Our hearts encompass the totality of our lives, and depending on our level of attunement, it also holds the experiences of others, other life forms, even abstract ideas that may settle into our awareness and shape experience.
When the fragments of our broken hearts feel more acute, even the slightest extension of self-compassion practices (hand on heart; gentle words; cupping of the face, for example) can allow the feelings to be felt more tenderly, with nurturance, and maybe even love. This movement is central to the healing of our hearts, our trauma work, our bodies-emotional and physical.
The wholeness of heart sees the pain, holds her and also experiences how delicate, precious and beautiful so many things are.