Self-Compassion: Your Biggest Untapped Super-Power

These days, we’re constantly bombarded with messages about how we should practice self love and be kind to ourselves… yet no matter how much we try to replace our habitual negative self-talk with positive affirmations, most of us still feel like crap in our own company. Rather than fighting to move from one extreme (self-criticism and hatred) to another extreme (exclusively positive “self-love”), self-compassion and self-forgiveness practices allow us to more easily create a new experience of ourselves and learn how to motivate change and forward momentum from a more peaceful, sustainable place.  In this episode, we explore why it’s so hard to be self-compassionate and forgive ourselves, how we use negative self-talk to motivate change, the idea that being accepting of ourselves would cause laziness and complacency, and how better life becomes when we have made compassion our default lens of seeing ourselves and the world around us. Welcome to the Madness and Meaning Podcast. We believe a life without passion is simply a life without meaning. When life gets a little mad and chaotic, it’s easy to find ourselves resisting the madness as if it doesn’t have a divine purpose to your life and your growth.  In these conversations, we explore big questions to understand ourselves better, rediscover the meaning in everything and reignite the aliveness that comes with living life in purpose. We hope to help you do the same. Connect with us: Email: [email protected] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Madness.Meaning Apply to be coached by Kelly on the podcast: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_JAMefAHZFPH5Nm56YwTmrmZZZktHXsfMkskbKccaZhfiOw/viewform?usp=sf_link Apply to receive a channeled Higher Self session with Amanda on the podcast: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1h00FC_ejYB5YSAJH86gan9Vhi5wgcswIJbQNSxcZh4jS5Q/viewform?usp=sf_link FOLLOW AMANDA BLAU Website: https://www.amandalaurenblau.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@amandalaurenblau Instagram: https://instagram.com/amandalaurenblau TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@amandalaurenblau Join HOME, a free community helping you feel at home inside of you: https://www.amandalaurenblau.com/home-community FOLLOW KELLY GIFFORD Website: https:/www.kelevatecoaching.com⁠ Instagram: https://instagram.com/kelevate_⁠ Kelevate Method: a 6 stage transformational program for healing your relationship with food, exercise, your body and self ⁠https://www.kelevatecoaching.com/general-9⁠ Enter to win a 90-minute deep dive breakthrough session with Kelly ($250 value): ⁠https://forms.gle/6AAjAmwbxyVXxAab7 Purchase Kelly’s romance novel LIFE’S A MIRROR: A Second Chance At Love (If She Can Get Over Her Issues): https://mybook.to/lifesamirror