Self-compassion does not make you soft. Boundaries do not make you closed off or selfish. I had to repeat this many times before I started to understand how true and how essential self-compassion and boundaries are in our lives. I did not realize how much I maintained my resistance to these ideas until Dr. Brené
Reflections from a (former) self-compassion and boundary setting skeptic originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
