cut yourself a break

 What do people who have suffered through trauma, chronic illness, or bullying have in common? They all need self-compassion.

What am I talking about? The ability to cut yourself a break rather than beat yourself up. I’m talking about the experiences that profoundly affected you. The ones that made you feel bad about yourself. Like you were the only one who was going through that experience at that exact moment.

And I am here to tell you–you were not and you are not alone.

Cut Yourself a Break: Using Self-Compassion to Move Through the Toughest Moments in Your Life is exactly what it says–a way to find self-compassion. It is a book full of dozens of stories from different people around the world. It tells you how experiences in bullying, illnesses, and trauma impacted their lives and how they began finding self-compassion within themselves.

Inside Cut Yourself a Break: Using Self-Compassion to Move Through the Toughest Moments in Your Life you’ll learn about:

• A boy’s trauma after his father went missing for nine months

• The US marine who brought the battlefield home with him

• A public speaker who was sexually assaulted by her brother

• A woman who had a death-sentence at 25 years old and miraculously recovered

• And many more stories

All the people in the above stories–they found self-compassion within themselves, even after what they went through.

And so did I.

This isn’t just their story. It’s also my story that I wanted to share with the world. My sincere hope with sharing all these stories as well as mine, is that it will encourage you to take the steps needed towards finding self-compassion within yourself.

So, one last question–are you ready?