The Heart of Sacred Listening
Amba is writing her next book!
“The Heart of Sacred Listening: The Key to Transforming Your Relationships, Your Work, and Your Life.”
What if listening—truly listening—
could transform your life?
In The Heart of Sacred Listening, master coach and award-winning author Amba Gale invites you on a transformational journey inward, where silence becomes wisdom, and listening becomes power. Through narratives, teaching reflections, and soul-stirring questions, this book opens a portal into deep connection with yourself, with others, with the world, and with the divine.
For over four decades, Amba has guided leaders, seekers, teachers, and creatives through personal and professional thresholds. Now, she brings that wisdom to the page, helping you:
- Rediscover the art of listening from the heart
- Heal relationships by shedding judgment and stories
- Turn inner criticism into compassion
- Meet life’s obstacles with resilience, grace, and creativity
- Create a new future aligned with purpose and wonder
Drawing from personal stories, spiritual traditions, and profound inquiries, Amba offers more than a book—it’s a sacred conversation, a reflective companion, and a call to awaken.
IF YOU ARE READY TO LET GO OF WHAT NO LONGER SERVES YOU AND STEP INTO A MORE AUTHENTIC, JOY-FILLED WAY OF BEING, THIS BOOK IS YOUR GUIDE.
How do I get it?
As the book is not scheduled to be launched until April 28, you can’t buy the book yet. But I am publishing it as a pre-release on Awakening Heart, my writer’s platform. Read the first four chapters and see if you want to join the community that is reading!
Enjoy this five-minute interview with Jack Canfield, co-author of the
Chicken Soup for the Soul books about my work.
“I absolutely love Amba and her work. If you are smart, you’ll become a student of Amba’s brilliant work, first by reading her wonderful, rich book, which is filled with both inspiring stories and powerful and practical advice and strategies for having your relationships work. If you do, you’ll end up being a much better person, a happier person, and you’ll be in touch with your own divinity as well as the divinity of others. Because Amba, herself, is a divine gift you can give yourself, I also encourage you to explore personally working with her. I promise you’ll be glad you did.”
— Jack Canfield, Coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul® series and
The Success Principles™: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Book Endorsements
In this book, Amba Gale describes her own arduous journey towards learning “The Art of Sacred Listening”. Thereby, she proves two points:
1- That Biography is a most convincing tool for teaching.
2 – That listening with the heart is indeed a sacred art worth acquiring.
– David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine monk and author.
https://www.bibliothek-david-steindl-rast.ch/
Book Endorsements
I recommend this book to anyone seeking to live a fulfilling life. Throughout The Heart Of Sacred Listening, Amba’s radiant spirit and hard-won wisdom touched, moved, and inspired me. Her writing is both clear and poetic, and reading her book is like sitting down with your best friend for a conversation that, like Amba herself, is as heartwarming and fun as it is difference-making.
– Sandy Robbins
Book Endorsements
“The most meaningful part of this book is Amba’s personal stories – both of herself and those she has coached. Amba has poured so much of herself and her work into this one book. It will introduce you to a world of new practices and possibilities.”
– Ryan Joy, Christian Minister
Book Endorsements
“This insightful, content-rich book could not be more timely. If only – oh, if only! – we all had the skillset, and the courage, to really listen from and for the sacred space within each of us, this world would be a very different place.
Hooray for you, Amba, for presenting such time-tested, potentially life-altering learnings and distinctions, and for doing so in your own inimitable style. This food for thought is clearly served straight from the heart.
In addition to your soul-satiating “main course” material, you offer the reader well-chosen side dishes: personal stories, historical perspectives, Your Turn prompts – all with delightful sprinkles of Amba-isms throughout. These rich ingredients combine to make this beautiful book a deeply-nourishing transformational experience. Brava!”
– Nancy Hopps
Author of All the Courage Love Takes: Moving through Crisis and Uncertainty with Grace, Grit, and Gratitude and the Relax into Healing series of audio recordings.
Book Endorsements
I absolutely love your book! It has reinvigorated the “deep work” I began with you during the Heart of Leadership. This book offers timeless principles that enlighten, enliven, and truly have the power to transform lives. The stories you share are powerful and bring the content to life, while the “stopping off” points are thoughtfully placed to encourage the reader to reflect and apply the lessons. This is the book I always hoped you would write — and here it is!
– Bill Weymer, former CEO. Town and Country Markets
Book Endorsements
Such wonderful wisdom and I find myself going back into it to read it for different meanings and introspection.
Being open to receive the wisdom you seek to share is a pleasure and I only hope others can find the book as helpful as I do.
– Tim Tackett, Manager
Book Endorsements
I see how this book could encourage immediate life-changing shifts in thinking or be used to aid a long-term process of self discovery or workplace dialogue.
I think this is a great diving board for guided self-help in a style that can be taken at any speed, referenced back to over and over, with the option to learn even more independently or to enroll in a course.
I love all of yourself that you include within this book. We (the reader) feel like they know you or want to know more, by the end of the book. I feel that I might know a little too much to be a “beta” reader but I imagine that 2 types of people will be reading this book: people who already know you or have taken one or more of your courses & people who need help. I think this is a great diving board for guided self-help in a style that can be taken at any speed, referenced back to over and over, with the option to learn even more independently or to enroll in a course.
– Missy Meyer, Physician
Book Excerpt
Other Publications
In Crossing Thresholds, Island Reflections, best-selling author, transformational coach, and founder of Gale Leadership Development, Amba Gale invites you to join her in connecting with nature and tapping into the silence inside, where deep lessons abound.
Amba’s heartfelt poetry, breathtaking color photographs, and, what she calls “teaching questions,” will guide you to embrace, and complete, the endings in your life and to create a new future —a future that brings you more fully alive.
About the Author
Amba Gale is a Master Coach, poet, and author of “The Heart of Sacred Listening: The Key to Transforming Your Relationships, Your Work and Your Life,” scheduled to be published April 28, 2026.
After spending 40 years fostering trust, collaboration, and partnership between people in both their personal and professional lives, Amba has a unique perspective on creating new territory for individuals to master the art of sacred listening as a force for building relationships that work.
Appreciated as an inspiring storyteller, through which she does much of her teaching, she loves traveling the world. Amba lives with her husband on Bainbridge Island, located on the Puget Sound in Washington State, across from Seattle in the Pacific Northwest, where she is inspired each day by the call of the eagles, the flight of the osprey, and the patience and stillness of the Great Blue Heron, her spirit aroused by the Life all around her.