The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self

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I’m extraordinarily grateful for the help and support during a challenging time, both to the Anxiety UK and my Professional Institute, The Chartered Institute of Building and their respected benevolent fund. Self-compassion involves being aware of our own pain and suffering, and understanding that this is a hard, but normal human experience. CFT-based interventions can help people with a range of mental health problems develop compassion for themselves, be open to the compassion of others and develop compassion for others. com), a London-based organisation providing compassion focused psychological interventions for individuals and organisations. Messages with such content will not receive a response and your use of this service will be terminated if you use content that violates our zero tolerance policy.

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This workbook is a step-by-step guide to CFT, in which the chapters build your understanding of yourself, the skills that give rise to a compassionate mind, and ways to work with whatever difficulties you're struggling with in life. Through a period of some significant challenge, the services offered by Anxiety UK has been fantastic, and whilst there is a long road head, progress is positive and forward. Very happy with the way things are going so far and also pleased with how smoothly it was set up and assessed as to what I was after and a service that fitted around my work and life balance. I really recommend AnxietyUK to everyone- they also have fantastic group resources and I think it's really really helpful, especially if you can't afford private therapy and the wait lists in your area are too long.I can't recommend Anxiety UK enough as they were a godsend to me while I waited on my psychology Appointment with NHS which took over a year. This module will teach you strategies such as Compassionate Thought Diaries and Compassionate Letter Writing, to encourage a kinder way of thinking about yourself and your situation. I found the therapy I received through Anxiety UK a crucial and affordable form of support during a very difficult time.

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Our threat and drive systems tend to be overactive for many of us much of the time, and responsible for the difficult emotions we may be struggling with (e.It draws on neuroscience, insights into emotion regulation and identity formation, interpersonal psychology and a range of psychotherapeutic models. The exercises, prompts and case stories in this book provide an understandable and practical way to develop compassion.

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The Compassionate Mind Workbookis for anyone who is interested in how compassion - in the form of ideas and practices derived from Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and other approaches - may help us to engage with, understand and ultimately, try to alleviate suffering. AnxietyUK has been so helpful to me - I joined to access affordable therapy, though I was worried there might be a long wait list. Particularly, self-compassion can activate our soothe system, which calms the threat and drive systems. Very nice to know this support is out there as quite often hard to actually get an opportunity to speak to someone in person these days. This module teaches you how to behave and act in more compassionate ways, both by being kinder towards yourself, kinder towards others, and how to face some of the tough things in life you may need to deal with.

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The Compassionate Mind Workbook is for anyone who is interested in how compassion – in the form of ideas and practices derived from Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and other approaches – may help us to engage with, understand and ultimately, try to alleviate suffering.This module provides a general description of what self-compassion is, and why it is important to our mental health, particularly in helping us overcoming our tendency to be our own worst critic. Directing feelings of kindness and care towards ourselves, and focusing our attention and energy on how we might alleviate our pain, are also crucial components of self-compassion. Elaine co-authored The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self, The Compassionate Mind App and The Kindness Workbook: Compassionate and Creative ways to Boost your Wellbeing. This module teaches you how to take the compassionate feelings you are developing, and allow these to guide how you think.