As a thank, you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced readers copy I shall give an honest review of How to Be Nice to Yourself by Laura Silberstein-Tirch PsyD. Coming into this guide for practicing self-compassion I largely examined it from a professional perspective as I come from a therapeutic background. This book acts as a guide that we may use to practice self-compassion using techniques that anyone can learn. This text draws on resources from a variety of therapeutic techniques including meditation, mindfulness, and acceptance and commitment therapy. If you are unfamiliar with these resources that is okay as the author explains the impact of these resources if practiced daily. All she asks is that you provide a notebook where you may write down your thoughts and use them to recount what you provided. Thus providing yourself proof that you are practicing what it asks and are internalizing it yourself. I shall recommend this in my personal and professional capacity. Overall I give this book five out of five stars on good reads.
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Simple and clear with table examples and prompts to ask yourself questions.

I liked this for myself or for any human, but I also really liked this as educator. It’s a great way to familiarize educators with this concept, practice on their own, and be more fluent with the concept of self compassion so that they can model it and foster it within the classroom.

I’ve seen some great educators model how they struggle with something and are compassionate with themselves and it resonated with students and with me as an observer, and it sets the tone for the classroom. I like that this doesn’t have a ton of fluff. It is grounded in breathing exercises so that’s something to note when considering talking about it with students etc. (Some of my students hear the word ‘mindfulness’ and check out).

Anyways, glad it exists and thanks to the publishers and Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Always here for reminders / tips on how we can all be nicer to ourselves!

A definite must read!! We all need to be nicer to ourselves and others and this book gives us all someplace to start that healing process.

Honest and in-depth advice for reaching your full potential. This advice is presented in easy to follow language that can be broken up and applied in pieces at a time.

Laura Silberstein-Tirch’s “How to Be Nice to Yourself” is a much-needed text for those of us, well, who at times, are not so nice to ourselves. It is full of insightful and practical wisdom that can help us experience compassion in the midst of our struggles, foibles, missteps, and missed opportunities. I am so thankful for Laura’s incredible and life-changing work!

This is a well thought out plan of action for taking care of yourself. I really appreciated how the author tackled areas in all our lives where we could benefit from self care and treat ourselves as well as most of us would treat others.

This came at a good time in my life to finally acknowledge that I needed some good advice like this.

If you’re like most people, the idea of self-compassion may seem practically impossible. After all, it’s at odds with every critical, unkind thought we have about ourselves. But that’s exactly why we need to learn how to give ourselves just as much compassion as we offer to others.

In this book, you’ll get a nice breakdown of every main aspect of self-compassion, ranging from giving yourself compassion for you awful thoughts all the way to having compassion for your body.

There are several helpful workbook exercises that can help you stop mentally beating yourself up and start treating yourself with kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.

Written in an easy to read style, this is definitely a good option for anyone who wants to feel better about their relationship to themselves.