During our recent training on Compassion-Based Approaches for Working with Shame, Kristin Neff, PhD, and Chris Germer, PhD, each shared a guided practice during their opening keynote that the community found incredibly helpful.

As many people requested recordings for these practices — Chris’s “Radical Homecoming” and Kristin’s “Self-Compassion Break for Shame” — we’re happy to be offering those here today! And, for those who may find it helpful, we’re including a script for the Radical Homecoming practice as well.

NOTE:
These practices have been excerpted from a complete training on
Compassion-Based Approaches for Working With Shame.
The Full Recording Package is Available Here >>

Self-Compassion Break for Shame with Kristin Neff, PhD

Radical Homecoming with Chris Germer, PhD

Radical Homecoming Practice Script

• Welcome home…
• Welcome home to this moment, the only moment of time that we really have. 
• Welcome home to your body, and no other body, without which you would not be here today 
• And welcome home to the many parts of your body, all of which are trying their best to promote your wishes and aspirations. 
• Welcome home to your emotions, both pleasant and unpleasant, all of which are constantly trying to teach you something you need to know. 
• Welcome home to the emotion of shame, the most difficult human emotion which is also a pure expression of the human wish to be loved. 
• Welcome home to your wish to be loved—the invisible thread that makes sure you stay connected even when everything else falls apart. 
• Welcome home to your vulnerability—which is an essential truth of human experience, even when it scares you. 
• Welcome home to woundedness—personal and cultural, across time and space, the invisible substrate upon which every human life unfolds. 
• We