Hello and welcome. I am so glad you are here. Body compassion discussed in this blog was first born via development of the Body Compassion Scale (research started in 2014 and first published in 2017; see research articles for initial development article pulling from gold standard measures in body image and self-compassion) and the identification…
Welcome to Body Compassion! I am so glad you are here. In the time since the last blog post, body compassion has been growing behind the scenes of this blog. The body compassion scale has been translated into multiple languages and studies have been completed around the world, in Portugal, Korea, China, Italy, and Iran,…
Moving further onto the path of mindfulness and genuine body compassion requires a few things: *A sense of openness and curiosity about new ideas, material and experiences. We each come to this space with a lifetime of conditioning—ways of relating to new things, ideas about how the world works, and habitual thought patterns. It is…