Kristin Neff
Kristin Neff is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a pioneer in the field of self-compassion research, conducting the first empirical studies on self-compassion almost twenty years ago. In addition to writing numerous academic articles and book chapters on the topic, she is author of the books Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive and Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself. In conjunction with her colleague Dr. Chris Germer, she has developed an empirically supported training program called Mindful Self-Compassion, which is taught by thousands of teachers worldwide. They co-authored the Mindful Self-Compas
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"Emily Nagoski has a PhD in Health Behavior with a doctoral concentration in human sexuality from Indiana University (IU), and a master’s degree (also from IU) in Counseling, with a clinical internship at the Kinsey Institute Sexual Health Clinic. She has taught graduate and undergraduate classes in human sexuality, relationships and communication, stress management, and sex education."
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I have been learning and teaching yoga for nearly 30 years. From Arsenal Football Club to pregnant women, performers on the road to CEOs on the ropes, absolute beginners to die-hard yogis, I adapt each practice to an individual's needs and ability.
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I helped launch triyoga in 2000 and taught classes there until 2020 and in 2009 I created my Pregnancy Teacher Training Programme, one of the first of its kind. Teaching a kind as well as empowering way to help women in this stage of their lives.
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My other books include: The Myth of the ADHD Child, 7 Kinds of Smart, Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, and The Power of the Adolescent Brain. I've also written for Family Circle, Ladies Home Journal, and the AMA Journal of Ethics.
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Nicole Arzt
Nicole Arzt is a practicing psychotherapist, speaker, and the author of Sometimes Therapy is Awkward and For the Love of Therapy.
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Practicing for over a decade, she primarily treats complex and developmental trauma and existential stressors with a specialized focus on supporting newer therapists. She's held previous positions in school-based settings, non-profit healthcare, and inpatient mental health and substance use treatment.
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Jan Warner
Jan Warner has used her Master's in Counseling degree and her training in NLP and hypnotherapy while working in child abuse prevention and suicide prevention. When her beloved husband Artie died nine years she felt as though she had died too. She decided to honor his memory by making herself available to grieving people the way he, as a recovering alcoholic, had made himself available to alcoholics and addicts. Jan decided it would give her life meaning even if she only reached one person. Now, she has a Facebook page, that is a supportive worldwide community with over 2.5 million likes. She is the author of Grief Day by Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living With Loss. She has produced documentary films and an Off Broadway pla
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Virginia Satir
Virginia Satir (1916 – 1988) was an American author and psychotherapist, known especially for her approach to family therapy and her work with Systemic Constellations. She is widely regarded as the "Mother of Family Therapy" Her most well-known books are Conjoint Family Therapy, 1964, Peoplemaking, 1972, and The New Peoplemaking, 1988.
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Tammy Nelson
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Pema Chödrön
Ani Pema Chödrön (Deirdre Blomfield-Brown) is an American Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, closely associated with the Kagyu school and the Shambhala lineage.
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She attended Miss Porter's School in Connecticut and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley. She taught as an elementary school teacher for many years in both New Mexico and California. Pema has two children and three grandchildren.
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Elan Golomb
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"I spent many years studying my own unhappy experiences until I had an 'Aha moment' which inspired me to write these books.
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Marya Hornbacher
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Her second book, the acclaimed novel The Center of Winter (HarperCollins, 2005) has been called "masterful," "gorgeous writing," "a stunning acheivement of storytelling," "delicious," and "compulsive reading." Told in three voices, by six-year-old Kate, her mentally ill brother Esau, and their mother C -
Alan Downs
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Marshall B. Rosenberg
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In 1961, Rosenberg received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and in 1966 was awarded Diplomate status in clinical psychology from the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology. He lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the Center for Nonviolent Communication's office is located. -
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Richard H. Thaler
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He is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, where he is the director of the Center for Decision Research. He is also the co-director (with Robert Shiller) of the Behavioral Economics Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research and in 2015 was the president of the American Economic Association. He has been published in several prominent journals and is the author of a number of books, including Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. -
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Lindsay C. Gibson
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"Emily Nagoski has a PhD in Health Behavior with a doctoral concentration in human sexuality from Indiana University (IU), and a master’s degree (also from IU) in Counseling, with a clinical internship at the Kinsey Institute Sexual Health Clinic. She has taught graduate and undergraduate classes in human sexuality, relationships and communication, stress management, and sex education."
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Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1944, he is a survivor of the Nazi genocide. His maternal grandparents were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old, his aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazis.
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Lyz Lenz
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Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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Jessica Fern
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Alison Fragale
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Tara Brach
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Pooja Lakshmin
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Miriam Greenspan
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Miriam Greenspan was born in a refugee camp in southern Germany to two Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. From her parents, she learned that even in the aftermath of genocide, it is possible to live a life of kindness, generosity, and love. Her work as a psychotherapist, author, public speaker, and poet are rooted in her abiding faith in the redemptive power of facing into the worst without flinching, and emerging with the unexpected gifts of healing and spiritual power.
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Barbara Sjoholm
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I’m a writer of nonfiction, including memoirs (Blue Windows) and travel books (The Pirate Queen). As Barbara Sjoholm I have published essays and travel articles in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Slate, and American Scholar, as well as many other publications. My focus as a nonfiction writer has been on Scandinavia and the Indigenous Sami people of the Nordic countries (Black Fox, Palace of the Snow Queen). I also translate from Danish (By the Fire: Sami Folktales) and Norwegian (Clearing Out by Helene Uri).
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Robert L. Leahy
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Sonja Lyubomirsky
The majority of my research career has been devoted to studying human happiness. Why is the scientific study of happiness important? In short, because most people believe that happiness is meaningful, desirable, and an important, worthy goal, because happiness is one of the most salient and significant dimensions of human experience and emotional life, because happiness yields numerous rewards for the individual, and because it makes for a better, healthier, stronger society. Along these lines, my current research addresses three critical questions: 1) What makes people happy?; 2) Is happiness a good thing?; and 3) How and why can people learn to lead happier and more flourishing lives?
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Kent Nerburn
I'm a child of the 60's, a son of the north, and a lover of dogs.
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Grew up in a crackerbox post-war bungalow outside of Minneapolis with my mother and father, two younger sisters, various dogs and cats, and a neighborhood full of rugrat kids playing outside until called in for the night.
Studied American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Religious Studies and Humanities at Stanford University, received a Ph.D. in Religion and Art in a joint program at Graduate Theological Union and the University of California at Berkeley. Lots of learning, lots of awards. Phi Beta Kappa. Summa cum Laude. Lots of stuff that looks good on paper.
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Aziz Gazipura
Dr. Aziz is a clinical psychologist and one of the world's leading experts on social confidence. After being stuck in shyness and social anxiety himself for almost 10 years, he became determined to find a way to social freedom. Through thousands of hours of his own training, counseling, reading, group work, and coaching, he has truly mastered what it takes to break free from shyness and social anxiety into a life of confidence.
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In 2011, Dr. Aziz started The Center For Social Confidence, which is dedicated to helping everyone break through their shyness and social anxiety. Through his unique blend of compassion, humor, and personal courage, Dr. Aziz has helped thousands of people all over the world increase their confidence. Through confidenc -
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Karla McLaren
Karla McLaren, M.Ed is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into the depths of the soul. She is the founder and CEO of Emotion Dynamics LLC.
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Karla’s lifelong work has been focused on the creation of a grand unified theory of emotions, which she has developed through her work with survivors of dissociative trauma, through her own lifelong experience as a hyper-empath, and through extensive research into the social and biological sciences. -
Carolyn Costin
Advocate/ Activist
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Carolyn is renown for being an advocate and activist in her field receiving honors such as the National Eating Disorders Association's Award for Advocacy 2008 and in 2011 received the Spirit Recognition Award from Sierra Tucson. Carolyn lobbies congress, fights for insurance reform, organized the NEDA's Parent-Family Network, organizes campaigns against inappropriate advertising and continues to speak out on important social issues!
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After recovering from her own eating disorder Carolyn became a therapist in 1977 and has been treating people suffering from eating and body image problems since that time.
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Sarah Menkedick
Sarah Menkedick's second book, Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America, was released on April 7th from Pantheon. It explores the scientific, psychological, historical, and spiritual roots of a silent epidemic of anxiety among American mothers. Sarah’s debut essay collection, Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm (Pantheon, 2017), was longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
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Sarah's writing has been featured in Harper's, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Kenyon Review, Oxford American, The Guardian, The Paris Review Daily, Aeon, Guernica, Buzzfeed, and elsewhere. She writes a column for Longreads on the craft of nonfiction. -
Idra Novey
Idra Novey is the author of TAKE WHAT YOU NEED, a New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and one of The New Yorker's Best Books of the Year. The novel is set in the Allegheny Highlands of Appalachia where parts of her family have lived for over a century.
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Her earlier novels include THOSE WHO KNEW and WAYS TO DISAPPEAR, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She's written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into a dozen languages. Her new book of poems, SOON AND WHOLLY, will be published in 2024. -
Elan Golomb
Elan Golomb earned her doctorate in clinical psychology and her certificate in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy from New York University. She has been in private practice in New York since 1972.
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"I spent many years studying my own unhappy experiences until I had an 'Aha moment' which inspired me to write these books.
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Kassandra Reinhardt
Kassandra Reinhardt is an Ottawa-based yoga teacher and one of the world's leading online yin yoga instructors.
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Her book "Yin Yoga" was recently published by DK Books and has been nominated for the 2018 Big Book prize by Hearst Magazines.
Her "Yoga with Kassandra" YouTube channel, which has more than 140,000 subscribers, has served as the gateway for hundreds of thousands of people across the globe to discover the life-changing benefits of a consistent yin yoga practice.
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André Kertész
André Kertész (French: [kɛʁtɛs]; 2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Kertész Andor, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his then-unorthodox camera angles and style prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. Kertész never felt that he had gained the worldwide recognition he deserved. Today he is considered one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.[
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Ann Saffi Biasetti
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I have been a practicing Psychotherapist for 27 years. I hold a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology and am licensed as a Clinical Social Worker. I maintain a private practice in Saratoga Springs, New York where I specialize in embodied psychotherapy and eating disorder recovery. I am also a certified yoga therapist, yoga teacher, and embodiment teacher. I am a certified mindfulness and self-compassion teacher/trainer and author. Befriending Your Body: A Self-Compassionate Approach to Freeing Yourself from Disordered Eating, is my first book and based on my Doctoral research.
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Marty Klein
Marty Klein is a sex therapist, author, educator and public policy analyst. He is critical of censorship, the concepts of "sex addiction" and "porn addiction," and the anti-pornography movement.
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Jeannie Gainsburg
Jeannie Gainsburg is an award-winning educational trainer and consultant in the field of LGBTQ+ inclusion and effective allyship. Formerly the Education Director at the Out Alliance of Rochester, N.Y., she is the founder of Savvy Ally Action and author of the book, The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate. Jeannie has a BA in psychology from Brown University and an MA in social work and social research from Bryn Mawr College. She was under the impression that a citation was the result of driving too fast until January of 2019, when she received one from the New York State Assembly for Distinguished Educational & Human Rights Services for her work in promoting LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion. Her encouraging, passionate, an
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Bryan Peterson
Bryan F. Peterson has been a full-time commercial photographer since 1981, shooting assignments all over the world for many of the Fortune 500 companies, including Kodak, UPS, and American Expiress. He is also a contract stock photographer for Corbis and Getty. He has been a contributing editor at Outdoor Photographer Magazine and is currently a contributing editor at Popular Photography and Imaging Magazine. Within the photographic community, he is most noted as the author/photographer of four best selling “how-to” photography books, Understanding Exposure, Understanding Shutter Speed, Learning to See Creatively and Beyond Portraits, with two new books due out in the spring of 2009, Understanding Close-up Photography and The Field Guide to
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Lauren Muhlheim
Lauren Muhlheim, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and eating disorders specialist. Muhlheim trained at the Rutgers Eating Disorder Clinic and is certified in family-based treatment by the Training Institute for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders. She is certified as an eating disorder specialist (CEDS) through the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP) and has worked in a variety of settings, including internationally, and, most recently in private practice where more than 80 percent of her patients present with eating disorders.
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Muhlheim conducts workshops and seminars for parents, treatment professionals, graduate students in psychology, and psychiatry residents. She has her own website and blog, she’s the e -
Tracey Shors
Tracey J. Shors, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor in Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology and a member of the Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers University. With 150 scientific publications in journals including Nature, Science, PNAS and Nature Neuroscience, her work has been featured in Scientific American, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on NPR and CNN. Dr. Shors recently was awarded the W. Horsley Gantt Medal from the Pavlovian Society for the "noble pursuit of truth." You can find her book "Everyday Trauma" online and at major bookstores.
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Dr. Shors' research program studies how our brains -- especially women's brains -- ruminate on trauma-related memories and how this process can -
Stuart M. Brown Jr.
Stuart Brown, M.D. is a medical doctor, psychiatrist, clinical researcher, and the founder of the National Institute for Play. He speaks regularly to Fortune 500 companies and groups across the country on the significance of play in our lives. The producer of a three-part PBS series, The Promise of Play, he has also appeared on NPR and was featured in a front-page story in The New York Times Magazine. He lives in Carmel Valley, California.
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Dr. Stuart Brown is a medical professional trained in general and internal medicine, psychiatry, and clinical research. His studies on the importance of play began with research on homicidal young males and felony drunk drivers, where he found a common lack of play during childhood. Throughout his career, -
Lori Gottlieb
LORI GOTTLIEB is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of MAYBE YOU SHOULD TALK TO SOMEONE, which has sold nearly two million copies and is currently being adapted as a television series. In addition to her clinical practice, she is co-host of the popular “DEAR THERAPISTS" PODCAST, which features real sessions with real people and offers actionable advice, and writes The Atlantic’s “Dear Therapist” advice column. She is a sought-after expert in media such as The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN, and NPR and her TED Talk was one of the Top 10 Most Watched of the Year.
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Christia Spears Brown
Christia Spears Brown, PhD, is a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Kentucky. Her work on the impact of gender stereotypes on children and adolescents has been published widely in scientific journals and featured in numerous newspapers, magazines, local radio shows, NPR, and the CBS Evening News. She blogs regularly for Psychology Today in her column "Beyond Pink and Blue." She also stays busy as the mother of two daughters.
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Malcolm Smith
Malcolm Smith was born in London, England just as Europe was plunged into World War two. His earliest memories were made up of bomb shelters, blitzed buildings and bomb craters to the backdrop of the fear filled faces of parents.
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He came to faith in Jesus Christ in his early teens and experienced a fullness of the Spirit almost immediately that was to change and redirect his life forever. He began to preach at age fourteen and has over the last decades preached throughout the world.
Malcolm Smith is not an evangelist but as he often describes himself, is an evangelist to the evangelized, teaching believers who they are in Christ, the beloved of God and His dwelling place through the Spirit.
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Sven Erlandson
Sven Erlandson has become the foremost author in America on happiness, relationships, spirituality, and unleashing your greatness. After 20+ years as a spiritual counselor, Wall Street Performance Coach, and globally respected deep BADASS, he has been written about, cited as a trailblazer on Wikipedia and other cultural touchpoints, and has been approached about a TV show based on his work.
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Ruth King
Ruth King is an international teacher in the Insight Meditation tradition, and an emotional wisdom author and life coach. She is on the Teacher's Council at Insight Meditation Community of Washington and Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and is the founder of Mindful Members Insight Meditation Community in Charlotte, NC.
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In former years, King managed training and organizational development divisions at Levi Strauss and Intel corporations where she designed diversity awareness programs and consulted to leaders on cultural change initiatives, including the behavioral implications of mergers and acquisitions. A world traveler, King’s work has been influenced by many cultures, and is often described as “ceremony.” Her intuitive methods, knowledge, -
Melanie Greenberg
Melanie Greenberg, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and life coach in San Diego CA (previously Marin county, CA), and an expert on managing stress, health, and relationships using proven techniques from neuroscience, mindfulness, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). With more than twenty years of experience as a professor, writer, researcher, clinician, and coach, Dr. Greenberg has given workshops and talks to national and international audiences.. She writes the Mindful Self-Express blog for Psychology Today, and is a popular media expert who has been quoted on CNN.com, Forbes.com, BBC Radio, ABC News, Yahoo! Shine, and Lifehacker, as well as in Self, Redbook, Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Fitness Magazine, Women’s Day, Cosmopolitan, and
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Judy Dyer
Judy is an open spirit and passion to help empaths. She writes books for those who have a natural ability to tune in to the feelings of others.
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Her mission is to share her lifelong experiences and comprehensive research on the many benefits and blessings associated with being an empath.
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Karen Horney
Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst. Her theories questioned some traditional Freudian views, particularly his theory of sexuality, as well as the instinct orientation of psychoanalysis and its genetic psychology. As such, she is often classified as Neo-Freudian.
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Bunny Michael
Bunny Michael is a multi-disciplinary queer Mexican/Samoan artist and influencer who has inspired an audience of 230k Instagram followers to discover their Higher Self. What began as a viral meme series on Instagram has now expanded to a multi-platform experience. Bunny’s new podcast, XO Higher Self, charted in the top 100 Apple Podcasts in Self Improvement, and they are currently producing, writing and starring in an upcoming web series, What Would Higher Self Do? Bunny has been a featured guest on popular podcasts including The Mind Rolling Podcast (part of Ram Dass’ Be Here Now Network) and The Spiritually Sassy Show (hosted by Sah D’Simone). Bunny was also chosen by Instagram to take part in their Creators Program and partnered with the
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Susan Brownmiller
Susan Brownmiller was an American journalist, author and feminist activist best known for her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape, which was selected by The New York Public Library as one of the 100 most important books of the 20th century.
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Kim Chestney
Kim Chestney is the author of three leading-edge intuition books, including The Illumination Code, Radical Intuition and The Psychic Workshop. She is the founder of IntuitionLab, a global school for cultivating intuitive ability, and is known for her unique, contemporary perspective on intuition as a learnable, universally-accessible, defining force for the future of humanity.
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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says she "is on the vanguard of a movement to unearth the genius within." Kim has worked for two decades as an innovation leader, pioneering cultural change as the founder of the CREATE! Festival. Her work has been supported by world-class organizations including ABC News, Women’s World Magazine, Carnegie Mellon University, the Shift Network -
Karen R. Koenig
Karen R. Koenig, LCSW, M.Ed., is a therapist, educator, eating coach, national speaker, international author, and expert on the psychology of eating—the how and why, not the what of it—with 30-plus years of experience teaching chronic dieters and overeaters the skills that "normal" eaters use naturally to maintain a comfortable, healthy weight for life without dieting.
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Robyn L. Goldberg
Robyn Goldberg is a registered dietitian nutritionist, certified eating disorder registered dietitian supervisor, certified intuitive eating counselor and a Health at Every Size® (HAES) clinician. Robyn has spent years learning from some of the best in the industry and continues to seek professional mentoring, attends innovative conferences and stays abreast with the most current literature.
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Robyn began her career at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles as the in-patient dietitian in the Department of Cardiology. For the last 23 years, Robyn Goldberg has had a private practice in Beverly Hills, CA, where she specializes in medical conditions, eating disorders, disordered eating, dual diagnosis, pre-pregnancy nutrition and women seeking -
Tiina Tiitus
Tiina Tiitus on isikliku arengu nõustaja, moekunstnik ja loovisik.
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Moekunsti eriala lõpetanuna on ta töötanud nii stilisti, Tallinna Kaubamaja loomingulise juhina ja pidanud oma moestuudiot.
Vaimsele rajale pühendas Tiina end 2007. aastal ning alates aastast 2010 annab ta personaalseid konsultatsioone ja loenguid. -
Stewart D. Friedman
Stew Friedman is an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty since 1984. He founded Wharton’s Leadership Program and its Work/Life Integration Project. Friedman has been recognized by the biennial Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers every cycle since 2011 and was honored with its 2015 Distinguished Achievement Award as the foremost expert in the field of talent. He was listed among HR Magazine’s most influential thought leaders, chosen by Working Mother as one of America’s most influential men who have made life better for working parents, and presented with the Families and Work Institute’s Work Life Legacy Award.
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Michael D. Yapko
Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and marriage and family therapist residing in Southern California.
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Abraham J. Twerski
Abraham Joshua Twerski (Hebrew: אֲבְרָהָם יְהוֹשֻׁע טווערסקי) was an Israeli-American Hasidic rabbi, a scion of the Chernobyl Hasidic dynasty, and a psychiatrist specializing in substance abuse.
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Joan Price
I am a senior sex author, speaker, and advocate for ageless sexuality. My books include:
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* Sex after Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality after Losing Your Beloved (coming Summer 2019);
* The Ultimate Guide to Sex After 50: How to Maintain – or Regain! – a Spicy, Satisfying Sex Life;
* Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex – winner of Outstanding Self-Help Book 2012 from American Society of Journalists and Authors and 2012 Book Award from American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists;
* Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty;
* Ageless Erotica: a steamy erotica anthology by authors age 50+
* The Anytime, Anywhere Exercise Book: 300+ Quick and Easy Exercises You Can Do Whenever You W -
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón
Sergio Gutiérrez Negrón (Caguas, 1986) ha publicado las novelas Los días hábiles, Palacio, y Dicen que los dormidos, la colección de cuentos Preciosos perdedores, y el ensayo académico Mexico, Interrupted: Labor, Idleness and the Mexican Economic Imaginaries. En el 2017, fue seleccionado por el Hay Festival como parte de Bogotá39, un listado de 39 escritores prometedores del continente menores de 39. Dos años antes, en el 2015, fue reconocido por el Festival de la Palabra con el Premio Nuevas Voces, un premio otorgado a autores puertorriqueños jóvenes. Ese mismo año fue parte de Latinoamérica Viva, una selección de autores latinoamericanos noveles curada por la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara. Escribió columnas para El Nuevo Dí
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Douglas Allen
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