Practicing Self-Compassion While Holding Yourself Accountable

Healing can be a frustrating, difficult, and discouraging process at times. When you're trying to progress one day but feel like you're regressing the next, self-compassion is often the first thing to slip through the cracks. In this raw and honest conversation, Hero and Accountability Coach Bonnie Heim explores how being kind, caring, and compassionate to yourself is an essential part of the healing journey.

Bonnie opens up about a season of burnout, emotional dysregulation, and the messy process of reconnecting with her nervous system. Together, she and Chandler reflect on the real work of tending to your inner world — not through perfection or performance, but through presence, softness, and truth.

What You Will Learn

• [00:07:15] Why extending compassion to yourself can feel harder than offering it to others
• [00:08:52] How to recognize when you’re dysregulated and what it feels like in the body
• [00:10:35] What it means to “co-regulate” with a safe person and why it matters
• [00:12:47] How to sit with and process difficult emotions instead of suppressing them
• [00:13:59] Why “nervous system regulation” should be a key part of healing work
• [00:14:56] How Bonnie recognizes when her nervous system needs attention
• [00:15:30] The moment Bonnie realized her inner critic was mimicking her fear of being a burden
• [00:17:45] Why trying to “fix” yourself can be a form of avoidance rather than healing

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Bonnie Heim

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Chandler Stroud

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