The internationally recognized teacher, speaker, and NY Times bestselling writer of A Go back to Like argues that our desire in order to avoid pain is actually detrimental to your lives, disconnecting us from our deepest emotions and preventing true healing and spiritual transcendence.

Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, world-renowned teacher, and probably one of the most essential spiritual voices of our time. In Tears to Triumph, she argues that we-as a tradition so that as individuals-have learned to about Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Struggling to Enlightenment prevent facing pain. By doing so, we are neglecting the spiritual work of recovery.

Instead of allowing ourselves to embrace our hurt, we numb it, medicate it, dismiss it, or otherwise divert our attention in order that we do not have to handle it. In refusing to acknowledge our suffering, we actually extend it and deny ourselves the opportunity for profound wisdom-ultimately limiting our personal development and opportunity for enlightenment. Frozen by denial, we are remaining standing in the breech. Whole industries profit from this immobility, and while they have become rich, we have become spiritually poorer.

As Marianne makes obvious, true recovery and transcendence can only come whenever we finally face our discomfort and wrestle using what it must teach us. Written with warm compassion and deep knowledge, Tears to Triumph gives us a robust way ahead through the discomfort, to a deeper knowing of our feelings, our lives, and our true selves.