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From Sounds True, a new FREE 12-week program on self-acceptance (begins March 4), featuring some of the leading figures in the personal growth field, including Brene Brown, Kristin Neff, Robert Agustus Masters, and Tara Brach, among many others.

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A FREE 12-week Video Event Series, beginning Monday, March 4, 2013.

Self-acceptance is one of our most difficult challenges, no matter how much meditation or therapy we?ve tried. In this FREE 12-week video event series, Tami Simon speaks with contemporary luminaries in spirituality, psychology, and creativity to learn how we can truly embrace who we are.

No matter how much spiritual practice, self-improvement, or therapy we?ve undertaken, there is one area where many of us still find ourselves challenged every day: self-acceptance. It seems all too easy to fall into the trap of judging ourselves as inadequate, finding fault with our achievements or our bodies, and believing our self-critical inner voices that insist we?ll never measure up to who we ought to be. Is there a solution?

Sounds True created The Self-Acceptance Project to find out.

In this FREE online video event series, each week Tami Simon will speak with two contemporary luminaries in the fields of spirituality, psychology, and creativity. Together they will explore the questions around self-acceptance?and investigate how we can overcome the difficulties of embracing who we are. Where do our self-critical voices come from? Can we silence them, or is there a better way to deal with them? Can we be motivated to change and excel while still accepting ourselves as we are? Why is it often so much easier to feel compassion and forgiveness towards others than towards ourselves?

The Self-Acceptance Project was created to offer you insights, practices, and strategies for living with a sense of your own fundamental worthiness. In this 12-week free video series, you?ll hear from a wide variety of thinkers and teachers as they share their stories and wisdom about self-acceptance, including:

The Self-Acceptance Project Guests:

Geneen Roth, author of When Food Is Food and Love Is Love

Bren? Brown, PhD, author of The Power of Vulnerability

Parker Palmer, author of the audio program An Undivided Life

Harville Hendrix, PhD, author of Finding and Keeping Love

Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Self-Acceptance

Kelly McGonigal, author of The Neuroscience of Change

Robert Augustus Masters, PhD, author of Knowing Your Shadow

Kristin Neff, PhD, author of Self-Compassion

Mark Nepo, author of Staying Awake

Rick Hanson, author of Meditations to Change Your Brain

Steven C. Hayes, PhD, author of Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life

Bruce Tift, author of Already Free

Sharon Salzberg, author of The Kindness Handbook

Karla McLaren, author of The Language of Emotions

Judith Blackstone, author of The Realization Process

Raphael Cushnir, author of The One Thing Holding You Back

Jeff Foster, author of The Deepest Acceptance

Reggie Ray, author of Mahamudra for the Modern World

Friedemann Schaub, author of The Fear and Anxiety Solution

Cheri Huber, author of Unconditional Self-Acceptance

Jay Earley, author of Self-Therapy (to be released in 10/2013)

Erin Olivo, PhD, MPH, author of Free Yourself from Anxiety

At Sounds True, we have come to recognize that self-acceptance is one of the most difficult yet vital challenges of the human journey. Beginning March 4, 2013, we invite you to join us for an investigation into the heart of our relationship with ourselves?so we may discover how to treat ourselves with kindness, compassion, and love.

Each week, a new video event will be available to stream/download by 7 pm Eastern Time (GMT -4).