“Highly self-compassionate people are willing and able to take more risks because they are not afraid of failure. They tend to be more resilient, happy, and able to spend more time savoring the positive aspects of their lives.”
– Victoria Brattini
What is the difference between compassion and empathy? What are the three universal triggers of compassion? How can we start and stick to a meditation practice?
Learn the answer to these questions and more in this week’s episode of the Learn to Love Podcast, where your host Zach Beach interviews meditation teacher, mentor, and counselor Victoria Brattini on Mindful Self-Compassion.
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about your guest:
Victoria Brattini is a teacher, mentor, and counselor with a passion for guiding people on a path to loving and holding themselves with tender compassion. A dedicated meditator for over 40 years, Victoria’s teaching and counseling journey has included work with teenagers, university students and adults.
A previous director of health programs, Victoria now regularly leads groups, courses, and classes on Mindful Self Compassion, an empirically-supported skill development program for cultivating self compassion in our daily life.
Stay Connected With Victoria Brattini:
- https://www.lagunameditation.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/lagunameditation/
- https://centerformsc.org/user-profile/victoriabrattini/
- https://self-compassion.org/
people mentioned in the show
- Eknath Easwaran, author of God Makes the Rivers to Flow and How to Meditate
- Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go, There You Are
- Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
- Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Love
- Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness and Insight Meditation
- Kristen Neff, author of Self-Compassion and The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook
- Emma Seppala, author of The Happiness Track
- Michelle Becker
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