A Tender Space
blog & podcast
We want to create a space of tenderness just for you – a space where you can be nourished and supported. We hope that you will find inspiration and healing here.
A TENDER SPACE IS ON SUBSTACK OR IN YOUR INBOX
As of March 12, 2024, we have moved our blog over to Substack (where we also host our new podcast).
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Here are our older posts…
(Re)Introducing Ourselves
Listen to Krista read the post: Hello! My name is Krista and that, over there on the left, the one smiling at you kindly from her writing desk on the West Coast of Canada, is Heather, my business partner-slash-work-wife. I’m holed up right now in the office I have at...
Dear 2024
Listen to Krista read the post... I'm not going to lie. I am nervous about you. No. More than that. I am anxious and border-line dreading you. It's not your fault, really. You just happen to be the year of another U.S. election cycle, my kid starting with a new...
Re-Enchanting Life, the Universe, and Everything
Listen to Krista read the post: It’s a new calendar year. I frequently feel ambivalent about January - it often seems as though my ‘new year’ starts in September with the return of school. That being said, I do get as caught up as anyone else in the season's spirit of...
Tending the fire: On relationships and nurturing trust
Listen to Heather read the post: Sometimes, when it has rained all day and everything is damp, it’s nearly impossible to start a fire, even if the wood was under a tarp. Last night was one of those nights. The challenge was compounded by the fact that the only paper I...
Falling Petals: On grief as a doorway to Mystery
by Nam Pham Two months following my mother's passing away, the grief was still raw and painful. I had these sudden waves of intense sadness that flooded my inner organs and brought me to tears - the kinds of tears I had to clench my teeth to hold back while being on...
Do you still have hope? On climate change, despair, and holding space
Listen to Heather read the post: I wonder sometimes if I still have hope. Every time I read the news (and those times are becoming fewer and fewer) there are more reasons for despair. We hear dire warnings of what will happen if our global climate increases by...
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Many years ago, a friend sent me Heather’s essay, What It Means To “Hold Space” For People, Plus Eight Tips On How To Do It Well. She thought this was “right up my alley” … it was! I had recently finished a certification program on line and was feeling empty. The program was solid, the tools were solid, my fellow graduates were energetically designing websites, writing business plans, setting monetary goals …. all valid – but I couldn’t find the heart. And then – poof! Heather
-How to Hold Space Foundation Program Participant
