The Mindfulness Workbook for Self-Love by Joel Black, LCSW, helps readers to make use of mindfulness to be extra self-compassionate and promote better well-being. The primary a part of the guide seems at what mindfulness and self-love are and the way they relate to at least one one other, whereas the second half focuses on the best way to follow them. The guide is influenced by what was useful for the writer in his personal habit restoration.
The “how” a part of the guide is organized across the ideas of mindfulness recognized by Wherever You Go, There You Are writer Jon Kabat-Zinn: newbie’s thoughts, non-judging, acceptance, persistence, belief, non-striving, and letting go.
This guide may be very a lot a fill-things-in workbook fairly than a guide that includes loads of studying time. The textual content is concise and straightforward to learn, and the main target is basically on self-reflection as you’re employed via the workouts. Meditation makes an look however isn’t the main target, and “you aren’t required to grow to be a monk who sits on the facet of a mountain meditating for 4 hours straight.”
A few of the workouts have a CBT affect, like reframing self-critical ideas and shoulds, however the method is extra self-compassion-oriented than CBT change-your-thoughts-this-way-oriented. Plenty of the guide is about serving to you take a look at issues in a brand new, kinder approach. You’re not going to come back out on the opposite facet considering you’re one of the best factor since sliced bread; the guide is rather more grounded in actuality than that, however hopefully, it can assist you to to really feel higher in a position to settle for your self and never latch onto self-judgments so tightly.
The guide is brief; the epub model I had was solely 107 pages. The paperback model is longer due to illustrations, and looking out on the preview on Amazon, it’s awfully fairly. I believe it may be a useful device for reflection in a journey in direction of better self-acceptance.
The Mindfulness Workbook for Self-Love is accessible on Amazon (affiliate hyperlink).
I acquired a reviewer copy from the writer via Netgalley.
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