Self-Compassion: The Way to Heal Ourselves!

“What if we know that forgiveness and mercy are what heal and restore and define us, that they actually are the fragrance that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it?” 
​—Anne Lamott

Phew! The holiday madness has come and gone (in fact, it will certainly be in the past when you read this since I posted a version of it in the waning hours of 2023) and we are now a week into 2024. Interestingly, my plan for this blog post (fourth month of blogging in a row, just saying 😉) has been to write about self-compassion. And New Year’s weekend I got multiple messages about compassion and mercy. For one, I heard an interview with Anne Lamott on MPR – her words of wisdom for the new year were simple, rest more and laugh more, As she says “Peace is joy at rest and joy is peace on its feet.” For me, this is important advice that I rarely heed. Instead I get stuck in my daily beatdowns, “what have I done wrong? what have I not done enough of? what is wrong with me? How am I not measuring up?”

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