Radical Acceptance
by Tara Brach
Brach, a psychologist and meditation teacher, writes about the 'trance of unworthiness' and the practice of meeting experience with clear seeing and kindness. It blends Buddhist practice with clinical stories and guided meditations, and it is deeply compassionate. It is not a productivity book; it is the book many productivity readers eventually need.
Read it if…
you drive yourself hard and have begun to notice the self-criticism underneath.
Skip it if…
you want a secular, step-by-step method; this is contemplative and spiritual in tone.
Three things you will actually use
- Pause and name what is happening before you react.
- Allow the feeling without fixing it first.
- Offer yourself the kindness you would offer a friend.
Do this first
Try the RAIN practice once today: recognize, allow, investigate, nurture.
Our verdict
Wise and gentle; a different kind of self-help, and for some readers the right one.
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