Highly-sensitive individuals or emotionally-sensitive persons can sometimes be self-critical and self-sabotaging. These self-critical behaviors and reactions can keep us stuck in unhealthy relational patterns and are often a significant obstacle to our growth as healthy adults.
How self-compassionate are you? Does it even matter?
Scientific research gives us a lot of reasons to increase our self-compassion. Individuals who experience greater self-compassion are more likely to have a better quality of life, enjoy more meaningful relationships, experience less shame, and are more likely to have a sense of self-efficacy—a belief that we can successfully set and achieve important goals in life.
A self-compassion practice may also be beneficial for:
• students coping with academic stress (2016)
• reducing risk of substance use (2017)
• the mediation of symptoms related to borderline personality disorder (2017)
• decreasing symptoms related to depression (2018)
• protecting against suicidal thinking or planning (2017)
• reducing symptoms related to social anxiety disorder (2023)
• improving goals related to positive health behaviors (2017)
• reducing alcohol consumption (2020)
Starting on Saturday, July 13, 2024 at 5:00 pm Eastern/2:00 pm Pacific, I'll be hosting a series of six live one-hour webinars on the most important recent research about self-compassion. These weekly webinars are open to anyone interested in the topic.
Together we'll also discuss practical ways that you can start the life-changing work of implementing more self-compassion into your daily life—starting with the first webinar.
Each of these webinars will be recorded for those participants who will not be able to listen live.
The investment for these live webinars is just $179.
You’ve Got Questions, I’ve Got Answers
Q: Is this course considered therapy? Will insurance help pay for this course?
A: No. This course is designed to help give you practical tools and ideas you need to become more self-compassionate. This online course is not therapy nor is it a substitute for treatment.
Q: You specialize in borderline personality disorder and I don’t have that diagnosis. Will this course help me?
A: It’s true that I do specialize in DBT—an effective treatment for individuals with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and for those who engage in self-harming behaviors. However, this self-compassion course will be geared primarily to individuals who consider themselves to be highly-sensitive persons or emotionally-sensitive individuals.
Q: I’m a therapist/coach/nurse/physician. Can I take this course?
A: Yes! If this describes you, I’d love to learn more about your work.
Q: Is this course live or are the webinars prerecorded?
A: Yes, this is live. We meet each and every week for one hour. You will always be given an opportunity to ask questions and receive immediate feedback so that you can get the answers and support you need as quickly as possible.
Q: Do I need to download any special webinar software?
A: I use Zoom for the weekly webinars. However, you will not need to download Zoom to rewatch the recorded webinars.
Q: Zoom? Will I be on camera?
A: No. You do not ever have to be on camera.
Q: I don’t know that I can attend live each week. Will the webinars be recorded?
A: Yes! Each of the weekly webinars will be recorded for future viewing.
Q: Is my privacy protected?
A: Yes. You will have a unique username and password that you will choose when you register for this course. Additionally, you will never be asked to share any information with others that may personally identify you.
Some individuals may feel more protected when they create a separate email address (via an encrypted account such as ProtonMail) to sign up for this course.
Q: What is your refund policy? What if I find that this course isn’t for me?
A: I don’t offer refunds so please do make a careful choice about purchasing this course.
However, if you’ve purchased the course and found that it’s not for you, I still want for you to get the help you need. Contact me at amanda@hopeforbpd.com for more information so that I can get you pointed in a direction that will be most helpful to you.
Questions? Email me today at amanda@hopeforbpd.com.