
Teaching With Tenderness


Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive
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several books of spiritual reflections transmitted a spark for this book, including Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion by Pema Chödrön and The Hundred Verses of Advice by Dilgo Khysentse Rinpoche.
Patricia Donegan • Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart
In cultivating compassion we draw from the wholeness of our experience—our suffering, our empathy, as well as our cruelty and terror. It has to be this way. Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. C
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