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When Things Fall Apart

Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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When Things Fall Apart

By: Pema Chodron
Narrated by: Christy Meyer
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How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart—when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.

©1997, 2016 Pema Chodron (P)2022 Shambhala Publications Buddhism Personal Development Personal Success Spirituality Meditation Difficult Times
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Excellent help for anyone who wants to self examine. Easy to listen and understand.

Pema embodies her teachings.

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These teachings are for us right now, as we navigate the modern world. There is so much sound advice and insight that it’s hard to pick out any one thing. I’ll leave it up to the reader but suffice to say, I’m recommending it to all my close friends. The narrator was very sympathetic and did not get in the way of the writing.

So good I read it again immediately

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A bible of sorts for challenging times. Every time I’m in crisis I read it. I always with id read it sooner.

Absolutely love this book, I always come back to it in hard times

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especially relevant for challenging times. never give up on yourself. there is no where to escape to. there is only this moment, this experience. there is no ground to stand on, no safety. and with the practices within, you can learn to relax with that fact and take joy in it, to dance through chaos with a smile on your face.

beautiful and timeless advice

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I really wanted to like this but I just couldn't listen to her voice. I returned it.

I just couldn't listen to her voice

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