How to love yourself tenderly and fiercely

It doesn’t matter if you’re married or single, the most influential relationship that lasts a lifetime is the one you have with yourself.

Self-love can influence how we comfort ourselves, motivate ourselves and fight for injustice. That’s why MPR News with Angela Davis is turning inward.

She’s talking with two self-love experts about what self-compassion is, what it isn’t and what stands in the way of loving ourselves.

Guests:

• Porsche Peak Gordin is a licensed marriage and family therapist and co-owner of Peak Behavioral Health, which is a mental health clinic in Little Canada, MN.

• Kristin Neff is an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She’s a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research and created a scale to measure self-compassion nearly 20 years ago. She’s the author of the books Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, and Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power and Thrive. She’s also co-founder of the nonprofit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion.