Writing has always been one of my loves
It is very new to me to be calling myself a writer or an author although I have been writing for years. My journals are numerous; yet published local magazine articles that did give me some notoriety in Contra Costa County California go back a couple of decades. Writing has always been one of my loves and I have to honor Julia Cameron’s books The Artist’s Way and The Artists Way Morning Pages Journal for inspiring me to be persistent as I journeyed my way to deciding to give to the masses that which I spent my career doing in individual and in group therapy sessions.
Years ago I was a participant in a workshop called Creating Musical Theater with Dee Dee Kahn, the actress, and her brother Bradley Bernstein as the leaders. It was in this workshop that I sang to a real live audience for the first time. I love singing and in this workshop you didn’t have to be good at singing, you just had to be willing. I was a fair singer (sometimes) and I was willing. Just before stepping onto the stage to sing my song choice Nobody Does It Like Me I was extremely nervous. Bradley Bernstein (thank you Bradley) gave me the words that I needed in his comforting style when he said to me, “now that you’ve got it, go give it away.” That line got me out of my self-centered ego and into focusing on giving enjoyment to that audience. It is that line that I hear every time I come up with an idea that I feel I just have to share with people like you through my writings. I have an abundance of experiences to share that I hope will inspire enthusiasm, aliveness and a willingness to take action.
In my career as a psychotherapist I realized that the gifts I had received, as I got healthier and healthier, needed to be given to more than the handfuls of people I could support in my private practice or private life. With a family, work and just enjoying an active lifestyle as my priorities, writing seriously got put on the back burner with the plan to write once I retired.
The truth being I have never really retired as you can see by this website. It’s so amazing how one experience leads to another, sometimes on a whim. Two years ago while traveling the country with my husband and pets in our RV, with the computer in my lap, I searched “nutrition” and found The Institute Of Integrative Nutrition.
All I really thought I was searching for was some information about nutrition and I considered possibly taking a single on-line class. But once I saw who was teaching at this amazing school, what was being taught and their mission, (Our mission is to play a crucial role in improving health and happiness, and through that process create a ripple effect that transforms the world.) I just had to enroll. This has turned out to be my best impulse buy, ever. And, with all that I have learned and experienced since enrolling, once again the phrase “now that you’ve got it, go give it away” is the voice now imprinted within that is coaxing me to write my audio-workbooks, e-books, articles, a newsletter and be connected with my blog and other forms of social media.
Within the first six months of attending The Institute of Integrative Nutrition I got published. It’s my beginning as a published author in this decade. It is the right time for me to connect with you to share my experiences, my expertise and my desire to give to you what has been given to me throughout the years through my writings. To create a community through writing is one of my dreams. I hope you will be following me and together we can create that ripple effect that might just transform the lives of more than we ever dreamed possible.
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I wrote my portion in this success book because nutrition is not just about eating healthy to me; it’s about being healthy in all relationships. I want readers to get clear about their predictable future if they keep doing what they are presently doing. I bring to the table a loving bio-individual approach to creating ultimate health.
