Living with Your Heart Wide Open: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Unworthiness, Inadequacy, and Shame
The practice of  mindfulness is also helpful in ridding oneself of feelings of  inadequacy, self-loathing, and a constant sense of isolation according  to the authors, both of whom have founded and directed mindfulness-based  stress-reduction programs across the country. Pulling from Western  psychology and Buddhist thought, Flowers and Stahl explore the concept  of self-authorship and help readers, through mindfulness practices, to  break free of defeating stories and experience insight and  self-compassion. Topics of interest include why pleasing others doesn’t  work in the long run and how self-improvement efforts can be a trap.  Clear and comprehensive, this book is a valuable addition to mindfulness  literature.