ABSTRACT
This book has its source in a dream the author had five years ago from which she woke up with the sentence: “Compassion, Understanding and Boundaries are the Heart of Therapy, they are the Heart of Life”. Reflecting on these words started her on a personal and professional journey.
With greater understanding and compassion and better boundaries, we can learn to live with ourselves, our past, the world and others in a more satisfying way – with less shame, anger, or guilt and with greater self-worth and equanimity.
This chapter introduces the format of the book in which reflections on compassion, understanding and boundaries and other concepts are developed as they show themselves within the context of our lives and are illustrated through numerous examples. The vignettes seek to illustrate certain experiences, her clients’ and her own.
