Verses of Transformation
Sister Dang Nghiem’s latest book brings together over three decades of her poetry, charting her journey from grief and trauma to insight and compassion.
Sister Dang Nghiem
Sister Dang Nghiem earned a medical degree from the University of California–San Francisco and later left her practice as a doctor to live at Thich Nhat Hanh’s Plum Village, where she was ordained as a nun in 2000. She is the author of the memoir Healing: A Woman’s Journey from Doctor to Nun (2010) and Mindfulness as Medicine: A Story of Healing and Spirit (2015). Her latest book is Flowers in the Dark, a guidebook to healing trauma with mindfulness practice.
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Podcasts
Transforming Grief into Wisdom
Sister Dang Nghiem explores how poetry, together with mindfulness, can offer not just a description of suffering but a way out of it.
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