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Semrad taught us that most human suffering is related to love and loss and that the job of therapists is to help people “acknowledge, experience, and bear” the reality of life—with all its pleasures and heartbreak. “The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves,” he’d say, urging us to be honest with ourselves about every fac
... See moreBessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
description of suffering, it is also descriptive of the psychology of addiction, because the mind-body circulates the same patterns through repetition, reinforcing repetitive choices and actions.
Michael Stone • The Inner Tradition of Yoga: A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner
Lori Gottlieb • #122 - Lori Gottlieb: Understanding pain, therapeutic breakthroughs, and keys to enduring emotional health - Peter Attia
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Stephen Levine • Healing into Life and Death
Traditional Zen training can, without a doubt, elicit and help resolve many personality conflicts that analytically-minded therapists would define and work with under very different conditions.
Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
We might already have some familiarity with the feelings and impulses that are sitting on the surface of our heart, and we might need a more concerted effort to get beneath that.
Alan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
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Alan Morinis • Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar
The key insight is that the suffering that is coming will be so severe that it will impact not only our personal psyches but the ground of the collective unconscious itself.
Julie Holland • How Psychedelics Can Help Save the World: Visionary and Indigenous Voices Speak Out
From his walled garden cut off from the city, Epicurus introduced us to the revelatory notion that to become happier, we need to reassess our attachments to things in the world. We need to feel differently about things that cause (or have the potential to cause) anxiety. We wish to live with as little pain and worry as possible. Epicurus has, in hi
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