Broken Open: How difficult times can help us grow - Softcover

"Never again will a painful experience wipe me out. This book shows how you can transform any difficult transition into a time of great strength and awakening." (Jane Fonda)

"Elizabeth Lesser bravely and beautifully explores one of the most compelling questions of life: how do we emerge from suffereing and challenge with real, encompassing wisdom and love" (Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness)

'This book shows how you can transform any difficult transition into a time of great strength and awakening' Jane Fonda

During our lives, we will all face challenges. Some of these challenges may come from the everyday roller-coaster rides of relationships, parenting and work. And others may take the threatening forms of illness, divorce, loss and death. In this wise and essential book, leading counsellor Elizabeth Lesser shows how the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

Co-founder of the prestigious Omega Institute, America's largest retreat and personal development centre, Elizabeth Lesser shares her own story and the stories of many others who have faced change and transformation, and risen from their experiences like a phoenix. Woven into these stories are quotations from great poets and philosophers, and, following them, is a toolbox of valuable techniques, including meditation, psychological enquiry and spiritual practice, to help you meet your own challenges to change and to grow, to break through and break open on your personal journey from darkness into light.

'Elizabeth Lesser bravely and beautifully explores one of the most compelling questions of life: how do we emerge from suffereing and challenge with real, encompassing wisdom and love' Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness