What Really Helps by Karen Kissel Wegela

What Really Helps by Karen Kissel Wegela

Most of us, at one time or another, would like to help a friend, family member, or acquaintance through a challenging time. But do we really know how to give meaningful support and guidance? And why do our best efforts at helping others often come up short? Here is a practical guide that will be of special interest to helping professionals-and anyone who wants to make a positive difference in the lives of people they care about.

To be truly helpful to others, Karen Wegela explains, we must begin by focusing on ourselves. We must develop greater awareness, steadiness of mind, fearlessness, and self-compassion. Only then can we extend these qualities to the people we'd like to help. Drawing on her experiences as a psychotherapist and on her longtime study of Buddhist meditation, Wegela emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness, or learning to become fully present in our moment-to-moment experience. Through mindfulness we develop a fearless, compassionate presence in our daily lives-and we become better listeners, take wiser actions, and give more valuable, effective guidance to the people we'd like to help.

Karen Kissel Wegela, PhD, is a contemplative psychologist and psychotherapist at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She lectures to professionals on the similarities between Buddhism and psychotherapy and publishes a popular blog at psychologytoday.com. She has been a long-time student of Buddhism. The Courage to Be Present: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Awakening of Natural Wisdom is her first book.

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ISBN 13	9781590308806
ISBN 10	1590308808
Title	What Really Helps
Author	Karen Kissel Wegela
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Shambhala Publications Inc
Year published	2010-12-28
Number of pages	256
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