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,…
Mother’s Day is being celebrated today in the USA. This day conjures the full spectrum of experience and emotion for both mothers and children—which covers every single person in the States (everybody was birthed). A wonderful celebration for many to acknowledge and thank their Moms for the gift of life, support and care—and for mothers…
Leaning in to the very specific microcosm of the story of my plane encounter with the older southern gentleman* presents a view of the three factors of body compassion identified in research1,2: Defusion – the ability to experience one’s body from the stance of an observer, rather than as the body itself. Why yes southern…
I was recently traveling on a flight from Louisville, Kentucky to Denver, Colorado. Sitting next to me was an older man, dressed as you’d expect of the prototypical southern gentleman in his suit and bow tie, who appeared to be in his 80’s. When I sat down in my seat he exclaimed with some surprise,…
As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than wrong with you, no matter what is wrong.1Jon Kabat-Zinn said that—it’s one of my favorite statements, ever. And yet, our typical response to any difficulty or illness is to focus on the troublesome parts of the experience. As a human being alive…