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Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

14 reviews

colettelikesstuff's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Violence, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Incest, Grief, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Child abuse, Cancer, and Alcoholism

arlangrey17's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

What a beautiful book. I want to reread this some day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Infidelity

A lot of this book is about Tara Brach's patients and how radical acceptance helped them. Many of the accounts are fairly detailed into abuse and past trauma.

bluejayreads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

This isn't a bad book. Not at all, actually. It's just very repetitive. 

I was really engaged through the first few chapters. Tara talks about her own personal spiritual journey and how she came to Buddhism, and the basic principles of radical acceptance. (The main idea is that emotions or desires you don't like don't mean you're a bad person, and instead of resisting them, sit with them and accept that you are feeling them. It sounds silly when I say it like that but she does a much better job of explaining it.) She also has examples of using radical acceptance herself and helping her therapy clients use it to deal with difficult things. 

But it never really goes beyond that. I felt like I got a pretty good understanding of it sometime around chapter four or five, and after that it started to feel repetitive. The issues that her clients were working through were different, but the principle was the same. Pause, breathe, accept that the feeling or desire is there, remember that having it doesn't make you a bad person, and whatever you decide to do from there do it mindfully. At some point I was like, "Okay, I get it and I'm definitely going to use this myself, but can we get on with it?" 

I'm not saying this book is bad. On the contrary, the first few chapters are excellent and I am definitely going to work on using this in my own life. But it started to get boring after a while with example after example that didn't teach me anything new. A good book, but I think it should be at least 30% shorter. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Miscarriage

There are no specific eating disorders in the book, but some of the content in chapter 6 will be very triggering to someone with an eating disorder.

johannarose's review

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual assault