Her seminars include:
Challenging YOUR GIRLY THOUGHTS
Bringing Out the Best When Staff are at Their Worst
Strength-Based Engagement
Integrating Substance Abuse and Child Welfare Services
Working with Adolescents Impacted by Addiction
Working with Challenging Families Addiction: A Family Systems Perspective
Working with the Dual Diagnosed Client
Strength-based Approaches for Working with High Risk
Adolescents
Adoption: A Personal Perspective — A Workshop for Parents
Women and the 2 R's: Resiliency and Recovery
Women Leadership
The Feminine Face of Diversity
Self-Parenting for Helping Professionals
Dancing Backwards in High Heels: Mastering the Art of Resilience
Helpful Conversations with Your Children
Helpful Conversations with Your Co-workers
Helpful Conversations with Your Loved One
She has lectured both nationally and internationally from corporate seminars, and university settings around the United States, to events in South Korea, Israel, the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, and the retreat centers of Escalen and Omega. Her expertise in strength-based approaches has been used with a number of groups that include women, executives, families, delinquent adolescents, children of alcoholic parents, and adoptive children and families. She is the author of 8 best-selling books:
The Resilient Woman: Mastering the 7 Steps to Personal Power
Healing Trauma Through Self-Parenting: The Codependency Connection
Dancing Backwards in High Heels: How Women Master the Art of Resilience
Breaking the Cycle of Addiction: A Parents Guide to Raising Healthy Kids
12 Steps to Self-Parenting
12 Steps to Self-Parenting Workbook: Windows to Your Inner Child
The Lowdown on Families Who Get High
Love is Not Enough (Video Production, available at Reelizations, 1-800-214-5680)
She is a veteran of numerous TV appearances including Good Morning America, The Today Show, and AM Sunday. She is the mother of adopted twin boys and lives in a two-hundred-year-old house in New York's Berkshires foothills. For information on resilience and how you can identify and develop your resilience, read Dancing Backwards in High Heels and attend one of my seminars. Specialized seminars are available. I look forward to seeing you there.
