Mel Thomas's Reviews > Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone who isn’t in a very stable place. Nhat Hahn tends to emphasize reconciliation at all costs and practicing compassion for abusers in a way that could be harmful if you’re recovering from being abused yourself. He also has an overall penchant for paternalism that could, quite frankly, make this book a dangerous tool in the hands of an abuser. (Big “my burnout college boyfriend read this book and used it to trample over my boundaries” kind of energy.)

That said, mindfulness has been and remains the single most helpful tool I’ve found to manage my mental health over the years, and this book contains a lot of useful instructions on how to practice it in a sustainable, everyday way. It’s right there on the tin. Fully planning to take what was useful and leave the rest.