meditation books

“This is just how things are right now”

I've been practicing and teaching self-compassion for a long time now. My book on that topic, "This Difficult Thing of…

December 2, 2025

Publication Day! The Heart’s Awakening

It's always an interesting day when one of your books is published. It's exciting. But you're sending your inmost thoughts…

October 14, 2025

Unexpected Awakening, by Laurie Jacobson

Laurie Jacobson’s Unexpected Awakening is an absorbing and deeply moving memoir that captures the transformative power of finding one’s voice…

October 9, 2025

Books and cats

It was lovely to receive this photograph the other day. This is Mara, one of the people who wrote an…

August 29, 2025

Chinese translation of “This Difficult Thing of Being Human”

It took a while to get a copy of this book from the Chinese publisher, not just because of the…

October 21, 2024

New translations of “This Difficult Thing of Being Human”

I was delighted to discover recently that "This Difficult Thing of Being Human" — my book on self-compassion — has…

September 20, 2024

Great news about my writing

Exciting things have been happening recently. In the space of just a week or so I was been offered two…

August 13, 2024

Is Sati-AI, the “non-human mindfulness meditation teacher,” even a real thing?

I've written about so-called Artificial Intelligence here a few times recently. I say "so-called" because these computer algorithms don't have…

June 16, 2023

More adventures with artificial intelligence

Recently I shared a conversation I had with ChatGPT, a supposed Artificial Intelligence. ChatGPT is designed to reply to natural…

March 24, 2023

“Loving Kindness,” by Deborah Underwood

Deborah Underwood kindly sent me a copy of "Loving Kindness" in late 2021. As a fan of books on lovingkindness…

February 13, 2023