Authentic Parenting RE-RELEASE: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation with Bruce Tift
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Aug 1, 2024 Bruce Tift, a licensed marriage and family therapist and author of *Already Free*, combines Western psychotherapy and Buddhist teachings to explore embodied awareness. He delves into our discomfort with sensations, advocating for the cultivation of confidence rather than mere safety. Tift emphasizes that relationship issues often stem from personal histories, shifting the focus from partners as solutions to self-responsibility. He offers practical tips for staying present with anxiety and highlights the balance of intimacy and separateness in relationships.
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Childhood Strategies Become Adult Templates
- Developmental view sees adult character strategies as adaptive survival responses from childhood.
- Those strategies later become outdated templates that cause unnecessary suffering in adult life.
Freedom Is How You Relate Now
- Fruitional view frames freedom as how we relate to present experience, not a future goal.
- Investigating how we construct reality reveals open awareness already present in immediate experience.
Use History To Reclaim Responsibility
- Learn your patterns' origins so you stop blaming outside causes and reclaim responsibility for change.
- Use history as an informational contrast to test what is true in the present moment.
