Self-compassion
The ability to treat yourself in distress as you would a friend — without sugar-coating and without judging.
How it shows up in daily life
It is easiest to recognise by its absence: you make a mistake and a sentence lands in your head that you would never say to anyone else. Self-compassion isn’t letting yourself off. Research shows it is associated with more, not less, persistence.
What we do with it in therapy
For many people this is the hardest exercise, because it feels like an excuse. So we don’t start with kindness to yourself but with accuracy: what actually happened, what was yours and what wasn’t.
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See also
Anxious attachment
A pattern in which uncertainty in a relationship intensifies the need for closeness and reassurance.
Parenting styles
Ways of parenting that differ in how much warmth and how much demand they contain.
Envy
An uncomfortable feeling about what someone else has — and often a precise indicator of what you want yourself.
