Healing with Heart from Moss Communications

Being Strong and Vulnerable

Healing with Heart: Inspirations for Health Care Professionals uses everyday events and stories to put us back in touch with our passion for our work. One way to re-ignite passion is to reconnect with our humanity and with the humanity of others. Healing with Heart, the latest book from Moss Communications, addresses topics that touch on inner truths that are not often discussed in the break room or before the daily huddle.

Healing with Heart articulates ideas that may seem contradictory or may not appear to have any relevance to health care. That is part of its appeal. Healing with Heart is designed to stimulate the mind and the heart. The reflection on strength and vulnerability is a good example of this. Here is an excerpt from Being Strong and Vulnerable from the book:

Many of us believe that strength and vulnerability are opposites. The fact is that nobody is stronger than the person who is truly vulnerable because he is making a conscious choice to be open to experiencing a full range of feelings.

We pride ourselves on being strong and self-directed and think of vulnerability as a weakness. Instead of trying to deny our vulnerable feelings, there is value in letting them influence the way we live, both at home and at work.

The expression of empathy generates healing qualities in a hospital setting and in us. To bring a healing presence to those we serve amounts to so much more than being merely technically adept. It is the capacity to be open to the suffering that we see and to use this state of mind to empathize as one human being to another…