Resources: Self-Compassion Practices

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While working on skills for Self-Compassion, here are resources that I’ve found useful for myself and for students:

The Self-Compassion Skills Workbook has been my main source of inspiration for our practices. 

- Author Tim Desmond's website

- All the free audio practices based on the workbook begin here: Practice 1

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Dr. Kristin Neff 

- About page for this author and researcher who has been studying self-compassion since 2003

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What is the "Internal Family Systems" (IFS) model? (Mentioned when talking about past self and parts of self.)

- Wikipedia overview

- Article by Dr. Richard Schwartz about the evolution of IFS in which he references his own experiences with meditation

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Tonglen Practice to Expand Compassion

- Pema Chödrön teaches us Tonglen, “sending and taking,” an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion