Ep. 149 – Tim Desmond
Metta Hour with Sharon Salzberg
Be Here Now Network
4.6 • 682 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In episode 149 of the Metta Hour, Sharon speaks with Tim Desmond.
Tim is a psychotherapist, author, Distinguished Faculty Scholar at Antioch University New England, and student of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. He is the founder of Peer Collective and co-founder of Morning Sun Mindfulness Center in Alstead, NH. He was also a co-organizer of Occupy Wall Street. Tim's publications include Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy, The Self-Compassion Skills Workbook, and the 2019 release, How to Stay Human in a Fucked Up World.
In this conversation, Tim shares his history and what led him to become an activist and student of meditation, and eventually professional psychology. He shares about the impetus for the Morning Sun Mindfulness Center as well as the Peer Collective. They discuss the role of faith and love in psychotherapy and what the x-factor is in therapeutic healing. Tim reflects on the power of self-compassion and how to cultivate it and its transformational effects. They also discuss the role of suffering in happiness and how to work with suffering in a forward-leading way. Tim shares about his most recent book, How to Stay Human in a Fucked Up World, and the circumstances around the writing of that book. The episode closes with Tim leading a five-minute guided meditation.
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| 1:47.8 | backslash Sharon. |
| 1:50.8 | Hi, I'm Sharon Salzberg. |
| 1:53.5 | I'm speaking today with Tim Desmond. |
| 1:56.4 | Tim is a distinguished faculty scholar at Antioch University, |
| 2:03.7 | teaching professional psychology rooted in self-compassion. After a troubled youth, Desmond was exposed to Ticknauthan's teachings and eventually |
| 2:10.3 | studied at Plum Village. He is the founder of Peer Collective and co-founder of Morning Sun Mindfulness Center in Austin, New Hampshire. |
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