Be Gentle with your Heart 

Messages of self-compassion from around the world

Learn how to be kinder to yourself—people from around the world reflect on what self-compassion means to them. Visitors to the International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva, Switzerland, were asked to describe what it means to be kind to oneself. Forty of the 5000+ responses were chosen to help readers understand what self-compassion means around the globe. The original illustrated contributions appear in a variety of languages, with English translations. Supplemented with activities and games to strengthen self-compassion, this book encourages us to be kinder to ourselves. 

• Book in english and french
• An organization built on kindness: with 16 million volunteers and staff worldwide, the Red Cross’s mission is to prevent human suffering.
• This book is a collaboration with the organization’s official museum in Geneva.
• Self-compassion makes us happier: learning how to be kind to yourself is an important skill. People from around the globe share their perspectives.
• Games, activities and good advice: part inspirational, part journal, part workbook.

About the author

Patricia Cernadas Curotto is a researcher in Affective Sciences at the University of Geneva. She is interested in compassion and its role in social relationships. Her studies have focused on the impact of benevolent interventions in promoting inclusion and pro-social behavior, both in interpersonal relationships and in international contexts such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.