Tara Brach Livres

How do you cope when facing life-threatening illness, family conflict, faltering relationships, old trauma, obsessive thinking, overwhelming emotion or inevitable loss? This book offers a practical guide to finding our inner sanctuary of peace and wisdom in the midst of difficulty.

"Within us all live an innate goodness, our gold, that often gets covered over as we navigate the challenges of daily life. In this beautifully illustrated gift book, beloved meditation teacher Tara Brach shares personal stories and valuable practices to release layers of doubts and fears and allow the light of your natural loving awareness to shine freely"--Publisher's description

One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.

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.

The great human quest is to discover who we truly are, a journey that transforms our lives and those around us. In this work, spiritual teacher and psychotherapist Dr. John J. Prendergast invites us on an inner pilgrimage, using the heart as a gateway to our deepest psychological and spiritual essence. The "deep heart" refers to our heart center, a subtle space of emotional sensitivity, relational intimacy, profound knowing, and unconditional love. Prendergast notes that this area is where we experience kindness and gratitude, but also emotional wounds. He emphasizes that the heart is what we protect most yet yearn to open. Throughout the text, Prendergast skillfully merges the insights of psychotherapy with an expansive, embodied path to liberation, addressing both the joys and challenges of each approach with the compassion of a seasoned guide. This experiential guide encourages you to connect with your inherent wisdom, love, and wholeness as you explore the deep heart. Through meditative inquiries, poignant stories, and reflections from Prendergast's work with students and clients, you'll learn to open your heart, confront limiting beliefs, and uncover your true nature.