Compassionate Heart Series: Just One Heart Book Study 1

Join us at the Saint Marianne Cope Shrine & Museum for a book study on Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness by Dr. Jonathan Fisher, MD,FACC. A cardiologist and mindfulness teacher, Dr. Fisher blends Western science with Eastern wisdom for holistic well-being. Open to all, each session will offer insights and discussion on a different section. For our first session, we will focus on Chapters 1-4.

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Our hearts are aching — physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.

In Just One Heart, Dr. Jonathan Fisher, a Harvard-trained cardiologist and mindfulness teacher, shares an evidence-based approach to wholehearted living, grounded in the latest research in medicine, psychology, and neuroscience.

Drawing from both Western science and Eastern wisdom, this book offers practical tools and daily practices to reduce stress, strengthen emotional resilience, and reconnect with what truly matters.

You’ll find insights from his personal journey through anxiety and burnout, inspiring patient stories, and conversations with over fifty leading experts in mind-body health.

Whether you’re a healthcare professional, a compassionate leader, or simply someone seeking to feel more whole, this book will help you awaken the power of the mind-heart connection.

Discover how living and leading with just one heart can transform your health—and your life.

About the Compassionate Heart Series

The Compassionate Heart Series, presented by Saint Marianne Cope Museum in collaboration with Francis House is a series of programs that support the values of presence, respect, and empathy to caregivers and patients.

At the Saint Marianne Cope Museum, we celebrate a woman who was a pioneer in holistic healthcare. Her innovations in hygiene and hospital care, patients’ rights and whole mind, body and spirit healing, are especially relevant today. The compassion, hope, beauty and dignity given to her patients in the hospitals she administered is the foundation that we build upon through providing support services for people experiencing life’s challenges.

The Sister Kathleen Osbelt Center of Francis House uses our experience as a social-model of community care for the dying and our Franciscan values to increase awareness, educate, serve, and support persons with terminal illness and those who care for them. Our core values of compassion, acceptance, respect and dignity guide and inform our care and outreach. We offer community education aligned with empowering a healthy and natural dying and grieving process, and to support compassionate care for people on the journey at the end-of-life.

“The heart is more than an organ – it’s the center of our emotional, social and spiritual well-being.” Dr. Jonathan Fisher; Just One Heart

This ongoing series includes meaningful workshops and gatherings, such as an August book study of “Just One Heart” by Jonathan Fisher, MD, FACC and centers around a special Heart-to-Heart Conversation with Dr. Fisher in September. Each session offers a blend of reflection, storytelling, learning, and community. It is designed to nurture the inner lives of those who so often put others first.

Participants will learn how to align heart and mind in moments of care, navigate emotional challenges like burnout and moral injury, and rediscover meaning in the sacred act of caregiving. Whether you’re a healthcare professional, advocate, or family caregiver, this talk, and all the Compassionate Heart Series programs will offer powerful tools to care for others without losing yourself along the way.