Which Way Is Up?: Finding Heart In The Hardest Of Times,Used

A heartfelt guide for meeting difficult times with mindfulness, compassion, and couragefrom a psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner who learned from her own crisis.Features explorations of the three types of fear and practices to transform into opportunities for personal growth.This threepart guide feels like a friend stepping up to offer support during difficult times. It warmly invites readers into a safe space to contemplate their personal fears and encourages them to reimagine their personal crisis as a journey that they can emerge from by learning how to work withrather than againstfear.Using personal examples from her own recent bardo crisisundergoing cancer treatment during the pandemicand offering contemplative prompts for innerreflection and a meditation practice in each chapter, psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner Susan Chapman demystifies the three main types of fear people experience (frozen, awake, and core), and how to meet each with love. This heartfelt guide from someone whos been there and done the work will help us get through lifes challenges and restore our equilibrium, while also inviting a valuable opportunity for personal growth.Which Way Is Up? draws from traditional Buddhist teachings on the bardo, a Tibetan word most often associated with the period between death and rebirth. Chapman likens the bardo to abrupt episodes in our lives when things seem to turn upside down and we cant find our footing. In such times of notknowingwhether its navigating the end of a relationship, a health scare, the loss of a career, or other unexpected challengesour fearful mind tends to panic trying to make sense out of our experience. Instead, Chapman meets the reader in their groundlessness to show how these turning points can force us to let go of our assumptions about the future and allow something new to be reborn.