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8 Key Techniques to Empower Self-Empathy
How you treat yourself profoundly affects your health and well-being.
What is self-empathy? Why can it seem so elusive when it is so good for us? It often seems so much easier to have empathy for others than yourself.
Self-empathy is a commitment to being caring rather than shaming or punishing yourself, especially if you’ve made a mistake. Maybe your first impulse is to push too hard or get impatient with your progress. Or you might beat yourself up for falling short at work or when communicating with a loved one. Or you might be too quick to hate or blame yourself. Without self-empathy, these are........
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