Juuso Voltti

Way back, when I was studying sound design and music composition, I learned how to listen to and express emotions. It did not, however, lead to me being more compassionate towards myself. In my experience, recognizing and expressing emotions is not enough. We also need more understanding of where these emotions and our self-criticism come from.

My own self-compassion started to really develop when I began to learn it with other people and in everyday life situations. This made learning self-compassion easy, efficient, and comfortable.

I don't think I could have ever learned the principles of self-compassion on my own. I needed the help and interaction with other people, to both learn what I wasn't able to see myself and to practice what I had learned in real life. My way of teaching self-compassion is based on this exact same interaction that I needed to learn self-compassion myself.