
Why kindness isn’t a cop out
I think and talk a lot about kindness - self-kindness and self-compassion in particular. In my blurb about this blog I started 2 years ago, I say I’m on a journey towards self-compassion. Though kindness and self-compassion aren’t necessarily the same thing (google defines kindness as “the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate” and Dr Kristen Neff defines self-compassion as treating yourself with the same kindness, concern and support you’d show to a good frien