Book Signing and Talk:
Joys and Sorrows: Reflections on the Dharma and Mental Diminishment

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle

Friday, October 22, 2010 -

$25

7–9pm

Olivia will talk about her award-winning book Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: A Couple’s Journey Through Alzheimer’s. She will focus on how Buddhist teachings supported and inspired her and her husband, an ordained Dharmacharya (senior teacher), as they experienced his diminishment, loss, and eventual death.

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle, a writer, therapist, and dharma teacher, has practiced Vipassana for almost forty years. She taught in the field of Behavioral Medicine, where she pioneered how to bring meditation, yoga, and cognitive therapy into the medical domain. She helped to develop one of the first training programs in Mind/Body medicine and trained health professionals through Harvard Medical School.

Now a grandmother with four grandsons, she lives in Massachusetts and Vermont and continues to write and teach about elder issues, meditation, and conscious aging.

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