Mark Coleman is a senior meditation teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, an executive coach, and the founder of the Mindfulness Institute, which brings mindfulness training to organizations worldwide.
"This book is a rare combination of practical help, emotional
support, compelling personal story, scientific foundations, and
spiritual insight. Mark Coleman shows us how to let go of feeling
pressured, inadequate, or afraid to express ourselves fully -- and
instead feel strong, confident, and worthy. A beautiful, soulful,
enormously useful book."
-- Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical
Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
"What I most love about Make Peace with Your Mind is the range of
accessible practices it offers. From his own experience over many
years, Mark Coleman has distilled powerful, creative strategies for
relating with and transforming your inner critic. It's a wonderful,
delightful, and deeply touching book."
-- Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness
"Both insightful and helpful, with gifts of wisdom and many
practical tools to work with your own mind and heart."
-- Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart and cofounding
teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, California
"When I first met Mark Coleman at a retreat at the Spirit Rock
Meditation Center, I immediately appreciated the clarity he brought
to his teachings. This book is written in the same clear voice,
providing an easy-to-follow road map to understanding and defeating
our inner critic."
-- Troy Aikman, Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback and Fox
Sports broadcaster
"Mark Coleman has written a wonderful and important book. If we can
make friends with ourselves we activate the place inside that has
always truly wanted our well-being. Transforming the mind from
inner critic to best friend is the key to a more fulfilling life.
Make Peace with Your Mind is the perfect guidebook to help us do
just that. An excellent offering!"
-- James Baraz, coauthor of Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to Happiness
and cofounding teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre,
California
"Mark Coleman's Make Peace with Your Mind is a great read for all
those looking to mindfulness to help them live their best life.
Sometimes when life speeds up, it is best to take a few moments to
slow down! The benefits of these practices are real and
wide-ranging, and it is never too late to start."
-- Congressman Tim Ryan
"Most of us wait for some champion to show up in our life who
supports our dreams, calms our fears, and provides a vision for our
future. Mark Coleman reminds us we can be our own champion by
building a healthier relationship with our judgmental mind with
clear and practical steps. This book can change your life."
-- Chip Conley, New York Times-bestselling author of Emotional
Equations and Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy at Airbnb
"Of the many recent books on mindfulness, some have discussed the
practice as a tool in one's life or career, but Coleman focuses
squarely on the goal of achieving inner peace and practicing
compassion toward oneself and others. For self-improvement
enthusiasts searching for ways to calm a stressed mind, this book
is sure to help."
-- Publishers Weekly
" 'Inner critic' here is not just a tool for marketing a generic
meditation book. Coleman takes apart the critic and assesses its
origins, its pros, and its cons with curiosity and insight. He
unravels it and makes it possible to see it not as a big, bad
monster, but simply as human intelligence run amok."
-- Mindful magazine
"In his new book, Make Peace with Your Mind, Mark Coleman shares
his own deep understanding of the often pervasive inner critic, and
he offers many tools and methods for freeing ourselves from this
common habit of mind. His clear style and compassionate wisdom
combine to make this book a valuable support on our journey to
freedom."
-- Joseph Goldstein, author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to
Awakening
"In this well-written book, Mark Coleman presents his personal
reflections on how to free yourself from harsh self-criticism,
based on his experience as a meditation teacher, coach, and
therapist. With pragmatic exercises designed to help you better
understand your own inner critic, this is a truly worthwhile
read."
-- Kristin Neff, associate professor at UT Austin and author of
Self-Compassion
"Mark Coleman has written a wonderfully original book, addressing
the inner critic that keeps us from our most creative work. He
understands that it is often buried deep, and he gives us a wide
range of excavation tools, all of which are kind and helpful.
Useful for anyone, I will use it especially with college students
and young artists and professionals, whose external lives are full
of judgments, as well as activists, who feel they can never do
enough. This book is a great gift."
-- Mirabai Bush, senior fellow at the Center for Contemplative Mind
in Society, author of Contemplative Practices for Higher Education,
and coauthor (with Ram Dass) of Compassion in Action
"A beautiful guide to liberating our minds from endless cycles of
self-criticism and creating the inner peace that leads to an
exemplary life."
-- Stephen Dinan, bestselling author of Sacred America, Sacred
World and CEO of the Shift Network
"In clear and powerful and terms, Mark Coleman offers readers
highly practical tools to cultivate lasting calm, contentment, and
happiness in any life circumstance. The tools outlined in this book
will help readers confront one of the most persistent sources of
difficulty anyone may encounter: one's own negative mind states.
Make Peace with Your Mind is a uniquely transformational work
offered to us by one of the world's preeminent mindfulness and
meditation teachers. It is a must-read for anyone interested in
meaningful personal growth and fulfillment."
-- Rich Fernandez, PhD, cofounder of Wisdom Labs
"As we now know, the world inside and the world outside are not so
different -- and the sneakily destructive inner critic can make a
mess of self, other, and the whole world. In Make Peace with Your
Mind, therapist, consultant, and Buddhist teacher Mark Coleman does
as good a job as I have seen of explaining, deconstructing, and
working with the inner critic, until she or he becomes an ally. The
book includes many useful exercises for putting its important
message into practice: that you need not go on with this misery any
longer."
-- Norman Fischer, Zen priest and author of What Is Zen: Plain Talk
for a Beginner's Mind and Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language &
Religion
"Mark Coleman, an experienced therapist and a profound practitioner
and teacher of meditation, has crafted an exquisite path toward
peace and freedom with one of the most troubling aspects of our
humanity: our inner critic. Drawing upon ancient wisdom traditions,
contemporary psychological breakthroughs, and many other sources,
Mark weaves these wisdom strands together into a fully accessible
practical approach, illustrated with many examples and supported
with practices that can build insight and competence. A marvelous
guidebook brought to life by a warm, compassionate friend."
-- James Flaherty, author of Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others
andfounder of New Ventures West and Integral Leadership
"Drawing on decades of experience of freeing himself and others
from the inner critic, Mark Coleman has written a beautiful,
inspiring, and practical book for all who wish to find a way out
from under the weight of their inner critic. Filled with wisdom and
compassion, this book is a warmhearted guide for applying
mindfulness and common sense to alleviate the burden of the inner
critic."
-- Gil Fronsdal, guiding teacher at Insight Meditation Center and
translator of The Dhammapada
"The inner critic stops all growth, diminishes our life force, and
crushes our soul. With kindness and clarity, Mark Coleman gives us
proven practices to tame the critic's wild ways and access the more
reliable guidance of true wisdom. Everybody's got an inner critic,
so everybody needs a wise book like this one."
-- Frank Ostaseski, author of Five Invitations: Discovering What
Death Can Teach about Living Fully
"In Make Peace with Your Mind, Mark Coleman gently guides us to
work with the ubiquitous demon of self-judgment. His kind and clear
writing style invites us to see and skillfully relate to this
familiar human habit. Through teaching, story, and guided
exercises, he inspires us to develop keen and compassionate
relationships to the parts of ourselves that often seek to demean
or even destroy our self-worth. He offers us the possibility of not
only hope but genuine healing. This book on the critic will support
anyone who desires stopping the inner war and developing holistic
integration with all parts of themselves."
-- Sarah Powers, author of Insight Yoga
"Make Peace with Your Mind is a beautiful book that can help free
you from the limited definitions of self-loathing and pain. I have
known Mark Coleman for many years, and he is humble and wise and
lives with an open heart -- one who truly walks his talk. Mark's
guidance is both wise and compassionate to support deep
healing."
-- Bob Stahl, PhD, coauthor of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Workbook and MBSR Everyday
"Through Mark Coleman's decades of experience in mindfulness
practices, he's unearthed tools that can help us with our inner
critic -- the voice that whispers to us and keeps us lost in
self-doubt and old thought patterns. This book is a breath of fresh
air, a path out of these cycles, and a way to help liberate us from
our suffering in self-doubt."
-- Janet Stone, founder of Janet Stone Yoga
"This immensely practical book by meditation teacher and therapist
Mark Coleman is a thorough and compassionate guide to working with
the often relentless inner critic. Filled with stories from his own
experience and the hundreds of people he has worked with over three
decades, Mark brings wisdom, humor, kindness, and a vast repertoire
of exercises that can change your life now!"
-- Diana Winston, director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA Mindful
Awareness Research Center and author of Fully Present: The Science,
Art, and Practice of Mindfulness
"Mark Coleman beautifully integrates the wisdom of reflection and
the effectiveness of years of clinical practice into this
insightful and accessible book. The wealth of ideas and practices
shared in this illuminating work have the power to transform our
individual and collective lives.
-- Shauna Shapiro, PhD, professor at Santa Clara University and
coauthor of Mindful Discipline and The Art and Science of
Mindfulness
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