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A review by gracieec
Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind by Kristin Neff, Xe Sands
Did not finish book. Stopped at 27%.
Really upsetting reviews about autism. Went to look up more because I thought maybe she had gotten better and saw that she and her husband took they are six year old child on a difficult and frightening trip to Mongolia to have horses and shaman "heal" their child of autism. Also she supports Autism Speaks.
Many parts of this book gave me red flags, but the way she speaks of wishing she had a "normal"child and feeling self-pity about it just sent me. I thought maybe she was going to talk about having self compassion with herself for making judgments about autism, but no she was basically having self compassion in accepting that her life was destroyed by her child having autism.
Self compassion might be important but I'm going to look for it from a different source. I just cannot deal with the views from this author.
Many parts of this book gave me red flags, but the way she speaks of wishing she had a "normal"child and feeling self-pity about it just sent me. I thought maybe she was going to talk about having self compassion with herself for making judgments about autism, but no she was basically having self compassion in accepting that her life was destroyed by her child having autism.
Self compassion might be important but I'm going to look for it from a different source. I just cannot deal with the views from this author.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism