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Making Friends with Yourself | Embrace Mindfulness

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Life offers us so many opportunities for great joy and pleasure but it is our sorrow that can undoubtedly have a detrimental effect on our confidence and on our ability to trust who we are. It is in moments like these that we need to make friends with ourselves by cultivating self-compassion. Challenging times are often accompanied by anxiety, impatience and a deep sense of uncertainty. When we perceive we have failed in one way or another, we tend to push ourselves too hard, be overly critical, and be plagued by our own detrimental thoughts whispering “You are not good enough.” We hold ourselves to unrealistic standards of perfection and then we judge ourselves if we do not live up to them. And the result is devastating. That negative self-talk can create a truly dark place. Feeling inadequate or broken in some way is the deepest and most pervasive suffering in our society, and even though we have this need for belonging, we tend to isolate ourselves. The American Sociological Review

Making Friends with Yourself is the Art of Self-Compassion Life offers us so many opportunities for great joy and pleasure but it is our sorrow that can undoubtedly have a detrimental effect on our confidence and on our ability to trust who we are. It is in moments like these that we need to make friends with ourselves by cultivating self-compassion. Challenging times are often accompanied by anxiety, impatience and a deep sense of uncertainty. When we perceive we have failed in one way or another, we tend to push ourselves too hard, be overly critical, and be plagued by our own detrimental th

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