…turn against ourselves and feel more separate from each other and from our world. In this short video, Tara shares how we can meet fear, judgment, and overwhelm with a…
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Healing Trauma: The Light Shines Through the Broken Places
…invaluable and these practices are not considered as a substitute.) See also: Resources: Working with Fear and Trauma See also: Mindfulness Strategies for Working with Trauma and Strong Fear https://www.youtube.com/live/OutVsV6xZsU?si=0xEyi0mKJPLX5yA9…
From Head to Heart
If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and…
Working With Difficulties: The Blessings of RAIN
…students I work with support their resolve to “let be” by mentally whispering an encouraging word or phrase. For instance, you might feel the grip of fear and whisper “yes”…
The Healing Power of Imagination: Transform Yourself and the World, Part 2
…the trance of fear and separation, reconnecting us with our innate clarity and compassion. And we’ll discover how imagination, when grounded in presence, becomes a superpower—allowing us to envision new…
Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 2
Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of…
Stories That Imprison Our Heart – Part 1
Our suffering arises from fear-based stories that are often outside our awareness. These include stories of our deficiency or importance, of being a victim, of being unseen or unloved, of…
2025: A Year of Courageous Loving with Tara Brach & Friends
…surround us – the fear, violence, and dividedness in our world. There is a sense that we are teetering on an edge, humanity is devolving and the existential dangers we…
Blog – Facing My White Privilege
…tell you, I want to give my son fear. I want him to be afraid, because I am scared to death that he’s going to either get arrested or killed…
Radical Self-Compassion: 6-Week Online Course with Tara Brach
…difficult emotions like shame, fear, and anger. As you learn to nurture your own wounds with tender care, your compassionate heart will naturally extend to others. Here’s a look at…
IMCW Second Sunday Dharma Series with Tara Brach & Jennifer Stanley
IMCW Second Sunday Dharma Series, with Tara Brach & Trisha Stotler Sunday, April 2nd @ 11:00 AM (EDT) As fear and instability in the outer world continue to grow, we…
Radical Self-Compassion: 6-Week Online Course
…shame, fear, and anger. As you learn to nurture your own wounds with tender care, your compassionate heart will naturally extend to others. Here’s a look at what we will…
Radical Acceptance
…healing the shame and fear that bind our hearts. 20th Anniversary Edition Available Now! FREE GIFT: List of Guided Meditations to Accompany the Book DOWNLOAD HERE One of the deepest…
The Courage to Love – Part 1
…contact and transform our fears into awake and loving presence. We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the want to…
Healing Trauma: The Light Shines Through the Broken Places
…invaluable and these practices are not considered as a substitute.) See also: Resources: Working with Fear and Trauma See also: Mindfulness Strategies for Working with Trauma and Strong Fear https://youtu.be/eR-DN7JYSLo…
The Opportunity of “The Magic Quarter-second”
…getting this response—the more the impulse to ask for help becomes paired with the belief that she will be refused and the accompanying feelings (fear or hurt, anger or shame)….
Part 1: Hope and the Spiritual Path
This talk looks at the difference between egoic hopes and fears, and the quality of hopefulness (“holy hope”) that is an essential dimension in spiritual experience. We reflect on the…
Causing No Harm
The mindstates behind violence – anger and fear – are universal and natural. If they possess us and drive our actions, we suffer. If we learn to meet them with…
Divine Abodes: Lovingkindness
Love is the most basic expression of who we are, and yet it is often obscured by the trance of separation and fear. This talk explores how we habitually armor…
Beyond the Prison of Beliefs
Most of us have core fear beliefs that obscure our true nature and bind us in repeating patterns of painful emotions and behavior. This talk looks at the beliefs that…
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