Where Tenderness Lives
A journey of self-exploration,
forgiveness, and individual and
collective healing.
BY HEATHER PLETT
Where Tenderness Lives
A journey of self-exploration, forgiveness, and individual and collective healing.
BY HEATHER PLETT
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.
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
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.
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.
Where Tenderness Lives will be released on January 23, 2024. We welcome your pre-orders on Amazon (click the gold button), or check your favourite local bookstore. Heather’s favourite bookstore, McNally Robinson, is taking pre-orders.
Join us for the on-line Book Launch Event on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 8:00pm GMT! Click here to register!
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.
Where Tenderness Lives will be released on January 23, 2024. We welcome your pre-orders on Amazon (click the gold button), or check your favourite local bookstore. Heather’s favourite bookstore, McNally Robinson, is taking pre-orders.
“Some people write their stories to heal themselves. Others write their stories to heal others. This book is both. In a poignant and powerful way, Heather Plett delivers a can’t-put-down book of struggle and suffering, but also resilience and joy. Plett shows, by example and I hope by modeling, that holding space for yourself is your first and most important step on the road to your healing and freedom.“
—DAVID HAYWARD, AKA NAKED PASTOR
Want to go even deeper in your own tenderness practice?
Heather is looking forward to hosting you in Costa Rica at her upcoming retreat, Time for Tenderness: A Retreat to Hold Space for Yourself
About the Author
Heather is an embodied, intuitive, much sought-after author, speaker, facilitator, and teacher on the continually evolving concept of Holding Space. Her first book, The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation and Leadership has sold over 10,000 copies and has been translated into Dutch, with a Vietnamese edition in the works. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review and Grist magazine and has been quoted in multiple books as well as curriculum for nurses, hospice care workers, yoga teachers, facilitators, and military chaplains.
Heather is co-founder of the Centre for Holding Space and has created on-line workshops, self-study programs, in-person retreats, and curriculum for several businesses and hundreds of individuals worldwide.
Heather is currently a citizen of the world with no fixed address, though she will always call Canada home as it is still the country where her three adult daughters live and where her business partner, Krista, holds down the fort.
In her first book, The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership, Heather started with a more broad view of what it means to hold space, and in this book, she narrows the focus and talks about how her life has been enriched by the deep and healing practice of holding space for herself.
These two books represent the fullness of the work we do here at the Centre for Holding Space, exploring both what it means to hold space for others and for ourselves.
Yes, I would like to preorder
Heather’s new book, Where Tenderness Lives
In her first book, The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership, Heather started with a more broad view of what it means to hold space, and in this book, she narrows the focus and talks about how her life has been enriched by the deep and healing practice of holding space for herself.
Heather is an embodied, intuitive, much sought-after author, speaker, facilitator, and teacher on the continually evolving concept of Holding Space. Her first book, The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation and Leadership has sold over 10,000 copies and has been translated into Dutch, with a Vietnamese edition in the works. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Harvard Business Review and Grist magazine and has been quoted in multiple books as well as curriculum for nurses, hospice care workers, yoga teachers, facilitators, and military chaplains. Heather is co-founder of the Centre for Holding Space and has created on-line workshops, self-study programs, in-person retreats, and curriculum for several businesses and hundreds of individuals worldwide. Heather is currently a citizen of the world with no fixed address, though she will always call Canada home as it is still the country where her three adult daughters live and where her business partner, Krista, holds down the fort.
These two books represent the fullness of the work we do here at the
Centre for Holding Space, exploring both what it means to
hold space for others and for ourselves.