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Posts tagged with 'self-compassion'

Boosting self-compassion & self-encouragement by strengthening attachment security: twelve practical suggestions (7-12)

27th March 2011

This blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file. Last week I gave the first six of a dozen ideas for boosting self-compassion & self-encouragement in the blog post "Boosting self-compassion ... twelve practical suggestions (1-6)". Here are a further half dozen ideas. Remember …

Boosting self-compassion & self-encouragement by strengthening attachment security: twelve practical suggestions (1-6)

20th March 2011

This blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file. Research suggests that self-compassion may be as much as ten times more relevant than mindfulness for improvements in anxiety, depression & quality of life (Van Dam, Sheppard et al. 2011), although the two concepts (self-compassion …