How to Befriend Your Most Challenging Emotions and Experiences

In challenging times, why do so many of us turn to Pema Chodron for guidance? Many say that its her honest and caring way of communicating the core teachings of Buddhism not just conceptually, but directly from her heart to ours. In these inspiring sessions, she teaches us how to give that compassion to the person we neglect most often ourselves. With her, you will explore:

- What to do when it feels impossible to be kind to ourselves
- In challenging relationships and situations, how to let go of our story and see whats really happening
- Cultivating inner comfort and greater kindness toward our bodies
- Leaning into frustration, sadness, and fear with a spirit of trust and intimacy
- Many other insights and recommendations to befriend the difficult places within us


Through gentle and clear guidance, Coming Closer to Ourselves shows us how, even in the tumult of life's uncertainties, we can begin with a glimmer of curiosity, move closer into our experiences, and discover a place of welcome and refuge within.


Coming Closer to Ourselves, Pema Chodron, Sounds True, 5 hours/ 5 CDs, $34.95

Ani Pema Chdrn was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936, in New York City. She attended Miss Porter's School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children and three grandchildren.

While in her mid-thirties, Ani Pema traveled to the French Alps and encountered Lama Chime Rinpoche, with whom she studied for several years. She became a novice nun in 1974 while studying with Lama Chime in London. His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa came to Scotland at that time, and Ani Pema received her ordination from him.