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READ MORE. POST LESS
A Filipino Father Who Had No Word For Empathy, and the Daughter Who Didn't Need One
Read More, Post Less is a deeply reflective and emotionally intelligent memoir/self-development book centered around empathy, identity, healing, education, family influence, and human connection in the modern world. Through powerful storytelling, personal memories, psychological insight, and philosophical reflection, the author explores how compassion, quiet acts of kindness, teachers, parents, and emotional presence shape a person’s life far more than status, performance, or social media validation.
What This Book Explores:
The Power of True Empathy
How to cultivate the deep capacity to witness and validate another person’s humanity
without judgment.
Practicing Cultural Humility
Shifting away from rigid biases and learning to hold an open, respectful, and life-long
space for diverse cultural stories.
space for diverse cultural stories.
Living Authentically
Moving past the superficial noise of modern life so you can show up fully as your true,
uncompromised self.
uncompromised self.
Cultivating Believers
Building real, high-frequency relationships with people who genuinely believe in you, hold safe
space for you, and see your worth.
space for you, and see your worth.
“Read More. Post Less does an amazing job capturing the author’s appreciation for the legacy her father provided – not in accolades or public accomplishments to emulate, but in an appreciation for relationally seeing and being seen, and valuing the person outside of their accolades. Not only that, but it was awesome to see how he, and other important people across her life’s journey, modeled principles like empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness, long before she learned therapeutic language for them or the framework that helped her enhance the use of them professionally. This book is a great example of how the pioneers in the field of psychology didn’t create these principles out of thin air; rather, they systematized
them to confirm their validity, increase appreciation for them, and thus increase the intentional professional usage of them for the benefit of everyone served.”
them to confirm their validity, increase appreciation for them, and thus increase the intentional professional usage of them for the benefit of everyone served.”
“Irene’s work reads at times like a poem on the nature of empathy and by aspiring to poetry, it both delights and instructs. In this book-length examination, she writes evocatively of her first language, Bisaya, which she described as ‘the language closest to the body,’ but this phrase could also describe an important dimension of empathy. Like the movement of therapeutic action, her book is a working through of themes that we can each recognize even when biographical details may appear vastly different. For psychotherapists, particularly those of us who are therapists of color, she reminds us that proximity does not equate to understanding and that empathy is always work that is underway.”
“Read More Post Less by Irene Laturnas Velasco, LMFT, is a remarkable book: part memoir, part psychotherapy manual. Her inspirational story of her father’s unconditional love and its foundation in her striving and success is moving and masterfully written. Irene Laturnas Velasco skillfully interweaves therapeutic concepts to illustrate her experiences and enlighten her readers. Written in her compelling, conversational style, this book will benefit anyone dealing with cultural differences, grief, and the long journey toward self-acceptance.”