The Power of Self-Compassion

How treating yourself with compassion can improve your mental health

Self-compassion is essential to improving our mental health. It is treating ourselves with acceptance, kindness, and understanding, especially when we struggle, make mistakes, and face challenges. This can be a hard task. Even seemingly impossible. If we let ourselves “off the hook,” will we no longer be accountable? Will we become lazy? These are common fears when thinking about how self-compassion will affect us.