Present with Suffering: Being with the Things That Hurt (Paperback)
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'. Present with Suffering shows that by becoming present, accepting and kind, we may enfold what hurts us in a more spacious and meaningful way. Chapters consider the discomfort associated with loss, bereavement, emptiness and impermanence.
Nigel Wellings is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, teacher and author whoworks within a broadly contemplative perspective. He has been engaged with therelationship between psychotherapy andBuddhism for the last forty years. His previous books include Nothing ToLose: Psychotherapy, Buddhism and Living Life (with Elizabeth WildeMcCormick), Why Can't I Meditate? How To Get YourMindfulness Practice On Track, and Dzogchen, Who's Who & What's What in the Great Perfection. Elizabeth Wilde McCormickhas worked as a psychotherapist for over forty yearsin both private and national health settings. She was, with Nigel Wellings, adirector of training at The Centre for Transpersonal Psychology and she is afounder member and currently a trustee of the Association for CognitiveAnalytic Therapy. Liz is also a teacher, trainer and writer with a longstandinginterest in the interface between psychotherapy and mindfulness.