Subtitle: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions.
This “un-self-help” book by a clinical psychologist shows how to stop fighting uncomfortable emotions and accept them with self-compassion instead. Step by step, Germer shows how to be kind to ourselves, listen to our bodies, and bring in difficult emotions.
I liked his analysis of the stages of acceptance [...]
My response to The Tao of Equus doesn’t begin to express the impact it had on me. I immediately looked for Kohanov’s next book.
Riding Between the Worlds contains less abstract theory and more stories from clients and from her own life. It also contains a helpful adaptation of Karla McLaren’s work with emotions into [...]
Subtitle: Care Instructions for an Ordinary Life
Recommended by: Shambhala Sun excerpt.
Miller is a Zen Buddhist priest and teacher. This memoir is organized around three household tasks as metaphors for Zen living – laundry, dishes, and gardening. I enthusiastically agree with the premise that household maintenance is an integral part of life, rather than [...]
Subtitle: A Woman’s Journey of Healing and Transformation through the Way of the Horse
Recommended by: A client.
Linda Kohanov and her herd of sensitive horses offer equine facilitated psychotherapy. Together they help both horses and humans recover from trauma, regain their balance, and treat each other with more respect.
This many-layered book contains autobiography, horse stories, client [...]
Recommended by: a client.
The opening scene drew me in immediately. Geneen Roth shows eighty women furious at her because she is not yet letting them eat their tomato soup at a retreat about food and mindfulness. A few women bravely share their process of connecting to old pain and realizing that their adult selves [...]
Recommended by: Spirituality Bookgroup.
This novel about convention, betrayal, growing up, and finding center is filled with wisdom and grace.
Ronit grew up in a tiny, insular Jewish Orthodox congregation within London. She is the rebellious daughter of their revered Rabbi. Aided by her father’s sending her to an American university, she has escaped [...]
In connection with reading Being Bodies, I tracked down this book. It turns out I’d read it a long time ago and remembered many of the stories, although I’d forgotten their source.
Cheri Huber herself admits that the title is a bit of a trick. Rather than trying to move from Here to There, she [...]
Recommended by: Catherine Holmes Clark, who also has a detailed site about her journey with environmental illness.
The sweet relief of reading about Buddhism from the perspective of women connected with their bodies took me by surprise. Until I read this book, I didn’t realize how much I’d been reading around a feeling of exclusion in [...]
Recommended by: a client.
Learning about marketing has taught me a great phrase to avoid frustration with a business’s advertising, selection, or service: “not the target market.” I simply assume that I am not an intended customer of that business, and continue on my way.
Similarly, my Jewish background and mix of Buddhist and Pagan beliefs [...]
Recommended by: Emma McCreary, and Jeannette Maw
This is the original source for the term “Law of Attraction”, as described by “Abraham” (a collective of Non-Physical Beings) and conveyed through Esther Hicks.
The Law of Attraction is defined as:
Ask (we are doing this all the time with our desires)
Source answers immediately
Allow the response (by matching its vibration – [...]