Love Yourself With Radical Self-Kindness - by Elizabeth Pyjov

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Love Yourself With Radical Self-Kindness

With Elizabeth Pyjov

Learn self-kindness. Deepen your self-compassion. Practice self-appreciation Reduce your stress. Feel more connected to yourself and others. Have more energy. Support yourself unconditionally. Find inner lightness.

AcceptanceHealth & HappinessGroundedSecular MindfulnessSecularMindfulnessMindfulness MeditationHappiness

Meet your Teacher

Elizabeth Pyjov

Elizabeth Pyjov, JD MTS holds 3 Harvard degrees, speaks 5 languages, has lived in 7 countries, and has taught 10,000 people resilience, happiness, and meditation in the last 10 years. She creates culture shift and well-being programs for Fortune 500 companies. She helps organizations like Novartis, Deutsche Bank, Warby Parker, and Baker McKenzie create better company culture and happier, healthier, more passionate leaders. She combines ancient spiritual traditions, meditation, brain science, and advanced practices from psychology.

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6 Days

5.4k students

4.7 stars

8 min / day

Acceptance

English

Lesson 1

The Inner Critic Defined

In this lesson, we see that the root of the inner critic is aggression. It comes with a desire to condemn, which leads to a desire to punish. Inner criticism drains your energy. It punishes you over and over again. It self-sabotages. When you are self-compassionate, it is actually easier to improve and grow! While your inner critic is strong, no one's love will feel like it's enough.

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Lesson 2

Moving from Self-Criticism to Self-Kindness

In this lesson we start with a poem and then you will hear what actionable self-kindness looks like. We will also ask: what really matters to me? Your intention for your life is important. What you seek is seeking you. Seek what is authentic as an act of self-kindness. You will always feel like a victim until you start practicing self-compassion.

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Lesson 3

Meditation for Self-Kindness

In this lesson, we will do a meditation to send yourself self-compassion, and learn what is important to you and how you can be kind to myself. Sending and receiving self-compassion is an important part of the practice.

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Lesson 4

Self-Kindness and Self-Compassion Defined and Loving Kindness Meditation

In this lesson, we look at the Mahayana Buddhism perspective on self-kindness and enlightenment. You will give your heart back to itself. Self-Kindness is "may I be happy." Self-Compassion is "may I be free from suffering." How do I guide myself to my highest joy? Don’t be afraid to see the good in yourself or write down a list of what you like about yourself. This lesson asks the question "What can I give myself every single day?" As you learn to be more self-kindness, life gets less hectic and you have more energy. We will also do a meditation where you send wishes of happiness. You will set an intention that your actions, words and thoughts, lead to your happiness, health and peace in your heart.

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Lesson 5

Self-Kindness and Path to Becoming Self-Compassionate

In this lesson, we will distinguish between two sources of joy we have as human beings: hedonic and eudaimonic happiness. You will see that self-kindness is understanding who you really are and doing what speaks to your heart. Honor your needs as they are. Honor your desires as they are. Guide yourself towards your highest meaning. Distinguish between what actually gives you happiness from that which promises you happiness. Everything you do, do it for keeps.

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Lesson 6

Self-Kindness Wishes, Keep Practicing and Moving Forward to Love Yourself With Radical Self-Kindness

If you are not self-compassionate, the person who will do you the most harm is you. Once you do start being self-compassionate– happiness, health, lots of energy, good relationships come naturally! Self-kindness has two parts, giving and receiving. You give to yourself and receive from yourself. In this lesson you will receive compassionate wishes from Elizabeth. May this radical self-kindness contribute to your happiness. This lesson concludes the course and offers go forward thoughts and ideas on how to best support, expand and maintain your practices of Radical Self-Kindness that we established during this foundational endeavor.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 46 community questions and 10 audio replies from Elizabeth Pyjov. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Karen

February 11, 2026

Thank you very much

Tina

July 24, 2025

I sometimes felt like I was missing parts of the talk.

LISA

July 22, 2025

Thank you. 🪴

Claudia

June 26, 2025

Thank you so much for educating us. I plan to continue listening to this course, it helps me a lot.

Janelle

June 17, 2025

Thank you!

Kathy

May 19, 2025

Beautiful Elizabeth 🌺I just listened to this course all the way through. It was so beautiful I couldn’t stop. I will definitely restart it and savor each session again. You are such a loving light! Thank you for sharing these precious gems 💎 Sending you love and appreciation for the beautiful soul that you are and the gifts you bring to this world.🕐

Adele

February 14, 2025

Amazing wisdom and practical advice - thank you so much 🙏❤️

Emme

February 12, 2025

Wonderful transformation with self…noticed judger. Allowed myself to be with energy and experienced a stillness within emerge from my heart. Peace that passes all understanding. No mind. No body. Me. How beautiful my presence is.

Jessica

January 2, 2025

Elizabeth’s course was spot on for me. I often struggle to find meditations or guided talks that are concise enough to keep me engaged but meet my need for ‘data proven strategy’. Knowing Elizabeth’s scientific background gave me a sense of trust in what she was saying without the need for lengthy explanations. Thank you x

Lynda

October 12, 2024

Thank you for this course. I will listen again when I am not so distracted with grief for the passing of my mother two years ago. ☮️💟🕉️

Melanie

October 1, 2024

Such a beautiful and much needed class. Thank you!

Nathanael

September 26, 2024

Such helpful content!

Deb

June 29, 2024

Great info - lovely Metta practice! Thank you!🙏

Erin

May 18, 2024

Excellent!

Cathy

April 27, 2024

Thank you for sharing this powerful practice!

Jenny

April 14, 2024

Thank you for the beautiful course🙏🏼 I’ll come back to this again.

Donna

March 22, 2024

Very inspirational

A-L

March 16, 2024

Very wise, gentle, and inspiring.

Kathy

March 16, 2024

Thank you!

Carolyn

February 16, 2024

Although the work came through in six beautiful installments, the work was a powerful, continuous flow. Always curious, always present. The course is a sweet gift of self-compassion. Thank you.

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