# Self-compassion

Our brain reasons, “If I follow the rules and do everything right, I’ll be accepted—or at least not rejected.”

Regarding anxiety as “just part of the script” helps us see it not as a screaming alarm system we have to heed, but as a phenomenon that simply plays out in the theater of our mind. All these thoughts—”I don’t want to go,” “I should stay home because I value self-care”--are just passing through.

“Ooh, here’s the part where I think I should stay home... See more