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Now: Merinda Empowerment and Recovery Audio and Guided Meditations for Children and Adults

I see the story as a key “handle” to self-healing, recovery, empowerment, and transformation. It is a simple metaphor that offers centering inner “links” to children and adults who feel they have lost their sense of self to be able to develop truly greater selves, and the wherewithal to successfully meet and transcend life’s challenges.

Bullying has finally become a key topic and recovery focus for our times. Merinda is fundamentally a story about understanding that bullying only continues to occur when we believe ourselves to be victims, which directly creates an inner “giveaway” of ourselves along with a covered-up “inner bully.” Like Merinda, we “please to survive.” Dysfunction creates and perpetuates unending power struggles in relationships endlessly ricocheting between dominance and submission. I am excited to tell Merinda’s story in all settings that commit to teambuilding, interdependence, new leadership skills, and healing partnerships.

End Pleasing to Survive

The Core of Codependency I had not heard this particular phrase to describe a key symptom of codependency until my publisher mentioned it when we were collaborating on Part II of my recently-published empowerment fable, Merinda and the Magic Mirror: A Tiny Tale of Transformation.  The faulty belief system that can perpetuate codependency is exactly …

This Sun 7AM in Roch NY Watch My Interview About Merinda and Bullying on WHEC TV/Channel 10 Roc in Focus

If you’re in the greater Rochester, NY area this Sunday, Feb 9 at 7 am, watch my interview with Pat Taney on the popular community news program, “Rochester in Focus”.  I’ll be talking about bullying as a by-product of “pleasing to survive” and the key message of my recently-published empowerment fable for children and adults, …