Ego Liberation: A Buddhist Guide to Escaping Mental Prison (Adam Brandt)

Perhaps, Adam Brandt ponders, therapeutic healing is predicated not in defining the ego, but rather in its liberation.

In 2016, I decided I wanted to become a therapist. After years of soldiering silently through unexplainable sadness, I found my way out of that headspace long enough to see hope for myself and others. I didn’t know what it meant to be a therapist at the time I enrolled in my master’s program. I had never really engaged in therapy before enrollment. But for some reason, I believed in the philosophical cure of self-discovery. Now I think self-discovery, on its own, might be part of the problem. more...