How do you broaden your thought-action repertoire? With self-compassion. Practicing self-compassion expands your thought-action repertoire because it pulls you out of fear-based negativity and towards increased feelings of safety, reassurance, and positivity. Research demonstrates self-compassion’s positive association with a greater sense of self-worth, increased personal initiative,[10] increased resilience to stress, more realistic self-appraisals of strengths and weaknesses, lower levels of depression and anxiety, reduced rates of burnout, increased motivation to make amends for past
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