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Dr Kristen Neff Photo: Selfcompassion.org
How much do you look after yourself in an emotional sense?
Dr Kristin Neff, an associate professor in the University of Texas at Austin's department of educational psychology has created a "self-compassion scale" and is credited with conducting the first academic studies into self-compassion.
She has also created a self compassion test for people to assess how self compassionate they are