On my top five people who have inspired and influenced me on my journey to inner peace is Tara Brach, a psychotherapist/ meditation teacher and author, who focuses on recovering from trauma and emotional healing. She has wonderful weekly audios, available on her webpage, which are very soothing and illuminating as well as being very entertaining. https://www.tarabrach.com/talks-audio-video/

I came across Kristin Neff about a year ago. I consider her one of the Queens of Self compassion. I highly recommend her books, Self Compassion. If anyone of you, like me, struggle with a very active inner critic, then Kristin Neff's work on how to be kind to yourself is excellent. Here are a selection of her meditations http://self-compassion.org/category/exercises/#guided-meditations

Hello all, I have been taking a break a while from EFT Ireland Page. I hope to be more active in the coming weeks, sharing about EFT and other approaches which go towards helping us all live and happier and more fulfilling life.

Kristin Neff is an expert in Self compassion. She has several excellent books , which as well as giving a lot of background as to why we may lack self compassion, she gives lots of practical exercises to develop self compassion> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyl6YXp1Y6M

Tara Brach talking about the trance of unworthiness... "When people start looking more closely at the reasons that they’re having a difficult time feeling close to other people, they often realize that it’s because they are not liking themselves. Over the last few decades, I have found that the deepest expression of suffering that we have—especially in the West—is this sense that “I’m not okay. I’m deficient. I’m falling short in some way.” A woman once told me about being with her mother while she was dying. Her mother came out of a coma and said, “All my life I thought something was wrong with me,” and then she went back in the coma and died. For this woman, it was the greatest gift to hear that. So many of us spend huge amounts of our lives feeling this way—sometimes it’s a very explicit dramatic sense of being damaged goods, and other times it’s a subtler layering of judging ourselves. We’re not good enough. We’re falling short. We should be doing something better. Whatever level this is happening on, when we are turned against ourselves, we cannot embrace our world with an open heart. http://spiritualityhealth.com/articles/wake-unworthiness

Going back to the basics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFKVVP8KXd4

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Often at the root of our suffering is an inner child who is wounded and suffering, and longing to be loved, so it can grow and thrive. I am the light, light, light of my soul I am beautiful I am bountiful I am bliss I am. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E93dYbhqBwQ

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Harold Whitman