Practicing aspects of self- compassion

- I recently had the opportunity to practice all three aspects of self-compassion. And it was triggered by an email I received from someone who had attended a lecture I gave at a small liberal arts college. First, let me give you some background. Whenever I give a talk, I go through this ritual where I imagine who's going to be in the audience. And I imagine who in that room might be suffering the most. And I try to imagine what they might need to hear in this moment. And I think about using this as an opportunity to speak for them and to them. And for this particular talk which was to undergraduates and the local community. I was thinking about a student of mine who had committed suicide my first year of teaching at Stanford. This was an event that affected me very deeply. And I'd always felt like maybe there was something I should have seen or known or done to prevent that tragic loss. And so, as I was giving a talk…