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If you\u2019ve ever ended the day feeling like a failure and critiquing every misstep, then this episode on practicing self-compassion is for you.

As a licensed marriage and family therapist and life coach, Kim Fredrickson has counseled and taught others about self-compassion for years. When she received an unexpected terminal diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis, a rare side-effect of the treatment she had received for breast cancer, she wrote a book to leave for her children on giving that same compassion to the grandchildren she may never meet.

When people feel ashamed, they blame other people because they feel like if I really look at my shame then I\u2019m going to collapse inside. That\u2019s why self-compassion is desperately important because kids feel shame a lot. They fail at everything at the start.

• Kim\u2019s story of receiving a devastating diagnosis after completing treatment for breast cancer
• How she\u2019s chosen to spend the years she has left with her family
• The new book she wrote for when her children have kids called \u201cGive Your Kids a Break: Parenting with Compassion for You and Your Children\u201d
• How it\u2019s a process to develop a compassionate inner voice
• Applying grace and truth to every situation in our lives
• Variety of temperaments\u2013some that are harder on themselves than others.
• The difference between self-compassion and self-pity
• Encouraging your children to practice self-compassion and reinforcing it by showing ourselves that same
• Giving our kids the language to identify their failings and separate them from their self- worth
• Moms have a really hard job. It\u2019s ok to acknowledge that.
• The importance of taking care of ourselves as moms
• How to talk to your kids after you\u2019ve been hard on yourself and reframing it with self compassion

• \nKristi Clover\xa0\u2014 Simply Joyful Podcast
• \nGive Your Kids a Break : Parenting with Compassion for You and Your Children **
• Give Yourself a Break **\xa0
• \nCompassionate Self-Statements and Self-Soothing Exercises\xa0(CD and download)
• Kind and Compassionate Words to Soothe Your Soul\xa0 (Download)