Self Compassion

The daily reflection for grief encourages self-compassion. It asks you to imagine your grief as an animal and consider its size and behavior. Naming the emotion you're feeling helps diminish its power. Pay attention to where grief manifests in your body. Take deep breaths and scan your body from head to toe. Place a hand on your heart and speak kind words to yourself. Reflect on how to honor your feelings and identify your needs for the day. Welcome to your daily reflection for grief. Set an intention today to be compassionate with yourself. Notice, take a deep breath in and be compassionate with yourself. If your grief were an animal, what animal would it be? How big is your grief? Is it wild and raging or is it sleeping and tired? Think about it in terms of an animal. Is it like a rabbit, hiding, nervous, worried? Or is it a turtle, sleeping, tired, trying to be protected? Name the emotion that you are feeling today. Are you sad, angry, lonely, anxious, tired? Give it a name so you can decrease the power that the feeling or the emotion has over you. And notice, where is grief in your body? This may be difficult and that is okay. Take small steps. Notice if you are holding your breath. Notice if you are feeling pain in your stomach. Just notice your body. Start at the top of your head and just gently bring attention down your face, your jaw, your neck, your shoulders. Go ahead and place one hand on your belly. Take a deep breath in. When you are ready, slowly exhale and continue to do the body scan. All the way down your body until you get to your toes. If you need longer, you can pause this audio guide and continue to do the body scan. Action. Self-compassion. I want you to put one hand over your heart. Feel the warmth of your hand over your heart. Take a deep breath in through your nose and slowly exhale, when you are ready, through your mouth. If you were talking to a friend, what would you say to your friend? Now try saying these words with compassion and kindness to yourself. It will be okay. Take a moment and say the words, it will be okay. I will be okay. Or any version of that that you need. Reflect. How can you honor your feelings? What do you need today? Thank you for listening.