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The Mindful Self

Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher from UC Berkeley

Laila Narsi, LCSW is a Psychotherapist since 1997 specializing in PTSD, Complex Trauma, Personality Disorders, Stress, and Anxiety. Laila is a Certified EMDR Therapist and Approved Consultant as well as Certified Mindful Self-Compassion. She has been teaching Mindful Meditation for 15 years on course such as Mindful Self Compassion, Insight Meditation, MBSR, Women's Issues, and Chronic Pain.

07/17/2025

At the age of 5 years old, I got on my very first airplane to migrate from Karachi to London in search of a better life, opportunities, and education. My years in London were bitter sweet living the life of a poor immigrant where my parents worked 7 days a week living in a tiny studio apartment with bare bones used furniture and a communal toilet and bath shared with a dozen other people. I watched my parents work extraordinarily hard and in a selfless way, yet with gratitude and humble heart. Never having enough to eat, but always charitable to those who had less.
The sweet life came in the form of an extremely affordable rent controlled apartment in the most posh London neighborhood of Kensington right across from largest park (Hyde park), Kensington Palace, and the best schools.
These few years of hardship built the strongest set of character and values that proudly make me who I am today in addition to my close bond with my dear parents which will last a lifetime. 💖

Recently, the three of us returned to our old home, their jobs, my school, park, religious center,…. This was the first time that just us three returned without the rest of our family since the 1970’s!! It was such an enriching journey with grief and laughter, gratitude and blessings, tears and giggles.

I am TRULY GRATEFUL for the hard work that my parents went through. I am TRULY GRATEFUL to be blessed with these amazing humans as my dear mom and dad, I am TRULY BLESSED for the suffering and pain. I am TRULY GRATEFUL for the love and lasting core memories. For all of this, I am TRULY GRATEFUL!
🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

07/11/2025

Join us this Saturday for the "Self-Compassion for Shame" workshop with Laila Narsi (), hosted by the Self-Compassion Community.
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In this live 3-hour workshop, you'll learn how self-compassion can meet shame with understanding, clarity, and care. This is a powerful resource-building session for anyone ready to bring light to the hidden places within.
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What this workshop will offer:
🌿 A research-based understanding of shame and self-compassion
🌿 The 3 paradoxes of shame — and how self-compassion transforms them
🌿 Tools to recognize, explore, and meet shame in the moment with compassion
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🗓️ When: Saturday, July 12th
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM–2:15 PM (Central US Time)
📍 Where: Zoom
🎓 CE Credits Available
💫 Self-Compassion Community annual members receive 25% off
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Led by: Laila Narsi, LCSW, CMMT — certified EMDR therapist, Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, and co-developer of the 8-week Self-Compassion for Shame Course with Dr. Chris Germer.
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Register: https://vist.ly/3n8u2bf
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07/01/2025

Self-Compassion for Shame Workshop with Laila Narsi (Imstagram ), hosted by the Self-Compassion Community.
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Shame makes us go small, go silent, or go away. But it doesn’t have to. In this live 3-hour workshop, you'll learn how self-compassion can meet shame with understanding, clarity, and care. This is a powerful resource-building session for anyone ready to bring light to the hidden places within.
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What this workshop will offer:
🌿 A research-based understanding of shame and self-compassion
🌿 The 3 paradoxes of shame — and how self-compassion transforms them
🌿 Tools to recognize, explore, and meet shame in the moment with compassion
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🗓️ When: Saturday, July 12th
⏰ Time: 11:00 AM–2:15 PM (Central US Time)
📍 Where: Zoom
🎓 CE Credits Available
💸 Register by June 28 for 10% off
💫 Self-Compassion Community annual members receive 25% off
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Led by: Laila Narsi, LCSW, CMMT — certified EMDR therapist, Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, and co-developer of the 8-week Self-Compassion for Shame Course with Dr. Chris Germer.
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Register for the workshop and download a free audio practice: https://vist.ly/3n7mj23
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06/18/2025

A few months ago, I had the great honor to have conversations with world renowned physician, author, and trauma specialist, Dr. Gabor Mate, on the topic of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as addiction and its lasting effects. This was an extra special conversation for me since for over 25 years, I’ve been a Psychotherapist specializing in PTSD and Complex PTSD myself.

To read more about it, please click:

https://themindfulself.com/trauma-and-addiction/

06/15/2025

Encouragement from Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh:
“Go back and take care of yourself.
Your body needs you, your perceptions need you, your feeling needs you, the wounded child in you needs you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it.”

Source: The Arlington Center

05/07/2025

Whether we are experiencing anxiety, sadness, low self-esteem, or a loud inner critic, the three components of self-compassion as identified by Dr. Kristin Neff can give us the resources to have a different relationship with ourselves. We can learn to befriend those thoughts, offer ourself kindness and compassion, and cultivate a peaceful relationship with ourselves.

3 Components:
🍃Mindfulness
🍃Common Humanity
🍃Self-Kindness

Visit my website for more resources, informative blogs, research, and guided meditations. themindfulself.com

04/28/2025

Come join my good friend and colleague for this power course which starts this Wednesday!

The 8-week Fierce Self-Compassion course is a groundbreaking program based on Dr. Kristin Neff’s book by the same.

In this course you can learn:
*to take action in the world to protect, provide, and motivate yourself to alleviate suffering and thrive.
*being able to say “no” to others who are hurting us, beginning to draw boundaries firmly.
*say no to our own harmful behaviors, so that we can be safe and healthy.
*give ourselves what we genuinely need; mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

To register please click link in bio or themindfulself.com

04/20/2025

“I am light”

04/08/2025

It’s ok to connect to our authentic voice through our inner strength, courage, and wisdom as we make our way in the world each day. Especially on days where others may try to take our power and voice. It’s important to give ourself PERMISSION to take care of ourselves whether it’s to:

*close or open our boundary
*say “No”
*rest
*say “bye” to toxic people or situations
*stand up to cultural oppression
*practice self-compassion

The most important question becomes, “What do I need?” Or “What do I truly need to live in accordance to my core values?”.

03/09/2025

“And in the end, I believe that we don’t need to do anything to be loved.

We spend our lives trying to seem prettier, smarter.

But I realized two things.
Those who love us see us with their hearts and attribute qualities to us beyond those we really have.

And those who don’t want to love us will never be satisfied with all our efforts.

Yes, I really believe that it is important to leave our imperfections alone.
They are precious to understand those who see us with the heart. “

Frida Kahlo artist

Happy International Women’s Day! Here is to all the strong girls and women that inspire us, motivate us, nurture us!

03/04/2025

For me, and always have the most poignant words that nourish me and tap into hope, strength, courage.

Please enjoy this poem by Nikita Gill and song by India Arie.

03/02/2025

Shame is a core difficulty of complex trauma, as memories cause autonomic responses- the body sense and beliefs of shame remains trapped in your body.

Other emotions like sadness can be released from within in more accessible ways (i.e., you can cry & release that sadness from your body).

Shame on the other hand is more complex & it’s one of the biggest difficulties for complex trauma survivors.

It often behind in childhood, where we may have been perpetually put down, criticized, abused … this continual humiliation & hurt causes us as a child to internalize that there is something wrong with us. It’s like we absorb all the hurt & relate it back to “there must be something wrong with me”.

When shame comes up now, it’s felt deeply in the body & what can be confused is it holds two faces, where you may want to disappear and become invisible, alongside wanting to get recognition and to be seen (I.e., through things like perfectionism, people pleasing,…).

Shame is the most tricky emotion to work with as it can be so paralyzing for folks. And this is wrapped up closely in the freeze/shutdown response. When you go into freeze you’re struck with high levels of anxiety and stuckness. Which can be very debilitating.

Some therapeutic modalities that are really helpful are EMDR Therapy, mindfulness, and self-compassion.

Please visit my website for more resources or to contact me to set up an appointment.
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