Living with a Courageous Heart: Tami Simon in Conversation with Tara Brach
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
4.8 • 11.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In a recent conversation on Tami Simon's podcast Insights at the Edge, Tara and Tami reflected on themes from The Courageous Heart Workbook: Choosing to Love in Perilous Times. As many know, Tami is an exceptional interviewer, and the dialogue opened into questions that feel deeply relevant for these times.
What does it mean to be bodhisattvas—to be awakening beings and caring beings—in a world marked by uncertainty and division? What is being asked of us now?
The conversation touched on the deeper meaning of courage, the relationship between spiritual practice and engagement with the world, and the ways spirituality can sometimes become a means of avoiding what most needs our attention and care. It also explored how we can actively choose love, recognize our shared basic goodness, and shift from the busyness of the mind into a more awake and connected heart.
It was a rich and heartfelt exploration, offering reflections and practices to support a more open, courageous, and engaged way of being in our world.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, friends, to the Tara Brock podcast. I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:11.3 | Each week, I share teachings and guided meditations to help us awaken our hearts and bring healing |
| 0:17.8 | to our world. |
| 0:24.4 | You can learn more or support this offering by visiting tarabrock.com, |
| 0:27.1 | where you can also join our email list. |
| 0:32.5 | Now, let's explore together |
| 0:34.7 | the many ways we can live |
| 0:36.7 | from the love and presence that's our deepest |
| 0:40.1 | essence. |
| 0:47.6 | Namaste, welcome, friends. Today I'm sharing a conversation I had recently with Tammy Simon. It was for her |
| 1:18.4 | podcast insights at the edge. Many of you know Tammy. She's the inspirational founder of Sounds True, |
| 1:26.8 | and she's an interviewer par excellence. |
| 1:31.0 | We had a conversation that focused on my new upcoming workbook, the Courageous Love |
| 1:36.3 | Workbook, Choosing to Love in Perilous Times. |
| 1:40.9 | So this book came out yesterday. |
| 1:43.1 | If you haven't ordered it, I hope you can do so and help spread the word. |
| 1:48.0 | During our time we talked about what it means to be a bodhisattva, an awakening being, a caring being in these current times. |
| 1:58.0 | You know, what is really being asked of us. And some of the themes include |
| 2:02.9 | what it really means to be courageous and the relationship of engagement with the world |
| 2:09.6 | and our spiritual path and how spirituality can be used to avoid engagement. We also looked at how do we actively choose to love? |
| 2:20.8 | How do we learn to see basic goodness? And we did an experiential reflection of shifting from head to heart space. |
| 2:30.7 | It was rich. I hope you find that this serves you on your path. Thank you. |
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