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A heartfelt guide for meeting difficult times with mindfulness, compassion, and courage - from a psychotherapist and Buddhist practitioner who learned from her own crisis.. Features explorations of the three types of fear and practices to transform into opportunities for personal growth.. This heartfelt guide transforms challenging times into surmountable journeys that we can emerge from by learning how to work with - rather than against - fear. Drawing from traditional Buddhist teachings on the bardo, a Tibetan word most often associated with the period between death and rebirth, Buddhist practitioner Susan Gillis Chapman offers guidance for those times when life seems to turn upside down. Amidst such difficulties - whether it's navigating the end of a relationship, a health scare, or other unexpected challenges - the fearful mind tends to panic.
About the Author
Susan Gillis Chapman grew up in Vancouver and attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a classical education blended with contemplative principles. Her father was a gentle physician and philosopher who practiced the art of medicine as a listening skill and had an encouraging influence on his five children. Susan received a BA from the University of British Columbia and an MA in Buddhist and Western Psychology from Naropa Institute ( University) in Boulder Colorado. Her career as a marital and family therapist included ten years working in the field of domestic violence. In 1989 she became clinical director of Tongass Community Counseling Center in Juneau Alaska. She married her husband, Jerry, in 1988, after having been a single mother for 12 years. "Jerry bonded with my son Sheehan before he and I even met". They've been happily married ever since. In 1997 Susan and Jerry began a three year group retreat at Gampo Abbey, mentored by Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron. Following this, Susan was appointed to lead this program for the next six years. In 2008 they returned to the Vancouver area where Susan divides her time traveling and teaching internationally as an acharya, or senior teacher, in the Shambhala Community and teaching contemplative psychology as faculty for Karuna Training.
