![]() ![]() Her new book, Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World, invites us to embrace suffering and strengthen our resilience-to build wholehearted lives out of our broken, tender hearts. I decided to read her book, and I found it both moving and immensely helpful. She’d been through the same dysfunction that so many of us struggle with and found her own fulfilling path to enlightenment. ![]() ![]() Perhaps what she had to teach wasn’t out of reach after all. She talked about how unmanageable her life had become. I walked by it hundreds of times but never gave it a thought.īut then her interview changed my perspective-she spoke about her multiple divorces and her struggles with anger and negativity. My therapist thought it would be helpful and had loaned me her copy, which sat untouched on my shelf for months. Truth is, I had one of her books, When Things Fall Apart. What she offered seemed too far out of reach for me. While she embodied enlightenment, I was wrapped in dysfunction. Buddhism represented the ultimate in spirituality, something I struggled mightily to find in myself. Until then, I was only vaguely familiar with her. These were the words of Pema Chödrön that hooked me, after accidentally discovering an interview she gave about why she became a Buddhist nun. ![]() “I became a Buddhist because I hated my husband.” ![]()
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