The Courage of Care

By Brooke Lavelle

In The Courage of Care, an audio course from Scribd Coach, Courage of Care founder Brooke Lavelle dives into our society’s crisis of connection by presenting a new model of care that enables us to open up our ability to connect — interpersonally as well as with people you may never meet.

In the course, Lavelle covers various modes of care;discusses how we can allow ourselves to receive care in order to learn what it really looks like; covers deep self-care, the act of emphasizing feeling safe and at home in our own bodies and minds; and offers advice for extending care to others and seeing them in all their humanity.

If you’re looking to develop your sense of empathy and community, want to express your care for others, or want more compassion abound in your life, The Courage of Care was made for you. Dive in and feel the care.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scribd Coach
• Release date: Mar 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9781094445397

Book preview

The Courage of Care

THE COURAGE OF CARE

Rethinking Love & Compassion

BROOKE LAVELLE

SCRIBD COACH

Contents

About Scribd Coach

Introduction

Rethinking Care: Love & Compassion

Receiving Care

Deep Self Care

Extending Care

Conclusion

About the Author

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ISBN: 9781094445397

First e-book edition: April 2023

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Introduction

Hello everyone! I’m Brooke Lavelle, and this is The Courage of Care: Rethinking Love & Compassion, a course from Scribd. Thank you for joining me.

For some time now, our society has been facing a crisis of connection. Polarized and polarizing politics, rising nationalism, exploitation of people, and the degradation of our environment all share the same root — a profound sense of separation from each other and the Earth.

We need to respond to these crises of connection as if our lives and the lives of our children depend on it — because they do. And we need to respond in ways that draw upon and center our natural capacity for love and compassion, so that, at the very least, we do not perpetuate the very crises we wish to address.

We need to reclaim a commitment to the we, grounding our hearts, our work, and our movements ever more in an ethic of care.

That’s why I’ve created this course. In order to even begin to move our world towards healing, we must first reconnect with love, compassion and care.

This course is designed to present a model of care that may be unfamiliar to many people. By changing the way we think about love, compassion