Tara Bennett-Goleman, M.A., is a psychologist, longtime mindfulness practitioner, and New York Times best-selling author. Tara’s books are Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart, and Mind Whispering: A New Map to Freedom from Self-Defeating Emotional Habits. She is known for bringing attention to emotional schemas and how to use mindfulness to ease out of long-entrenched habits which no longer serve us. Tara is working closely on a new international project with the Dalai Lama, The Compassionate Leadership Summit.