@article{Monshat_2016, title={Touching the compassionate heart: the ground of healing}, volume={3}, url={https://ijwpc.mcgill.ca/article/view/118}, DOI={10.26443/ijwpc.v3i2.118}, abstractNote={<p dir="ltr"><span>I am a psychiatrist, psychotherapist, secular mindfulness teacher and former university lecturer. Having conducted research in fields varying from laboratory molecular medicine to clinical applications of mindfulness, I took a two year sabbatical to focus on an inner search and healing. It was spent mostly spent in Plum Village: a Buddhist monastery in France in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. I have recently returned to clinical work.</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-c9328cb0-f2ca-4a2b-c1c0-f544621338b6"><span>I found that it was not until I took a compassionate view of myself that I truly began to heal; and that following my heart was the only way I could negotiate the uncertainties of the path.</span></span>}, number={2}, journal={The International Journal of Whole Person Care}, author={Monshat, Kaveh}, year={2016}, month={Jun.} }