The essential value of Self-Compassion, or ‘befriending ourselves in difficult times’, has been widely recognised across the Buddhist and the academic/secular/therapeutic worlds alike (see, for example, the work by Sharon Salzberg, Kristin Neff and Chris Germer). As counter-intuitive as it may seem, in our apparently individualistic society, we have a very hard time letting go of our faults or perceived failures, thus adding painful strategies such as resistance or denial, and feelings like failure and worthlessness, to an already difficult…