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April 2, 2025
study-related material - learning about compassion focused therapy (CFT) and, inevitably, reminding myself to be kinder to my brain and body, while also, maybe, sorry, being sickly-sweet to ppl around me because everyone needs compassion, what a hectic world!
a fantastic and rather chunky guide of a book that can serve as a therapeutic tool/accompanying material on your journey to self-compassion. it’s packed with exercises and life stories examples, and even a guide on making your own formulation, which in therapy world usually means a visual, schematic summary of what/how/why is going wrong.
instead of reviewing this (it’ll be more productive to look at the table of contents to get an idea about this book, tbh), i’d like to use this as a reminder. self-compassion is not self-indulgence. just as others deserve to receive compassion from you, so do you, you deserve to receive it from others and from yourself. what i like about CFT is it’s component of de-shaming the client (in a compassionate way - ofc!), because it allows for a certain acceptance of how life has been up until this point. the combination of physical and cognitive exercises is also handy, the toolkit of this therapy is very varied. the downside - there’s little empirical evidence testing one well-defined structure of CFT, especially for individual therapy (i.e., most of CFT-esque therapies appear to be in group format). now, this can launch us into a whole rabbit hole about the effectiveness of psychological therapies, but this will be too long and i should probably write about it elsewhere. like in my coursework that is waiting in the corner till i get over my procrastination to write it. i should be compassionate. baby steps. little-by-little, we move in a caring way…
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also, i looooove when authors make meta-jokes about the x issue getting in the way of writing the book about that x issue. yes, this book IS good enough! [cute face with tears]
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i can feel my academic guardian angel staring at my finger that is about to press “post”, and i can’t not put the sources, i can’t not put the sources, there you go:
references
Gilbert, P. (2014). The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy. British journal of Clinical Psychology, 53(1), 6-41.
Craig, C., Hiskey, S., & Spector, A. (2020). Compassion focused therapy: A systematic review of its effectiveness and acceptability in clinical populations. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 20(4), 385-400.
a fantastic and rather chunky guide of a book that can serve as a therapeutic tool/accompanying material on your journey to self-compassion. it’s packed with exercises and life stories examples, and even a guide on making your own formulation, which in therapy world usually means a visual, schematic summary of what/how/why is going wrong.
instead of reviewing this (it’ll be more productive to look at the table of contents to get an idea about this book, tbh), i’d like to use this as a reminder. self-compassion is not self-indulgence. just as others deserve to receive compassion from you, so do you, you deserve to receive it from others and from yourself. what i like about CFT is it’s component of de-shaming the client (in a compassionate way - ofc!), because it allows for a certain acceptance of how life has been up until this point. the combination of physical and cognitive exercises is also handy, the toolkit of this therapy is very varied. the downside - there’s little empirical evidence testing one well-defined structure of CFT, especially for individual therapy (i.e., most of CFT-esque therapies appear to be in group format). now, this can launch us into a whole rabbit hole about the effectiveness of psychological therapies, but this will be too long and i should probably write about it elsewhere. like in my coursework that is waiting in the corner till i get over my procrastination to write it. i should be compassionate. baby steps. little-by-little, we move in a caring way…
***
also, i looooove when authors make meta-jokes about the x issue getting in the way of writing the book about that x issue. yes, this book IS good enough! [cute face with tears]
***
i can feel my academic guardian angel staring at my finger that is about to press “post”, and i can’t not put the sources, i can’t not put the sources, there you go:
references
Gilbert, P. (2014). The origins and nature of compassion focused therapy. British journal of Clinical Psychology, 53(1), 6-41.
Craig, C., Hiskey, S., & Spector, A. (2020). Compassion focused therapy: A systematic review of its effectiveness and acceptability in clinical populations. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 20(4), 385-400.
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