Compassion - The Underrated Part Of Healing Many people believe that they understand what compassion is as it can come easily to some people, to empathise with another persons struggles. But how do you respond to that? Compassion isn't just about feeling the deep hurt of other people, it's also about how we respond to it, especially when that suffering comes from our own struggles. Self compassion can be hard to grasp at first. The desire to help others can end up feeling like we need to fix something for the other person. So when it comes to self compassion we can often feel really stuck because we look for ways to fix ourselves. When we're trying to fix ourselves we can end up getting stuck in a cycle of analysing everything which can cause us to be critical towards ourselves when we realise we're not fixing anything at all. The thing is that if you sit with your own empathy towards yourself, it can bring up feelings that are really hard to sit with. Pushing them awa...