I have never connected self-compassion and shame before. This perspective is great, for me mind-blowing, thank you very much for your wonderful work ❤

Hello ! i badly needed this advice today non other than from you Dear Dr. I feel I have lost that special touch with myself... so a big Thank you for reminding me of " myself" from the bottom of my heart!

Thank you I like your vibes and intentions 🙏✌️❤️

Thank you so much for this uplifting talk 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

If numbness is a protective measure it shouldn't be forced away necessarily but rather what is causing it should be resolved whether physical numbness (in which case the cause could be neuroinflammation) or emotional numbness is concerned (trauma).

The self compassion community is a wonderful experience. Thank you for your warm, clear message and your scientific study and spread.

So grateful for you / your dedication and work 💕

Not very helpful when you feel like your dying, because you can't have compassion for yourself due to past mistakes.

I don't understand why you say you don't have time to get into a complete answer... You talk for 2 minutes about response due to the evolution, but then the cultural aspect is brushed aside and we don't even talk about psychological difficulties, the way we may have been brought up, expectations and roles... I wish you would take time and answer more completely and not so superficially.

Very interesting!!

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I don't know if you are reading comments, I'll give it a try... Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your creations dear Kristen Neff 🙏🏻 There is no words that can express my gratitude. And at the same time I am very proud of my self for getting the curiosity at first which attracted me to your meditations, books and for keeping practicing and learning all about MSC. Wishing you a happy and compassionate year 🙏🏻

My goal for 2025 is to practice self-compassion meditations every other day!❤🎉❤

IT'S GOING TO BE OKAY! The most wonderful thougth

Thank you so much Dr. Neff for your important work on self compassion. I needed to hear this now today on Christmas Eve when the holidays are so hard for those of us alone with no close humans at this time. For those of whom have felt rejected so often and abandoned . Not appreciated. I love my cats my fur angels. My Dr. Psychologist recommended you to me to (to read your work and watch your videos) to help me practice more self compassion as part of our therapy work together. You are both beautiful people and souls . Thank you for your compassionate empathetic work and videos for us to learn from, to heal from and share in practice with the goal being to feel better and think more healthily. God bless you. Xo❤🙏

A day on earth Every day I see the world I am forever amazed by its unending wonders And all the beauty of everything around me Each blade of grass, every pebbles, shoot and twigs Drops of dew as diamonds in the morning sun The fresh scent of renewed hope in the early breath The promises of life awoken Riches and abundance and rewards near I am so very small - this world so big Though I look and look I cannot see very far But I can see I belong here That I belong to here The new day also brings hurdles and sorrow Streams to cross, treacherous and menacing covers I am just a solitary little mouse trotting along In this immeasurable field I call home And no matter the dangers and the threats However unkind the weather and cold the nights And the friends lost and the dark days I am grateful for this ground I walk on I am the life given to me Like a voice needs a listener And the dream a dreamer This earth comes alive under my tiny little feet I am bound to it as it is to me I am just a solitary little mouse trotting along Small and defenceless, sometimes scared and unsure But trusting and confident in this moment Today, there is nowhere else I would rather be Here and now I belong To this life given to me I am a voice, I am a dream, I am a breath I am just a little mouse

Thank you for simple jargon free guidance.❤

Good advice, thank you so much! ✨💗✨🤗

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That I am going to get my life back 100% or that lawsuits will make me wealthy enough to travel and live independently because I will NEVER work outside of a university library position -- NO property management, NO labor, NO industrial, NO fossil fuels, NO realty, NO retail, NO profit-based healthcare, NO landscaping, NO sales of any kind, NO rug cleaning, NO paving, NO factory work, NO warehouse work, NO food service, NO waiting tables, etc.

קשקוש. בדיוק כמו שאנחנו לא יכולים לחבק את עצמנו או ללטף את עצמנו. כלומר, אנחנו יכולים, אבל זה ללא כל השוואה לחיבוק/ליטוף של אדם אחר.

Thank you! ❤

I need you to tell me why that fact, actually ;;))

So helpful for my ptsd :)😊

Thank you! 🙏

Beautiful. Thank you!🙏

Very true. Yet for those of us who grew up isolated, rejected and alone ,this is a great challenge. Even if we have been saved by and comforted by angels.

Hello Dr. Neff, I love your videos and I have read some of your books. Your teachings have really helped me.

I learned very early not to rely on others for compassion or good will. great if it comes, but when you were not dealt a fair shake when you were young and you find that it was really up to you to deal with stuff then you learn to fix things for yourself. sorry if that makes us sound cold, but its the facts. and it doesn't mean we don't enjoy life, we do. we just don't let those emotions rule us and our thoughts.

God how I love her voice. Thank you for this! 🩷 I do self compassion excercises every night.

Just when I needed to hear this. A deep bow of gratitude. Healing from major back surgery and was "expecting" family to show-up for me.... not so. I need to drop the resentment and take care of my own heart.

Thanks for your honesty and kind words to motivate others

You are the besttt ❤

You cannot imagine how your words have come at the moment I need it!!! Thank you so much!❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

At work I have a much more nobody else is going to do it attitude especially not that f**** Kyle

love this <3

Thank you. I wish my English is better to join the self-compassion community ❤

Thank you. I am hoping 🙏 cultivating self compassion will help me be more compassionate with others. ❤

Would you please explain why an action like placing your hands on your chest is to be avoided, when in the Soften Soothe Allow exercise you say touching your neck for example is a good way to show yourself compassion in a moment of suffering. Is it a matter of intention? The intention behind the action, whether to make pain go away or to hold and allow it?