Doing the work of getting to a place where you can love and accept yourself can be a lot like joining a gym as a New Year's resolution. There's a lot of inertia in the beginning and then it fades. Over time, our personal growth comes head to head with our human folly and the folly often wins. Self Compassion is an exploration of the relationship you are working to cultivate with yourself while gaining the understanding that you will have to also combat the lies you believe about yourself based on how much "progress" it feels like you are making.