Using the powerful metaphor of the rhythmic breathing of meditation and drawing examples from the lives of a variety of people author Gail Straub shows readers how to help themselves while helping others. Written with clarity and wisdom, each chapter contains exercises on how we can get to the root of healing develop compassion and our passion into action to heal ourselves others and the very planet we live on.

The Rhythm of Compassion offers good news for anyone who’s ever gotten lost in their own problems or burned out taking care of others. As Gail writes the health of human psyche and the health of the world are inextricably related and we cannot truly heal one without healing the other.

Gail Straub has been a teacher and activist for more than two decades. In 1981, along with her husband David Gershon, she founded empowerment training programs. They’ve taught all over America and Europe, Russia, china, and now Gail lives with her husband in the Hudson River Valley in New York.