Giving up without giving up: meditation and depressions

'What if the suffering that we call depression contains experiences and lessons without which we cannot be fully alive?'.

This is one of the many startling questions that 'Giving Up Without Giving Up' invites us to ask ourselves.

Depression seems to be a contemporary epidemic, a condition understandably feared and avoided by all.

Yet this book explores the possibility that we have much to learn from the desert times in our lives, when it feels as though we are losing everything, most of all any sense of who we are.

Drawing on his extensive experience of meditation within both the Buddhist and Christian contemplative traditions, as well as his own times of personal loss and bewilderment, Jim Green offers us a moving account of just how this wisdom practice can accompany each of us as we make 'the gentle pilgrimage of recovery'.