The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self

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Directing feelings of kindness and care towards ourselves, and focusing our attention and energy on how we might alleviate our pain, are also crucial components of self-compassion. Through a period of some significant challenge, the services offered by Anxiety UK has been fantastic, and whilst there is a long road head, progress is positive and forward.

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This workbook is a step-by-step guide to CFT, in which the chapters build your understanding of yourself, the skills that give rise to a compassionate mind, and ways to work with whatever difficulties you’re struggling with in life. I found the therapy I received through Anxiety UK a crucial and affordable form of support during a very difficult time.I’m extraordinarily grateful for the help and support during a challenging time, both to the Anxiety UK and my Professional Institute, The Chartered Institute of Building and their respected benevolent fund.

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This module teaches you how to take the compassionate feelings you are developing, and allow these to guide how you think. Typical barriers are positive beliefs we may hold about being self-critical and negative beliefs we may hold about what is means to be self-compassionate. The exercises, prompts and case stories in this book provide an understandable and practical way to develop compassion. Dr Elaine Beaumont is a psychotherapist who specialises in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), compassion focused therapy (CFT) and eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR).The Compassionate Mind Workbookis for anyone who is interested in how compassion - in the form of ideas and practices derived from Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and other approaches - may help us to engage with, understand and ultimately, try to alleviate suffering. From Self-Criticism to Self-Kindness: This workbook is designed to provide you with some information and practical skills to help you be less critical and more compassionate towards yourself. Very nice to know this support is out there as quite often hard to actually get an opportunity to speak to someone in person these days.

The Compassionate Mind workbook - Anxiety UK

We are currently building a library of guided practices from around the world, that will provide our compassionate mind training meditations in a variety of different languages.

I can't recommend Anxiety UK enough as they were a godsend to me while I waited on my psychology Appointment with NHS which took over a year. Elaine co-authored The Compassionate Mind Workbook: A step-by-step guide to developing your compassionate self, The Compassionate Mind App and The Kindness Workbook: Compassionate and Creative ways to Boost your Wellbeing.