We all want to feel safe. It's important. When we feel safe, we feel confident and more willingly open ourselves to new experiences. In fact, feeling safe leads to the willingness to take risks - to risk being known, being seen, loving and feeling loved. As we encounter the world in all its various ways of [...]
Tag: Kristin Neff
Taking the path from forgiveness to gratitude
Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada. It is a time to reflect on the wonderful people we have in our lives and the good things that have blessed this life. In the language of practice, we "incline our hearts" towards the practice of gratitude. This is a wonderful practice on the path of well-being. And [...]
Lions and Tigers and Compassion. Oh my!
A Triad of Book Reviews: Understanding the “Yellow Brick Road” to Compassion Guest Author: Brittany Glynn, PhD(c) at University of Ottawa In the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, the central character Dorothy finds herself swept away by a cyclone and lost in the Land of Oz. With nothing but her small dog Toto, ruby-red slippers, [...]
Self-Compassion: three doors to changing your relationship with yourself
Kristin Neff’s work on self-compassion has been a major touchstone for many of us in the mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) field. For years, her website has been a rich resource for information on self-compassion, updates on her research, and the on-going development of her self-compassion scale. Now, in her new book, Neff presents the details of [...]
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