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Nourishing Intimacy: Cultivating Trust, Understanding, and Love in All Our Relationships
A Mindful Approach to the Unique Challenges of Intimate Relationships
Why is it often so hard to truly connect with others, even those we care most about? "Our capacity to engage fully in relationship starts with becoming more awake and aware within ourselves," says Tara Brach. With Nourishing Intimacy, this renowned teacher offers a treasury of tools and insights for cultivating self-compassion, overcoming inner obstacles, and fostering authentic communication. Recorded at a live two-day event, this training brings you Tara’s special blend of storytelling, tender guidance, and potent meditations for applying mindfulness and loving-kindness to our relationships, including:
• Dissolving the illusion of separation that keeps us isolated
• Awakening from the belief that we are unworthy of love
• How to address the true needs underneath our surface conflicts
• Practicing forgiveness, healing from past relationship trauma, breaking stuck patterns in conflict, and much more.
"When we are grounded in compassionate awareness," teaches Tara, "we can stay heart to heart with another, even when we don’t see eye to eye." Here she offers a gentle and practical guide for building healthy, openhearted relationships with Nourishing Intimacy.
Why is it often so hard to truly connect with others, even those we care most about? "Our capacity to engage fully in relationship starts with becoming more awake and aware within ourselves," says Tara Brach. With Nourishing Intimacy, this renowned teacher offers a treasury of tools and insights for cultivating self-compassion, overcoming inner obstacles, and fostering authentic communication. Recorded at a live two-day event, this training brings you Tara’s special blend of storytelling, tender guidance, and potent meditations for applying mindfulness and loving-kindness to our relationships, including:
• Dissolving the illusion of separation that keeps us isolated
• Awakening from the belief that we are unworthy of love
• How to address the true needs underneath our surface conflicts
• Practicing forgiveness, healing from past relationship trauma, breaking stuck patterns in conflict, and much more.
"When we are grounded in compassionate awareness," teaches Tara, "we can stay heart to heart with another, even when we don’t see eye to eye." Here she offers a gentle and practical guide for building healthy, openhearted relationships with Nourishing Intimacy.
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Published April 1, 2017
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About the author
Tara Brach
43 books2,061 followersTara Brach is a leading western teacher of Buddhist meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening. She has practiced and taught meditation for over 40 years, with an emphasis on vipassana (mindfulness or insight) meditation. Tara is the senior teacher and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. A clinical psychologist, Tara is the author of Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, True Refuge: Finding Peace & Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart and Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of R.A.I.N. (Viking, Dec. 31, 2019).
Tara is nationally known for her skill in weaving western psychological wisdom with a range of meditative practices. Her approach emphasizes compassion for oneself and others, mindful presence and the direct realization and embodiment of natural awareness.
Tara is nationally known for her skill in weaving western psychological wisdom with a range of meditative practices. Her approach emphasizes compassion for oneself and others, mindful presence and the direct realization and embodiment of natural awareness.
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April 14, 2021
Tara audio book, is like her podcasts. Guided meditations, personal life experiences, and teachings from others whom have influenced Tara is all put together in one spot. Nourishing Intimacy.
At first, I didn’t like the word in the title, “intimacy”, a scary word at the time for me and was having a hard time seeing what that looked like for myself in a pandemic, with COVID.
What I have perceived, is that we are invited to create the intimate connection within ourselves and know what that looks like, feels like and sounds like for you. Cultivating a deeper connection within yourself to deepen your connection with others.
Nourishing Intimacy, helped me focus a bit and I’ll keep coming back to it for the little pockets of shine. While listening, my mind felt present, my body felt less tense, and genuinely much more calm.
I would recommend this if you are having a hard time finding confidence or trust in yourself, if you’re not knowing what it is that you need.
At first, I didn’t like the word in the title, “intimacy”, a scary word at the time for me and was having a hard time seeing what that looked like for myself in a pandemic, with COVID.
What I have perceived, is that we are invited to create the intimate connection within ourselves and know what that looks like, feels like and sounds like for you. Cultivating a deeper connection within yourself to deepen your connection with others.
Nourishing Intimacy, helped me focus a bit and I’ll keep coming back to it for the little pockets of shine. While listening, my mind felt present, my body felt less tense, and genuinely much more calm.
I would recommend this if you are having a hard time finding confidence or trust in yourself, if you’re not knowing what it is that you need.
November 11, 2020
It is kind of hard to rate something like this.
Your mileage may vary, you know? It is a recording of a few session on the theme, in which she guides you through meditations, tells some stories, and gives some examples from her own life.
3 stars
Your mileage may vary, you know? It is a recording of a few session on the theme, in which she guides you through meditations, tells some stories, and gives some examples from her own life.
3 stars
January 27, 2023
Soooo good. Best book I’ve read (actually listened to this and Tara’s voice is perfect) in a long time. I know I’ll come back and listen/read many more times. Going to buy a copy to hold in my hands.
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