Where Tenderness Lives, Heather Plett
Where Tenderness Lives, Heather Plett
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Where Tenderness Lives
On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself

Author: Heather Plett

Narrator: Heather Plett

Unabridged: 6 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Page Two

Published: 04/30/2024


Synopsis

A journey of self-exploration, forgiveness, and individual and collective healing.

Where Tenderness Lives is a loving exploration of what it means to unravel what we’ve learned from our families, societies, religions, and cultures in order to heal and create a purposeful and joyful life. In this illuminating book, acclaimed author Heather Plett reveals:

● How trauma—from the earliest patterns of our upbringing to devastating events—can shape our lives and our personalities
● How treating ourselves with radical tenderness can be the balm of healing for our wounded selves, and how this healing can invite others into their own healing
● How learning to hold space for ourselves—our hopes, our aspirations, and our desires—is one of the most worthwhile pursuits of a life well-lived

Each chapter in this heartfelt and honest book contains a revelation about how to move from shades of fear and doubt to freedom and joy. Through stories that range from what it meant to grow up Mennonite to surviving a horrific assault; from leaving a marriage that no longer worked to the poignant moment her grown daughters leave home, Plett provides a vocabulary of understanding how we grew into the people we are and how to move on from what no longer serves us.

By reflecting on her own life with vulnerability and self-compassion, Plett provides a springboard for your own self-exploration, as well as a path to individual and collective healing.

About Heather Plett

Heather Plett is an international speaker, facilitator, and author of the acclaimed book The Art of Holding Space. She is also the co-founder of the Centre for Holding Space and has trained people from all over the world in her Holding Space Practitioner Program. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review and the Globe and Mail and has been referenced in curriculum for nurses, hospice care workers, yoga teachers, and military chaplains. Learn more at heatherplett.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ioana on August 09, 2024

What a tender, soft, delightful book! I followed Heather's work here and there and when I found she wrote a new book I looked it up and the title spoke so tender to me. This book was nothing I was expecting, but from the first chapter I knew it held messages for me. It's a book full of vulnerability......more

Goodreads review by Lucy on February 07, 2024

This book is awesome! I am seriously in awe of Heather’s honesty, authenticity, insight, integrity, wisdom and brilliant writing in this book. I guarantee you will be touched when you read it. In it she shares many very (very) personal stories and explains what she has learnt and how she is healing......more

Goodreads review by Megha on September 30, 2024

What an incredibly powerful and generous telling of one’s life story. It is deeply honest, vulnerable and insightful. It gently guided me in navigating my own relational storms, helping me understand what liberation can mean in the context of relating with family, culture and partnership; reminding......more

Goodreads review by Genny on July 06, 2024

Superb. So much to think about and embrace. What a journey.......more

Goodreads review by Dorothy on February 08, 2024

Well written with many interesting concepts. A few passages really hit and made me tear up, and a few prompted me to add a sticky note to go back to. Not the perfect book but very enjoyable!......more


Quotes

“Ever a reliable source of grace, Heather Plett once again offers a sunlit window into the process of healing. Where Tenderness Lives is an honest-to-the-bones chronicling of a woman’s metamorphosis in a patriarchal culture, turning the pain and shame of trauma into joyful, embodied freedom. This is the kind of inspiration that lifts all women.” —Becky Vollmer, author of You Are Not Stuck

“To tell our stories is brave and beautiful, especially those we’d prefer to forget. Heather Plett does this with vulnerability and grace. Through experiences are distinctly hers, she tenderly and brilliantly invites us into our own, offering profound healing and hope along the way.” —Ronna Detrick, author of Rewriting Eve