Phoenix Metro Barnes & Noble Meet & Greet

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Dorena

How Developing Awareness Can Help End Anxiety and Depression!

Meet & Greet with Dr. Rode

Metro Barnes & Noble hosts award winning speaker/author Dr. Dorena Rode as she launches her latest book, Developing Awareness, with a meet and greet on Sunday, April 9, 2017 from noon-2:00pm.

This book has practical tools for ending anxiety, depression and other unpleasant mental states.

What is life when it is filled with anxiety or depression?

It is hard to imagine that 25% of the US population is plagued by these conditions. Has anyone come up with a cure? Is there a solution?

Dorena was one of those people that dragged through life anxious and depressed. However, she has become free of anxiety and depression despite being severely abused as a child, repressing all the memories of that abuse, and moving into adulthood being numbed out and dissociated. Dorena demonstrates in this collection of stories that anyone can develop awareness and uncover greater knowing regardless of their initial capacity.

In Developing Awareness, the reader is inspired and encouraged to look within for personal answers. Dorena describes her process of questioning the modus operandi and trusting her own knowing. To further aid exploration this 10th Anniversary Edition includes additional questions and tools to help the reader end depression, stop anxiety, and explore/expand their consciousness/awareness/mindfulness.

Lynne Cockrum-Murphy, Ed.D., LISAC writes:

The Answers Are Within-A Collection of Personal Stories Volume 1: Developing Awareness is an excellent, deeply satisfying read of honest self-expression of pain, growth, and truth. Dr. Rode teaches the reader how to go deep, then shows how worthwhile the search and inner work is in achieving inner peace. In sharing her awakening, she lights the path for others.

April (Amazon review of first edition):

I am so inspired by this book from the first moment I started reading it I felt uplifted and ready to look within.

Dorena Rode is an award-winning speaker with a Ph.D. in physiology (UC Davis) and a degree in behavioral health counseling (Rio Salado). Her passion is to assist people in changing the habitual ways of living and thinking that no longer serve them. She operates from the premise that each person has the wisdom within them about what is best for them and an innate ability to heal completely from any ailment or trauma. Dorena’s extensive knowledge of addiction, trauma, nutrition, energy medicine, physiology, personal recovery, ThetaHealing®, meditation, Access Consciousness®, and herbal medicine give her stories an engaging richness, while at the same time she provides the reader with practical tools from her own experience that will allow them to change anything that isn’t working in their life.

Dorena is a certified ThetaHealing Instructor, Access Consciousness Facilitator, Chi Gung teacher, and Buddhist Spiritual Guide. For the past twenty years, she has maintained a regular practice of meditation and internal arts. Currently she lives, practices and teaches in Northern California. Dorena offers individual sessions and leads retreats and workshops. She facilitates change by asking questions, resolving trauma and clearing limiting beliefs with verbal processing. She also uses hands-on methods to eliminate dysfunctional processes and balance the body.

Barnes & Noble is the largest retail bookseller in the United States, and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products in the US. The company operates 638 retail stores and is the last remaining national bookstore chain.

Developing Awareness $16.95 USA, 128 pages
ISBN/EAN13: 1941894100 / 978-1941894101

What: Book talk and signing with Dorena Rode
When: Sunday, April 9, 2017, noon-2:00pm
Where: Barnes & Noble, 10235 N. Metro Parkway, Phoenix, AZ 85051

Event Contact: Adrianna, 602-678-0088, crm2560@BN.com

Dorena Rode is available for pre-event phone interviews. For booking presentations, media appearances, interviews, and/or book-signings contact dorenarode@gmail.com (707) 291-7731 Dorena’s blog: tesli.org

Many Rivers Book Talk

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Dorena

How Developing Awareness Can Help End Anxiety and Depression!

Book Talk and Signing with Dr. Rode

Sebastopol, California — Many Rivers Books & Tea hosts award winning local speaker/author Dorena Rode as she launches her latest book, Developing Awareness, on Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 7:30pm.

Join author, Dorena Rode as she talks about and reads from her latest book: Developing Awareness (a collection of personal stories). In this talk she will discuss how the tools presented in the book can be used to eliminate unpleasant mental states like anxiety and depression. Come, enjoy fun stories from the book and get your book copy signed.

Lynne Cockrum-Murphy, Ed.D., LISAC writes:

The Answers Are Within-A Collection of Personal Stories Volume 1: Developing Awareness is an excellent, deeply satisfying read of honest self-expression of pain, growth, and truth. Dr. Rode teaches the reader how to go deep, then shows how worthwhile the search and inner work is in achieving inner peace. In sharing her awakening, she lights the path for others.

April (Online review of first edition):

I am so inspired by this book from the first moment I started reading it I felt uplifted and ready to look within.

Dorena lives, practices and teaches in Northern California. She offers individual sessions and leads retreats and workshops. She facilitates change by asking questions, resolving trauma and clearing limiting beliefs with verbal processing. She also uses hands-on methods to eliminate dysfunctional processes and balance the body.

Developing Awareness $16.95 USA, 128 pages
ISBN/EAN13: 1941894100 / 978-1941894101

What: Book talk and signing with Dorena Rode
When: Thursday, April 20, 2017, 7:30pm
Where: Many Rivers Books & Tea, 130 S. Main St., Sebastopol, CA 95472

Event Contact: Many Rivers Books & Tea: 707-829-8871

Settling In

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Dorena

My partner and I are finally settling down.

Last May we relocated to Oakland, California from Phoenix, Arizona. I had always wanted to live on Lake Merritt in Oakland and was happy to get my chance. Just two blocks from the water, we enjoyed a lot of walks around the lake. However, as nice as the area was, it just wasn’t working for us.

We decided to move north to Sonoma County and take on the care of a family property. Actually there are two properties that we are care for. The first is a 10 acre fruit farm. You can read more about our work on that property here: New Farm Project

The second parcel is where we live. The house is nestled into 6 acres of redwoods. When we moved in, it had been neglected and I spent a couple months cleaning, painting, carpeting, and doing other repairs. Then winter was upon us and the past couple of months have been devoted to cutting wood down to feed the wood stove.

Finally spring is here, at least in Northern California, and I am switching into garden mode. The work seems endless, but I am beginning to have more space in my schedule for writing again.

One of the things I’ve been pondering is TESLI. The Enlightenment & Simple Living Institute was created in Phoenix and I am not sure yet if she made the move with us. What moved with me? What stayed? What will be created new?

I know that I left my practice as a massage therapist behind in Arizona. I am also letting go of teaching the healing modalities I used to teach. I am pruning my life to encourage new growth. I get a sense that a new line of teaching is coming. Perhaps it will be based on my new book, which has been very well received since it’s release in February.

Yes, after an eight year absence from Sonoma County, I am settling back in. Many friends to reconnect with. Relearning where to shop and creating new connections too. Feels good to be back home.