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Radical acceptance
Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Book • 2004
Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach offers a transformative practice to help readers overcome habitual feelings of deficiency and better relate to their experiences and emotions.
The book emphasizes two key pillars: observing one's experience clearly and responding with compassion.
Through personal stories, case histories from her clinical psychology practice, and guided meditations, Brach provides practical guidance on mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance.
The book helps readers stop being at war with themselves and live fully in every moment, addressing issues such as self-judgments, conflicts, addictions, and perfectionism.
It also clarifies that Radical Acceptance does not mean self-indulgence or passivity but rather empowers genuine change and healing.
The book emphasizes two key pillars: observing one's experience clearly and responding with compassion.
Through personal stories, case histories from her clinical psychology practice, and guided meditations, Brach provides practical guidance on mindfulness, compassion, and acceptance.
The book helps readers stop being at war with themselves and live fully in every moment, addressing issues such as self-judgments, conflicts, addictions, and perfectionism.
It also clarifies that Radical Acceptance does not mean self-indulgence or passivity but rather empowers genuine change and healing.
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