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When self-compassion practice meets ingrained self-criticism

I have been working on self-compassion for months but when I make a mistake at work I still berate myself more harshly than I would ever speak to another person.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Deeply conditioned patterns of self-attack often prove more resistant to change than compassion directed toward others due to internalized critical voices.

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