A Year of Living with More Compassion : 52 Weekly Quotes and Compassion Practices

In this second edition, master teachers in the fields of compassion, mindfulness, and psychology give you their favorite compassion quote, explain the lesson, and provide a compassion practice for the week 52 quotes, lessons, & compassion practices in all.

This second edition has seven sections which are organized sequentially and build upon each other:

Section 1- Self-Compassion
Section 2- Compassion Readiness
Section 3- Opening Your Compassionate Heart
Section 4- Compassion & Connection
Section 5- A Better Way to Deal with Reactive Emotions
Section 6- Opening Your Heart
Section 7- Compassion & Suffering

Richard Fields, Ph.D., (Bellevue, WA) is the founder/director of FACES, a leader in the delivery of mental health and alcohol/drug recovery conferences and home study programs. Dr. Fields brings an expertise to FACES based on his over twenty-five years of experience in conference development and private counseling. Formerly the assistant director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse's Western Regional Training Center, he has conducted training throughout the Western United States. As a consultant, Dr. Fields has worked to develop a number of University and College programs, creating educational classes, workshops and conferences (UCLA Extension, Dept. of Allied Health and Medicine, University of Washington, School of Social Work Extension, Seattle University, Edmonds Community College, University of California, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Cruz and others). Dr. Fields is the author of Drugs in Perspective, 5th edition, (McGraw Hill, 2003). This college textbook is standard in most alcohol/drug studies programs.