A Few Minutes to Self-Soothe Can Help Your Relationships
Briefly

The article discusses how fear of compassion can hinder emotional expression and impact mental health and relationships. Many struggle with the balance of caring for others while managing their personal issues, often resulting in self-criticism and guilt. It highlights a new method that employs a simple compassion-focused exercise, which can help individuals connect with their capacity for self-soothing. By practicing this approach, individuals can enhance their compassion for themselves and others, thereby improving their relationships.
Fear of compassion can create mental health challenges as well as extend to relationship problems, hindering one's ability to show care for others.
The new method involves a brief compassion-focused exercise that aids in experiencing physical self-soothing and can enhance both personal compassion and relationships.
Read at Psychology Today
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