Showing Up For Each Other | Tami Simon & Tara Brach on the Intersection of Spirituality & Therapy

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

What is the role of spirituality in mental therapy? And what roles do therapy and mental health play in spiritual growth? What's the overlap, where are they distinct, and how can both work together to help us face the challenges of this world? In this special episode honoring World Mental Health Day in October, Tami Simon and Tara Brach sit down for a wonderfully open-hearted discussion at the intersection of spirituality and mental health.

As a clinical psychologist and renowned meditation teacher, Tara Brach brings forward what it takes to truly meet someone in pain, the spontaneous nature of loving awareness, and the power of imagining connection. And together, Tami and Tara delve into how we handle overwhelm, the importance of integrating spirituality into daily life, and working through grief with a psycho-spiritual approach. In essence, how we show up for each other. Whether that's spiritual, psychological, emotional, or an interweaving of all those aspects of support.

**This episode was originally featured on the Insights at the Edge podcast with host, Tami Simon.

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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.
0:51.3	This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp.
0:56.1	Hello, friends.
0:57.5	When I started out in clinical psychology more than 40 years ago, things were different than today.
1:04.1	Back then, therapy was often seen as something only for people with serious mental illness or in deep crisis, there was a kind of
1:13.1	stigma around seeking help. And many people would wait till they were at the breaking point.
1:20.1	Therapists for their part were trained to keep a strict clinical distance and focus more on
1:25.5	diagnosing than I'm really attuning to human beings in front of them.
1:31.0	I remember one woman I met was caring for her partner through a long illness,
1:35.7	and she wasn't falling apart, but she was carrying a natural weight, you know, exhaustion, resentment,
1:41.8	loneliness. What she needed most was someone to name that truth with her
1:48.0	and simply hold a space without judgment, a kind space. Our time together stayed with me. Over the years,
1:56.0	I saw therapy evolved into something more relational, more compassionate, more deeply human. And today, many
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