Eric Zimmer

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396 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6 Apr

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But also, self-compassion turns out to be the way that we are much better able to make change.

But I think the thing that I will say is I am very much a realist.

Or as Hans Rosling would say, actually, I'm a possibilist.

But nonetheless, we could talk about that later another time.

I still have voices that pop into my head that are shockingly negative.

My point being, that's some pattern that's wired somewhere into some synapses of my brain that just fires off.

So I can't stop it from showing up.

We can't often stop the first thing that arises in us, because it's just conditioned.

It's just, it's cause and effect.

What I can do, though, is what I do now, which is I hear it and I go, hang on a second.

And I kind of laugh at it now because, again, it's ridiculous to me because I'm not really feeling that.

It's just something that happens.

I think with self-compassion, we want to learn to relate to it in a similar way, which is that it's going to come back up.

None of us are going to get to the point where when we make mistakes that we don't have some critical voice.

We don't want to lose all ability to reflect on our actions.

So for me, what happens when that sort of comes up and it's really strong is that I just go, oh, look, this thing is here again.

30 years I've been doing some form of recovery, inner work, all that stuff.

Long time.

A couple years ago, I had something happen that thoroughly destabilized me.

Where I was like, I was really, really shook up and I just couldn't shake it off.

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