SelfKind: Conversations in self-care, kindness and compassion for highly sensitive people
Hi and welcome to SelfKind with me, Erica Webb. This is a podcast for Highly Sensitive People (HSP) who want to navigate the tricky bits of their sensitivity with more ease, while finding their sensitivity super powers. Here, we're all about being, living and moving through a lens of self compassion and kindness.
As your host, I meet you as a fellow HSP. I know what it's like to feel like things are too loud, too bright and just ... too much. In my work as a registered counsellor and mindful movement coach, I've supported myself and my clients to find ways to embrace their sensitivity that centre on self-compassion, nervous system regulation, self-awareness and, ultimately, self-love.
From mindfulness, mindful movement, joy seeking and a zillion and one practices in between, here you'll find space to be fully you - fully human - and the tools to navigate the tricky bits of having a highly sensitive nervous system.
I’m thrilled you’re here.
SelfKind: Conversations in self-care, kindness and compassion for highly sensitive people
Ep 245: Comparison chews up your joy and spits it out (except when it doesn’t)
Comparison - the thief of joy?
It sure can be. And who wants that?
The thing is, these human brains of ours are very good at judgment and comparison is judgment wearing a different outfit. So ... what's a human to do?
Join me for this episode of SelfKind with Erica Webb (that's me!) to hear my thoughts on comparison as a thief of joy (except when it isn't). You'll hear:
- The 'low stakes' but 'high insight' moment I recently had when comparing myself to others
- The link between comparison and shoulds
- The link between comparison and shame
- Three questions you can ask yourself to dig into comparison in a way that helps you return to your own joy
- The importance and role of acknowledging the discomfort comparison brings up
- What comparison can point to when it's not a joy thief (and why it can sometimes lead you toward joy)
- Some thoughts on comparison-induced guilt and the necessity of exploring the both/and.
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