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Mindfulness Based Therapy

Mindfulness and Self-Compassion

Mindfulness helps you develop awareness of your thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations without judgment. This awareness creates space to respond rather than react, reduces stress, and supports ongoing emotional regulation, fostering long-term clarity and resilience. Tara Brach states: "The two parts of genuine acceptance -- seeing clearly and holding our experience with compassion -- are as interdependent as the two wings of a great bird. Together, they enable us to fly and be free. The wing of clear seeing is often described in Buddhist practice as mindfulness. This is the quality of awareness that recognizes exactly what is happening in our moment-to-moment experience... The second wing of Radical Acceptance, compassion, is our capacity to relate in a tender and sympathetic way to what we perceive. Instead of resisting our feelings of fear or grief, we embrace our pain with the kindness of a mother holding her child,".

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What this approach addresses: anxiety, depression, inner criticism, perfectionism, addictions and behavioral compensations (e.g. overworking, eating), overthinking

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