Each month we highlight some practical resources for therapists interested in compassion. Our aim here is to provide a brief overview and offer you a few resources where you can find out more information if these ideas are of interest to you. This Month’s Tool: Information readings on self-compassion by Kristin Neff To celebrate Dr. … Read more
Each month we highlight some practical resources for therapists interested in compassion. We don’t go into great depth about what we find, but encourage you to check them out if you think they’re interesting. This Month’s Find: Part 2: Exploring Past Contributors to Warmth and Self-Compassion Here is a handout that is the second part of … Read more
Each month we highlight some practical resources for therapists interested in compassion. Our aim here is to provide a brief overview and offer you a few resources where you can find out more information if these ideas are of interest to you. This Month’s Tool: Effective Use of Self-Disclosure in ACT with Compassion Here is a … Read more
Each month we highlight some practical resources for therapists interested in compassion. We don’t go into great depth about what we find, but encourage you to check them out if you think they’re interesting. This Month’s Find: Part 1: Exploring Past Contributors to Shame and Self-Criticism Here is a handout that is the first part … Read more
People who are chronically self-critical often become numb to the effects of their self-criticism. Through closely attending to the emotional reaction to self-criticism, people can begin to feel the real impact of this way of relating to oneself. Doing chair work where the critical side is enacted can sometimes begin to elicit the emotional reactions … Read more
Each month we highlight some practical resources for therapists interested in compassion. We don’t go into great depth about what we find, but encourage you to check them out if you think they’re interesting. This month’s find: Self-Compassion Break from Kristin Neff. The self-compassion break exercise helps you and/or your client to develop a loving … Read more
Each month we highlight some practical resources for therapists interested in compassion. We don’t go into great depth about what we find, but encourage you to check them out if you think they’re interesting. This Month’s Find: Compassionate Color Exercise Here is an exercise from The Compassionate Mind Foundation intended to foster a felt bodily … Read more
Research shows that behaviors that we track are likely to change as a result of self monitoring. This strategy can be used to develop more awareness of self-critical tendencies and foster daily experiences of self-compassion. We adapted Kristin Neff’s self-compassion scale to a daily format that asks people to reflect on their level of self-compassion once per day. … Read more
Each month we highlight some practical resources for therapists interested in compassion. We don’t go into great depth about what we find, but encourage you to check them out if you think they’re interesting. This Month’s Find: Shame psychoeducation handout Here is a handout we created for use with people experiencing high levels of shame, … Read more
Each month we highlight some practical resources for therapists interested in compassion. We don’t go into great depth about what we find, but encourage you to check them out if you think they’re interesting. This month’s find: The Forms of Self-Criticising/Attacking & Self-Reassuring Scale (FSCRS, Gilbert, Clarke, Hempel, Miles, & Irons, 2004). A recent article published … Read more