New York, NY — In a time when many are searching for deeper healing, balance, and meaning,award-winning author, psychologist, speaker, long-term Zen practitioner, and playwright Dr.Brenda Shoshanna offers a compassionate and transformative guide in Sacred Psychology (AnInvitation to Live).
Blending Eastern spiritual teachings with Western psychological understanding, Sacred Psychology presents a radically different approach to suffering, illness, and healing. Guided by the Zen question,“The Whole World Is Medicine. What Is the Illness?” Dr. Shoshanna invites readers to look beyond symptoms and explore the true causes of distress. Through teachings, anecdotes, quotes, reflections, and practical exercises, the book addresses issues including loneliness, depression, anxiety, anger, addiction, grief, and loss.
More than a discussion of ideas, Sacred Psychology provides a life-giving program designed to help readers make spiritual teachings present in everyday life. The exercises are simple, enjoyable, and powerful, offering readers meaningful ways to cultivate greater clarity, well-being, authenticity, aliveness, and self-understanding.
Dr. Shoshanna brings more than forty years of private practice experience to this work, along with her background as part of the beginning of the hospice movement and her long-term study with a Japanese Zen Master in New York. Having presented more than five hundred talks and workshops to interfaith communities, hospitals, hospices, universities, professional groups, andZen communities, she has spent decades helping others understand suffering and discover more fulfilling ways to live.
Her work has received critical acclaim from Tricycle, Publishers Weekly, Marianne Williamson, Body & Soul, Deepak Chopra, Spirituality & Health, Lama Surya Das, and many others.
Sacred Psychology is especially relevant for psychologists, healers, spiritual counselors, interfaith groups, pastors, rabbis, Zen practitioners, caregivers, caretakers, and anyone seeking a new perspective on emotional, physical, and spiritual healing. It is also written for readers who long for a more harmonious, meaningful, and joyful life.
Compassionate, insightful, and deeply practical, Sacred Psychology (An Invitation to Live) invites readers into a new understanding of what true healing and fulfillment can be—and offersa path toward living with greater balance, clarity, and joy.
About the Author
Dr. Brenda Shoshanna is a psychologist, award-winning author, speaker, long-term Zen practitioner, and playwright whose work integrates Eastern and Western principles and practices. She has created healing programs, workshops, and talks for diverse communities, helping readers and participants bring spiritual and psychological wisdom into everyday life.
Dr. Brenda Shoshanna is a psychologist, award-winning author, speaker, long-term Zen practitioner, and playwright whose work integrates Eastern and Western principles and practices. She has created healing programs, workshops, and talks for diverse communities, helping readers and participants bring spiritual and psychological wisdom into everyday life.
