Episode 204 — I Welcome Self-CompassionIn this episode, we explore the gentle art of self-compassion — the practice of treating yourself with the same warmth and kindness you would offer a dear friend who is struggling. We let go of harsh self-criticism, release the need for perfection, and practice speaking to ourselves with patience and love. This is a grounding, calming episode for anyone who has ever been hard on themselves and is ready to try a gentler way.AFFIRMATIONS• I am allowed to be imperfect and that is enough.• I offer myself the same kindness I would offer a close friend.• I release the need to be perfect and choose progress over perfection.• I am learning to speak to myself like someone I love.• I let go of the past — my mistakes do not define who I am right now.• I release self-criticism — I can grow through encouragement and patience.• I honor my effort, even when the outcome is not what I hoped.• I choose to respond to myself with patience and understanding.• I am worthy of my own kindness, exactly as I am right now.• I forgive myself for past mistakes and let them go.• I trust myself to keep going, even on the hard days.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━TIMESTAMPS[00:00] Opening — Arriving in the present moment[02:30] Settling In — Why we are hardest on ourselves[05:00] Affirmations — Kindness to yourself[07:30] Breathwork — Four-count breathing with self-kindness[09:00] Affirmations — Deeper kindness and forgiveness[11:00] Closing — Self-compassion as a daily practice━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━THEMESSelf-compassion, letting go of perfectionism, speaking kindly to yourself, self-forgiveness, progress over perfection, releasing self-criticism, learning and growing gently, patience with yourself, honoring your effort, kindness as practice, breathing exercises, calming the inner critic, treating yourself like a friend, human imperfection as strength.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━#SelfAffirmations #SelfCompassion #LetGoOfPerfection #BeKindToYourself #SelfForgiveness #GentleHealing #ProgressNotPerfection #InnerPeace #MindfulSelfCare #HealingJourney #ReleaseSelfCriticism #SoftStrength #PatienceWithYourself #Worthiness #ChooseKindnessDISCLAIMER 📢24/7 Self Affirmations and Meditations is an independent production by HustleStudios. The stories and topics discussed are for entertainment and informational purposes only. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect HustleStudios or its affiliates.Some names and details may be altered to protect privacy. Listener discretion advised. All content protected under copyright law.This episode might be ad-supported. Support us on Patreon for ad-free episodes, early access, and exclusive promos.👉 Check our Patreon👉 Or subscribe via Apple Podcasts📻 Listen to Hustle Studios Radio 24/7!🎧 radio.hustlestudios.net/live🔊 All our podcasts — playing back to back, anytime!

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