Self-compassion is treating yourself with kindness, understanding, and acceptance, particularly during struggle or suffering.

How is your inner voice guiding you? Is the chatter lifting you or holding you under? What if your thoughts took on the narrative as your best friend or most trusted mentor? What, then, would you hear?

Now, let’s be honest. How close are your thoughts to something your best friend would say? More often, it’s negative chatter that takes hold. Are you unknowingly and willingly throwing a home invasion party for ten armed invaders? Do you have the door swung wide open, letting in anything and everything? If so, let’s close the door and create choice in what you let in.

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Compassion. Compassion who? Compassion for you.

Self-compassion is the magic potion for deepening relationships and coping with life’s struggles. It is also one of the most challenging practices when you are stuck in the negative narrative running repeat in your head. In this article, I will explain why it is essential to strengthen self-compassion when you have Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and offer five practices you can employ to put a safety door in place with self-compassion practices.

Why is it essential to strengthen self-compassion?