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Episode 195: You Can Choose Gentleness
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- Your Quiet Moment
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- Jul 19, 2026
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- 541
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Episode 195 — You Can Choose Gentleness Toward Yourself We have this remarkable ability to be kind to everyone around us — our friends, our families, strangers having a hard day — yet when it comes to ourselves, we become our own harshest critics. This episode is an invitation to turn that gentleness inward. To ask the hard question: would I say this to someone I love? If the answer is no, then why are you saying it to yourself? This is your reminder that gentleness is not weakness. It is not letting yourself off the hook. It is a different way of being — one that helps you grow without the shame, try without the fear, and show up for yourself the way you so freely show up for others. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SHOW NOTES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ AFFIRMATIONS • I choose to speak to myself with the same kindness I give to others. • I am allowed to be imperfect and still worthy of love. • Mistakes do not define my worth. How I respond to them does. • I am doing my best, and my best is always enough. • I turn down the volume on my harsh inner voice and listen to the kinder one instead. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TIMESTAMPS [00:00] Opening — Turning gentleness inward [01:30] Settling In — Softening the body, letting go of performance [03:00] The Theme — The voice in your head and how to change it [06:30] Breathwork — Breathing into the pause between breaths [08:00] Affirmations — Five reminders for the hard days [09:30] Closing — You are already enough ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ TOPICS • Self-kindness vs. self-criticism • The origins of your inner harsh voice • Choosing gentleness as a practice • Why shame keeps us stuck • Speaking to yourself like you would a friend ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ You Dese…