By Robert Enright — 2015
Forgiveness can be incredibly difficult. Robert Enright explains where to start.
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The desire to love and be loved and feel valued is universal. Seems easy enough, but for most people it is a constant, and often silent, struggle. Toxic emotions such as fear, resentment, guilt, and shame drain your energy, deflate the spirit, and make you feel stuck.
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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Self-defeating behavior is the single most common reason that people seek psychotherapy. It is a poison, preventing us from achieving the love, success and happiness we want in our lives.
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After more than thirty years, Love Is Letting of Fear continues to be among the most widely read and best-loved classics on personal transformation.
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Joan Halifax has enriched thousands of lives around the world through her work as a humanitarian, a social activist, an anthropologist, and a Buddhist teacher.
For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much—just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.