Book DescriptionIn the same tradition as such bestselling authors as Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg, Insight Meditation teacher Tara Brach has cultivated one of the largest and most active Buddhist meditation communities in the eastern United States With Radical Self-Acceptance, this gifted guide brings her enthusiasm and depth of experience озошп to a wide new arena of listeners for the first time "Imagine what it would be like to be without anxiety about your imperfections," begins Brach Employing herskills in two worlds, this clinical psychologist and meditation instructor takes on what she considers to be the most difficult and pervasive challenge to Westerners today: the suffering caused by our feelings of unworthiness and deficiency Here, Brach teaches the specific practices we need to become more mindful and compassionate toward the "unforgivable" parts within ourselves and how to free ourselves from "the prison of shame and self-aversion " Practical and supportive, Radical Self-Acceptance marks the debut of one of the most capable new voices today on the marriage between Eastern meditation and Western psychology.  Digital2005 г ISBN 1591793211.