Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars | 2,081 ratings

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Last update: 02-25-2025


About this item

One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart.

Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties - stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.

In this heartfelt and deeply practical audiobook, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma - and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us.


Top reviews from the United States

  • Peggy M McAloon
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Healing Journey
    Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2020
    Why have we lost compassion for ourselves? Radical Compassion by Tara Brach teaches us how to use the RAIN method to control our emotions. Sadly, many of those emotions leave us powerless. This book provides the reader with a whole new way of recognizing our limiting beliefs. Many of these beliefs arise from early childhood experiences of fear and wounding. Radical Compassion offers this simple method for moving beyond those limitations to find compassion in our hearts:

    R-Recognize What Is Happening

    A-Allow Life to be Just As It Is

    I-Investigate with a Gentle, Curious Attention

    N-Nurture with Loving Presence.

    Tara Brach teaches us how to step away from our negative beliefs about ourselves and others.  That allows us to experience a positive transformation through her RAIN exercises.

    What I enjoyed most about the book, beyond the method, was the stories she shared of those she has mentored. This simple method of sharing these transformations teaches us that:

    Our culture continually tries to define us as good/bad, right/wrong, or superior/inferior.

    Those judgments invoke shame in how we feel about ourselves. That shame affects how we treat each other. It influences how much we earn, what we consume, and the shape of our body. In addition, it exerts influence on how we express creativity and our spiritual or religious beliefs.

    Throughout the book, the author leads us on a path to integration and resilience as we reach the "Nurture" step of RAIN. Readers can find healing in her words. "No matter how trapped you've been in emotions like fear or shame, strengthening your inner resources can help change your brain, heal your heart, and evolve your consciousness."

    If you long for attention, safety, acceptance, connection, understanding, and love, you owe it to yourself to explore the RAIN method. Our brains are constantly evolving. As a result, we each have a capacity for mindful thinking and compassion in how we view others. Use the exercises in Radical Compassion to see yourself and others more clearly to cultivate a more forgiving heart. Allow her to guide you so you can live your true potential.
  • Cindy Dee
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Self Help Author
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2024
    This book brings awareness to yourself and the many things we take for granted in our hurried lives. It’s a stop and think about your everyday life book. It really brought awareness and consciousness back to my life. Loved it!!
  • Matthew C. Bidgood
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book
    Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2024
    Tara Brach is amazing. I find so much value in her books and podcasts which I continually revisit for learning and guidance. Radical Compassion is a fantastic companion to Radical Acceptance. I have learned so much from her that has been fundamental to my spiritual journey. I highly recommend her books.
  • Lori
    4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful
    Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2021
    This practice of R.A.I.N. has had a real impact on my thought process and being more aware of my triggers and anxiety. The process moves you through a practical yet spiritual way to connect and begin healing. I am learning to just be present in the moment and draw in peace and compassion.
  • kinderkat
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant writing !
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024
    Tara Brache is one of the leading American Buddhist authors today. Practical, easy to understand. Her plan is brocken down into four steps. Well worth reading. I’ll return to this book regularly for future guidance and reinforcement. Thank you Tara ! I’m
  • gabriel
    5.0 out of 5 stars loved it!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2024
    This book was filled with practical advice on fostering compassion. I highly recommend it! You can also find a lot of the meditations that she includes in her book on YouTube which makes it easier to integrate the practice of radical self-compassion to your own life
  • Timothy OBrien
    5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book for working through emotions
    Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2021
    This book was recommended by my therapist. I’m not much of a reader but quickly found myself sucked in. It is an easy read.

    It’s so easy for people to say “do this” and “do that” but it’s hard to know “how” - this book gives practical steps and exercises.

    I have really struggled with locking my emotions up and throwing away the key. This book has taught me how to be in my emotions and feelings peacefully and how to move through them. I feel so much more comfortable with myself and actually more in control than I thought I was.

    Highly recommend.
  • Glenda Davis
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great self-care book
    Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2024
    I gifted this to a friend who wanted to up her self-care and she is enjoying it. She often refers to it in our conversations.

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