Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that helps you

care for yourself like you care so well for others. Today I'm chatting to Tara Brock.

I have a kind of mantra that I say to myself which is simply don't believe your thoughts.

They're real but they're not true. They're real. They're actually happening. There's

electrical activity in your brain and your body is having a reaction to them but they're

a representation of the reality that we're living in. They're not the truth and so just to

challenge it and then open ourselves to something larger is such a gift.

I'm excited. Tara is a psychotherapist and meditation teacher and she really cleverly combines

her Western psychological insights with Eastern spiritual practices. As you'd imagine from

someone who looks to Buddhism for guidance a lot of her work is about freeing ourselves

and wider society from suffering and in the last few years she's done some really groundbreaking

stuff in training psychotherapists to integrate mindfulness into their clinical work. I absolutely

adored this chat with Tara. I've been a fan for years. I've read her books. I've worshipped

every word. She is so warm and so calming to talk to and I know that she'll have that

same effect on you. I think you'll find her thoughts around compassion. How compassion

towards others will actually alleviate our own pain. Really beautiful.

This episode is brought to you by Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro. I've been at walking listening

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