Thick Skin, Soft Heart
A practical, grace-filled roadmap for staying tender before God while standing strong in a world that wounds. Learn how to guard your heart without hardening it—so you can love boldly, lead wisely, and live free.
Strong doesn’t have to mean hard—keep your heart soft and your spirit resilient.
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone…and give you a heart of flesh.” — Ezekiel 36:26

About the Book
Thick Skin, Soft Heart helps you process hurt without growing hard. Drawing from Scripture and lived experience, Denise Pass offers a framework to heal from offense, handle criticism wisely, set biblical boundaries, and keep compassion alive. You’ll discover rhythms that protect your peace and tools to love people well—without losing yourself.
- Discern the difference between holy resilience and unhealthy numbness
- Respond to conflict without absorbing toxicity
- Build boundaries that serve love (not walls that block it)
- Trade people-pleasing for God-pleasing
- Recover tenderness after betrayal, burnout, or chronic criticism