Lion's Roar contributor and The Present Heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Discovery author Polly Young-Eisendrath has provided a signed copy of her newest book.

The Present Heart is an insightful journey of living in the present moment. In a deeply moving yet unsentimental voice, Young-Eisendrath draws on her lifelong practices of Buddhism and psychoanalysis and her own unique view of love, as well as a circle of profound thinkers. 

After a chance encounter with a handsome, idealistic stranger on a plane in 1969, Polly Young-Eisendrath rediscovered Ed Epstein a decade later when she least expected it. After untangling themselves from their existing relationships, they married in 1985 and spent the next 25 years together. They were soul mates, but in 2001, Ed (at the vital age of 53) began to show signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Over the next 10 years, as her husband gradually reversed his mental maturity, Young-Eisendrath was faced with the question, what is love?

Polly Young Eisendrath, Ph.D., Psychologist, Jungian Analyst, author. A psychotherapist and popular speaker, she has published many chapters and articles, as well as fourteen books that have been translated into more than twenty languages. Polly is a long-time practitioner of Zen Buddhism (since 1971) and Vipassana (since 1998), and is certified as a meditation teacher in the Vipassana tradition of Shinzen Young.

Ms. Young-Eisendrath's website: http://young-eisendrath.com/index.php