Courtney recently had the chance to talk with Elizabeth Mintun about Meeting Guilt with Grace on the Calming Ground podcast. Check it out!
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Courtney recently had the chance to talk with Elizabeth Mintun about Meeting Guilt with Grace on the Calming Ground podcast. Check it out!
"My nervous system needs a break. And I've learned the only way to get that break is alone time. That's one of a highly sensitive person's basic needs. Just as we have to sleep, we have to eat, we have to hydrate. We need that deep connection and we need alone time.”
"The world has decided so many things about me that are grossly inaccurate and if I carried the weight of all those I would be crushed and never be able to get out of bed."
"Sometimes we need training wheels and sometimes we don't. Sometimes we're well-resourced enough to take on a hard thing and sometimes we're not. I look back and I feel like I would have saved myself so much angst and wasted energy by not shaming myself for whatever the place was that I was at."
"Any tool that you can give someone that helps them look at themselves through a lens of understanding and compassion can only be helpful."
What is mindful self-compassion and how can it help me? Here is a brief introduction and a real life example of how this practice can change your habitual ways of thinking.