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Radical Acceptance

Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
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Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach offers a compassionate path to inner freedom amid modern crises and anxiety. Drawing on four decades of therapeutic and Buddhist experience, Brach guides readers through embracing their pain, fear, and self-judgments to find peace and fulfilment. This edition includes a new introduction, an exclusive chapter, and guided meditations that help stop the struggle against oneself and promote living fully.
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This book suits readers interested in religion, spirituality, and mindfulness, especially those seeking practical guidance on self-compassion, acceptance, and emotional healing in stressful times.

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Written by a charismatic Buddhist leader who is also a psychotherapist, this book is the first to explore how Buddhist teachings can heal the core feelings of "not good enough" that are epidemic in American society.

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In our current times of global crises and spiking collective anxiety, Tara Brach’s transformative practice of Radical Acceptance offers a pathway to inner freedom and a more compassionate world.

This classic work now features an insightful new introduction, an exclusive bonus chapter, and additional guided meditations.

Radical Acceptance offers us an invitation to embrace ourselves with all our pain, fear, and anxieties, and to step lightly yet firmly on the path of understanding and compassion.”Thich Nhat Hanh

“Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering,” says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and unfulfilled. Radical Acceptance offers a path to freedom, including the day-to-day practical guidance developed over Dr. Brach’s forty years of work with therapy clients and Buddhist students.

Writing with great warmth and clarity, Tara Brach brings her teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations. Step by step, she shows us how we can stop being at war with ourselves and begin to live fully every precious moment of our lives.

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Yoga Journal calls it "an important, fresh voice from the ranks of modern dharma teacher-writers." Publishers Weekly praises it as "a consoling and practical guide that can help people find a light within themselves." Sharon Salzberg, bestselling author, describes it as "a clear, practical and caring guide." Kristin Neff, Ph.D., highlights Brach’s deep understanding of self-compassion. Lama Rod Owens notes it offers "real tools to build a new world grounded in fierce love and care."

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780553380996

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 November 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House Inc

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 306g

Pages: 400

About the Author

Tara Brach, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist as well as a Buddhist lay priest and popular teacher of mindfulness (vipassana) meditation. She is the founder of the Insight Meditation Community in Washington, D.C., and has conducted workshops at Spirit Rock Center, Omega Institute, the New York Open Center, and other retreat centers nationwide. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her teenaged son.

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