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  • I’d never talk to a friend the way I talk to myself, but kindness toward me just isn’t a voice I have
  • I’d never speak to anyone else the way I speak to myself
  • If a friend told me they’d failed like this I’d be warm and understanding in a heartbeat, but I turn on myself with a cruelty I’d never aim at anyone I love
  • I’ll bend over backwards for everyone else, but the idea of being that gentle with myself feels selfish
  • I’d know exactly what to say to a friend going through this, gently and without hesitation

Practices that may help

  1. Developing the Compassionate Self Voice
    Build an inner voice that responds to your suffering with wisdom, warmth, and commitment to wellbeing.
    Compassion-Focused Therapy: Calming the Inner Critic
  2. Replace critic monologue with compassionate self-talk
    Speak to yourself the way you would speak to a close friend in the same situation.
    Working With Your Inner Critic
  3. Apply self-kindness as actively as you would to a friend
    Treat yourself with the same warmth and understanding you would offer a close friend in the same situation.
    Self-Worth vs. Self-Esteem
  4. Include acts of kindness toward yourself
    The kindness architecture that builds well-being includes self-directed kindness — not just other-directed.
    Acts of Kindness, Made Practical
  5. Self-kindness: offer yourself what a good friend would
    Say the words a caring friend would say — to yourself, now.
    The Self-Compassion Break
  6. Warm self-talk
    Speak to yourself in distress the way you would speak to a struggling friend — warmly, honestly, and without blame.
    Self-Soothing, Made Practical
  7. Extend the compassion you would give a friend to yourself
    Ask what you would say to a capable friend who had delayed on the same task — then say that.
    Self-Forgiveness and Procrastination
  8. Compassionate letter to yourself
    Write to yourself from the voice of an unconditionally kind, wise friend.
    Self-Compassion, Made Practical
  9. Ahimsa toward the self: replacing self-attack with self-compassion
    Treat yourself after a failure the way you would treat a good friend in the same situation.
    Ahimsa: Non-Violence as a Daily Practice
  10. Self-kindness over self-judgment
    Respond to your own mistakes with warmth and understanding instead of harsh criticism.
    Self-Compassion, Made Practical

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