I was a little disappointed but I think I just had really high expectations. Also not as weight neutral as I would have hoped. But still good, glad I read it. Would I recommend it? Not sure. 

This book has been recommended to me so many times, so I finally borrowed it from the library. Maybe I’m not the target audience? She uses several very disturbing examples of classism and ableism (referencing a hypothetical unsheltered person and bemoaning having an autistic son) to explain why people should care about others? 

Think this might be for white heterosexual middle class people who have no social consciousness. Maybe? 

I would recommend investigating the concept and practices of self-compassion (which I do think may have value) online or elsewhere, rather than in this book.

In a self-help book that the author is positing will be helpful for everyone, it seems to me she unknowingly had a very limited view of who everyone might be while writing it. It gets off on the wrong foot by using an imaginary homeless person as a prop for teaching us readers about compassion for others, really setting up who the expected audience is. Later on the author writes twice about her experience having an autistic son in such a way that it's extremely obvious she never imagined an autistic person might be reading it. The author does address that having self-compassion is not necessarily linked to having compassion for others.