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While many mental health books draw on secular mindfulness, Buddhist Practices for Healing Trauma offers something deeper:...
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While many mental health books draw on secular mindfulness, Buddhist Practices for Healing Trauma offers something deeper: a comprehensive healing path grounded in the full breadth of Buddhist wisdom. Drawing from ancient sutras, traditional metaphors, and modern psychology, Tim Desmond--a psychotherapist and longtime student of Thich Nhat Hanh--guides readers through a journey of strengthening, acceptance, and transformation.
Each short chapter offers a concrete practice, from visualizing your five-year-old self to embracing suffering as compost for growth. Interwoven with teachings on non-self, the Discourse on Happiness, and the transformational power of loving-awareness, this book goes beyond symptom relief to support deep spiritual and emotional healing. Gentle, profound, and accessible, this is not just a guide to feeling better--it's a path toward liberation. For readers seeking trauma recovery through Buddhist practice--not just Buddhist-flavored therapy--this book offers a rare and authentic resource.
Key takeaways include:
- You don't have to "fix" yourself to begin healing--your suffering already contains the seeds of transformation.
- True mindfulness is not just attention--it includes compassion, wisdom, and joy.
- Healing trauma is not a linear path; it's a process of strengthening, accepting, and transforming, repeated again and again.
- Buddhist psychology offers tools far deeper than secular mindfulness--tools for liberating the heart.
Whether you're a trauma survivor, therapist, or spiritual practitioner, readers will come away with practical tools, deeper understanding, and a renewed trust in their capacity to heal.
Author: Tim Desmond
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/16/2026
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.44w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781324082477
About the Author
Desmond, Tim: - Tim Desmond, LMFT, a Buddhist scholar, therapist, author, and mindfulness trainer in Santa Cruz, California, was ordained into the Order of Interbeing by Thich Nhat Hanh in 2005. He is the author of The Self-Compassion Skills Workbook, Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy, and How to Stay Human in a Fcked-Up World. He offers contemplative trainings and retreats internationally, and his groundbreaking work is endorsed by leading figures in the field like Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield, and David Treleaven.
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