ACT With Compassion

Each month we highlight some practical resources for therapists interested in compassion. Our aim here is to provide a brief overview and offer you a few resources where you can find out more information if these ideas are of interest to you.

This Month's Tool: Information readings on self-compassion by Kristin Neff

To celebrate Dr. Kristin Neff’s recent visit to Portland with Dr. Christopher Germer for a Mindful Self-Compassion workshop, we put together a bunch of informational posts by Kristin Neff, co-founder of the Mindful Self-Compassion program and author of the book Self-Compassion. We have listed them by topic so that you can quickly browse and find the best fitting readings for your clients (or yourself).

Informational readings:

Self-compassion vs self-esteem:

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-self-compassion/201106/why-self-compassion-may-be-the-antidote-narcissism
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristin-neff/self-compassion_b_843721.html

Self-compassion does not make you lazy:

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristin-neff/self-compassion_b_1643456.html
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristin-neff/self-compassion_b_865912.html

Physiology of self-compassion:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristin-neff/self-compassion_b_884665.html

The idea of common humanity:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristin-neff/self-compassion_b_1889880.html

Treating yourself like a friend:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristin-neff/the-golden-rule-in-revers_b_850465.html

And here is Dr. Neff’s TED talk on self-compassion.