📚 Already Free by Bruce Tift

Bruce Tift is a psychotherapist and a longtime practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism. In this book he looks at how psychotherapy's 'developmental' approach, which studies how childhood shapes the adult self, both challenges and supports Buddhism's 'fruitional' approach, which says the freedom we seek is always available.

Key Themes

• Psychotherapy and Buddhism in conversation
• How childhood shapes the adult self
• The idea that freedom is always available
• Working with anxiety and intimate relationships

Sissoo recommends this because it brings two very different ways of looking at the mind into one thoughtful conversation. It also stays practical, with chapters on everyday matters like anxiety and close relationships.

If these ideas speak to you, you might explore Speaking & Listening Therapies or Meditation with a Sissoo practitioner.

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