
Exercise 8: Taking care of the caregiver
This exercise will help you keep your heart open and care for yourself while you’re caring for others, so that you don’t become burned out or depleted.
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This exercise will help you keep your heart open and care for yourself while you’re caring for others, so that you don’t become burned out or depleted.

If you really want to motivate yourself, love is more powerful than fear. In this exercise, you’ll reframe your inner dialogue so that it is more encouraging and supportive.

Keeping a daily journal is a useful exercise which can help you process the difficult events of your day through a lens of self-compassion, enhancing both mental and physical well-being.

This exercise will help you acknowledge your self-critical voice and reframe its observations in a more friendly way, so you can change the blueprint for how you relate to yourself.

In this exercise you will learn how to activate your parasympathetic nervous system by using physical touch. Soothing and supportive touch can help you feel calm, cared for and safe.

Everybody has things about themselves that they don’t like. In this exercise you’ll write a letter to yourself about your human imperfection with acceptance and compassion.
Steve Hickman is a co-developer of the Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher Training, a retired clinical psychologist and the Founding Director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. Steve has taught self-compassion and mindfulness across the globe, and is the author of Self-Compassion for Dummies.
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