How Self-Compassion Helps Reduce Anxiety
Anxiety is a common emotional experience and can affect daily life. It can influence how a person thinks, feels, makes decisions, and responds to everyday situations. Anxiety can increase when a person responds to themselves with self-judgment and criticism. Over time, self-criticism can lead to emotional distress and make anxiety harder to manage. Self-compassion helps people cope with these experiences by encouraging self-kindness, understanding, and acceptance [1] .