By Natalia Yurevich

Kristy Arbon is the founder and CEO at HeartWorks, an online learning portal of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion. As a certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, she leads intensives and workshops around the world, coordinates online training programs, and supports new teachers’ education at HeartWorks and the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion in San Diego, California. Kristy attempted her first meditation 25 years ago. She spent the past five years exploring Mindful Self-Compassion practices and helping people to learn to be more empathetic towards themselves. Her guided meditations are downloaded thousands of times, and her self-compassion online classes are followed by people from all over the world.

In our conversation, Kristy Arbon provides some gems on how to nurture our spirituality. She gives an inside look at how she practices and how she teaches her followers to embrace mindfulness and self-compassion in their lives.