Last night in Canberra, I felt nervous telling a story I had already lived.
I know the hospital bed, I know the spinal cord injury, I know the shock of being a doctor who became a patient, and I know the questions I was too frightened to ask in 2008.
Still, speaking it out loud to a room full of people brought my body right back to the tenderness of it. That is where self-compassion helped, giving me something to return to before I spoke.
So, regardless of where you are, and regardless of how big or small the situation is, always keep these three pillars of self-compassion in mind
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