How do we recover from feeling bad about ourselves regarding our mistakes, our rejections, limitations, or fights with our partner or friends? Finding freedom means choosing to respond with greater self-compassion or kindness rather than beating ourselves up with self-criticism and judgements.  This is very difficult to do in our culture that says motivation requires self-criticism.  Self-compassion gets confused with self-pity, fear of weakness, self-indulgence or lower standards.  As indivi...
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