Letters from a Psychiatrist: The Pacific Heart, Ravi Chandra
Ravi Chandra, M.D., Dr. Steven HassanEngaged Psychiatrist, Citizen, Buddhist, and 1.8 Generation Immigrant from India, adding to creative, conscious, nonviolent, and compassionate responses to cruelty, for our shared (and emotional) journeys of identity, belonging, wellness, and meaning.
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Psychiatrist, writer, compassion educator, filmmaker. “Don’t follow me. Follow your Noble Path. If we can help each other on these paths, so be it.”
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