Suffering Is Optional: A Spiritual Guide to Freedom from Self-Judgment and Feelings of Inadequacy

by Gail Brenner

We've all felt inadequate, believing that we're alone and broken or otherwise unworthy. But this doesn't have to be a life sentence. Presenting four guiding principles and five core practices based in deep spiritual wisdom, clinical psychologist Gail Brenner shows readers who struggle with self-defeating thoughts and feelings of inadequacy how to liberate themselves from the prison of false self-beliefs holding them back.

288 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2021

About the author

Gail Brenner, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and speaker who joyfully helps people discover that suffering is optional. She is the author of the award-winning, The End of Self-Help: Discovering Peace and Happiness Right at the Heart of Your Messy, Scary, Brilliant Life.

Through investigating her own experience and working with clients for over 25 years, she has discovered how to unravel common problems of everyday life to reveal the deepest acceptance and peace.

Gail has authored many professional articles on coping with stress and chronic medical illness. She has special expertise working with older adults and their families, bringing clear seeing and compassion to the transitions of aging, death, and dying.

Her offerings point to realizing that the happiness you seek is already here. It's absolutely possible, in your own experience, to fully live this ordinary, extraordinary, precious experience of life.