NetGalley Review

This was such an interesting read. As a Yogi and one that studies working through ‘trauma’ it was such an interesting journey to see it outside of this modern wester USA world where everything is a trauma response and everything is a trauma.

Where this. Book lays out a lot of what a trauma is but also how to cover come it. Something i see western cultures lack, they glory the trauma. This book take the trauma and tells the stories of cultures that teach how to climb the moutain in your personal self to over come said trauma.

Highly recommend this and I can’t wait to get a physical copy of this and use this in my Yoga Ancestral trauma coaching class.

The Refuge in the Storm is a fascinating read, an anthology of crisis management cases on a private/group/societal level from a Buddhism prism. Interestingly enough at times, it reads as a textbook, as the reader gets a glimpse of crisis management theory, some passages explaining Buddhism as a paradigm and cases of real people and events.
Personally, I'd appreciate a small chapter at the beginning with an explanation of the main principles of Buddhism, I am personally not well-versed in the theory of Buddhism.
Regardless, it was an interesting read and can be a very useful material/handbook for crisis management professionals and, also, regular people who want to pass through turmoils with possibly less anxious viewpoints.

Refuge in the Storm is an extremely thorough and thoughtful collections of writings in which the through line is a deepened connection to Buddhism. As a long time Tibetan Buddhist this book absolutely delivered what I was looking for. There is a vast collection of voices here, and they all come across as one compassionate expression of helping. My interest in this book was to read about simple, gentle approaches to helping that would further reinforce my connection to my spirituality. The book does exactly that. The delivery of every writing is unique, well organized and diverse. I was thankful to have the chance to read this book at the exact point in which I needed it.

a good breath of air.

a book with good explanations from Buddhists about crisis care, how to provide spiritual companionship, which I think is relatively important, how to overcome crises with a head and compassion and how to develop self-awareness. (and many more)

"You have indeed restored me"

I did in fact enjoyed reading this book, it was something different, a challenge for me, but indeed very interesting.
I will reread some parts of this book and bring, maybe, another review, more specific.
Thank you so much for the opportunity.

This collection of essays by Buddhist care workers discusses Buddhist approaches to large scale and community crisis especially lifecycle crisis rd such as sickness aging and death approaches to self care and stress management for crisis workers, Buddhist care workers training program and Buddhist education. Principles in Buddhist care work involves ahimsa (do no harm, each person you work with is unique and holy respecting spiritual. Religion and cultural diversity. And meeting the person on their own level.