Blog: Notes on Healing and Awakening
Blog: What You Practice Grows Stronger: Choosing Joy to De-Condition Our Negativity Bias
What You Practice Grows Stronger:Choosing Joy to De-Condition Our Negativity Bias Some years back, I was talking with a woman in our community. She was a breast cancer survivor...
Blog: When the News Makes Us Miserable: Remembering a Fuller Presence and Larger Truth
When the News Makes Us Miserable: Remembering a Fuller Presence and Larger Truth People ask me regularly about how spiritual practice can guide us in responding to the state of...
Blog: A Heart That Is Ready for Anything
A Heart That Is Ready for Anything ~ When the Buddha was dying, he gave a final message to his beloved attendant Ananda, and to generations to come: “Be a lamp unto yourself, be...
Transcript: Darkness of the Womb: Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering
~ a talk by Tara Brach presented on January 25, 2017 Listen and watch: Darkness of the Womb – Four Key Steps in Transforming Suffering Download transcript – now available in PDF....
Guided Reflection: Recognizing the Trance of Unworthiness
Recognizing the beliefs and fears that sustain the trance of unworthiness is the beginning of freedom. You might find it useful to pause for a few minutes to consider the parts...
Transcript: Healing Trauma – The Light Shines Through the Broken Places
~ a talk by Tara Brach presented on March 08, 2017 Listen to and watch: Healing Trauma: The Light Shines Through the Broken Places Download transcript – now available in PDF....
Blog: Discovering the Gold – Remembering Our True Nature by Cultivating Mindfulness and Compassion
Discovering the Gold: Remembering Our True Nature by Cultivating Mindfulness and Compassion I remember when I was on a book tour for Radical Acceptance, one of the places I...
Blog: Soul Recovery: Healing the Shame of Trauma
In Shamanistic cultures, it is believed that when a person is traumatized, their soul leaves their body as a way to protect itself from intolerable pain. In a process known as...
Transcript: Taking ‘The Exquisite Risk’: An Undefended Heart – Transcription
~ a talk by Tara Brach presented on March 22, 2017 Listen and watch: Taking 'The Exquisite Risk': An Undefended Heart Download transcript – now available in PDF. One of the...
Blog: The Freedom of Yes – Allowing Life to be Just as It Is
I often quote the psychologist Carl Rogers, who said, “It wasn’t until I accepted myself, just as I was, that I was free to change.” In other words, this acceptance — this...
Blog: Where Does It Hurt? Healing the Wounds of Severed Belonging
I recently heard about a man who attempted to sneak his pet turtle onto a flight by placing it between two buns and wrapping it in a KFC wrapper. When he was discovered, he told...
Blog: The Space Between Stories: Evolving Consciousness
The Space Between Stories: Evolving Consciousness ~ These days we are seeing all around us a lot of turbulence, inner and outer. The tendency when we get stirred up – and this is...
Guidelines: Introducing Meditation Practices to Psychotherapy Clients ~ Tara Brach Meditation practices increase mindfulness and openheartedness in daily life. They can also...
Blog: How to Start a Mindfulness Meditation Group
• How to Start a Mindfulness Meditation Group (PDF) - Mindfulness meditation groups are a wonderful way of connecting with others to share and deepen your meditation practice....
Transcript: Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence – Night Travelers (retreat talk)
~ a talk by Tara Brach presented on May 8, 2016 Listen and watch: tarabrach.com/fear-pathway-loving-presence/ Even if you feel like your mind has been wondering all over the...
Transcript: Love is Always Loving You
• View or download the transcript (PDF) of "Love is Always Loving You" (transcription services by: www.gmrtranscription.com) • Listen to the audio of "Love is Always Loving You"...
Blog: FAQ for Meditation
Download the Meditation FAQ ( in PDF) ~ Establishing a Practice ~ How do I start a period of meditation practice? It’s helpful to begin by settling yourself and calling to mind...
Blog: Taking Your Hands Off the Controls
As living organisms anxious about our existence, we’re all naturally rigged to want to manage our lives with the goal of creating more pleasure and less pain for ourselves. Yet...
Blog: The Opportunity of “The Magic Quarter Second”
In the book My Stroke of Insight, brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor explains that the natural life span of an emotion—the average time it takes for it to move through the...
Blog: Enlarging Our Tribe – Seeing Behind Appearances
In the mid-1970s I worked as a tenants’ rights activist with poor families in Worcester, Massachusetts. Through organizing tenants’ unions we would try to pressure landlords into...
Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness
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