Tag: pain
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Mindful Expat Episode 14: Self-Compassion, the Two Arrows, & Learning to Surf
What you’ll hear in this episode: • How you can create a pause between your initial experience of an emotion and your reaction to it, and how doing so will allow you to cultivate more self-compassion and feel less out of control in your life. • About the differences between pain and suffering — and how our…
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Pain May Be Inevitable — But Suffering Isn’t
You may have heard this quote before: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”1 Sounds good, right? But when we’re the ones suffering, it feels anything but optional. And to suggest that we’re choosing to feel this way feels pretty insensitive. So let’s take a closer look at what this saying really means. What’s the difference between pain…