Corte Madera Barnes & Noble Meet & Greet

Developing Awareness Can Help End Anxiety and Depression!

Meet & Greet with Dr. Rode

Corte Madera Barnes & Noble hosts award winning speaker/author Dr. Dorena Rode as she launches her latest book, Developing Awareness, with a meet and greet on Saturday, May 20, 2017 from 12:00-4:00pm.

Developing Awarness Book CoverIn 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 in this collection of fun and light-hearted personal stories. To further aid inner 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.

Dorena 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. She demonstrates in this collection of stories that anyone can develop awareness and uncover greater knowing regardless of their initial capacity. With 25% of the US adult population suffering from depression or anxiety her message of creating inner peace is inspirational and timely.

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 themAuthor's picture.   In her private practice and workshops, 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.  She currently lives in the Bay Area and is the author of four books, including The Twelve Steps as a Path to Enlightenment-How the Buddha Works the Steps.

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 signing with Dorena Rode
When:  Saturday, May 20 2017, 12:00-4:00pm
Where:  Barnes & Noble, 313 Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera, CA 94625

Event Contact:  Laurel, 415-927-9016,  crm2274@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

 

Press Release – Sebastopol, CA

Meet and Greet: Dorena Rode

The Twelve Steps as a Path to Enlightenment

Dorena Rode, a long term resident of Sonoma County, returns to launch her book, The Twelve Steps as a Path to Enlightenment—How the Buddha Works the Steps on Saturday, August 2, 2014 at noon – 2:00 pm at Copperfield’s Books Sebastopol. The first twenty-five people will receive a free gift (handmade lavender sachet) with their book purchase.

Book Cover of the 12 Steps as a Path to EnlightenmentThe Twelve Steps as a Path to Enlightenment – How the Buddha Works the Steps explains how the spiritual principals embodied in the Twelve Steps (of Alcoholic Anonymous) parallel the Buddhist teachings for reaching ultimate enlightenment. This book is a great introduction to the world view of Tibetan Buddhists such as the Dalai Lama. Dorena demystifies key concepts such as the six perfections, emptiness, refuge, bodhichitta, renunciation, and the development of watchfulness and concentration.

This guidebook, written by spiritual teacher and life coach, Dorena Rode, clearly presents a step by step proven method for increasing joy, making life more meaningful and destroying self-limiting beliefs. The spiritual seeker, whether in recovery or not, finds they can end their specific sufferings (which may include addiction to alcohol, drugs, food, sex, debting, etc) without the need to have a belief in a higher power or God.

Karen R. (Amazon review) writes:

“What an awesome book—I couldn’t wait to finish reading it so I could begin again and study it (which I am doing now!)! This book is great for experienced members or newcomers to the recovery program. A true tool of enhancement to one’s personal growth if you are of non-faith, of enlightened faith and even of Christian faith.”


Dorena rode, authorDorena Rode is an award winning speaker and has extensive experience in a multitude of disciplines. Her Twelve Step recovery began twenty-four years ago and she is a member of several programs. She studied Buddhism with the Asian Classics Institute and meditation with Master Culadasa of Dharma Treasure.  She has a Ph.D. in physiology with an emphasis in alternative medicine from UC Davis. For the past eighteen years she has maintained a regular practice of meditation and internal arts.  Currently she lives, practices and teaches in Phoenix Arizona.

Copperfield’s Books Sebastopol combines that local bookstore feeling with a great selection of titles. Drawing in folks from all of West County, the store offers author events and a stellar cast of booksellers.

The Twelve Steps as a Path to Enlightenment—How the Buddha Works the Steps  $14.95 USA,  158 pages         ISBN/EAN13:  1941894046 / 978-1941894040

What:              Author Meet & Greet with Dorena Rode
When:            Saturday, August 2, 2014, noon-2:00pm
Where:          Copperfield’s Books    138 N. Main Street, Sebastopol, CA, 95472

Event Contact:  Michael Fanning  (707) 823-2618

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

Press Release: Davis, CA

How to be Happy All the Time

UCD alumna to give talk and book signing at Avid Reader

Dorena Rode returns to Davis to give a talk about the steps to permanent happiness based on her book, The Twelve Steps as a Path to Enlightenment—How the Buddha works the steps on Friday, August 8, 2014 at 7:30pm at the Avid Reader downtown.  First twenty people will receive a free gift (handmade lavender sachet) with their book purchase.

Book Cover of the 12 Steps as a Path to EnlightenmentThe Twelve Steps as a Path to Enlightenment – How the Buddha Works the Steps explains how the spiritual principals embodied in the Twelve Steps (of Alcoholic Anonymous) parallel the Buddhist teachings for reaching ultimate enlightenment. This book is a great introduction to the world view of Tibetan Buddhists such as the Dalai Lama. Dorena demystifies key concepts such as the six perfections, emptiness, refuge, bodhichitta, renunciation, and the development of watchfulness and concentration.

This guidebook, written by spiritual teacher and life coach, Dorena Rode, clearly presents a step by step proven method for increasing joy, making life more meaningful and destroying self-limiting beliefs. The spiritual seeker, whether in recovery or not, finds they can end their specific sufferings (which may include addiction to alcohol, drugs, food, sex, debting, etc) without the need to have a belief in a higher power or God.

Karen R. (Amazon review) writes:

“What an awesome book—I couldn’t wait to finish reading it so I could begin again and study it (which I am doing now!)! This book is great for experienced members or newcomers to the recovery program. A true tool of enhancement to one’s personal growth if you are of non-faith, of enlightened faith and even of Christian faith.”


Dorena rode, authorDorena Rode is an award winning speaker and has extensive experience in a multitude of disciplines. Her Twelve Step recovery began twenty-four years ago and she is a member of several programs. She studied Buddhism with the Asian Classics Institute and meditation with Master Culadasa of Dharma Treasure.  She has a Ph.D. in physiology with an emphasis in alternative medicine from UC Davis (2004). For the past eighteen years she has maintained a regular practice of meditation and internal arts.  Currently she lives, practices and teaches in Phoenix Arizona.

Avid Reader is a local independent bookseller offering new hardbacks, paperbacks and eBooks; special orders at no charge; and complimentary wrapping.

The Twelve Steps as a Path to Enlightenment—How the Buddha Works the Steps  $14.95 USA,  158 pages         ISBN/EAN13:  1941894046 / 978-1941894040

What:     Book talk and signing with Dorena Rode
When:    Friday, August 8, 2014, 7:30pm
Where:  Avid Reader, 617 Second St., Davis, CA 95616

Event Contact: Nicholas Weigand, 530-758-4040, avidreaderpublicity@gmail.com

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