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To Recover from Failure, Try Some Self-Compassion

By Christopher Germer — 2017

When things go wrong in our lives, we tend to become our own worst enemy.

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The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse: A Breakthrough Program for Connecting with Your Soul's Deepest Purpose

In The 21-Day Consciousness Cleanse, Debbie Ford delivers her most practical and prescriptive book yet —a 21–day, life-changing program for spiritual renewal, emotional transformation, and reconnection with the soul’s deepest purpose.

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Debbie Ford
2025
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Acharya Ferguson—Wisdom of the Heart

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Gaylon Ferguson
2015
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Compassion for the Dark Side

Having compassion for the shadow parts of ourselves is key for our personal healing.

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Paul Gilbert
2017
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Listening to Your Intuitive Self

“Let us become silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods … There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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don Jose Ruiz
2016
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Why You Should Not Take Anything Personally | Don Jose Ruiz

In this short video, Don Jose Ruiz shares the tips and advice we could take back in our life to put disagreement in action and not taking anything personally. You have UNLIMITED potential.

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don Jose Ruiz
2017
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The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

This is a book about self-sabotage. Why we do it, when we do it, and how to stop doing it—for good.Coexisting but conflicting needs create self-sabotaging behaviors. This is why we resist efforts to change, often until they feel completely futile.

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Brianna Wiest
2025
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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

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Harriet Lerner
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

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Harriet Lerner
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Be Kind to Yourself: Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy

When we experience frustrations in daily life, many of us hold ourselves to blame. Self-criticism is often our default setting. But we can have a more gracious posture toward ourselves. We can practice disciplines of self-kindness.

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Cindy Bunch, Ruth Haley Barton (foreword)
2020
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Living an Examined Life, by James Hollis, Ph.D.

The first decades of our life are mostly spent in making adaptations to the world and its demands upon us. The central project of mid-life and beyond is the recovery of a deeper sense of identity, rediscovery of purpose, and the development of a more mature sensibility.

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James Hollis
2019
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