23. Self-Compassion Recipe - Shame - Sitting with Dr Chris Germer

<p>Dr Chris Germer is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School, his primary interest is self-compassion—the warmhearted attitude of mindfulness when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate. He stumbled onto self-compassion in 2005 as a solution to his decades-long struggle with public speaking anxiety. Learning to be self-compassionate helped him to overcome anxious thoughts.</p> <p>"I realised that when we are kind to ourselves, we immediately have this uprising of affection and care for others." Chris Germer - (<a href="https://chrisgermer.com/about/">FLOW International Magazine, January 2020</a><a href="https://chrisgermer.com/about/">)</a></p> <p>He wrote a great book that I recommend reading called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Path-Self-Compassion-Yourself-Destructive/dp/1593859759">'The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion- Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions.'</a></p> <p>He co-developed the <a href="https://chrisgermer.com/mindful-self-compassion-msctm/">Mindful Self-Compassion&nbsp;(MSC)</a> program with Kristin Neff in 2010 and MSC has since been taught to over 100,000 people worldwide. They co-authored two books on MSC, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Self-Compassion-Workbook-Yourself-Strength/dp/1462526780/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1513097435&amp;sr=8-1-fkmr2&amp;keywords=chris+germer+mindful+self-compassion+workbook" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook</em></a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Mindful-Self-Compassion-Program-Professionals/dp/1462538894/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1536202031&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=teaching+the+mindful+self-compassion+program" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program</em></a>.</p> <p>In 2007, Chris began collaborating with Kristin Neff, psychology professor at the University of Texas, Austin, and pioneering researcher on self-compassion. In 2009, he wrote the book, The Mindful Pa