Ruth Fishel, M.Ed., CADAC, LMHC

 Ruth Fishel, M. Ed., CADAC, LMHC, is the author of many books including just published STOP! DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE BREATHING? A Simple Guide for Teachers to Reduce Stress in the Classroom (Great for Parents, Too!), PRECIOUS SOLITUDE and the best selling TIME FOR JOY an over 230,000 best seller. She also developed and teaches STOP! DO YOU KNOW YOU’RE BREATHING? a unique stress reduction program to individuals, businesses, teachers, students and many more.

    Ruth is also a therapist, meditation teacher, national presenter, and retreat leader and a co-creator of SPIRITHAVEN OF CAPE COD.

    Ruth also co-founded and for fourteen years was the CEO of SERENITY, INC., a long term treatment program for recovering women and their families. While there, Ruth also used skills she developed as founder, owner and administrator of KEEP 'N TOUCH GREETING CARDS, INC., which she had built from a small start to national recognition. At Serenity she created a line of inspirational greeting cards and related products that she called INSPIRATIONS OF SERENITY and distributed them through a catalog distributed nationally.

AWARDS

Featured author for BARNES AND NOBLE Writer’s Harvest Week, 1995.

Human Service Award recipient from Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA.

Commendation by Governor Dukakis for (STEP) SERENITY TRANSITIONAL EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM.

BOOKS by Ruth Fishel

PRECIOUS SOLITUDE
THE JOURNEY WITHIN: A Spiritual Path to Recovery
TIME FOR JOY
TIME FOR JOY Daily Journal
TIME FOR THOUGHTFULNESS
TAKE TIME FOR YOURSELF!
CAPE COD MEMORIES
NEWPORT MEMORIES
MEMORIES OF THE FLORIDA COAST
STOP! DO YOU KNOW YOU’RE BREATHING

TAPES

Sandy Bierig, M.Ed., LMHC, LMFT

In 1974, Sandy co-founded and for fourteen years was a co-director of Serenity, Inc., a multi-faceted substance-abuse treatment program for women in Natick, Massachusetts. At Serenity, Sandy designed and supervised the programs for Serenity House, the graduate program, the work training program and the outpatient program, New Connections.

She also founded SPRING, the first full-time in-house substance abuse treatment program for women at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute for Women at Framingham.

Since 1989, Sandy has been a co-owner of Spirithaven, Inc., on Cape Cod which continues to offer retreats for women in recovery, publications an a variety of topics.

A licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Marriage and Family Therapist, Sandy has worked in her private practice with women, couples, and individuals groups.

Her publications include:

1987 Section on Alcohol in "Ourselves, Growing Older,"
     sequel to "Our Bodies, Ourselves," published by the
     Boston Women's Health Collective
1991 "Transforming the Co-Dependent Woman," publisher,
     Health Communications, Inc., Deerfield Beach, FL

Tapes

"The basics of Recovery from Alcoholism"
"Stop Smoking Now Through Self-Hypnosis,"
both published by Spirithaven, Inc.