Interview with Dr. Christopher Germer
“…when mindfulness and self-compassion are in full bloom, they are nearly identical in a moment of suffering.”
“…when mindfulness and self-compassion are in full bloom, they are nearly identical in a moment of suffering.”
Also known as MSC, this intervention teaches people to care for themselves as much as they care for others.
Self-compassion actually allows us to sustain our compassion for others because we’re being compassionate to ourselves as well.
My work, over the past fifteen years has had a core theme of social support running through it, and I’d like to create an online mindfulness meditation intervention that includes a group component, such that people who have experienced cancer can meet and practice mindfulness meditation together.
I didn’t want them to needlessly struggle and suffer as much as I did, and mindfulness is one of those tools that definitely helps us all during this time. I’m helping them in the way that I wish I would have been helped.