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Meet Dr. Kristin Neff

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Dr. Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion Researcher and Author. Dr. Neff is an associate professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is widely recognized as a pioneer in the study of self-compassion, and she is the author of Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself and Fierce Self-Compassion, a book for women on using kindness to speak up and claim their power. Together with Dr. Chris Germer, she developed the Mindful Self-Compassion training program and co-founded the nonprofit Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. Her TEDx talk has been viewed more than 1.7 million times. Her session invited guests to treat inner beauty as seriously as outer beauty.

Browse books by Dr. Neff here.

You can view Dr. Neff’s presentation from our Beauty Summit here.

by Camila Alves McConaughey