Turning Back to Ourselves - by Dalya Tamir (Paperback)

About the Book

Turning Back to Ourselves addresses the pain of self-abandonment that women too often find themselves experiencing and offers a path for women to turn back and embrace themselves with kindness and love.

Book Synopsis

Turning Back to Ourselves explores the pain of self-abandonment, the mind states of self-judgment, self-doubt, and even self-hatred that women too often find themselves experiencing. Drawing on Buddhist practices of mindfulness, compassion, and lovingkindness, and on her experience as a psychotherapist, Dalya Tamir offers a path for women to turn back and embrace themselves with kindness and love. Through teachings, stories, and reflections, the reader is guided to reconnect with her own innate wisdom, creativity, and aliveness, opening her heart to herself and in growing circles to all living beings.

Review Quotes

"Dalya Tamir has written a beautiful, moving, and deeply wise book, taking on a subject of critical importance to women-that of returning to ourselves. She takes on complex spiritual and emotional issues with clarity and warmth, bringing to bear her deep knowledge of both Eastern and Western traditions. Turning Back to Ourselves offers resonant insights as well as practical ways to reorient ourselves away from the pain and isolation of self-abandonment, and back towards the kind of harmonious equanimity that comes from connecting anew in deep ways with ourselves, and with others."

Shira Nayman, Psy.D., author of Awake in the Dark, The Listener, A Mind of Winter, and River.

"Turning Back to Ourselves is a wonderful guide for helping women develop their capacity to feel love and compassion for themselves. Providing a fine balance between spiritual wisdom, personal anecdotes, experiences with clients and practical exercises, the author does more than simply impart information - she writes in a way that makes you feel accompanied through it all. Written with humility and a reverence for the sacred, I highly recommend Turning back to Ourselves for spiritually minded women seeking reconciliation with themselves."

Jerry Lamagna Senior Faculty Member at the AEDP Institute

"Turning Back to Ourselves offers an accessible integration of mindfulness practice and various therapeutic modalities. It incorporates personal stories of the author and various other women in clear and profound narratives of healing. It includes clear and concise explanations of mindfulness as well as very clear and valuable suggestions for practice and contemplation. This will be a valuable resource for many women as well as for teachers of mindfulness, practicing therapists, and spiritual directors."

Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg, author of God Loves the Stranger.

"In Turning Back to Ourselves, author Dalya Tamir insightfully, brilliantly lights a path for women that invites them to step out of the darkness of self-doubt and negativity into a new world, one in which they remember who they are, the power they have, and know their worth is not determined by the thoughts of others but by the fact that they are here in this world--they are a "light unto themselves. They are women."

Peaches Gillette, poet, preacher, and pastoral counselor, author of The Breadth of a Tree.