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12 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Kristin Neff explains how mindfulness and compassion can surface suppressed pain and traumatic memories. This destabilizing feeling isn't failure, she says, but a sign the practice is working. If overwhelmed, slow down.

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We have a lot of pain trapped inside of us. Often we've used kind of suppression or repression for most of our life to just keep ourselves from being overwhelmed by the pain. And then we start to open to it with, you know, the space of mindfulness and the warmth and connectedness of compassion. And what happens is we just get in contact with a lot more pain that was already there. And it can feel destabilizing. It can be very intense. Sometimes people even. Especially if they had a traumatic early trauma, you know, sometimes those traumatic memories will come flooding in. So it's not a sign that you're doing it wrong. It's actually a sign that you're doing it right. But it's. It's a sign that you maybe need to slow down so you don't feel overwhelmed.