Table of ContentsView AllTable of ContentsMeet Kristin NeffWhy Kristin Neff Is Mentally StrongWhat You’ll Hear on the ShowWhat You’ll Learn About Mental Health and Mental StrengthQuotes From KristinMore About the Podcast

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Meet Kristin Neff

Why Kristin Neff Is Mentally Strong

What You’ll Hear on the Show

What You’ll Learn About Mental Health and Mental Strength

Quotes From Kristin

More About the Podcast

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OnThe Verywell Mind Podcast, Amy Morin, LCSW, interviews experts, authors, entrepreneurs, athletes, musicians, and other inspirational people about the strategies that help them think, feel, and do their best in life.

Kristin Neff is a pioneer in self-compassion research. She’s been studying self-compassion for more than 15 years.

She’s the author of the bestselling book Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and the co-creator of a training program called Mindful Self-Compassion.

She’s also an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.

She’s written a new book called Fierce Self-Compassion, in which she describes how to know when to practice tender self-compassion and when to practice fierce self-compassion.

Kristin talks about her own experiences with self-compassion. She shares the steps she’s taken to develop self-compassion over the years.

She makes it clear that she isn’t perfect. And she talks about the mistakes she has made and the lessons she has learned along the way.

In her books, she describes the strategies and techniques she applies to her own life. And invites others to experiment with the strategies that work well for her.

Self Efficacy and Why Believing in Yourself Matters

The conversations you have with yourself greatly affect your mental health. Being overly critical of yourself can lead to mental health problems. And the more mental health problems you have, the less likely you are to talk to yourself kindly.

It’s a cycle that can be tough to break.

Treating yourself with kindness helps you build mental strength. And in turn, it may improve your mental health.

But as Kristin says, you shouldn’t set out to develop self-compassion for the sole purpose of alleviating suffering. Instead, practice being kind to yourself because you’re worthy of kindness.

When you respond to unhelpful thoughts with a kinder inner dialogue, you begin to create positive change. It takes a conscious effort to change the way you think, but with practice, it gets easier to become kind to yourself.

Kristin NeffThere are people standing up and saying, ‘You will not harm me anymore. This is not okay. You can not treat me unjustly.’ That’s self-compassion.

Kristin Neff

There are people standing up and saying, ‘You will not harm me anymore. This is not okay. You can not treat me unjustly.’ That’s self-compassion.

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