The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self Compassion: Kristin Neff at TEDxCentennialParkWomen
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========== Translator: Rui Jiang
Reviewer: Queenie Lee I guess you could say
that I am a self-compassion evangelist. I love spreading the good word
about self-compassion. I've devoted the last ten years
of my research career to studying the mental health benefits
of self-compassion, and more recently I've been working
on developing interventions to help people learn to be more compassionate
to themselves in their lives. And the reason I'm so passionate
about self-compassion is because I have really seen
its power in my own life. I first learned
about self-compassion in 1997, when I was finishing up
my PhD at UC Berkeley. I was going through a really hard time. I had just gotten out
of a very messy divorce with feeling of a lot of shame
and self-judgment...