This book, Remembering, is created and designed to bring health, wholeness, and awakening through the 12 steps. Anna combines the original steps with a Presence based Yogic perspective, inspired by life events, self-study, practice and professional encounters as a therapist.

Spiritual bypassing—the use of spiritual beliefs to avoid dealing with painful feelings, unresolved wounds, and developmental needs—is so pervasive that it goes largely unnoticed. The spiritual ideals of any tradition, whether Christian commandments or Buddhist precepts, can provide easy justification for practitioners to duck uncomfortable feelings in favor of more seemingly enlightened activity. When split off from fundamental psychological needs, such actions often do much more harm tha...

The way we talk to ourselves is often unkind and filled with self-judgments. These overly harsh self-criticisms can make us feel unworthy and incomplete. What if what you really need is not higher standards for yourself, but greater self-compassion? In Living with Your Heart Wide Open, you’ll discover how mindfulness and self-compassion can free you from the thoughts and beliefs that create feelings of inadequacy and learn to open your heart to the loving-kindness within y...

The Path to Inner Peace Starts Here"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." - BuddhaDownload and be on your way to an inner world of peace and harmony!This book will help you to live in peace, love, and harmony with yourself and the world around you in general. This is more than just a book. It is a practical guide toward self-awareness and spiritual growth.You will be guided how to embody the prin...

My deep inquiry in life has led me to develop practical pathways of living in the fullness and flow of life as a daily spiritual practice—what I call Living CompassionReflections on Living Compassion is a book to savor and be with. It is a source of inspiration and contemplation on the dynamics of deep innerconnection and fulfillment. Created over years of sharing and teaching workshops, individual sessions, and retreats the words in this small bookconvey an unsuspecte...

Insight Dialogue is a way of bringing the tranquility and insight attained in meditation directly into your interactions with other people. It’s a practice that involves interacting with a partner in a retreat setting or on your own, as a way of accessing a profound kind of insight. Then, you take that insight on into the grind of everyday human interactions. Gregory Kramer has been teaching the practice (which he originated) for more than a decade in retreats around the world. It...

When was the last time you experienced authentic connections with others, truly felt that you belonged, and were surrounded by people who really understood you? Even though many of us experience the power of deep connection much less often than we would like, this sense of true belonging is always available to us, regardless of our outside circumstances. You can reduce feelings of alienation, isolation, and loneliness by simply choosing to foster feelings of unity and connectednes...

Uncharted Corners of Consciousness: A Guidebook for Personal and Spiritual GrowthA unique and provocative handbook for those who are ready to begin or continue on their spiritual journey. This is a practical, pragmatic and peaceful book for seekers who want to move from reading to doing. Combining exercises and direction for integrating the spiritual into our daily experiences, this book will become a valuable guide for individuals and therapists alike. Gerbrig Berman and ...

"If you're ready to transform trauma, heal deep-rooted wounds, and step into your most expansive life, Unmask Your Soul is the guide you've been waiting for."-Pieter Elsen, author of When Souls AwakenA pioneering and luminous guide to emotional and spiritual healing, Unmask Your Soul addresses our core wounds of shame, abandonment, disempowerment, and survival**, so that we can live an authentic and meani...

"Let your illness be your spiritual teacher!" Make a statement like that to someone who's struggled for years with, say, rheumatoid arthritis, and be prepared for an eye roll (at best). To Peter Fernando's credit, he makes that statement, and no such impulse arises. We believe him because he's been there himself and because he backs up the statements with his own real experiences and with real wisdom from the Buddhist teachings. Fernando starts by defusing the pernicious belief that anyone...

THE SELF-INQUIRY PROCESS: Using Powerful Questions to Awaken Awareness is not a theoretical, information-oriented book; instead, it is experiential in nature. The reader will embark on a process of introspection to increase self-awareness, and bring unconscious material into consciousness. Many people claim to have the answers - this book asks the questions. It introduces a unique framework with which to understand yourself, and goes on to ask direct questions: some quite challeng...

"Finding the Center Within is a practical manual on the practice of mindfulness, which can help many people to embody their Buddha nature and become radiant and peaceful beings. It provides easy steps for practicing mindfulness in day-to-day living."-Thich Nhat Hanh, author of Peace Is Every Step, The Miracle of Mindfulness, and Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the FlamesAll of us want to live a calmer, more peaceful existence. Thomas and Beverly Bien teach that if we find the cent...