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IFS recognizes that the cultivation of mindful self-leadership is the foundation for healing from trauma. Mindfulness not only makes it possible to survey our internal landscape with compassion and curiosity but can also actively steer us in the right direction for self-care.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by building your acceptance skills you can begin to listen to your painful memories and cope with current distress in a less defensive, impulsive way.
Steven Hayes • A Liberated Mind: The essential guide to ACT
Mindfulness focuses primarily on acceptance of experience. Self-compassion focuses more on caring for the experiencer.
Kristin Neff, Christopher Germer • The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook
people who are self-compassionate are less anxious and depressed than people who self-criticize because they’re able to acknowledge and respond to their negative thoughts and emotions rather than ruminate on them.
Shortform • Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff
Be honest with yourself while also offering unconditional love and support.
Dr Julie Smith • Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?: The Sunday Times bestseller, with over 1 million copies sold
Jack Kornfield, Trudy Goodman, and some other senior mindfulness teachers now use the term “loving-awareness” when they talk about mindfulness. Buddhist monk Ajahn Brahm calls it “kindfulness.” Why? Because kindness is the most important quality to be cultivated together with mindfulness. Strictly speaking, mindfulness and compassion (or kindness)
... See moreJ. Greg Serpa • A Clinician's Guide to Teaching Mindfulness: The Comprehensive Session-by-Session Program for Mental Health Professionals and Health Care Providers
