self-compassion

Patience With Yourself: The Hardest Kind

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Patience With Yourself

The hardest person to be patient with is almost always yourself. Not because your growth is slower than other kinds of change, and not because your shortcomings are more serious than you would tolerate in someone else. It is because the same mind doing the judging is also the one being judged, which removes the … Read more

Why Lacking Self-Discipline Feels Like a Personal Failure

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Why Lack Of Self Discipline Feels Like A Personal Failure

Struggling with self-discipline is common. Experiencing that struggle as proof of something fundamentally wrong with you is also common, and it is worth separating from the practical problem of inconsistency itself. The shame that follows repeated discipline failures is not just an unpleasant side effect. It actively interferes with the thing it claims to be … Read more