Self-Compassion as Your Starting Point

This is Lesson 2 of The First Light, the first step of The Rewrite. If you haven’t done Lesson 1 yet, start there. There’s no rush, and no catching up to do.

Welcome back.

Last time, you named the fog. You didn’t try to solve it. You didn’t dress it up. You just noticed what was true, and that alone was a courageous act.

Before we go any further, I want to slow down and talk about something that gets skipped in almost every personal growth program I’ve ever seen: how you treat yourself while you’re doing the work.

Because that turns out to be the whole thing.

Here’s what I’ve learned, personally and from working with a lot of women in midlife.