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Self-Compassion: Leverage Awareness Self-compassion expert Kristin Neff defines self-compassion as showing the same compassion toward yourself and your failings that you would offer to someone else.

Self-compassion alters this idea. Self-worth and self-compassion are unconditional practices, Neff says. Self-compassion means being kind to yourself through the good, bad--and the ugly.

Self-compassion is the ability to view yourself as an inherently flawed human being. It is when you can talk to yourself with the same voice you would use with a friend. When you can view what you ...