When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (20th Anniversary Edition) by Pema Chodron

When Things Fall Apart explores a Buddhist response to fear, pain and the feeling that life is coming undone. Pema Chödrön encourages looking closely at difficult experiences with curiosity and kindness rather than building a practice around avoidance.

This twentieth-anniversary edition includes an afterword by the author. For readers seeking spiritual reflection on hardship and habitual reactions, not a promise that suffering can simply be made to disappear.