I listened to Tara Brach's webcast on Wednesday in which she discussed "The Mindful Path to Radical Acceptance." She explained her work using the acronym RAIN. She asks people to first pause and then to work on Recognising what is actually happening in that moment: Allow it, or say yes to it: Investigate it with Intimacy; and Not identify with it.

In Nora Isaacs’ article, “The cutting edge of trauma treatment: healing through the body,” she discusses how trauma is generally described as an event or situation that threatens ones life or ones physical integrity.

Karen Armstrong’s book, “The Spiral Staircase,” (2004) describes the progress of her life from the time she left the nunnery in 1969.