December 20, 2018
Ep. 80: How Practicing Self-Respect Can Lead to Self-Compassion
Your Anxiety Toolkit - Practical Skills for Anxiety, Panic & DepressionAbout this episode
How Practicing Self-Respect Can Lead to Self-Compassion Hello there CBT School Family! I am so thrilled to share another episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast with you. You guys know me well enough to know that I am a huge fan and advocate for the practice of self-compassion. I love sharing the benefits of self-compassion and helpful ways to put it into practice. However, over the past few months, I have heard the hopelessness in some of your voices when you share with me that self-compassion just feels too hard and too triggering. Maybe you feel like you don't deserve to be kind to yourself, which is common in Anxiety , Depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) , or you are afraid that practicing self-compassion will mean you lose control and become a lazy, useless bum (none of this is true, BTW). For those of you who are struggles with self-compassion, this podcast is for you. Today we are talking all about how practicing self-respect can lead to self-compassion. Self-respect is all about honoring your right to be treated fairly and kindly. It is all about not treating yourself in a way that is disrespectful and hurtful. We all deserve to be treated equally and fairly, and this is a practice that is crucial if you ever want to master the practice of self-compassion. In this episode of Your Anxiety Toolkit Podcast, we will discuss effective ways to practice self-respect and learn how self-respect leads us towards the beneficial practice of self-compassion. During the podcast episode, we take a look at how you can improve self-respect by addressing these important questions. 1) Do my behaviors represent and reflect self-respect? 2) Do my behaviors respect my values? 3) Do my behaviors respect my beliefs? 4) Do my behaviors allow me to achieve my goals and values? 5) What are some times I have felt a true sense of self-respect? 6) Does my behavior lead me towards a sense of mastery (of a skill or a situation)? 7) What behaviors am I doing that damage my sense of self-respect? I hope this podcast episode brings you closer to the practice of self-respect and self-compassion. These are two concepts I am very invested in and I hope you find them helpful.