We all need self-compassion for networking. I once worked with a patient, who said that networking was like making small deals with the devil to advance your future.

We need self-compassion for the early morning, especially when we are not morning people.

We need self-compassion for the heat. It blurs our makeup. It makes a mess of our hair. It makes our clothes cling in ways we wish it would not.

Self-Compassion For Our Wish To Be All Things At All Times For Our Family And Friends sounds like a lengthy title, but somehow people know what I am talking about immediately.

We need self-compassion for our desire to leave a legacy. Since the dawn of mankind, people have tried to leave reminders of their presence in statues, buildings, monuments, and even crudely carved initials or drawings.

In this entry, we are going to look at a specific flavor of self-compassion that I call dog compassion. If you know me, then you know I am a lover of all animals, especially dogs.

I have a secret self-compassion exercise that I use, when times are tough and I am struggling with irreconcilable issues. It has helped me tremendously. I call it 24 hours to live.

We need self-compassion for our concerns about karma.  For such a small word, karma carries a lot of power for most people, and not good power.  People fear bad karma. 

We need self-compassion for our rainy day blues.  Raindrops in the morning make us want to pull the sheets the rest of the way over our heads, and hide out in a pillow fort, like the ones we made as children

Self-Compassion is an interesting tool for pursuing happiness. It does not demand that you maintain the emotion connected with happiness, nor the stereotype of what that might look like (i.e., gleefully skipping through life with a pocket full of candy, and a smile plastered across your face).

Finding self-compassion for your biggest problem will not be easy, but boy is it necessary. For most people, their biggest problem is figuring out who they are and what they want.

We need self-compassion for the question: where will you be in five years? It assumes that you are not enough, subtly suggesting that perhaps in five years you will be.

We need self-compassion for the things we regret, might regret, and the things we might not regret. Though it only has a measly six letters, the word regret is a scary thing for most people.

We need self-compassion for our urge to want to do better. It is a rare condition in this day and age to be satisfied with what you have got.

We need serious self-compassion for watching a parent yell at a child. Unbeknownst to some of you, you have a tiny voice in your heart that speaks the loudest when a child is suffering.

If there is a time for self-compassion, it is when people are setting goals. We tend to set broad, very unrealistic goals that require superhuman will power and energy to complete them.

We need self-compassion for stress eating. It is difficult to resist, and even harder to track the calories we consume. Tell me if this sounds familiar.

We all need self-compassion for rushing. In this, go, go, go world, we are constantly exposed to the fatigue of get this done now. Standing in line feels like an Olympic trial.

As cold weather is replaced with warm weather, people begin to fret about their bodies. That body that was good enough last week is somehow a major problem this week. Those curves that we have hidden for months are now on prominent display.

Recently, a reader asked me about self-compassion for crisis. He understood how self-compassion could help him work towards more self-acceptance, and set goals that were in line with his core values, but he wanted to know more about how self-compassion could be helpful in addressing something unwanted, and overwhelming in the present