Tara Brach — Psychologist & Buddhist Teacher · Ph.D.

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Tara Brach is both a clinical psychologist and one of the most respected Western teachers of Buddhist meditation — and the combination matters. She doesn't just teach mindfulness as a stress management tool. She goes to the root: the deep human habit of self-rejection, what she calls the 'trance of unworthiness,' and the possibility of what she calls radical acceptance — meeting your experience, and yourself, exactly as you are, without flinching and without fleeing. Her YouTube channel includes weekly livestream talks, guided meditations, and short clips from her 'Tara Talks' series. The talks are accessible but never shallow — she'll move from Buddhist teachings to neuroscience to a story from her clinical practice and back again, and it all holds together. If you've ever felt like your inner life was something to be managed rather than inhabited, her work is a generous correction. Start with her talks on the RAIN meditation practice, or anything on compassion and the inner critic.