One way to help us feel safe is through self-compassion. Self-compassion involves being open to our experiences of suffering instead of avoiding or disconnecting from them, creating the aspiration to heal with kindness. By practicing self-compassion, we learn to talk to ourselves like a good friend who is struggling. Often, we can be our own enemy. When we struggle, feel inadequate, or inevitably experience failures, it is our instinct as humans to try to push away the experi