Healing Addiction: De-Conditioning The Hungry Ghosts

This talk examines the suffering that arises when due to unmet needs for love and safety, our desire becomes narrowed and fixated on substitute gratifications. We then explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming and hurting ourselves and others that keep us from true happiness, connectedness and peace.

Reviews

Magnifique, MERCI 🙏🏼

Tara explains everything so well. She’s so calm and I feel she really cares, you can hear this in her voice. I felt held/ thank you 🙏

So so good! Thank you🙏🏼

Fantastic and I’m sure I’ll listen to it again 🙏🏼✨🌟

Just what I needed. The way you live today is the way you live your life ❤️🎈

I have listened to thus4 times and I get more out of it everytime I hear it.

Thankyou for your work

Amazing. Definitely going to relisten. So much good here. Thank you 🙏

Hungry ghosts haunt me and this has helped me learn their language to talk to them. Calm soothing voice with moments to close your eyes and feel.

Great talk, so full of wisdom

So wonderful! Thank you, Tara! 🙏💖

Of all the teachings I have been needing for some time, this is one of the most useful for me. Thank you So Very Much!

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Overall it helps me to want to change. Provided more info on the hungry gost syndrome and love and shame and group therapy and wanting and embracing change.

This is a gift. Thank you so much

Amazing! So informative, calming, healing. It creates hope.

Deeply insightful, heartfelt and actionable... thank you so much for sharing!

An amazing talk and well worth repeating. Thank you Tara🙏

Superb

Thank you so much for providing your self and resources to insight timer. This was safe, deep, warm, emotive and hopeful.

Amazing

Insightful and so thoughtfully conveyed. Breakthrough experience just listening to this. Thnx

What generosity for Tara B to share such profound wisdom in this manner! As a beginning or as a reinforcement, this dharma talk is an extraordinary gift.

Thank you for this insight

This talk addressed our Hungry Ghosts. And how to respond with kindness.

Truth!

Thank you.

Brilliant ( - :
Thank you ❤️👁️💥⭕️
I am 10yrs clean
and compassion to the hungry ghost
of obsessive thinking is wonderful 🙏

Outstanding!! Thank you 🙏 I am recommending this to all of my friends in recovery ❤️‍🩹

I saw portals into my own fixations that I had never seen in 6 years of spiritual work. Thank you Tara, I am holding them with compassion and awareness 😌

Wonderful talk 🙏🏻

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So very helpful
thank you!🙏

This was such a beacon of light as I listened and let that light come within. Thank you!💓

Gets to the center of addiction with practical insights and practices

Grounding reflections for expanding my awareness with helpful tools to reprogram unhealthy choices.

I love Tara so much. This resonated deeply with me. I find her voice so comforting!

Amazing and motivating

It took me 3 goes to listen to this (over 2 weeks) because it was uncomfortable for me to be honest with myself and first recognise then face up to my hungry (angry) ghosts. I will now listen again to this. Thank you. This is awesome.

Great insight

Amazing as always. Thank you Tara.

Thank you for speaking such wisdom so clearly. You've moved me! Take care

I loved it!! Great ideas and info.

great insights!

This was very helpful, in several ways. So much so, it was worth the annual subscription cost just in itself. Thank you for the great resource ✨️

Rught on point for me. Thank you

Thankyou Tara. This has been a needed talk for me. The hungry ghosts…When this feeling/condition comes to the fore, it is most uncomfortable to sit with. I understand now. Compassion really is the key…and forgiveness. Namaste..🙏🌹😍Love…💞

Thanks for everything

This has already got to work on the first listening!🌟

Incredible! I got so much out of that, thank you

Tara is a genius. Such clear synthesis around how to heal addiction and the wounds driving the addcition.

“To remove the layer of blame is to begin to work with the deeper needs”

Loved hearing her POV on 12 step programs as well.

Such a remarkable talk, I appreciate how she weaves in more about recovery programs and how they can intersect with other modalities of recovery

Very interesting and will definitely return to. Thanks

I feel like a human again, after overeating. Thank you. 🕊❤️

Easy to understand, clear soothing voice. Relatable

beautiful conference THANKS YOU 🙏

So much patience and decisiveness in her words. Truly enlightening.

Thank you for this!!!

I'm a grateful recovered alcoholic who very much enjoyed this beautiful talk. Thank you so much for sharing some experience strength and Hope

Thank you

Thank you Tara for an illuminating talk. I have lived a life diminished by hungry ghosts and shame. Your words make sense of so much of that experience.

So helpful and insightful. Thank you

Fabulous

Ohhhh Tara, another gorgeous deep dive into such a relevant human condition. The longings, the desires, the unmet needs, the hunger of pain. This is a fabulous talk and meditation and I thank you deeply for sharing it with us. You hit home the power of a group, the collective shame and then collective grief that usually underpins shame. I would say it is important to know we have the ability to self soothe whilst working through this stuff. It is imperative we go for progress, not perfection. That it is normal to go for what stops the brain-pain, just for a short time, while we learn new ways of being with ourselves and our hungry ghosts. Self forgiveness at all times. Which is endorsed in the group space. Others eyes on us as we release 'the' shame. Juicy, juicy stuff. I'm grateful for you!

So informative😇 It really sent me on the right track!

I find the structure and delivery of Tara Brach’s messages works well for me. The word provoke loving self-examination and become the habits I wish to form.

Thank you

Thank you, Tara Brach!

Aways a fresh & hope full gift. Thankyou Tara. Mim

Superb! 🙏🏼

Love to listen to you Tara, you are insightful. I'm a recovered alcoholic. Raised in an alcoholic family I could truly relate. Blessings Namaste.

That was incredibly helpful. Thank you so much 🙏🙏🤗

I love Tara's work, but this talk is outstanding. I've been waiting my whole life to learn that I cannot heal parts of me that I hate.

Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏

What a wonderful teacher Tara is heart 💖

Sehr einfühlsam und hilfreich!

Wonderful

Thank you

Factual & nurturing. Very powerful words. I got a lot of this. Thank you 🙏🏽

Wow just wow! Your voice is so calming reassuring and non judgemental. Thankyou so much 💜

I am in the very early stages of recovery. That talk was amazingly helpful. One of the most impactful ever.
Thank you so much for making it available. X

This was great and awakening! Thank you 🙏🦋

Thought provoking!

She is amazing!

Very helpful. Thank you so much.

Great

Fantastic

wonderful talk, thank you 💜

Superbly resonates. The key message is you cannot do it alone. Thank you.

Deepest gratitude 🙏🩶

Thank you for this simple yet powerful way to view addiction—as hungry ghosts that we’ve all been tempted to feed. It’s so human and requires compassion and love to overcome by acknowledging instead of shaming. 🙏💜💫

Great

Amazing so informative, thank you

Thank you so much. So powerful to learn we can give up shame and remember fresh possibilities are available every time. Thank you

So much wisdom and compassion in this talk! Thank you Tara.

This is so very helpful.
Truly appreciate your gracious gifts.
A bow of gratitude
And blessings of a soul that shines so bright
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Thank you

Beautiful. Thank you💗

So many beautiful nuggets of wisdom. Thank you.

Thank you so much for offering this.

Thank you 🙏