A Journey to Compassion: Learning to Stand Firm in the Face of Pain - Couverture souple

Mercado, Felipe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1957058315 ISBN 13 : 9781957058313

Editeur : Fig Factor Media Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

What if the pain that almost destroyed you became the wisdom that helped set others free?

A Journey to Compassion: Learning to Stand Firm in the Face of Pain is not a self-help book. It is a testimony. Raw, honest, and unapologetic, the kind of story many people are taught to keep quiet.

Dr. Felipe Mercado writes from inside the wreckage: homeless at fourteen, addicted to meth and cocaine, spending time in juvenile hall, and surviving the streets of Fresno's Central Valley. He writes from the places that do not make the highlight reel: the nights he did not know where he would sleep, the years he numbed himself to stay alive, and the losses of his brother Sammy and his best friend David, which opened wounds he had not yet learned how to name. He also writes from the other side, not because the pain disappeared, but because he learned what to do with it.

This is not a sanitized success story. It is a full account of what it costs to survive conditions that were never built to protect you, and what it takes to become whole anyway.

Inside this book, readers will find:

• Real stories of childhood adversity, poverty, addiction, incarceration, grief, and survival, told with honesty instead of performance.
• Deep reflections on trauma, masculinity, cultural erasure, identity, and what healing actually asks of us.
• Compassion-centered practices shaped by the Compassion Institute, mindfulness traditions, social work, and hard-earned street wisdom.
• Trauma and neuroscience insights grounded in the work of Bruce Perry, Bessel van der Kolk, and Gabor Mate.
• A reminder that your story is not a liability. It can become medicine.

Dr. Mercado speaks directly to the people who grew up in what he calls Poverty 4x: concentrated, multigenerational adversity shaped by trauma, poverty, racism, and cultural erasure. These conditions can rewire the brain, distort self-worth, and leave entire communities surviving pain they were born into, not pain they chose.

For educators, counselors, social workers, parents, community leaders, and anyone who has carried pain in silence and wondered if healing was still possible, A Journey to Compassion is more than inspiration. It is instruction. The kind of book you read and carry into Monday morning.

Compassion is not softness. It is discipline. It is courage. It is one of the most radical strategies available to those of us who were never supposed to make it.

If you are ready to stand firm in the face of pain, this journey is yours.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fig Factor Media Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1957058315
• ISBN 13: 9781957058313
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 214
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg