Patricia Wolff & Compassionate Communication
Patricia with her daughter, granddaughter, and mother
Today, I’m excited to share a wonderful and timely new resource—Compassionate Communication—generously created by my dear friend, Patricia Wolff. I have known Patricia for over three decades, and we’re grateful that our special connection has been deepening with each passing year. Our common interests include: drying persimmons from our trees, spending time with our adorable grandchildren, and the challenges and rewards of caring for our mothers who are in their nineties and live close by.
Like my father, Patricia has dedicated her life to self-discovery, healing, and personal growth. I love how she embraces life’s challenges as “portals of transformation, ”digging in with curiosity, rather than running away in dread.
Patricia’s background is wonderfully eclectic. She is a chiropractic physician, homeopath, marriage and family therapist, meditation teacher, and lay ordained Zen priest. She is the friend that introduced me to the Monterey Bay Zen Center and my Zen teacher, Katherine Thanas so many years ago, and with whom I carpooled almost every Tuesday for eighteen years.
Patricia has studied and taught compassionate communication for many years, and has much wisdom to share about the healing power of focused attention on the way we speak and listen to others as well as to ourselves. This gateway of self-discovery is completely in line with my father’s focus on shining the light of our awareness onto our ancient patterns so that we can become conscious of them. Only then can we choose to let them go of habitual patterns and open ourselves up to new, far more pleasant, experience.
“Compassionate communication techniques help us embrace relationship challenges as opportunities for increased intimacy and deep healing,” Patricia says. “When we recognize our habitual responses to ourselves, others, and our world, we become aware of our all-too-familiar stories and triggers, and have the opportunity to gently challenge them instead of endlessly repeating them.”
While most of us are cooped up with family members or roommates during this challenging time, tensions can run high. That makes it a perfect opportunity for embarking on a new adventure of self-exploration and discovery in the arena of communications.
The journey continues!
Myra
Click here to access the Compassionate Communication Resource
