About Susan Piver

Susan Piver is a Buddhist teacher and the New York Times bestselling author of many books, including The Wisdom of a Broken Heart and Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation. Her latest is The Four Noble Truths of Love: Buddhist Wisdom for Modern Relationships. She is founder of The Open Heart Project, an international online meditation community.

My Partner Disapproves

by Susan Piver| October 21, 2019

Susan Piver answers a reader’s question about meditation and relationships.

Worried About Worrying

by Susan Piver| September 7, 2018

Susan Piver gives advice on working with a mind that can’t stop working over every detail.

Loving the Many Sides of You

by Susan Piver| May 12, 2017

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Susan Piver shares her practice for loving all of your imperfections and contradictions.

5 Ways Not to Bite the Trump Hook

by Susan Piver| February 16, 2017

Getting hooked by your habitual reactions isn’t going to help anyone, says Susan Piver. She suggests five ways you can respond more skillfully.

Offer Your Depression

by Susan Piver| January 2, 2017

Once I was in a meeting with a publisher to discuss a book I was writing (for which he had paid a tidy sum). He hated it. He hated me.

Six Ways to Make It Work

by Susan Piver| February 9, 2016

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Relationships aren’t easy, says Susan Piver, but if we practice the six paramitas, or transcendent perfections, we can discover how to live in love.

Going Beyond Republican and Democrat

by Susan Piver| November 5, 2012

Susan Piver knows who she’s voting for in the 2012 US presidential election. As for who she’s rooting for? The answer to that is “all of us.”

Wisdom of a Broken Heart — a blog by Susan Piver. Part 2: Dashboard Confessional

by Susan Piver| February 12, 2010

Susan Piver’s two-part story from her book tour promoting Wisdom of a Broken Heart.

Wisdom of a Broken Heart – Part 1: The Reluctant Road Warrior

by Susan Piver| January 14, 2010

Susan Piver’s two-part story from her book tour promoting Wisdom of a Broken Heart.

My Vows

by Susan Piver| July 1, 2008

Love all beings? Love even one? Either way, your heart breaks open. Susan Piver ponders the choiceless choices.