REVIEWER COMMENTS
"Andrews belongs to a gener-ation that has experienced a loss of place as the American countryside has been aban-doned to suburbs, malls and highways. She believes human health is linked to the larger health of the planet. Here she interweaves events in her own life with dreams, tribal lore and mythology to show how we can become dislocated, and what to do about it. She offers much food for thought."
Publisher's Weekly
"A powerful and poignant work about the spiritual and psychological costs of our uprootedness. This book will help others find a home in the body of the world."
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, author of The Tao of Psychology and Goddesses in Everywoman
WRITING
With Allan Weis, Valerie Andrews wrote The Business of Changing Lives: How One Company Took the Information Superhighway to the Inner City (Greenleaf Books, September 2009). This book tells the story of the founding of the Internet, of ThinkQuest (an online educational Olympics), and a new brand of social entrepreneurship that closed the technology gap.
Valerie is also the author of A Passion for this Earth (Harper) and The Psychic Power of Running: How the Body can Illuminate the Mysteries of the Mind (Rawson Wade/Ballantine with foreign editions in England, Italy and Japan). Her essays appear in two volumes edited by Phil Cousineau, Soul: An Anthology - Writing from Socrates to Ray Charles, and Coincidence or Destiny? Stories of Synchronicity that Illuminate Our Lives.
Valerie has contributed to a wide variety of publications including Esquire, Vogue, New York, New Woman, People, Anima, Intuition, and Common Boundary, as well as to WebMD, Mamm (a magazine for women with breast cancer), Medscape, The Alexander Foundation for Women's Health, and the Damaris Salon on Culture and Spirituality. Her books reviews have appeared in Parabola, the San Francisco Chronicle and Kirkus.
Links to online articles:
The Devastating Effects of Chronic Stress Researcher
Bruce McEwan looks at the diverging ways that men and women cope read >
Great Expectations Our changing notions of a satisfying sex life and the role of couples therapy read >
Can You Teach Resilience? Kids who thrive in the face of adversity share some common traits. Now some schools are looking for ways to pass on these skills. read >
Optimists Rule Why? They win elections read >
Do Your Thoughts Drag You Down? Cognitive therapists say yes. Are they onto something? read >
Disarming the TV Violent television programming is harming kids, experts say. The solution? Use the tube as a teaching tool. read >
Feeling the Healing Cancer patients benefit from meditation, guided imagery, breathing and prayer read >
The Violence of Rushing Are you taking time for life? read>
From Greed to Grace A new look at corporate ethics read>
The Olympic Odyssey Rekindling the True Spirit of the Games read >
An acute observer of cultural trends
"If you're looking for the cutting edge, Valerie Andrews points you in the right direction. She's an acute and lively observer of both the human condition and the innovation process. She doesn't just see the larger patterns, she zeroes in on the trends and people to watch before they become tomorrow's headlines."
Shirley Mathews
Journalism Department
University of North Carolina
