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For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much--just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work--to make us feel that we are not okay. Beginning to understand how our lives have become ensnared in this trance of unworthiness is our first step toward reconnecting with who we really are and what it means to live fully.
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“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 twenty 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 leads us to trust our innate goodness, showing how we can develop the balance of clear-sightedness and compassion that is the essence of Radical Acceptance. Radical Acceptance does not mean self-indulgence or passivity. Instead it empowers genuine change: healing fear and shame and helping to build loving, authentic relationships. When we stop being at war with ourselves, we are free to live fully every precious moment of our lives.

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A psychotherapist and Buddhist meditation teacher in the tradition of Jack Kornfield (who contributes a foreword), first-time author Brach offers readers a rich compendium of stories and techniques designed to help people awaken from what she calls "the trance of unworthiness." The sense of self-hatred and fearful isolation that afflicts so many people in the West can be transformed with the steady application of a loving attention infused with the insights of the Buddhist tradition, according to Brach. Interweaving stories from her own life as a hardworking single mother with many wonderful anecdotes culled from her therapy practice and her work as a leader of meditation retreats, Brach offers myriad examples of how our pain can become a doorway to love and liberation. An older Catholic woman in one of Brach's weekend workshops, for example, recounts how she learned to ask God to help hold her pain. Like her colleagues Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein and others in the Vipassana or Insight meditation tradition, Brach is open-minded about where she gathers inspiration. Garnishing her gentle advice and guided meditation with beautiful bits of poetry and well-loved if familiar dharma stories, Brach describes what it can mean to open to the reality of other people, to live in love, to belong to the world. Obviously the fruit of the author's own long and honest search, this is a consoling and practical guide that can help people find a light within themselves.
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"Radical Acceptance offers gentle wisdom and tender healing, a most excellent medicine for our unworthiness and longing. Breathe, soften, and let these compassionate teachings bless your heart."
— Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

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Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Bantam; Reprint edition (November 23, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0553380990
ISBN-13: 978-0553380996
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
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ByWatermelonTigeron January 1, 2012

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When I got this CD I was a little put off by it at first... not by what the author was saying but by her pronunciation and tone (raather like Kathryn Hepburn) that at times seemed overly self-involved. I decided that I was going to ignore this and instead be open to all the good she had to offer. I am SO GLAD that I kept listening. These recordings contain a wealth of wisdom that will surely boost your personal growth and understanding. Just about everyone needs to love themselves more, and honestly, most people are clueless about how to do it. These lectures give you concrete ways to be more in touch with yourself and more understanding, which is the essence of love. I've listened to the whole series a few times, and gifted it to a couple of friends.

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Wonderful and healing

ByPenn Nameon December 7, 2011

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I love that she talks so openly about shame- which is often not talked about. I like her voice. I find what she says to be very comforting and very helpful around gently changing long-held beliefs (and increasing self-compassion). She covers so much and what she says is so meaningful that I have listened to it many times. I think people would find it helpful, even if they don't meditate. She's a Buddhist therapist, but the book is very useful for non-buddhists too (like me). There are wonderful meditations on the CD too. Of all the CDs I have ever bought, I like this one the most.

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The ultimate reference for freeing yourself of fear, loneliness, shame, insecurity, and learning to live fully

ByAndrey Viktor Sklyaron August 14, 2015

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This is the ultimate reference for freeing yourself of fear, loneliness, shame, insecurity, and learning to live fully.

It teaches in the most thorough way how to learn to live with and accept those things and so be free of them, instead of resisting and suppressing and so being controlled by them. That is immensely easier said than done.

It summarises and goes into more depth and connects more honestly and compassionately with the actual experience of these things than any other book or teaching I've worked with. It also goes as deeply if not more into the actual psychology and specific approaches to deal with them than any other source I have encountered. It is accessible and substantial.

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Radical Acceptance- a way to more inner peace!

ByLili P. BetancourtVINE VOICEon July 13, 2015

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I bought this book on the recommendation of a meditation group. They are using it as a guide for an ongoing series of meditation meetings. I also bought it as an audio book. The narrator has a pleasant voice. I've found the case histories and lessons have stayed with me weeks after finishing the book. Now I follow Tara Brach on Facebook. I love the concept of radical acceptance as key to find our way out of, as the author puts it the 'trance of unworthiness'.

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Probably my favorite mindfulness book

Byzunderzeeon May 14, 2014

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Tara Brach, a long-time meditation teacher and psychotherapist, provides a practical guide for those wanting to create a mindfulness/meditation practice for themselves. There is enough science for those leaning that way and enough "spirituality" for those wanting that. She is one of those Jewish-Buddhist ("Jewbus") talked about in Dan Harris' book, 10% Happier, (in fact she is mentioned in his book) and there are several of those authors out there but I find her book one of the more accessible and useful ones.

She also has a very good webpage with many video lectures (she gives talks weekly in the DC area); articles and podcasts that someone interested in mindfulness should find interesting/useful. That webpage should give a good picture of her philosophy and approach to handling the "lost in thoughts" and "monkey mind" struggles that are at the heart of most of our mental difficulties. Her book was one of the first of many I read on mindfulness and is still one of the best and is one that many cognitive therapists in my area recommend to their patients.

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I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in mindfulness ...

ByAmazon Customeron September 20, 2014

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I stumbled on this book right after it was published in a small independent bookstore in Seattle. At the time I considered myself a Buddhist, but was struggling with a lot of self-loathing - and a serious addiction problem - so there was not a whole lot of practicing going on.. Ms. Brach is both a practicing psychotherapist, and a practicing Buddhist - which gives her a unique perspective on Buddhist teachings and how they speak to self-forgiveness and self-acceptance - no matter how far gone a person may feel they are. The book didn't make much of a difference in my life back then, more than a decade ago - but I now see that some very fertile seeds were planted on that first reading. Now I am sober and stumblingly working on my meditation practice. I just finished re-reading Radical Acceptance, while watching the treasury of talks she has given that can be accessed on YouTube. She is now part of a small group of people whom I consider my teachers and guides - along with Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chodron, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, John Tarrant Roshi, Ram Das, and Eckhart Tolle. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in mindfulness training, Buddhist or not, as a means to quiet - and gradually heal - the mind.

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Real tools for real inner turmoil

ByDrLexon September 8, 2017

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Heard Dr Beach speak 8 years ago, but wasn't ready for the message. Listened and found it extremely helpful. Quickly shared it with a long time Psychotherapy client who found it transformative. It "gave her something she could do when anxiety came back." SO helpful she finished therapy real soon after that.

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A lot of this book is very good. But then it takes a bit of a ...

ByMatthewon August 30, 2017

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A lot of this book is very good. But then it takes a bit of a turn where I thought things got darker than they needed and were a tad to extreme about life. I think Brach has a lot of solid advice in here and a lot of practices and insights that are useful.

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