📚 When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

Pema Chödrön's best-known book, first published in 1997, gathers short essays on staying steady when life feels hard. Drawing on traditional Buddhist teaching, she invites readers to stop running from suffering and to meet it with compassion, curiosity and courage.

Key Themes

• Moving towards painful situations instead of away
• Using painful emotions to grow wisdom, compassion and courage
• Reversing habitual patterns
• Communicating so others open up rather than shut down

Sissoo recommends this because it offers a gentle, honest way to think about difficult times. Its focus on compassion and curiosity sits well alongside many wellbeing practices.

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

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