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Monday, January 19th at 7pm Central
About the Book:
A Healing Journey, From 9/11 Beyond the Pandemic is a personal memoir of a transformational quest!
Soon after the Twin Towers come crashing down, Gilda Morina Syverson sets out on another journey, a spiritual one. She longs to return to Italy and Sicily with her parents. But after the unbearable tragedy of 9/11, Gilda's parents decide they will no longer fly overseas. She is forced to give up the dream of traveling with her parents, especially her mother, to her family's matriarchal town.
Instead, to help her make sense of the world she is now living in, Gilda not only finds a Spiritual Director but also an energy therapy called Healing Touch. Throughout the story, Gilda navigates the ever-changing times using astrology, Jungian archetypes, chakras, meditation, andher own sacred contracts. She is impacted by events that catapult her through time and space into the rollercoaster ride of the Pandemic. Along the way, she leads us down challenging paths of a fragmented world through mystical experiences and healing lightthat guides her and the reader towardhope.
This is Gilda Morina Syverson's most intimate work following her bestseller, My Father's Daughter, From Rome to Sicily.
About the Author:
Award-winning author Gilda Morina Syverson, memoirist, poet, artist, educator, and speaker was born and raised in a large, Italian-American family in Syracuse, New York. Her heritage is the impetus for her new memoir A Healing Journey, From 9/11 Beyond the Pandemic, as well as her first book My Father’s Daughter, From Rome to Sicily.
Gilda was a Novello Literary Award Finalist, a Nominee for the Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction, a 2016 Nominee for Author of the Year for the Artist Guild Award, a 2016 Honorable Mention for the New England Book Festival, the 2017 Runner-Up for Autobiography in the Great Southeast Book Festival, and others.
She is also the author of the full-length poetry book, Facing the Dragon, and the chapbook, In This Dream Everything Remains Inside. Gilda’s award-winning poems and prose have appeared in numerous literary journals, magazines and anthologies in the United States and Canada. Her commentaries have been aired on WFAE, Charlotte, N.C.’s public radio station; she has been heard on podcasts and appeared on Zoom videos in the United States, Canada, and Italy.
Gilda received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Southern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education from Buffalo State University. In 2004, Gilda became a Healing Touch Practitioner through the Colorado Center for Healing Touch. Gilda has taught in the Creative Arts including memoir classes and workshops for Queens University of Charlotte, The Warehouse Performing Arts Center in Cornelius, and various other colleges and locations, including Zoom. In 2016 she was chosen as the No.1 Memoir Instructor on LinkedIn. Connect with Gilda at www.gildasyverson.com and on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
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