When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times -- Pema Chodron

<b>Pema Ch dr n's perennially best-selling classic on overcoming life's difficulties cuts to the heart of spirituality and personal growth--now in a newly designed 20th-anniversary edition with a new afterword by Pema--makes for a perfect gift and addition to one's spiritual library. </b> <p/> How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart--when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Ch dr n suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving <i>toward </i>painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Pema Chodron<br><b>Publisher:</b> Shambhala<br><b>Published:</b> 06/07/2016<br><b>Pages:</b> 176<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.50lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.20h x 5.20w x 0.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781611803433<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Pema Chödrön is an American Buddhist nun in the lineage of Chögyam Trungpa and resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery in North America. She is the author of numerous best-selling books, including <i>The Places That Scare You </i>and <i>Living Beautifully</i>.</p>