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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Sherry Huber. Sherry Huber is the founder of Mountain

View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery Practice Center, both in California and the author

of 19 books including When You're Falling, Dive,

and a new book, What You Practice is What You Have,

a guide to having the life you want.

She is the founder and director of living compassion,

a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service.

Which sounds true, Sherry has released the audio series

Unconditional self-acceptance, a do-it-yourself course. In this episode of

Insights at the Edge, Sherry and I spoke about how your life is what you give your attention to.

We also spoke about how to work constructively and compassionately with what Cherry calls negative voices in the head,

how depression is linked to self-hatred, and also what might a compassionate approach to self-discipline actually be like?

Here's my conversation with Sherry you've written close to 20 books and I'm curious if you were able to describe the key themes that are like through lines that run through your books, what they would be?

What do you think are the central themes?

Well, the books are all designed to support people in the process of waking up and ending suffering.

And they're really kind of a road map of where I've gone with this.

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