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Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom--At Last
Find freedom from life’s painful recurring patterns in 12 simple steps, with guided practices of self-compassion, mindfulness, and embodiment.
Do you ever feel trapped by experiencing challenging feelings over and over again--sometimes without realizing it? Or do you find yourself thinking "Why is this happening to me again?" or "Why do I always feel this way?" You're not alone. With Heart Medicine, you can learn to identify your emotional and behavioral patterns through the lens of loving awareness--without self-judgment or blame, learning to hold yourself as you would a dear friend, with space and grace.
Radhule Weininger draws on decades of experience as a therapist and meditation teacher to help readers understand the trauma behind their patterns, then offers twelve simple steps to work towards healing. Each chapter includes features short practices so readers can begin to put the book's concepts to work for transformation in their own lives. With Heart Medicine you can finally be equipped with the tools to break through the patterns that hold you back and begin to live with more freedom, confidence, and peace. And that's good medicine, indeed.
Available on Amazon in Paperback and Kindle
Heartwork, The Path of Self-Compassion
9 Simple Practices for Joyful, Wholehearted Life
Compassion is the deep desire to understand, to feel with and to alleviate the suffering of another being. If you are hurting, then the practice of self-compassion can be the greatest of blessings- because the compassion you learn to give to yourself will naturally extend to all the other people in your life. With nine simple practices, Radhule provides a step-by-step course in self-compassion. Using stories drawn from her own life and those she encounters, she shows that, with the right intention and practice, we can all deepen our capacity to respond skillfully to our own suffering and that of others.
Available on Amazon in Paperback and Kindle
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“Heartwork is filled with wonderful success stories and practices so that the reader can apply the techniques to their specific issues. Radhule also provides various meditation and mindfulness practices that cultivate heightened awareness, tranquility and inner happiness. So if you want to learn how to respond differently with self-compassion and compassion for others, then you are going to want to listen to my interview author Radhule Weininger MD, Ph.D. I hope you enjoy my interview with Radhule about her new book Heartwork, The Path to Self-Compassion.”
What People Say About Heartwork
David Richo
Author of “You Are Not What You Think: The Egoless Path of Self-Esteem and Generous Love” (Shambhala, 2015)
“Radhule has given us a user-friendly and at the same time profound set of practices to increase our compassion not only for others but for ourselves. We also learn to appreciate the healthy psychological foundations of spirituality.”
Thomas Moore
“Heartwork is a beautifully written, reader-friendly guide to practical mindfulness. It is especially good at making compassion a livable rule of life in a challenging world. The many stories, including Radhule’s, stay with me. She is a good storyteller and obviously practices the compassion she teaches, especially compassion for oneself.”
Victor Chan
Co-Author of “Forgiveness & Wisdom of Compassion” with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
“In her practice as a psychotherapist and mindfulness meditation teacher, Radhule Weininger guides her patients along the path of personal transformation through the practice of compassion and self-compassion. From the experience of that work comes Heartwork, a book that weaves together Weininger’s work and personal journey, wisdom teachings and hands-on exercises. Conveyed through prose that is accessible to readers from a range of spiritual traditions and backgrounds, Weininger presents her insights on the methods she has found useful for identifying the roots of the issues we are all grappling with, as a first step towards addressing them through practice and perseverance. Shining through every chapter is the author’s desire to help reduce the suffering that is the common thread connecting humanity.”
Joanna Macy
Author of “Coming Back to Life”
“In its clear, inviting, and practical way, this book can change your life. Drawing on her years of combining mindfulness with the expansive power of compassion, Radhule Weininger brings us practices that serve to free us from fear, despair, self-hate and other oppressive mind-states. Her three-part book begins with the rare, poignant journey that led her to these discoveries, and then, after their various forms are carefully set forth, concludes with nine real-life stories of how different people have put them to use. Heartwork helps me to be more present to each moment, more mindful of each encounter. I am especially grateful for the importance given to intention and motive in shaping what we accomplish and whom we become.”
Tara Brach
Author of “Radical Acceptance & True Refuge”
“There is no healing without heartwork, intimately tending to the wounds we’ve been avoiding for so long. In this powerful and beautiful book, Radhule Weininger will help you find the courage, pathways and clarity needed to embrace this life with love.”
Diana Winston
Director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center
“This book is brimming with compassion! It’s filled with countless practical exercises, heartfelt stories, and wise guidance for living with an open heart. Radhule beautifully guides us on a journey home to ourselves.”
Mary Watkins
Co-Author of “Toward Psychologies of Liberation”
“While many give lip service to the value of compassion toward self and others, few have so generously offered the sustained loving attention Radhule Weininger has to studying its cultivation. Through compelling stories and easy-to-follow exercises, Weininger, a gifted therapist and a practiced Buddhist, shares how we can nourish compassion in our daily lives. Take time with this wise book and engage its guided meditations and queries to help ground your life in the wellsprings of compassion.”
Shauna Shapiro
Professor at Santa Clara University and Author of “The Art & Science of Mindfulness”
“Radhule Weininger offers a tremendous gift in her book, Heartwork, which weaves together the beauty of art, the wisdom of reflection, and the effectiveness of years of practical clincial appliciaton. The wealth of ideas and practices presented in this illuminating work will be of benefit and will help transform our individual and collective lives.”
Elevated Existence Magazine
The technique called self-compassion can be the greatest of blessings because the compassion you learn to apply to yourself naturally extends to all the other people in your life. With nine simple mindfulness practices Radhule Weininger provides a step-by-step course in self-compassion to live from that place of intelligent kindness in the face of life’s difficulties. Using stories drawn from her own life and those of others she shows that, with the right intention and practice, we can all deepen our capacity to respond skillfully to our own suffering and thus to that of others and our world.
Spirituality & Practice Magazine
Weininger is firmly convinced that the human heart can grow in compassion for self and others; it can nurture openness and empathy in us as well. The author has created a series of mindfulness meditations to cope with a variety of situations including self-criticism, old family wounds, feeling betrayed, money problems, and rage or sadness.