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Combining thought-awareness, loving-kindness practice and mindfulness meditation, this simple, time-tested method can be used throughout the day to quiet your critical voices and ease the mind. Through short, accessible phrases, readers will learn to reorient thinking when their inner critic shows up.

Combining thought-awareness, loving-kindness practice and mindfulness meditation, this simple, time-tested method can be used throughout the day to quiet your critical voices and ease the mind. Through short, accessible phrases, readers will learn to reorient thinking when their inner critic shows up.

You’ve probably heard it said, and have maybe spoken the words yourself, “I am my own worst critic.” A negative internal running commentary contributes to a lack of confidence and low self-worth in many people.

Well-known mindfulness meditation teacher and author, Therese Jacobs-Stewart, offers one of the most effective approaches to calming a self-critical mind: the ancient Buddhist practice of using “Compassion Slogans.” Combining thought-awareness, loving-kindness practice and mindfulness meditation, this simple, time-tested method can be used throughout the day to quiet your critical voices and ease the mind. Through short, accessible phrases, you will learn to reorient your thinking when your inner critic shows up. Instead of making a negative thought stronger by fighting it, you will learn to let thoughts dissipate through lack of attention. When you remember to “begin kindness with yourself,” you will find that keeping a compassionate perspective on all that you do and say will allow you to transform your inner critic with a kinder voice.Some examples of mindfulness slogans:

Everything is of the nature to change (even me)

Abandon poisonous food (thoughts)

Rest in the openness of mind

Begin kindness with ourselves
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“A Kinder Voice is a wise and compassionate book you’ll you want to go back to again and again for its steady, practical, healing instructions. In it you’ll find inspiration from wisdom traditions, meditations both ancient and contemporary, and scientific information that will convince you of the down to earth efficacy of the teachings here contained.

Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart is a ground-breaking master therapist and teacher with a clear gentle voice. I learned so much from this marvelous book.”
--Zoketsu Norman Fischer, poet and Zen priest, author of What Is Zen? Plain Talk for a Beginner’s Mind and Experience: Thinking, Writing, Language, and Religion

"In A Kinder Voice Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart marshals her remarkable breadth of knowledge and depth of experience to give us practical tools for implementing mindfulness insights. Few teachings have appeared that give such clear and explicit instruction on how to transform the inner critic and make peace with your own mind."
--Kevin Griffin, author of One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps and Recovering Joy: A Mindful Life after Addiction

“This is a mind-changing book. And, because our culture of anger and exploitation changes when our minds change--this is a culture-changing book.”
--Bill Alexander, writer, teacher and storyteller, author of the recovery classic, Cool Water: Alcoholism, Mindfulness, and Ordinary Recovery

About the Author

Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart is the author of the successful book Mindfulness and the Twelve Steps, and has been a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and mindfulness practitioner for over thirty years. She has built a solid following through books, social media, retreats and classes at MindRoads Meditation Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hazelden Publishing (April 18, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 120 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1616496398
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616496395
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
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Psychotherapist, meditation teacher, workshop leader, international consultant: Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart has devoted her professional life to helping people awaken their potential through “mindfulness” – mind-body practices that have evolved from ancient sages in the East, and whose efficacy is now being confirmed through rigorous experimentation by scientists in the West.

As a licensed psychotherapist for over thirty years and a student of contemplative teachers in Nepal, India, and the United States, Jacobs-Stewart was among the pioneers in recognizing the similarity between teachings attributed to the Buddha and the “12-Step” recovery programs widely practiced in the West.

In 2004, she and her husband, fellow psychotherapist James Jacobs, opened Mind Roads Meditation Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, offering spiritual insight and mindfulness training to hundreds of people, with a special focus on those in recovery. Her work in mindfulness with the recovery community was featured in the cover article of Renew magazine in May 2011.

In 2015, Jacobs-Stewart retired from the leadership of Mind Roads Meditation Center to focus on her work as a teacher and author; the first fruit of that new focus is her third book, A Kinder Voice: Releasing Your Inner Critics with Mindfulness Slogans. The book, released by Hazelden in spring 2016, highlights the Tibetan practice of “Compassion Slogans”—pithy phrases that

reorient one’s thinking patterns—to overcome the “inner critic” so common in Western psychology.

Jacobs-Stewart is also a celebrated speaker and workshop leader, having presented her work in many parts of the United States, as well as Asia, Europe and the Caribbean. This July, she again leads her annual retreat in self-compassion at the Hazelden-Betty Ford renewal center in Center City, Minnesota.

Lectures from several of Jacobs-Stewart’s previous workshops can be found on her website, www.tjacobsstewart.com, under the “Media Resources” tab, along with insights found in her two previous books, Paths Are Made by Walking: Practical Steps for Attaining Serenity (2003) and Mindfulness and the 12 Steps (2010).

Thérèse lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband of 36 years, Jim, and their amazing cat, "Kukla."

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I have studied this subject for over 45 years and this book is good for a beginner. I got very little added info to my studies.
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