Suffering As a Contraction Asking to Be Softened: 80 Gentle Invitations to Loosen What Hurts and Return to Wholeness

By Michael Patrick

What's it about?

This book invites you to meet suffering not as an enemy to defeat, but as a contraction asking to be softened. Through 80 gentle reflections, it offers ways to ease pain, release tension, and return to your natural state of wholeness. You'll learn how to listen to the quiet signals beneath discomfort, respond with kindness, and open into a deeper sense of safety, presence, and love.

Who's it for?

This book is for anyone who feels the weight of tension-whether in the body, the mind, or the heart-and longs for a softer way to meet it. It's for the sensitive, the weary, the healing, and the hopeful. If you're ready to respond to suffering with curiosity instead of resistance, and to let gentleness guide you back to peace, these pages are for you.

Suffering As a Contraction offers 80 gentle invitations for those who have been silently holding too much for too long. Each entry speaks to the tender places inside you-through poetic reflections, softening helpers, and healing anchor phrases-creating space to feel, to release, and to return to wholeness.

This is for the sensitive. The overwhelmed. The ones quietly bracing.

You don't have to force healing.
You don't have to explain your pain.
You only have to soften-just a little-and stay.

Let this book be a companion for your body, your breath, and your most hurting moments.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FKZHMMKG
• ISBN13: 9798296211484
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"