A new study suggests that self-compassion improves mood, largely by helping us avoid negative rumination.
What is the solution?
We focused on nurturing self-compassion, which means becoming mindfully aware of the pain one feels when experiencing moments of failure, recognizing that such shortcomings are common to all human beings, and then evoking a sense of kindness and care toward one’s self in those moments.
By Linda Graham
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Dorrie Fontaine, is Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia. At the school she started the Compassionate Care & Empathic Leadership Initiative (CCELI) “which exists to create dialogue around and preparedness for nurse…
