Summary of Tara Brach's Radical Acceptance

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Get the Summary of Tara Brach's Radical Acceptance in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638153603

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Radical Acceptance

Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha (2003) by Tara Brach is a self-help book grounded in Buddhist teachings and practices. Western society is trapped in a cycle in which people constantly critique themselves and question their self-worth. Brach proposes radical acceptance as an antidote in which an individual abandons the inner critic and embraces difficult emotions without judgment.

People crave a sense of permanence, but the nature of everything, including life itself, is transient. Often, people compensate for impermanence in dysfunctional ways. They might develop compulsive desires for things like drugs and shopping. There’s an inherent contradiction in how society promotes vices like shopping by encouraging consumerism while at the same time labeling them as undesirable.

Emotional suffering is a universal experience,

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