Self-Compassion Practice
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After Something Hard: A Practice for Days You Don't Know How to Be Kind to Yourself
On the days when "be kind to yourself" feels like an impossible instruction, something quieter and more honest is needed. This practice meets you in the aftermath, in the replaying and the regret, and gently shows you how to begin.
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What Your Inner Critic Is Actually Trying to Protect You From
Before you try to silence that sharp, familiar voice inside your head, it's worth pausing to ask a question most of us never think to: what if your inner critic isn't the enemy, but a protector in disguise? This article explores the surprising origins of self-criticism and why understanding what it's guarding might be the most compassionate place to begin.
Forgiving Yourself: What It Means and How to Begin When You're Not Ready
If you are carrying something you cannot seem to put down — a mistake, a moment, a version of yourself you haven't made peace with — this is for you. Real self-forgiveness is not about excusing what happened or rushing yourself into a peace you don't yet feel, and understanding the difference might be exactly where you need to begin.
The Difference between Self-love and Self-compassion
Most of us have used the words self-love and self-compassion as though they mean the same thing, but understanding the real difference between them might be the key to why one has always felt just out of reach. If you've ever wondered why being kind to yourself still doesn't make you feel truly worthy, this one is worth reading slowly.
The Grace You Give Is The Grace You Get: What Missing A Yoga Class Taught Me About Being Human
Something happened to me recently that made me realise the gap between how I see the world now and how I used to see it. Not a dramatic shift. Just tiny daily movements, the kind that are available to all of us if we're paying attention.
The Light We See in Others: A Story of Gratitude and Human Connection
There are moments in life when we meet people who feel like mirrors. All the qualities we long to recognise in ourselves appear so effortlessly in them. And then, as you spend time together, you realise something extraordinary: what you see in them is what they see in you. The connection becomes something rare and beautiful, a space where you bring out the best in one another, even though just days before you were strangers.
What Do You Truly Value?
This is a gentle invitation to explore worth beyond work and wealth, going deeper into what it means without the cultural lens that you sit behind, the one determined by your place in the world, physically, metaphorically, familiarity, etc.
Learning to Sit With Yourself (and Everyone Else Too)
Regulating our emotions is a journey. You might be someone who feels deeply. Who notices the shift in the room when someone else enters? Who picks up on unspoken tensions, unmet needs, and unsaid apologies. You might be empathetic, curious, creative, and sometimes exhausted. You may have learned to manage your emotions with a certain grace, yet still find yourself undone by the sudden sharpness of disappointment or frustration.
19 Free Ways to Feel More Connected to Yourself
In a world that constantly demands our attention, from deadlines and devices to the never-ending to-do lists, it’s easy to drift away from ourselves. But coming home to yourself doesn’t require a retreat or a spa day. (Although you should do these things too.) Sometimes, it doesn’t need to cost anything. Sometimes, it’s about the smallest gestures, things we can do right now, wherever we are, to re-center, ground, and feel more us again.
What is self-love? Why is it so important and what benefits will it offer?
Self-love is when you put yourself first, it might be for a moment or once a week or maybe it's whenever you need to self-soothe. It’s finding things that are just for you. Moments that make you happy that you can pull on and continue to cultivate over and over again.
Sensitivity and Introversion - Susan Cain's book Quiet
The overarching message that I got from this book was that you can unleash the power in the quiet and learn to be more of yourself in the not-so-quiet. Social and other so-called extroverted activities are learnable skills that can be scaled gradually so all introverts can enjoy both the solace and the social, in a setting and environment that nurtures them. It’s ok to be the person looking for the most interesting conversation in the room,
Why The Blog Is Back (and why it's different this time)
After a year of silence that included a medical crisis, a hospital stay, and a profound reckoning with burnout, this blog is returning with a new purpose and a deeper honesty than ever before. If you've ever craved a space where the unglamorous truths of life are welcome, this is the piece that explains why that space now exists.