Thank you. I appreciate thought leaders stepping up in this crisis, which points to the resilience of this movement. My husband was the happiest I’ve seen him in days when he found that you had written a new post.
I want to highlight a small section “ Be kind to yourself, ask what a friend would tell you, when you judge how much hardship it would be to repay; because I’m worried I know too many people who are going to be way too harsh about that.”
This is a technique in psychology called Mindful Self-Compassion, which I have studied and found very useful personally and with my patients (I’m a physician, not a psychologist). The three elements are self-kindness (vs self-judgement), recognizing our common humanity (vs isolation) and mindfulness (vs over-identification).
See self-compassion.org for more
Thank you, Lauren, I feel like this is the first purely kind comment I’ve seen on this forum in days and it feels super refreshing. (See, even this one of mine is a dig at the rest of us!)
Thank you. I appreciate thought leaders stepping up in this crisis, which points to the resilience of this movement. My husband was the happiest I’ve seen him in days when he found that you had written a new post.
I want to highlight a small section “ Be kind to yourself, ask what a friend would tell you, when you judge how much hardship it would be to repay; because I’m worried I know too many people who are going to be way too harsh about that.”
This is a technique in psychology called Mindful Self-Compassion, which I have studied and found very useful personally and with my patients (I’m a physician, not a psychologist). The three elements are self-kindness (vs self-judgement), recognizing our common humanity (vs isolation) and mindfulness (vs over-identification). See self-compassion.org for more
Be gentle with yourselves EAs.
Thank you, Lauren, I feel like this is the first purely kind comment I’ve seen on this forum in days and it feels super refreshing. (See, even this one of mine is a dig at the rest of us!)