Self-Compassion

Self-compassion requires you to honor and respect your own suffering. Being present with the discomfort helps you learn more about yourself and gives value to even unpleasant experiences.

Telling yourself the truth enables you to see the good, the bad, and the ugly within you. Self-compassion encourages you to accept every bit of yourself. It asks you to draw a bigger circle to encompass all of you during this once in forever life journey.

You must allow yourself to fail because your setbacks, stress, and suffering are part of the human condition.

You are Not Alone. To clarify, self-compassion asks us to acknowledge our common humanity by realizing that everyone is flawed. Being flawed is part of the human experience.

To begin with, remember and honor your core values. Your values are the things that influence the way you live and work. These are your priorities. Knowing your core values will help you make decisions that align with what is most important to you. Values give you a way to measure whether your life is turning out the way you want.

Self-compassion is the act of saying YES to yourself. In effect, it sends the message, ‘I matter.’

Most importantly, self-compassion reminds you to embrace self-love even when self-loathing yells louder.

“The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.”

- Wilfred A. Peterson