Rachel Kaplan, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist, TEDx speaker, and respected educator, whose first book, Feel, Heal & Let That Sh*t Go: Your Guide to Emotional Resilience and Lasting Self-Love (New World Library), presents a “radically new, extraordinarily effective tool kit for recognizing, embracing, and processing all the feelings that life has to offer” (Eva Hagberg). Creator and host of the acclaimed podcast Healing Feeling Sh*t Show, Kaplan is active on a variety of social media channels. She has studied yoga, meditation, and hands-on healing practices in India and Nepal, earned a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and trained in cutting-edge trauma modalities such as EMDR. She runs a thriving therapy practice based out of the San Francisco Bay Area and currently divides her time between Oakland and Joshua Tree, California. See thefeelingsmovement.com for more info.
The unlikely key to compassion
How willingness to feel your pain unlocks the door to compassion
with Rachel Kaplan
In a world marked by division, pain, and challenges, it's easy to find our hearts hardening and our compassion waning. Yet, the capacity to heal pain and keep our hearts open is exactly what’s needed to make positive contributions to the world. What can we do to keep the flame of compassion alive? This December, Rachel Kaplan; author, TEDx speaker and licensed psychotherapist, will teach us techniques to release emotional pain and restore balance to our inner worlds. By nurturing our own emotional well-being, we can cultivate the compassion and strength needed to build a more peaceful and harmonious world.
Rachel Kaplan