Where Tenderness Lives: Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space

Today, we’re joined by acclaimed author, facilitator and teacher, Heather Plett, who first joined us in Season Three when we spoke about Heather’s book, The Art of Holding Space. In this podcast, we talk about Heather’s recently released book, Where Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself, which is described as “A journey of self-exploration, forgiveness, and individual and collective healing.”


Where Tenderness Lives is an exploration of what it means to unravel what we’ve learned from our families, societies, religions, and cultures so we can heal and create purposeful and joyful lives. Heather reveals:

·       How trauma can shape our lives and our personalities; 

·       How treating ourselves with tenderness can lead to our healing, and can invite others into healing; and 

·       How learning to hold space for ourselves is one of the most important and valuable pursuits on our journeys beyond trauma.


By reflecting on her own life with vulnerability and self-compassion, including moving through her experience of rape, the death of her son, and divorce, among other trauma and life challenges, Heather provides us with a path to self-exploration and individual and collective healing.

Heather says, “This work has changed me – in hard and oh-so-beautiful ways. In learning to let go, I found freedom. In learning to hold space, I found connection. I will spend the rest of my life in this practice. I will continue to grow and deepen my understanding, and I will continue to share that learning…”

I know this will be a revealing, personal, and profoundly powerful podcast episode and I’m so grateful to Heather for joining us.

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