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Description - What Now? by Yael Shy

So much of what marks early adulthood is intense emotions and insecurity. What if you never fall in love? What if you can't find a job you like? You miss home. You have no home. Are you having enough sex? Are you having too much sex? You're lonely all the time. Your relationships with your friends are complicated.

What Now? shares mindfulness practices to help twentysomethings learn to identify and accept these feelings and respond - not react - to painful and powerful stimuli without pushing them away or getting lost in them. This is not about fixing oneself or being "better." Readers are encouraged to embrace themselves exactly as they are. You are already completely whole, completely loveable, completely worthy. What Now? shares practices that help us to wake up to this fact.

This uniquely tumultuous developmental period is a time when many first live away from home and engage in all kinds of experimentation - with ideas, substances, relationships, and who we think we are and want to be in the world. Yael Shy shares her own story, and offers basic meditation guides to beginning a practice. She explores the Buddhist framework for what causes suffering, and explores ideas about interconnection and social justice as natural outgrowths of meditation practice.

Early adulthood is filled with intense emotions and insecurity. What if you never fall in love? What if you can't find work you're passionate about? You miss home. You miss close friends. You're lost in the noise of how you think you should be livingand worried about wasting what everyone says should be the best years of your life.

What Now? shares mindfulness practices to help twentysomethings learn to identify and accept these feelings and respond-not react-to painful and powerful stimuli without pushing them away or getting lost in them. This is not about fixing oneself or being "better." Readers are encouraged to embrace themselves exactly as they are. You are already completely whole, completely loveable, completely worthy. What Now?shares practices that help us to wake up to this fact.

This uniquely tumultuous developmental period is a time when many first live away from home and engage in all kinds of experimentation-with ideas, substances, relationships, and who we think we are and want to be in the world. Yael Shy shares her own storyand offers basic meditation guides to beginning a practice. She explores the Buddhist framework for what causes sufferingand explores ideas about interconnection and social justice as natural outgrowths of meditation practice.

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