ourselves and our lives.
While many studies have found it to be associated with well-being in adults, few researchers have investigated if practicing self-compassion helps kids as well. Now, new studies suggest that self-critical kids from 8-18 can also benefit from a dose of self-compassion—and this might be especially true for girls.
Overall, they found that self-compassion was associated with higher life satisfaction and lower perceived stress and negative feelings. Numerous studies have found higher rates of depression associated with less self-compassion.
Self-compassion, unlike self-esteem, allows us to accept shortcomings with kindness, rather than judging ourselves or avoiding our flaws. High self-esteem can be great, but we often encounter situations that cause us to doubt ourselves.
Self-compassion is a key to maintaining a healthy, balanced view of ourselves and our lives.
Recognize critical self-talk
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When we say nasty mean things to ourselves, it's called self-criticism. We are harshly self-critical when we fail, make mistakes or feel like we're not good enough. We are cold and judgmental when challenges and difficulty arise in our lives.
Everyone has a hard time sometimes. But when we're in a hard place, it feels impossible that anyone else in the history of the world has ever felt this bad. It feels lonely and isolating, like no one would understand how difficult this moment is for us or how alone we feel. On top of feeling terrible, how we respond can be different. Sometimes we are very hard on ourselves. We criticize ourselves for having the struggle in the first place and judge ourselves harshly for how we are coping. We may even go as far as punishing ourselves for the struggle or adversity, hoping that if we discipline ourselves, we might prevent this problem from ever happening again. Being self-critical falls in the Negative Coping wheel, but we counteract this with reframing. |
Reframe
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We, as humans, are creatures of habit. Habits allow us to go through life with little or no conscious thought.
Have you ever tried to go through even one day making conscious decisions about everything that you’re doing!?! Imagine if you didn't have habits. You would literally take all day to do basic things like eat, sleep, go to the bathroom, or get dressed. Habits are an absolute must-have in the grand scheme of human behavior & development. |
Peer pressure
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Peer pressure is a big problem with anxiety, specifically social anxiety. But self-compassion is understanding your needs and addressing them. Self compassion can help you handle any stress related to peer influence. Read more about how to handle peer pressure by clicking on the box.
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