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Mindful Self-compassion

This video explores how you can approach dealing with difficult emotions in 5 stages: resisting, exploring, tolerating, allowing, accepting.

Self-awareness and self-compassion both play an important part in the process of meeting your emotions in an effective way.

This video explores how you can approach dealing with difficult emotions, which can be summarised in five stages:

  1. Resisting.
  2. Exploring.
  3. Tolerating.
  4. Allowing.
  5. Acceptance.
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