Tag: self-compassion
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Mindful Expat Episode 39: Reframing Self-Care: Having Empathy for Your Future Self
What you’ll hear in this episode: • How self-care is really having empathy for your future self (and what this really means). • A fun Seinfeld clip to illustrate this concept (in the inverse) • Some ideas for what this type of self-care might mean for you.
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Mindful Expat Episode 15: A Compassionate, Growth-Oriented Approach to Cultural Adjustment (With Guest: Sundae Schneider-Bean, MA)
Today’s Mindful Expat Guest is Sundae Schneider-Bean! Sundae is an intercultural strategist and solution-oriented coach, and – as she says – she’s on a mission to help expats make the most of their lives abroad! Sundae is originally from the United States, from the state of North Dakota. Even before meeting her Swiss husband and…
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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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Mindful Expat Episode 7: Diving Deeper into Mindfulness & Balancing Acceptance with Change
What you’ll hear in this episode: • A discussion of the different attitudes of mindfulness — beginner’s mind, non-judgment, acknowledgment, non-striving, letting be, self-reliance, and self-compassion. • That acceptance and commitment to change and growth are not in opposition to one another and can, in fact, coexist. • About my plans to attend the FIGT conference…
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The Legend of the Two Wolves
There’s an old Cherokee legend about two wolves that goes like this: An old man was talking to his grandson about life. He told the young boy, “A battle is going on inside of me. It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf represents all that is bad — fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed,…