Present with Suffering

Being with the Things that Hurt

Present with Suffering
Nigel Wellings, Elizabeth Wilde McCormick
Paperback
h185 x 129mm - 208pg
25 Nov 2021 UK
9781913494445
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What is the place of discontent and unhappiness in human experience and how best can we be with it? There is something about everything that makes it not quite satisfactory. Even things we really love are spoilt by not being quite enough or by going on too long. People entering psychotherapy want to feel better - more authoritative, less anxious or depressed, more whole - and although it can help, an enormous amount of difficult and painful emotions continue to arise. Even after years and years of therapy many of us feel that there is no ' happy ever after' . Bearing this reality in mind and drawing upon both psychotherapeutic and Buddhist sources, Present with Suffering, explores bereavement and our pervasive experience of emptiness. It shows how through being mindfully present, kind and accepting, we may enfold what hurts us in a more spacious and meaningful way.
Nigel Wellings is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and author who works within a broadly contemplative perspective. He has been engaged with the relationship between psychotherapy and Buddhism for the last forty years. He lives in Devon and is a teacher on the Bath and Bristol Mindfulness Courses and the Sharpham Barn Retreats. His previous books include Nothing To Lose: Psychotherapy, Buddhism and Living Life (with Elizabeth Wilde McCormick), Why Can' t I Meditate? How To Get Your Mindfulness Practice On Track, and more recently a Buddhist handbook, Dzogchen, Who' s Who & What' s What in the Great Perfection. Elizabeth Wilde McCormick has worked as a psychotherapist for over forty years in both private and national health settings. She is also a teacher, trainer and writer. Her professional background is in social psychiatry, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, sensorimotor psychotherapy and cognitive analytic therapy. She has had an interest for many years in the interface between psychotherapy and mindfulness. She was, with Nigel Wellings, a director of training at The Centre for Transpersonal Psychology. She is a founder member of the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy and currently a trustee.
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ISBN-13: 9781913494445
Published: 25 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Confer Books
Publisher: Confer
Format: Paperback
Height: 185mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 208

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