Dr. Catherine Schweikert Discusses Self-Compassion & Heart Rate Variability

Dr. Catherine Schweikert joins Matt to discuss her work with self-compassion, heart rate variability, and her book The Compassion Remedy. Catherine Wergin Schweikert, PhD, MPH, PA-CAuthor, researcher, and speaker Her expertise is in the psychophysiology of compassion and how this grounded, pragmatic,vitality producing quality helps to bring us back to are true nature and create health and peace. After 23 years of practicing medicine, she was inspired research how compassion, self-compassion, and fears of compassion effect heart health and long-term stress levels measuredwith cortisol in healthcare workers. During her PhD program she was able to attend Stanford’s Center for Compassion Altruism andResearch & Education (CCARE) program. During her time there she created programs that havehas delivered to major hospitals in the greater Sacramento Valley and collaborated withMETAHAB to deliver her knowledge to the Veteran’s Administration. She has also participatedin a post-traumatic growth conference at Sacramento State as the expert in strength-basedcompassionate embodiment in the post-traumatic growth experience. She continues as a guestlecturer at Sacramento State University in the Traumatology class.Using what she learned at CCARE and her research for her PhD dissertation Catherine wrote thebook The Compassion Remedy to bridge the gap between the science of compassion and thedaily incorporation of this quality. This book just one Forwards Indies National book of award inBronze. She continues to write and contribute to the Global Compassion Coalition on the Science ofCompassion. She is also a guild member of Compassion 2.0, a group of innovative thinkers and leaders in theworld of flourishing with compassionate integrity in business and beyond. Finally, she presented a TEDx talk on how compassion makes for the best connections. https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-wergin-schweikert-2512818/   http://catherineschweikert.com/