"Through my own experience working with thousands of young people, my sense of the cultural Western conditioning is to be really hard on ourselves. We often try to achieve perfection which gives us really high expectations. Then, when we fall below these expectations, there's a habit of self-criticism. I think it's such good medicine and so important that I learned to be kind to myself..."
"I started saying loving-kindness phrases to myself-which I'll be offering to you, too-like 'May I be happy,' and what came up for me was, You don't deserve to be happy. That's totally normal. The invitation given to me was to see if I could actually meet the voice in my mind that said, You don't deserve this, with a little bit of kindness."
"Through the work that I've done, I've come to understand that the little voice is just confused and doing its best to protect me from being vulnerable in a very intense world. Like some of you, I've had experiences where I've opened my heart and it's been hurt so a natural part of me wants to..."
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