Who Is Your Best Friend? Self-Compassion in Action

“Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn’t go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.”
- Sharon Salzberg

I’ve been lucky enough to have all of my children under one roof for the last couple of weeks – some of those roofs were in Spain which was even more lucky. This gave me a brief window into their conversations, such a delightful connection to who they are now and are becoming as people and as siblings. At one point I heard one of my sons asking my daughter who her best friend is – she is about to start high school, and friends are such an important piece of this transition. I won’t get into the details of her answer, that’s not for me to speak to. 😉 What it got me thinking about is what does it mean to be a best friend? Who are my best friends? And what if I was my own best friend? What would that look like, feel like? Who would I be if I really, truly valued and loved me the way I love my family and friends?

And that brings me back to self-compassion, the third layer of the TransformAble leading from the inside out framework. It’s the piece that, as I shared in my blog post earlier this year, I left out of the framework the first time around. ​

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