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This book explained why parents needed to care for themselves first in order to provide the best care for their children, but the self-compassion practices within could be used by anyone.
She has just written a book about self-compassion for parents.
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This book explained why parents needed to care for themselves first in order to provide the best care for their children, but the self-compassion practices within could be used by anyone.
She has just written a book about self-compassion for parents.
And I don't think you've had any self-compassion people on the podcast have you? So Kristen has done extraordinary research and this book really builds on the work of Kristen and Kris Germer.
So that's one of the practices in the book which is if you're having a bad moment in the context of your book it's a bad moment with your kid but if you're having a bad moment in any context for any human being kidless or apparent you can do these three steps of first just noticing that something sucks right now or this is a moment of suffering everywhere.
This book is called Self-Compassion for Parents and it's nurture your child by caring for yourself.