How to Be Kind to Yourself: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Daily Challenges with Self-Compassion, Self-Acceptance and Ease

When do you find it hard to be kind to yourself?

Making a mistake; feeling overwhelmed; encountering judgement and rejection; comparing yourself unfavourably to other people.

These experiences and more can provoke our inner critics and leave us feeling isolated, stuck, and unsure how to move forward. But they are also an unavoidable part of being human and an opportunity to grow.

In How to Be Kind to Yourself, you’ll discover how to use these times to deepen your self-compassion and cultivate confidence through action. Inside, you’ll find support, encouragement, and questions for reflection on some of the most common challenges that come with being human.

Each chapter deals with a different experience or situation that might challenge our self-kindness: rejection, making mistakes, judgement, illness, not doing what we’re saying we’re going to do, and much more. You’ll find practical and doable suggestions and practices for depending self-acceptance and self-compassion in the face of common life challenges and tools to use in situations in which it’s hardest to be kind to ourselves.

Buy How to Be Kind to Yourself in ebook and print (large print below)

You can order the paperback and hardback versions of this book through your local bookshop or for free through your library.

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Workbook Edition

Coming soon.

Large Print Edition

The large print edition is for readers who have additional visual needs (for example, visual impairment or dyslexia). The book has been reformatted with features like larger font, bigger margins, central alignment, bold instead of italics for emphasis, cream pages, and other features that are designed to make the reading experience easier.

The large print edition is available to order through your local bookstore or online below.


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