12 ways foster and kinship carers can promote compassion and self-compassion in children and young people
Compassion is the ability to feel and connect with the suffering of another human being, and self-compassion is the ability to feel and connect with one’s suffering. More specifically, for our purposes, self-compassion is extending compassion to one’s self in instances of perceived inadequacy, failure, or general suffering. To be self-compassionate, we need to give ourselves the recognition, validation, and support we would offer a loved one who is suffering.