Choosing Compassion

Choosing Compassion is a reflective work about what happens once we see clearly—and can no longer claim innocence.

Drawing from lived experience as an immigrant, a woman, a mother, and a professional navigating powerful institutions, Mayra Frommelt examines how silence operates not as absence, but as instruction. How language softens harm. How belonging can quietly demand complicity. And how responsibility begins not in public declarations, but in ordinary moments where we decide what we wil...