What You'd Never Say to a Friend

10 min

A quiet exercise around an empty kitchen chair, where one recent judgement is handed to an imagined friend and answered with the words that come naturally. The sharper private sentence is then set beside that kinder one, not to force self-compassion, but to notice the gap and the voice that already knows how to be gentle.

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Maya Hart
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Maya Hart
Tender, reassuring, steady

Tender and reassuring, steady when things aren't, present and calm without ever overpromising.

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About this session

What You'd Never Say to a Friend is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the self compassion collection, narrated by Maya Hart.

Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.