Are you wrestling with your Demons? Struggling with depression, anxiety, illness, an eating disorder, a difficult relationship, fear, self-hatred, addiction, or anger? Renowned American Buddhist leader Tsultrim Allione explains that the harder we fight our demons, the stronger they become. If we want to liberate ourselves from the fight once and for all, we must reverse our approach and nurture our demons. In Feeding Your Demons, Allione adapts the revolutionary wisdom of Tibet�s greatest female spiritual master for the first time, providing a powerful method for coping with the inner enemies that undermine your best intentions. Based on an extraordinarily simple yet effective five-step practice, Feeding Your Demons outlines a strategy for transforming negative emotions, relationships, fears, illness, and self-defeating patterns. By recognizing your demons, giving them form, and then feeding them, you can free yourself from the battle. And the paradigm shift from fighting to feeding demons can apply not only to your personal challenges but also to the challenges of the world at large. Enriched with detailed examples to show how others have transformed their demons, Feeding Your Demons will give you remarkable new insight into the forces that threaten to defeat you, along with the tools to achieve inner peace.

Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict, Tsultrim Allione, Little Brown Spark, Hardcover, 288 pages, $28.00

Tsultrim Allione, one of the first American women to be ordained in the Tibetan tradition, she lived for several years as a nun in the Himalayas, studying and practicing with the great Tibetan teachers. When she returned to the West, she left monastic life, married, and became a mother. While raising her three children, she wrote her groundbreaking book, Women of Wisdom. In 1993 she founded Tara Mandala, a 700-acre retreat center in Colorado. She travels worldwide and is highly respected as a Western Buddhist teacher, bringing together psychological and spiritual insights.

	Contents: Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict
	Foreword by Jack Kornfield	ix
	Introduction	3
	PART ONE: THE ANCIENT PRACTICE
1	Meeting the Demon	13
2	Discovering the Practice	25
3	What are Demons	38
	PART TWO: FEEDING YOUR DEMONS
4.	How to Feed Your Demons	51
5.	The Five Steps in Action	74
6.	Hydras: Demon Complexes	90
7.	Working With Your Demons Through Art and Maps	96
	PART THREE: TYPES OF DEMONS
8.	Machig's Four Demons, Gods, and God-Demons	107
9.	Demons of Illness	118
10.	Demons of Fear	135
11.	Demons of Love	151
12.	Demons of Addiction	162
13.	Demons of Abuse	172
14.	Family Demons	180
15.	Demons of the Mind	193
16.	Demons of Elation	217
17.	The Demons of Egocentricity	225
	PART FOUR: DEEPENING YOUR DEMON WORK
18.	Direct Liberation	237
19.	Demons in the Wider World	243
	Afterword: From Machig's Last Instructions	254
	Appendix:: Abbreviated Version of the Five Steps of Feeding Your Demons	257
	Further Reading	261
	Resources	263
	Acknowledgments	265
	Index	268