Feeling Our Way: Embracing The Tender Heart

Our world is struggling—economically, environmentally, politically—and many of us ache and yearn for healing. Not only personally, but globally, the needs of others claim our attention, especially when we tune into our empathic sensitivities. Our feelings offer us important information, but culturally we have learned to devalue or ignore them. Paradoxically, this is the very reason why we’re struggling on the small and larger scale.

Tenderness, a gentle, loving quality of the heart, ideally ...