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Many Voices, one journey. Sounds true.com. You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Sherry Huber. Sherry Huber is the founder of Mountain View Zen Center and the Zen Monastery

practice center, both in California and the author of 19 books including When You're Falling, Dive, and a new book, What You Practice

is What You Have, a guide to having the life you want. She is the founder and director of Living Compassion,

a nonprofit organization dedicated to peace and service.

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Sherry has released the audio series, Unconditional Self-acceptance, a do-it-yourself course.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Sherry and I spoke about how your life is what you give your

attention to. We also spoke about how to work constructively and compassionately with what Sherry calls negative voices in the head,

how depression is linked to self-hatred, and also what might a compassionate approach to self-discipline actually be like.

Here's my conversation with Sherry Huber.

Sherry, you've written close to 20 books and I'm curious if you were able to describe the

key themes that are like through lines that run through your books what they would be.

What do you think are the central themes?

Well, the books are all designed to support people in the process of waking up and ending suffering.

And they're really kind of a roadmap of where I've gone with this. So I started out looking at

various issues that seem to arise in most people's meditation practice in that process of again attempting to wake

up and in suffering and as I went along I had a growing sense that the main thing that was happening for people is that they were

not allowing themselves to end suffering because they didn't feel deserving or worthy of that.

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