Author: Author's Answer

Dr. Marcia Morris is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Florida, where she has worked with college students for over twenty-five years. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a graduate of Harvard University and Yale School of Medicine. Through media, and public speaking, she is committed to promoting wellness for university students. Her book, The Campus Cure: A Parent’s Guide to Mental Health and Wellness for College Students, was published in 2018.

Blake D Bauer is the author of the international bestselling book You Were Not Born To Suffer. Each year he helps thousands of people who cannot find effective support from conventional psychology, medicine, or religion. Blake is a world-renowned teacher and speaker with an extensive background in psychology, alternative medicine, nutrition, traditional healing, and mindfulness meditation. Based on both his personal experience overcoming deep suffering, addiction, and adversity, as well as his professional success with over 100,000 people worldwide, Blake’s pioneering work integrates what he’s found to be the most effective approaches to optimal mental, emotional, and physical health.

Fred Lehr: While I am an ordained pastor, what probably describes better is that I am an incurable behavioral scientist.  I am entirely consumed with the wonder of how people relate to themselves and to each other.  How do organization manage?  What are all the ins and outs of family life?  What makes it all work?

Rosie Whitehouse: I am a journalist and for the last four years I have been specialising in the story of what happened to Holocaust survivors after the Second World War. My new book The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust (Hurst, 2020) traces the story of why and how the Jews left Europe after 1945. I am currently working on a new book about my husband’s family and their experiences in France during World War II.

Kevin T. Myers is the author of Hidden Falls (Beaufort Books), which came out in July. He proudly hails from Peabody, Massachusetts. He is a former stand-up comic and comedy writer. He has appeared on the Comedy Channel and was featured on 20/20. His jokes have been told at colleges, clubs, on the Tonight Show, and on Broadway. His essay “The Power of Compassion” aired nationally on NPR’s “This I Believe” series. He has worked as a journalist and editor in newsrooms from New Hampshire to Alaska, where he ran the Capital City Weekly. He has worked in higher education as a speechwriter, a spokesperson, and a media, government, and public relations liaison. He is currently the spokesperson for Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

Brooklyn born Carol Schlanger lives in both rural Oregon and West L.A. She has been married for 45 years, has two children and two grandchildren. As an award winning actress and writer, her work has been nominated for an Obie, an Emmy and her memoir Hippie Woman Wild, won the 2020 gold Independent Publisher’s award. She has 3 LA Dramalogue Critics Awards for performance and writing and won the LA Playwright’s Monologue Slam. An artist-in-residence for the Jewish Woman’s Theater, she has been in serious demand as a storyteller and performed in varied well- known venues throughout Los Angeles and New York. An almost graduate of Yale Drama, she has written for Imagine Entertainment, two T.V. pilots for CBS and her plays have been published by the National Organization of Women’s Playwrights and the Theatre of Note. She can chop wood, light a fire and everyone loves her lasagna.

Dr. Steven R. Feldman is Professor of Dermatology, Pathology, Social Sciences & Health Policy, and Molecular Medicine & Translational Science at the Wake Forest School of Medicine.   He serves on the Medical Board of the National Psoriasis Foundation and directed psoriasis education programs for the American Academy of Dermatology.  According to Expertscape.com (on January 11, 2019), Feldman was the #1 expert in the world on psoriasis (and on acne and on dermatology!). He is the co-author of the book, WHEN WILL IT EVER GO AWAY: PRACTICAL ANSWERS TO YOUR COVID-19 QUESTIONS.

Diane Nine is the President of Nine Speakers, Inc. is a full service entertainment agency representing people across the world in a number of areas including the literary, lecture, theatrical, film, and television arenas.  Diane is a graduate of George Washington University’s Law School.  She is the author of BE AN AUTHOR, and her latest book, MY LIFE WITH HELEN: THE DEAN OF THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS THROUGH HER AGENT’S EYES.

Barbara Mahany is an author and freelance journalist in Chicago, who writes these days about stumbling on the sacred amid the cacophony of the modern-day domestic melee. She was a reporter and feature writer at the Chicago Tribune for nearly 30 years, and before that a pediatric oncology nurse at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Her first book, Slowing Time: Seeing the Sacred Outside Your Kitchen Door, has been called “a field guide into the depths of your holiest hours;” Publishers Weekly named it one of their Top 10 religion books for Fall 2014. She has since written three other books, including her latest, THE STILLNESS OF WINTER: Sacred Blessings of the Season (October 2020), a compendium of mediations, essays, recipes, and prayers rooted in the depths of winter’s months, from Abingdon Press.