It's a wonderful idea, one that everyone can get behind. But to actually be kind requires a great deal more attention, focus and commitment than meets the eye. Why is being kind so tricky? Because we’re too often unkind to ourselves making it nearly impossible to hold kindness for others. Kindness toward ourselves is built on a foundation of self-acceptance. And there’s the issue; we’ve trained ourselves away from holding ourselves with self-acceptance in a real, sustained way. Decades..