Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

I read this with my sister and we both enjoyed it. A lot of sage advice and ways of thinking that we both have started to use in our daily life.

Great book that is written at a high level and helps you become less critical of yourself. I've given this book away several times several times and just keep buying it over and over again.

I'm dealing with emotional disregulation. I have been practicing the advice in this book. It's been a priceless help for me. Thank you, Tara!

Good book

This book covers the entire spiritual path from the beginning: basic ethics and recognizing your thoughts and emotions; to the end: asking yourself who is aware of everything that is happening.I always wonder about the integration of wisdom and compassion. How do you integrate the wisdom of knowing yourself to be pure detached awareness with the compassion of wanting to care for your thoughts, feelings, and the world around you? This book answered that question beautifully and I'm inspired to go into counseling as a career as a result.

This was a gift form a friend over 10 years ago. Unfortunately some of my books got lost in a move and this one was one of them.It was given to me in a time of hardship and I loved it and implemented it.Many years later I found myself in the same position, and sad because it would be so good to have it again.So I just reordered it!Great and thoughtful gift for anyone dealing with hard changes in their life or looking to just learn to look at things in a better optic. Specially if like me that person is a bit resistant to change.

All I can say is that this book has been a life life-changing journey for me. By far my favorite self-help book (many of which I find banal), if one could call it that. It includes some profound insights/quotes and stories, along with a comprehensible explanation of some fairly esoteric Buddhist principles.Often Tara uses the stories and experiences of the people she has met and helped along her path to aid or illustrate a point, which makes it more enjoyable to read than a book in which the author is always speaking to the reader in the abstract. It really helps to humanize her ideas and bring them home. The narrative is very well done.The book begins by characterizing the commonplace anxieties of modern life, including insecurities around being good enough and the search for satisfaction and purpose. She invites the reader to share her own journey and relate to her experiences. She gives an explanation of what 'Radical Acceptance' is and goes on in the subsequent chapter to share the stories of her friends & clients, using them to illustrate how her teachings have helped liberate them from their experiences.One of the things Tara does remarkably well is incorporate wisdom, poetry, and stories from various spiritual sources, in a way that really melds into what she is trying to teach. It's clear that she has much more to offer than her personal wisdom, but also the wisdom of teachers past. My favorite quote from the book (regrettably I do not have the source's name) is from a Zen philosopher: "true happiness is learning to live with imperfection". This comes to mind regularly when I am worried about myself or upset that something isn't as I want it to be.What I like the most about this book is that it really stands apart to me as a Buddhist teaching text. I've embarked on Zen reading before, but this is the first one to actually inspire me to begin my own meditation practice. In fact, I've begun watching her YouTube videos also, and really feel that she is an adept spiritual teacher. That said, I don't think one has to adopt the Buddhist philosophy to get something out of this book, but I guarantee that a read through it will impress upon the reader some of the wisest lessons it has to offer, which I find are much more humanistic than typical religious dogma, and can fit into any belief system.

Learnt a lot about the importance of mindfulness and acceptance, everyone needs to read this gem, this will be life-changing.