Radhule B. Weininger M.D., Ph.D.

Radhule Weininger, M.D., Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice, founder of the non-profit Mindful Heart Programs, and teacher of deep mindfulness and compassion practices and Buddhist psychology. She began her meditation studies in 1980 at Black Rock Monastery in Sri Lanka. For the past 20 years, she has been mentored in her teaching by Jack Kornfeld and by Joanna Macy in her interest in Engaged Buddhism. She is the author of Heartwork: The Path of Self-Compassion, with a foreword by Jack Kornfeld and published by Shambala Publications. Her second book is Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Freedom and Peace-at Last, with forewords by HH The Dalai Lama and Joanna Macy, will be released by Shambala Publications in December 2021. Radhule is faculty at Pacifica Graduate School. Together with her husband, Michael Kearney, who is an author and physician, she has taught self-care and resilience to caregivers locally and internationally for over 20 years. Radhule and her husband have six adult children and stepchildren and a dog named Lucy.