15 Tools for Developing Self Compassion and Nurturing Your Inner Child to Improve Self Esteem

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Video by Dr. Dawn Elise Snipes on integrative behavioral health approaches including counseling techniques and skills for improving mental health and reducing mental illness.

[DocSnipes]

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[billthelen]

Compassionately journaling about my day is a great idea.

[DocSnipes]

What do you do (or are you going to start doing) to improve self compassion and model self compassion for the people around you?

[style-city]

been divorced for four years now and this was the most helpful session i had gotten, thank you!

[DocSnipes]

Do you think self-compassion helps you be more compassionate with others?

[MrDan]

as always, love every single one of your videos and SO GRATEFUL they're not full of interrupting commercials and can listen straight through entire talk - LIKED AND SUBSCRIBED

[FrenchTwist]

A wise educator advised me that when dealing with students, we don't know what they'ren dealing with... So true

[billthelen]

Rewriting my negative critical thoughts to a positive compassionate thought or response on paper is very good advice.

[ashleywessel]

My god your channel is great. Thank you for the care and detail that you put into these videos. You are doing a great service to us all🙏

[billthelen]

Self hugs are great in showing my self love.

[billthelen]

Wow. Thank you Dr. Snipes. You make such a great Dialectical Behavioral Therapist

[billthelen]

Thank you Dr. Snipes for reminding me that problem solving is part of distress tolerance. Thanks for covering how to properly handle our emotions.

[DiscordBeing]

You have no idea how much I appreciate these how to videos. I treat them like serious exercises to help heal my CPTSD and they have done so much good for me. Thank you.

[CynthiaSchoenbauer]

This is like an empaths' handbook of how to give yourself what you have given everyone else, hoping to get it back. But no one gave me the courtesy of what I gave. So it fueled narcissism in them. Now I know how to get it started with my self. And I don't want pity for my failures and fake congratulations, which is what I always got from narcs. If I give you a good idea, will you validate me with that, Dr. Snipes? No one validated me with the ideas I had but used them anyway... but only narcs would do that, and you are not a narc.

[ripleyt]

People are worthy because they simply are...still working on it for myself though.

[thaile]

Thank you so much Doc Snipes for creating all these helpful and insightful content for us! I am super grateful!

[CynthiaSchoenbauer]

Wow! This was never taught to me that there was even a thing as compassion. No one ever validated what I was going through. They wanted all my compassion (I am an empath) to go to them. My father was strictly AGAINST compassion in any way and he was angry at people who obviously needed it. But then he was a narcissist who thought all the compassion and praise should go to him. Complaining and needing compassion were the same thing and he CERTAINLY did not like anyone complaining because you would not receive your Brownie points if you complained at all. Brownie points are what you got when you obeyed him and it meant, not that you were to be thanked, but that you could stay in the family without everyone hating you. My mother was a narc and enjoyed all the pain that was being heaped on me and told that I was responsible for. The doctors told me I was overly-conscioustious, but I did not see my role of compassion that burned me out! Self-compassion for me means putting my self first for my compassion now, and seeing how much it hurts when narcs abuse me and respond with strong boundaries.

[Frkpii]

When you talk about why people don't set up or maintain boundaries I found out that it has something to do with fear of punishment, because I've been punished a lot in many different ways by my mom and also she just don't respect the boundaries I put up. She keeps violating them even though I say it in a nice way or when I get mad about it - It's just like she doesn't even hear me or see me or recognize and understand what I'm saying to her. It's SO difficult! It's like we don't speak the same language even though I try in so many ways to rephrase or try new methods to say things or do things or ask how she would want me to say things differently and I know that sometimes it takes time to break a habit or just to do something different, but with her... Idk. it's the hardest person that I ever had to deal with and I hate that it is like that. I've been trying my whole life, I just can't anymore.

[anitach]

Thanks for this podcast . This is exactly, what I need practise. But I can't stop to be so demand for myself It's simply. It has to be done . And never is good enough. 😉

[basedxrp]

Doc, I love your videos. They are so helpful in assisting me in my recovery. It also helps that you are also drop dead gorgeous. Mama mia.