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Compassion for a Burned Man

by John Folk-Williams 1 Comment

Smoke, fire, compassion

I wasn’t expecting anything out of the ordinary that evening, but I wound up in the hospital with a burned hand and, at least in retrospect, a little insight about compassion. It started after work one day when I had just sat down at the kitchen table with a glass of water to stare at […]

Filed Under: Healing, Self-Esteem Tagged With: care-giving, compassion, family, love, self-compassion

Fighting Self-Compassion

by John Folk-Williams 28 Comments

Red and yellow lilies in vase

Strange as it may seem, I find myself fighting therapeutic approaches based on self-compassion. The reasons run deep and reveal a lot about the difficulty of trying to get depression completely out of my life. In a recent post, I summarized Kristin Neff’s idea of self-compassion as a way of relating to ourselves that is […]

Filed Under: Healing, Self-Esteem Tagged With: acceptance, connection, self-compassion

Self-Compassion and Depression

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Self-Compassion

As one who has had a lot of problems with self-esteem and self-worth as a result of depression, I’ve been interested to find out about the work of Kristin Neff. She is a psychologist who has presented self-compassion as an alternate way of thinking about the self. The idea of self-esteem has been pretty basic […]

Filed Under: Healing, Self-Esteem Tagged With: acceptance, compassion, self-compassion

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