Faith Bethelard

AMMA HAS HUGGED 34 MILLION PEOPLE SO FAR.

As long as there is enough strength in these hands to reach out to those who come to her, to place her hand on a crying person’s shoulder, Amma will continue to give darshan, to lovingly caress people, to console and wipe their tears until the end of this mortal frame – this is Amma’s wish. […]

Faith Bethelard

Taking Our True Temperature: Is Tenderness Rising?

Last summer, the summer of  2019, which seems so long ago now, I was telling a friend about writing a new book, and that it would be on tenderness. My intention, I explained, was to do a shorter and “friendlier” version of my previous co-authored book, Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart. In the new […]

Faith Bethelard

How Developing a ‘Tenderness Consciousness’ Can Change Your Life.

It’s April, 2020. Spring Equinox has passed. I am in Southeastern Pennsylvania, where Spring has sprung early. On a leisurely walk with my friend yesterday I was rewarded with a magnificent feast for the senses: daffodils, forsythia and magnolia blossoms preening happily, showing off their beauty and strength. Though I live in New York City […]

Faith Bethelard

Tending Your ‘Garden’ in the Time of the Pandemic

The Coronavirus has provided us a crash course in tenderness consciousness. There is a near global shut down of day to day life with widespread concern for oneself, our loved ones, and apprehension about the future. Human beings have never faced a fear of the unknown so collectively. What we do know is that the […]