Practice within the Mindful Self-Compassion program was linked to gains in self-compassion, regardless of whether the practice involved sitting meditation.

“so mindfulness itself you can't have self-compassion without some degree of mindfulness but our research shows we did a randomized controlled trial the mindful self-compassion program and we found that practice was linked to gain some self-compassion but it didn't matter whether that practice was sitting down and doing self-compassion meditations”