Everybody has an inner voice that evaluates, criticizes, and doubts their value. This inner critic, which is frequently influenced by social forces and early experiences, can take over our thinking ...

Granting yourself grace and compassion can be a pathway to recovery. Source: Tim Samuel/Pexels When I came home from the psychiatric ward on multiple occasions of psychosis, I just wanted to crawl in ...

We all struggle with self-doubt at times. Maybe it shows up as a nagging voice that says you’re not good enough, or as a harsher self-bully. And it can especially be a problem for highly sensitive ...

Thirteen year-old Alita told me she knew there was something wrong with her—something that made her “less than.” She felt that, somehow, she was “marked” and deeply unacceptable—even ugly—inside. She ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. If you’re like most people, you might think self-compassion ...

When I teach self-compassion to kids in schools, I do an exercise in which kids imagine that a friend of theirs has lost or broken something special. How would they respond to their friend? I then ask ...