"A powerfully personal, practical guide to transforming the depths of grief and despair into the gold of wisdom and understanding."
“In 2014, one of the worst things that could happen to anyone happened to me – my daughter Melissa took her own life”. This tragedy forced author Malcom Stern, a psychotherapist with thirty years’ experience, to “examine my very existence and expand my concept of who I was. It demanded that I either mature or disintegrate”.
Courageous, compassionate and wise, Slay Your Dragons with Compassion - Ten Ways to Thrive Even When It Feels Impossible is a manual for navigating our way through such bleak “tragedies, fears and confusions”. In Stern’s words, finding ways to handle such “inevitable events, we have the possibility of alchemizing our experience, turning the base metal of our pain into the gold of wisdom, understanding, enrichment and purpose.”
Through insightful, demonstrative anecdotes, Stern shares practical exercises to guide readers along that rocky road to the gold of wisdom. Among them, he discusses the importance and value of bearing witness i.e. “opening to the world with full sensitivity”. Though this can be raw and painful, “When we are truly seen for who we are, and likewise, when we truly see another for who they truly are, life flows.”
Tender and tough, lucid and warm, this soul-stirring story of loss and resilience is also an easy-to read toolkit with the power to inspire, support and transform lives.
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