When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Pema Chödrön’s perennially best-selling classic on overcoming life’s difficulties cuts to the heart of spirituality and personal growth–now in a newly designed 20th-anniversary edition with a new afterword by Pema–makes for a perfect gift and addition to one’s spiritual library.
How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart—when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.

From the brand

Discover Pema Chodron

“One of the most influential voices in contemporary spirituality, the writer whose books are passed from friend to friend.”

—Oprah

Pema Chödrön

Author of the books that change minds and change lives.

Pema’s Most Recent Releases

More of Pema’s Classics

More Pema Classics

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Shambhala
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 7, 2016
Edition ‏ : ‎ Anniversary
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1611803438
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1611803433
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.5 x 8.24 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1 in Tibetan Buddhism (Books) #7 in Meditation (Books) #31 in Personal Transformation Self-Help
Customer Reviews: 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (11,564) var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when(‘A’, ‘ready’).execute(function(A) { if (dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction !== true) { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative( ‘acrLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault”: true }, function (event) { if (window.ue) { ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrLinkClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } } ); } }); P.when(‘A’, ‘cf’).execute(function(A) { A.declarative(‘acrStarsLink-click-metrics’, ‘click’, { “allowLinkDefault” : true }, function(event){ if(window.ue) { ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”, (ue.count(“acrStarsLinkWithPopoverClickCount”) || 0) + 1); } }); });