Insight Journal Profile for Alicia Fortinberry, MS

Alicia Fortinberry is an award-winning health writer, relationship expert, senior executive coach and psychotherapist. Together with her husband and long-term collaborator Dr. Bob Murray, she is founder of the highly effective Uplift Program, and author of the acclaimed books 'Raising an Optimistic Child' and 'Creating Optimism'. Alicia Fortinberry received an MS degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Alicia is also a leading mind-body therapist and Feldenkrais (learning through movement) Practitioner and a pioneer in the development and teaching of techniques for using movement to enhance wellbeing. She has spoken extensively on her own healing from "treatment resistant" depression, which she attributes in large part to her loving marriage to Bob and a growing spiritual awareness. In the media, Alicia has worked as Senior Editor for New Woman magazine, editorial advisor on a PBS medical series on stress, producer for the Physicians Radio Network, and contributor to The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Home Guide to Mental Health. As a Feldenkrais Practitioner, she had her own health series on local television. She has written extensively on health and psychology for major national magazines and newspapers including Psychology Today, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Ladies Home Journal, Mademoiselle, National Employment Weekly, New Woman, and Working Woman. Most recently, she has been a syndicated columnist on relationships and women's issues for a number of regional magazines, including Tampa Bay Woman. She is a member of the Feldenkrais Guild, the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and the Association for Global New Thought, as well as the alumnae associations for the Columbia University School of Journalism, Sarah Lawrence College, the Brearley School, and the American School in London.

Author: Alicia Fortinberry, MS
Website: http://www.upliftprogram.com/

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Alicia Fortinberry is author of Creating Optimism, which is based on the popular Uplift Program. This unique, 7-step program shows that real healing comes from building healthier relationships with other people, our own bodies, nature, and spirituality. The program can be used in conjunction with medications or without them. Buy the book Creating Optimism at Amazon.com.

The most precious gift you can give your child isn't a generous trust fund or a top-notch education--it's the resiliency and unwavering sense of optimism that allow them to thrive no matter what challenges life sends their way. Learn more in Raising an Optimistic Child, by Alicia Fortinberry and Bob Murray, Ph.D. Buy the book Rasing an Optimistic Child at Amazon.com.

Empower your body! These Repatterning Movement exercises (RPMs), based on Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATMs), are the best way to relieve stress and tension from your body, gently and in many cases permanently! Buy the Empower Your Body triple CD set from psychotherapist Alicia Fortinberry.

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