10 | Kirstin Neff: Why Fierce Self-Compassion Is Essential For Your Creative Life And Our World

Create Out Loud With Jennifer Louden

How often do we sit down to face the blank page or canvas, only to get crippled by the paralyzing critic: "You can't do this, you're not good enough....WHY BOTHER?"
What if, instead, you told yourself, "keep going, you've got this, your voice matters." This is the self-compassionate approach to creativity, and it's essential to your success.

But some days, you need more. That’s where Kristen Neff’s work on fierce self-compassion comes in. Kristin Neff is the pioneer researcher of self-compassion and she has spent the last years studying how women can combine fierceness with self-compassion, which many of us have been in-cultured to reject. Listen in as we talk about:

- What fierce self-compassion is and what it isn’t

- How it can help your creative process and your social justice work in the world

- Why accepting all of ourselves is important for the creative process
- The difference between "self-compassion" and "being nice"
- The physiological upside to fierce self-compassion
- What to do when you aren’t creating regularly

Visit https://jenniferlouden.com/podcastkit/ to get instant access to a collection of audios that will:

• help you with some of the most common struggles we creatives have to manage including fear of choosing,
• falling into compare and despair, managing the inner critic (s),
• and feeling too exposed and vulnerable when you put yourself or your work into the world.

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