The Beginning of the Beginning to The Heart of Sacred Listening.
I am most delighted to begin sharing with you the first draft of my book, The Heart of Sacred Listening, The Key to Transforming Your Relationships, Your Work, and Your Life.
My book begins with blessings for the journey, followed by a greeting, and then the chapter titles, which are shared in this post. Next week, on May 28, the Introduction will be arriving at your heart’s digital doorstep.
May you enjoy reading, and please feel the authenticity of my words, spoken directly to you.
And a brief note: I have done some soul searching and have decided to leave the rate for paid subscribers at $6 monthly, $60 annually.
Welcome to the Heart of Sacred Listening
I greet you in a perhaps peculiar kind of way. I greet you the way people in Eastern Tibet greet each other as they pass each other in those high mountain trails.
Similar to the more familiar “namaste,” they bring their palms together in front of their chest, bow slightly, look into the other person’s eyes, and say, “Tashi Deley.”
What does “Tashi Deley” mean?
It means, “I honor the greatness in you. I honor the place in your heart where lives your courage, honor, love, hope, and dreams. I honor the place in you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.”
It is a beautiful greeting.
“Tashi Deley.”
Blessings
May The Heart of Sacred Listening: The Key to Transforming Your Relationships, Your Work, and Your Life, be your teacher, your companion, and your guide for a while, as the path ahead calls to you to fulfill, as poet Mary Oliver says, your “one wild and precious life.”
May you find the extraordinary and the precious within your own core, touching the love and wisdom that lies within, and from there, may you emerge into a new world, a world of your own creation.
May others be healed and enlivened by the sacredness of your Presence and your Listening.
May you welcome yourself – your True self – at a new door with joy and elation.
May you find your Self as your own inner teacher, your own inner Guide.
May you experience all of what life has to offer you as a gift.
May you be surprised by who you are and what your life is meant to be at the end of this conversation.
May The Heart of Sacred Listening serve as a door to renewal, opening you into your next New Life.
Table of Contents
PART I: Awakening Your Sacred Listening for Others
1. “Who Am I?”: The Question that Opened My Life
2. My Dad and I: From Fear to Love
3. Transforming My Relationship with My Father: The Gift of Heart Listening
4. Making This Your Own: Setting Yourself up for a Breakthrough
5. Files: Take Off Your Dark Glasses: They Don’t Help you See
6. Shifting your Listening: From Disconnect to Connect
7. Listening a Person’s Soul into Existence: Dacon’s Story
8. “Honey, You are Just like Me!”: From Adversary to Friend
9. It Was All in the Stopping: Awakening Awareness
10. What Do I Do with My Triggered Reactions? Catch, Release, and Shift
11. Building Relationships: The Foundation for Everything
12. Listening Heals: Doug’s Story
13. Cleaning it Up with the Team: Dale’s story
PART II: Awakening Your Sacred Listening for Yourself
14. Integrity: Creating Wholeness and Completion
15. Deepening Integrity in Your Life: Having Integrity be Your Foundation
16. The Power of Forgiveness: From Suffering to Peace
17. Creating Space for the Rest of Your Life
18. The Secret Keys to Inventing Your Future
PART III: Awakening Your Sacred Listening for the World
19. Stand-Taking as You Move through Life: My Great Medical Adventure
20. Creating a Sacred Listening for Life: Transforming Your Relationship to Problems and Breakdowns
21. Declaring Breakdowns as a Key to Breakthroughs: from Expectation to Commitment
22. Getting Interested in Getting Interested: Our Marriage Relationship Thrives
23. Bringing Gratefulness, Faith, and Stand-Taking to a Crisis: Don’s Cancer Story
PART IV: Awakening Your Sacred Listening for Spirit
24. Discovering My Sealed Orders: A Path of Many Colors
25. Creating a Listening for the Sacred: Leading a Life of True Joy
Free Subscribers can access the introduction and the first four chapters.
The entire book will be released on Substack before the official launch of the print version on April 28th, 2026.
Paid Subscribers ($6 monthly/ $60 annually) will receive:
The entire serialized book
The opportunity for community engagement around the book
The opportunity to be a part of the creation process
2 Zoom Q & A sessions in the course of the year for sharing, coaching, questions and answers
And for my Patrons ($400 annually):
A deep “Thank you so much!” for supporting this journey.
You will receive everything the paid subscribers get, plus
My behind-the-scenes story of my book-writing process
One 1-1 coaching session with me