Radical Acceptance

“Tara Brach's integration of Buddhist psychology and Western therapy resonates with Brown's emphasis on self-compassion as a prerequisite for courage. Brown has recommended it specifically for readers who recognize their patterns of self-judgment but cannot locate a way out.”

“Tara Brach's contribution is a psychological framing she calls the "trance of unworthiness" — a Western condition of chronic self-judgment that meditation alone doesn't dissolve. She draws on Theravada teaching and her training as a clinical psychologist to argue that acceptance (not approval) of present experience is the specific mechanism that makes practice therapeutic.”