How to Find Self-Compassion in a World of Self-Judgment

<h2>Self-compassion means being warm, kind, and giving yourself grace.</h2> <p>Have you ever felt like a sheet being tossed to and fro in the dryer? A lack of self-compassion and clarity can leave us feeling like a sheet in the dryer. Swish, shush, swish, and a ton of other noise going on in our mind as it spins with overwhelm.</p> <p>Often, but especially during the holiday season, we feel like we don’t have direction or clarity and it’s important to give ourselves the gift of self-compassion.</p> <p>Instead of having self-compassion, we often only see what’s wrong with us.  We lack compassion and self-judgment overrules.</p> <p>Krista Resnick saw this first-hand with her photography clients and decided to become a life coach so that she could do deeper work and impact women and how they feel about themselves.</p> <h3>Everything Happens For a Reason</h3> <p>When we are on a journey, every experience leads us to something more meaningful, for purpose. We need to stop looking at life from why is this happening to me, to why is this happening for me?</p> <p>This outlook shift will move us from a victim's mindset to become seekers.  This mindset shift will help us heal and grow and be our authentic, beautiful selves.</p> <h3>What Does Self-Compassion mean?</h3> <p>Self-compassion means to be warm, kind, and to give yourself grace. That is true self-compassion.  Talking to ourselves like we would talk to a friend.  We give compassion to others, but no for ourselves.</p> <p>When we aren’t coming from a place of self-compassion, we are coming from a place of self-judgment.</p> <p>Self-judgement is a form of protection.  It is a way to protect ourselves from being hurt or judged.  We are judging ourselves so others can’t judge us.  If we are being cruel to ourselves by judging ourselves.</p> <p>This is an act of blocking ourselves from expansion, up-leveling, growing, and stepping into the most powerful version of ourselves.</p> <p>When we are doing this to ourselves, we can’t build relationships with others.</p> <h3>Se