Kind Minds with Tara Cousineau, PhD

Sometimes the kindest thing you can do is set a clear personal boundary. Self-kindness requires courage, trust, and faith.

Empathy can can hurt and heal. Learn the difference.

Self-compassion is a skill as much as it is an inner resource. Learn to befriend yourself by taking self-compassion breaks.

Self-compassion is caring for yourself with the same attention you give to someone you love. Treat yourself like a friend.

Signs of stress are physiological signals to address with curiosity and care. Learn to ride the emotional waves.

While we wired for stress, we also wired to relax. What can you cultivate in your life to feel more at ease?

You can recruit your body’s natural ability to soothe with some slow deep breaths, gentle sounds, or touch.

Emotion regulation is the ability to manage the whole kit and caboodle of human emotions.

There's a reason to stop and smell the roses. Pay attention to the details so you don't miss out on the ordinary delights in your world.

Don't dismiss the platitudes. Kind acts are indeed infectious. They spread good will like a happy virus. What can you spark today?

If we don't include ourselves in cultivating compassion, we skip over the one who needs our enduring love. Self-kindness matters, too.

Welcome to the first episode of Kind Minds, a series of short tips on creating compassion for yourself and others. Today, we begin with ways to actively engage in the world with more ease and kindness. 

Waking up to loving awareness is one of the kindest things you can do for yourself and for others. It begins by taking a sacred pause. Here's how.

We are wired to care. It's in our DNA. But it may not seem like the world is a very kind place. Like anything, we all need to practice.