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Sounds True.com, guest is Susan Piver.

Susan Piver is a Buddhist teacher and the New York Times best-selling author of

seven books including The Hard Questions and the award-winning how not to be afraid of your own life.

She teaches workshops and speaks all over the world on meditation, spirituality, communication styles, relationships, and creativity.

In 2011, Susan launched the Open Heart Project, an online meditation community with nearly 12,000

members who practice together and explore ways to bring spiritual values such as kindness, genuineness, and fearlessness to everyday life.

Susan is a contributor to the Sounds True anthology,

Darkness Before Dawn,

redefining the journey through depression.

And she's also the author of a new book called Start Here Now,

an open-hearted guide to the path and practice of meditation, a book which presents

meditation as something more than the self-help technique de jure, meditation instead as a path to love, joy, and courage.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Susan and I spoke about her experience of the darkness of depression, having a

softening effect.

We talked about the connection between meditation and an open-hearted way of being and why it's so important to

her to teach meditation in a Buddhist context instead of in a secular context.

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