Real talk on living joyfully and coming home to ourselves—with reflective self-care practices to help us on our interconnected journeys of liberation
This book is for you if you’re going through upheaval, loss, crisis, if you are facing the unknown or have to make a difficult decision. It's also for all of us, as collectively we are encountering multiple challenges as a species and faced with decisions no generation before us has ever had to make.
In Healing Our Way Home,
join three friends, three Black women, all teachers in the Plum Village tradition founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, in intimate conversation, touching on the pain and beauty of their families of origin, relationships and loneliness, intimacy and sexuality, politics, popular culture, race, self-care and healing.
No subject is out of bounds in this free-flowing, wide-ranging offering of mindful wisdom to nourish our sense of belonging and connection with ancestors.
Authors Valerie Brown, Marisela Gomez, MD, and Kaira Jewel Lingo share how the Dharma’s timeless teachings support their work for social and racial equity and justice in their work and personal lives.
Healing Our Way Home offers insights in embodied mindfulness practice to support us in healing white supremacy, internalized racial oppression, and social and cultural conditioning, leading to a firm sense of belonging and abiding joy.
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Transformative ways to meet life’s challenges with wisdom, resilience, and balance.
This book is for you if you’re going through upheaval, loss, crisis, if you are facing the unknown or have to make a difficult decision. It's also for all of us, as collectively we are encountering multiple challenges as a species and faced with decisions no generation before us has ever had to make.
*The book has already gone into its 2nd printing! 10,000 copies printed in the first print run and another 10,000 copies being printed now. Woohoo!
Learn:
How to come home to yourself even in the midst of the unexpected
Practices for resting back into the unknown
How to care for stormy emotions and maintain your centeredness
Practices for cultivating equanimity and joy in any circumstance
How to tap into your own unique capacity to respond to the collective challenges we face
In this time of unprecedented uncertainty and stress, many of us feel like the ground is being pulled out from under us. What we rely on as steady and solid is changing or may even appear to vanish. Not only are loss and separation painful, but even positive changes can create great stress. What made sense yesterday no longer makes sense and we realize that we are in need of a new vision for our lives and our world.
We Were Made for These Times offers what many of us are longing for, a path forward and a set of practices for our individual and collective healing and liberation. Deeply steeped in the wisdom of her teacher Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and her own practice, Kaira Jewel Lingo translates timeless Buddhist teachings into simple lessons to guide us.
She wrote this book to share what she learned about how to go through difficult times, when everything is shifting and we have no idea where our life is taking us. She has been through some major life changes, like ordaining as a Buddhist nun and then after 15 years living in quiet, secluded monasteries, transitioning out of monastic life and learning to recreate her life all over again, in middle age and in the middle of a world on fire. She draws on profound Buddhist wisdom that has seen her through the toughest times as well as her own lived experience.
Each chapter in We Were Made for These Times holds an essential teaching and meditation, unfolding a step-by-step process to help us navigate difficult times. Time-honored teachings will help you develop ease, trust in life, presence, and self-compassion, supporting you to release the fear and doubt that hold you back from showing up as your best self and as a healing presence in the world.
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If you have already read We Were Made For These Times, please let me know what you thought. I love hearing from my readers.
Send a link of your posted review (which you can post on your favorite online bookstore) to info@kairajewel.com and we will send you a coupon code for a free 3-month subscription to the Ten Percent Happier app where I am a featured teacher.
I have four new meditations on the Ten Percent Happier app that are based on teachings in my new book and I would like you have access to them:
Deeply Accepting Yourself
Caring for Strong Emotions
Calmly Riding the Waves
Growing the Good
You can find them in the app under Singles and also under the topic Made For These Hard Times.
Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness With Children
By Thich Nhat Hanh, edited by Kaira Jewel Lingo (then known as Sr. Jewel)
Planting Seeds is the fruit of decades of development and innovation in the Plum Village community’s collective practice with children. Based on Thich Nhat Hanh’s thirty years of teaching mindfulness and compassion to parents, teachers, and children, the book and enclosed CD cover a wide range of contemplative and fun activities parents and educators can do with their children or students. The activities are designed to help relieve stress, increase concentration, nourish gratitude and confidence, deal with difficult emotions, touch our interconnection with nature, and improve communication.
