Self-Compassion Expert on Why Coming Home to Yourself is The Key to Happiness
When did you last feel totally safe in your body? When did you last connect with yourself on a deep level? For most of us, those questions sound almost foreign — and that, according to today's guest, is precisely the problem.
takeaways
Susie Redding describes self-care as a skill-based lens on daily life rather than just practices like bubble baths, encompassing curiosity, compassion and self-forgiveness alongside concrete practices such as journaling and breathwork.
The conversation explores somatic practices, including a live hand-on-heart exercise paired with mindful sipping, framed as ways to signal safety to the nervous system and shift out of the stress response.
Susie distinguishes guilt (feeling you've done a bad thing) from shame (feeling you are a bad person), and discusses how shame and a sense of not being 'enough' drive self-abandonment and relentless productivity.
She shares her personal experience of 'energetic bankruptcy' after becoming a mother while caring for her father with motor neurone disease, and how yoga nidra and sensory rest helped.
The episode outlines steps from her book How to Be Selfish, including 'take back my mind', 'take back my senses', 'take back my body' and 'take back my moral compass', plus the importance of allowing others to care for us.
Susie describes 'awe hunting' as a simple spiritual practice, and explains that a 'healed' nervous system is responsive rather than calm all the time.
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