Practical Tips for How to Approach and Manage Tricky Emotions with Self-Compassion

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Christine Braehler, DClinPsy, PhD, explains how our automatic fight-flight-freeze reflexes lead us to feeling even worse when they get triggered in response to us experiencing difficult emotions. She offers four steps to help cultivate a wiser and kinder relationship to our emotions and to ourselves which can be translated into practical strategies for better managing tricky emotions. These four steps are taken from Christopher Germer, PhD, Co-Developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) of which Christine Braehler is a first generation teacher and teacher trainer.
1. Exploring
2. Tolerating
3. Allowing
4. Befriending
This teaching is part of the MSC programme developed by Germer & Neff.
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