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The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
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Kristin Neff
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From leading psychologist Dr. Kristin Neff comes a step-by-step guide explaining how to be more self-compassionate and achieve your dreams in life.
The relentless pursuit of high self-esteem has become a virtual religion - and a tyrannical one at that. Our ultracompetitive culture tells us we need to be constantly above average to feel good about ourselves, but there is always someone more attractive, successful, or intelligent than we are. And even when we do manage to grab hold of high self-esteem for a brief moment, we can't seem to keep it. Our sense of self-worth goes up and down like a ping-pong ball, rising and falling in lockstep with our latest success or failure.
Fortunately, there is an alternative to self-esteem that many experts believe is a better and more effective path to happiness: self-compassion. The research of Dr. Kristin Neff and other leading psychologists indicates that people who are compassionate toward their failings and imperfections experience greater well-being than those who repeatedly judge themselves. The feelings of security and self-worth provided by self-compassion are also highly stable, kicking in precisely when self-esteem falls down. This book powerfully demonstrates why it's so important to be self-compassionate and give yourself the same caring support you'd give to a good friend.
This groundbreaking work will show you how to let go of debilitating self-criticism and finally learn to be kind to yourself. Using solid empirical research, personal stories, practical exercises, and humor, Dr. Neff - the world's foremost expert on self-compassion - explains how to heal destructive emotional patterns so that you can be healthier, happier, and more effective. Engaging, highly listenable, and eminently accessible, this book has the power to change your life.
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- By: Sharon Salzberg
- Narrated by: Sharon Salzberg
- Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
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Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and find a greater sense of connection with others. Our fear of intimacy—both with others and with ourselves—creates feelings of pain and longing. But these feelings can also awaken in us the desire for freedom and the willingness to take up the spiritual path.
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Basic Facts
- By shirley vandekerkhove on 01-09-25
By: Sharon Salzberg
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The Gifts of Imperfection, 10th Anniversary Edition
- Features a New Foreword
- By: Brené Brown
- Narrated by: Brené Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
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For more than a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make you laugh, and, on occasion, cry with you. And what's now become a movement all started with The Gifts of Imperfection, which has sold more than two million copies in 35 different languages across the globe.
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Anecdotal drivel
- By Megan M. Jeffries on 11-14-20
By: Brené Brown
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Radical Acceptance
- Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
- By: Tara Brach
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering," says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork - all the forces that keep our lives constricted and unfulfilled. Radical Acceptance offers a path to freedom, including the day-to-day practical guidance developed over Dr. Brach's 20 years of work with therapy clients and Buddhist students.
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Sublime Guidance
- By Rich on 11-21-15
By: Tara Brach
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The Compassionate Mind
- By: Paul Gilbert
- Narrated by: Rupert Farley
- Length: 22 hrs and 34 mins
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Throughout history people have sought to cope with a life that is often stressful and hard. We have actually known for some time that developing compassion for oneself and others can help us face up to and win through the hardship and find a sense of inner peace. However in modern societies we rarely focus on this key process that underpins successful coping and happiness and can be quick to dismiss the impact of modern living on our minds and well-being. Instead we concentrate on 'doing, achieving' and having'.
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Like water for a thirsty wanderer
- By Vickie on 09-02-13
By: Paul Gilbert
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The Uncovering Happiness Symposium: Self-Compassion
- By: Jim Doty, Kristin Neff, Tara Brach, and others
- Narrated by: Jim Doty, Kristin Neff, Tara Brach, and others
- Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
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In the past 15 years cutting-edge innovations in neuroscience have led to one of the most powerful insights in human history…that within each and every one of us there are natural biological potentials for real happiness. In this course, you will learn how to harness your brain's own natural anti-depressants and uncover your true potential for joy!
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This is just a podcast
- By sandy on 01-15-25
By: Jim Doty, and others
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Self-Esteem
- A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem
- By: Matthew McKay PhD, Patrick Fanning
- Narrated by: Gillian Vance
- Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
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The much-anticipated fourth edition of the best-selling classic by Matthew McKay, Self-Esteem is the go-to guide for those seeking to increase their sense of self-worth. This fully revised new edition features an innovative application of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to self-esteem and utilizes updated cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help listeners create positive change and thrive.
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for professionals only
- By Sharon B on 01-12-21
By: Matthew McKay PhD, and others
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The Power of Self-Compassion
- By: Laurie J. Cameron
- Narrated by: Laurie Cameron
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
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Join expert Laurie Cameron to discover tools - including meditations, exercises, journaling, and in-the-moment practices - that will help you evoke mindfulness and empathy in your everyday life in a way that it becomes your natural response - your new set of habits. As you adopt these practices, you’ll start to see a shift in how you work with stressful life events, as well as how you connect with the shared human experience of loss, challenge, and disappointment.
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OMG. Couldn't get through the first chapter
- By Natalie Bovis on 01-04-20
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I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t)
- Telling the Truth about Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power
- By: Brené Brown
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
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Based on seven years of ground-breaking research and hundreds of interviews, I Thought It Was Just Me shines a long-overdue light on an important truth: Our imperfections are what connect us to each other and to our humanity. Our vulnerabilities are not weaknesses; they are powerful reminders to keep our hearts and minds open to the reality that we're all in this together.
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I'm sure its great if you are a mother ....
- By Leslie A Hill on 08-09-11
By: Brené Brown
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What My Bones Know
- A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
- By: Stephanie Foo
- Narrated by: Stephanie Foo
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
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By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years.
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Complex PTSD from a patient's point of view!
- By Howard_a on 05-24-22
By: Stephanie Foo
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The Radical Acceptance Workbook
- Transform Your Life & Free Your Mind with the Healing Power of Self-Love & Compassion - Positive Lessons to Treat Anxiety, Doubt, Shame & Negative Self-Judgement (Acceptance Therapy)
- By: Ava Walters
- Narrated by: Annette Martin
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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Unlock the path to inner healing and transformative growth with the empowering "Radical Acceptance Workbook." This comprehensive self-help guide, enriched with real-life insights from author Ava Walters and others, invites you on a journey of self-discovery, emotional healing, and cultivating an abundance mindset through the lens of Acceptance. Discover how you can free yourself from emotional hardship and mental suffering as you explore key topics such as mindfulness, self-awareness, judgmental and nonjudgmental behavior, self-acceptance, self-love, self-compassion, forgiveness, and more.
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Radical Compassion
- Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN
- By: Tara Brach
- Narrated by: Tara Brach
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties - stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical audiobook, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs.
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Started out well...
- By AAmazonn cCustomerr on 01-13-21
By: Tara Brach
PS: I was really amazed by the story about your son, Kristin, I even cried (I do this extremly rarely) and thank you so much, for this book.
Yes!!!
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Something to come back to.
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Excellent book
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Life Changing Experience
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Every American should read this book
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While the reader feels very sympathetic in her vocal qualities and tone to the mission of the book, I struggled a lot with adjusting my volume to hear her. I almost gave up on the book as a result. I found I really had to blast her to hear her at all because her voice was kinda mumbly somehow.
Great book, mumbly reader?
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What made the experience of listening to Self-Compassion the most enjoyable?
This book was very soothing, very educational and incredibly well paced and written.What did you like best about this story?
The author makes the subject understandable and takes you through the proces of self-compassion one step at a time.Any additional comments?
The voice was very nice to listen to. It was easy to listen for hours straight. The subject and chapters could keep my interest for a long time.Perfect for everyone!
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The reading voice sounds bit robotic and reminds me to the snapped show narrator.
Helpful book with good exercises
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very good book
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Great insight
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