The Compassion Initiative: Just Two Guys in Brisbane talking Compassion. www.thecompassioninitiative.com.au
Discovering unconscious blocks to self-compassion
22 Nov 2022
I recently had a revelation! Our blocks to self-compassion are often outside of our awareness. This might sound obvious to you, but it gave me food for thought. When someone is considering self-compassion, maybe for the first time, but something difficult to identify keeps getting in the way…what is that something? Can we bring it to awareness? Can we work it through and unblock that self-compassionate motivation? TARGETED PLAYLIST LINK: Compassion in a T-Shirt LINKS: Miller and Rollnick (2013). Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change. https://www.amazon.com.au/Motivational-Interviewing-Third-Helping-People/dp/1609182278 Miller (2022). On Second Thought: How Ambivalence Shapes Your Life. https://www.amazon.com/Second-Thought-Ambivalence-Shapes-Your/dp/1462547508 Steindl et al (2018). The Origins of Fears of Compassion: Shame and Lack of Safeness Memories, Fears of Compassion and Psychopathology. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Early-shame-and-safeness-memories%2C-and-later-and-of-Steindl-Matos/cfdc0a432d5dbd4e80bb6e499748c0ffef165bbb Matos et al (2017). The Origins of Fears of Compassion: Shame and Lack of Safeness Memories, Fears of Compassion and Psychopathology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223980.2017.1393380 If you would like to know more about compassion and self-compassion, compassion focused therapy or compassionate mind training, you may wish to check out my book, The Gifts of Compassion, available at your favourite online bookstore, such as: https://www.amazon.com.au/Gifts-Compassion-understand-overcome-suffering/dp/1925644480 Say hi on social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drstansteindl Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanSteindl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_stan_steindl/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stan-steindl-150a5264/ Website: https://www.stansteindl.com/ YouTube Video URL: https://youtu.be/Y9Mnglyoxo8 *Affiliate Disclaimer: Note this description contains affiliate links that allow you to find the items mentioned in this video and support the channel at no cost to you. While this channel may earn minimal sums when the viewer uses the links, the viewer is in no way obligated to use these links. Thank you for your support! Video hashtags Compassion, self-compassion, fears, blocks, resistances, motivation, conscious, unconscious, Freud, Jung, Paul Gilbert, compassion focused therapy, CFT, compassionate mind training, CMT
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