Special Guest: Michele DeMarco

Dr. Michele DeMarco is an award-winning writer and a specialist in the fields of psychology, trauma, health, and spirituality. She is also a professionally trained therapist, clinical ethicist, and researcher who’s spent the last two decades studying trauma generally, moral injury and lost innocence specifically, and resilience. She is one of Medium’s Top Writer’s for Mental Health and Health, respectively, and the author of the Psychology Today blog “Soul Console: Healing from Moral Injury.”Michele’s writing has appeared in national and international publications, including the New York Times, POLITICO, The Boston Globe, The Daily News, Psychology Today, The War Horse, Medium, Forge, Elemental, and One Zero. She has been featured as a psychology and spirituality expert for MindBodyGreen, The Daily News, Integrative Practitioner, Lifehacker, Bloomberg/WNBP Radio, Partners HealthCare, and the American Heart Association. Her upcoming novel, About Others, won the national Mystery Writers of America’s Helen McCloy Award for Mystery Writing. She teaches Creative Nonfiction and Conflict Transformation at California Institute of Integral Studies.Michele’s research spans the fields of moral injury, psychology, trauma, neuroscience, and somatic and creative art therapies, respectively, and world wisdom and spirituality, Out of this research, she has developed a science-backed Writing Therapy (WT), specifically for moral injury and moral distress called Embodied Disclosure Therapy.Michele lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner, Andrew, and their 33-pound Main Coon cat, Sebastian.You can find Michele at:Website: https://micheledemarco.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelejdemarco/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/micheledemarcoauthorInterested in working with Jon directly? Find him at https://MrSpirituality.com