From the course: Strategies for Female Empowerment
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Cultivating self-compassion
From the course: Strategies for Female Empowerment
Cultivating self-compassion
- Imagine if each and every woman across the world woke up tomorrow and loved themselves. Not only would whole industries implode from the 300 billion diet industry to the 500 billion cosmetic industry, but women would be more willing to take risks, they would recover more quickly from setbacks and they would live more empowered lives. In this lesson, you will learn why it's so important to practice self-compassion. I'll also share with you a simple way to start incorporating more self-compassion into your life when you make mistakes. At first blush, self-compassion may seem too touchy feely to be taken seriously, but research shows that people who are more compassionate toward themselves live more productive and fulfilling lives. Why, because self-compassion is the antidote to a lot of things that make life so hard, things like stress, disappointment, and failure. And as a person with one or more marginalized identities,…
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