"Wherever lives intersect at the telling of a story...
love, compassion and understanding will prevail."
-Mariann Aalda

Cited by the California State Assembly  and named "Volunteer of the Year"  by the Los Angeles County Dept. of Children’s  Services for her work with at-risk youth, Mariann Aalda is -- in addition to being an actress, author and playwright -- a certified hypnotherapist who has served as a motivational speaker for the Chicago Dept. of Human Services and Executive Women International.  As an advocate for diversity in the media, she has had essays published in The Los Angeles Times and Soap Opera Digest  -- with appearances on Nightline (ABC) and Tony Brown’s Journal (PBS) as a children’s media activist. Additionally, in 2004 was profiled in Spirit Guide magazine for her work as a “peak performance” hypnotherapist.

"When NOT To Call a Spade a Spade..."
The New Rules of Ethnic Etiquette

Instead of asking, "Why can't we all just get along?" -- best friends
Mariann Aalda & Karen Greyson bring a new voice to HOW we can!!!
with "the best of" Q&A's & commentary  taken from their humor-infused
on-line advice column, "Dear People Like Us..."
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My Kid is My Guru... "CHRISTOPHER'S WISDOM"
Teaching Tales to Warm Your Heart, Nourish Your Soul & Change Your Life


Christopher, today, as an adult.


 Following in the rich tradition of renowned psychiatrist and hypnotherapist,
Milton H. Erickson, Aesop, Mark Twain and even the Apostles,
author and clinical hypnotherapist, Mariann Aalda
uses story-telling as a technique to take readers on a “through the eyes of a child” journey of adult self-help. These “teaching tales” about her  son, Christopher -- from the age of four through young adulthood --
are also a mother’s memoir of the wisdom she gleaned from parenting
her young son, and what he had to teach her that allowed her
to take on the task of re-parenting herself.
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