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Radical Acceptance

Awakening the Love That Heals Fear and Shame

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Radical Acceptance

By: Tara Brach
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
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Drawing on the wisdom of Buddhist teachings, illustrative stories and the transformative power of meditation, Tara guides us in healing the shame and fear that bind our hearts.

In the West, most of us have suffered the fear of not being 'good enough', feeling insecure about our appearance, our sexuality, our intelligence, our spiritual progress or - often most importantly - being worthy of love. When these feelings of insufficiency or self-aversion are strong, we fear abandonment and rejection. Many people have already found the Buddhist perspective on our emotional life to be extremely valuable - and this book will be a major practical contribution to the subject.

©2003 Tara Brach (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Body Positivity Buddhism Personal Development Personal Success Meditation Inspiring Heartfelt Mindfulness

Critic Reviews

"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. Please enjoy this nourishing and healing book." (Thich Nhat Hanh)

"An insightful, warmhearted and important contribution to the emerging field of therapeutic mindfulness." (Tara Bennett-Goleman)

"Offers gentle wisdom and tender healing." (Jack Kornfield)

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I found this one to be a little annoying to listen to, just didn't like the narration.

The reader....

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I found this book to be so relatable with Tara's anecdotes. I was constantly saying "ooh that happens to me". The books helped to remind me to care for myself.

Relatable

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great book, but the reader made a few errors that I was really surprised to hear. There was one towards the start where she messed up the son's name. Nothing major... got a couple of letters around the wrong way, but definitely something I would have thought would have made someone say, "let's try that last again". Overall, very good, though. Just not completely polished.

good, but...

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Tara Brach is an exceptional human being and this book is a great guide to deeper understand the self - she uses real life stories to show how self loathing, trauma, shame can be seen and turned into a more compassionate and kind relationship with the self.. highly recommend.

Brilliant!

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Interweaving radical acceptance of self and others with daily practices that we can all learn doing.
Amazing sook and very well read

Great book with many places to pause

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Meditative story telling, gentle lessons through story examples
Gentle calm wisdom delivered in gentle voice. Very comforting , very educative and heartful learning.

Peaceful

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This book talk across many ideas not exclusively Radical Acceptance. She describes this in the start about potentially being a misleading word, but I highly recommend this to anyone.

Great narratives and ideas

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A must listen for those that want to grow and open your heart and mind. Beautifully written and read.

Beautiful teachings

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I found this incredibly insightful and found myself going 'tick, yup, tick, aha that's me all over'. There were some parts that were hard to wrap my head around but that's OK. I have not turned on the TV for 3 evenings and have happily gone to bed early after work and listened and absorbed this audio. The narrator's voice is lovely and soothing too, the perfect tone for this type of content.

Worth Every Second

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Hot start hit hard I’m a few parts, meandering in the middle to end but easy to listen to. Would recommend

A book that came at the right time

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