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The Road Back to Self: Meditations on Self-Acceptance, Healing, and Compassion
A thoughtful and uplifting guide on how to find inner peace and self-acceptance through everyday moments of kindness toward yourself.
When life’s hardships weigh us down, it’s easy to feel stuck, lost, or disconnected from ourselves. With the demands of modern life, we are forced to go against our natural rhythm, leaving little to no time or space to feel our pain, let alone recover. But the brave act of choosing to care for ourselves can make all the difference in finding our way back to self.
Shiatsu expert Hagai Kirshblom is no stranger to pain. After years of battling clinical depression and anxiety, it was the birth of his first child that revealed how small, compassionate acts can open the path to healing, self-acceptance and reconnecting with one’s authentic self.
The Road Back to Self offers reflections and meditations on slowing down, looking inwards and cultivating a compassionate mindset as a daily practice. Through a kinder lens, we can view change as positive and learn that pain not only shouldn’t be avoided, rather it’s a vital part of life.
With the gift of compassion, you will discover how self-acceptance when feeling stuck.Break free from cycles of self-blame and anger.Accept life’s pains and move on.Care for yourself on your healing journey.
With gentle guidance, The Road Back to Self shares profound insights on how pain can be transformed into self-love and how accepting the good and the bad – in ourselves, our past, in others, and in the world – can lead us back to who we really are.
When life’s hardships weigh us down, it’s easy to feel stuck, lost, or disconnected from ourselves. With the demands of modern life, we are forced to go against our natural rhythm, leaving little to no time or space to feel our pain, let alone recover. But the brave act of choosing to care for ourselves can make all the difference in finding our way back to self.
Shiatsu expert Hagai Kirshblom is no stranger to pain. After years of battling clinical depression and anxiety, it was the birth of his first child that revealed how small, compassionate acts can open the path to healing, self-acceptance and reconnecting with one’s authentic self.
The Road Back to Self offers reflections and meditations on slowing down, looking inwards and cultivating a compassionate mindset as a daily practice. Through a kinder lens, we can view change as positive and learn that pain not only shouldn’t be avoided, rather it’s a vital part of life.
With the gift of compassion, you will discover how self-acceptance when feeling stuck.Break free from cycles of self-blame and anger.Accept life’s pains and move on.Care for yourself on your healing journey.
With gentle guidance, The Road Back to Self shares profound insights on how pain can be transformed into self-love and how accepting the good and the bad – in ourselves, our past, in others, and in the world – can lead us back to who we really are.
70 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 18, 2026
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April 27, 2026
The author appears to be well meaning with some authentic content and personal connection, but all of the thoughts appear undeveloped. The writing feels like a book of notes that don’t really make sense to anyone but the author. I had to re-read to try to find the meaning and the more I read the more confused I was. The structure is unorganized, with 4 headers being labeled: “Habits and Change 1”, “Habits and Change 2”, exc that did not appear to relate to each other. The work is subjective opinions that I am not sure is supposed to be like poetry or just ramblings of the authors thoughts? 70 pages felt very long for me, not for me.
March 18, 2026
This book was insightful
I started reading this book at the beginning of the year and just now finished it because we were moving. Now I know I read this at the right time and the amount of wow moments that just fit.
I started reading this book at the beginning of the year and just now finished it because we were moving. Now I know I read this at the right time and the amount of wow moments that just fit.
March 10, 2026
Not a coherent read. enjoy if you choose to.
I would not read another book like this. I’m sorry but I would rather not. Structure is necessary, and this book lacks that completely.
I would not read another book like this. I’m sorry but I would rather not. Structure is necessary, and this book lacks that completely.
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