Open Up & Speak!

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Anne Feustel is a business owner, editor, proofreader, and writer. With a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Psychology, she is uniquely qualified to write about the human experience. Because she has struggled with her own mental health issues, she feels called to be an advocate for others who have the same challenges. Her goal is to help everyone find easily accessible ways to improve their mental health. She is the author of "Our Favorite Movies: How Films Affect Our Mental Health."

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About the Author
Dr. Dawn Menge has won forty-one International awards as the author of the Queen Vernita educational series including the Special Recognition Champion Award from conquering disabilities with film festival. She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, a Master's Degree and a Clear Credential in moderate/severe disabilities, and a Bachelor's Degree in human development. Dr. Menge has been teaching students with severe cognitive delays for over twenty years, lecturer and mentor. She has three children and five beautiful grandchildren and lives in Southern California.”
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Gill is a podcast host, YouTuber, and course creator and is passionate about helping others free themselves from the drink, hate yourself, drink cycle.  Learning about how alcohol influences the brain both physically and mentally to cause addiction has helped free her from shame and strengthened her sobriety.  She works as a biochemist and lives in the Boston area with her husband and cat.

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Jeffrey Deskovic, Esq. is an internationally recognized expert on wrongful convictions, and the Founder of The Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice, which has freed 11 wrongfully convicted people and helped pass  8 laws. Jeff is also an advisory board member of the coalition group, "It Could Happen To You", sits on the Global Advisory Council of Restorative Justice International, and is a co-owner of the Recharge Beyond The Bars Re-Entry Game, which facilitates the formerly incarcerated reconnecting with their friends and family. Jeff does presentations across the country and internationally, as well as motivational speaking. Jeff engages in this advocacy as his life mission because he spent 16 years in prison-from age 17-32- for murder and rape prior to being exonerated by DNA. A documentary short about his advocacy and life post exoneration, called, "Conviction", is currently available on Amazon Prime.

website: www.Deskovic.org   

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Ordinarily Extraordinary by Patrick P. Long - Published by Paddy P Publishing

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 Bio  

As a child, Patrick P. Long developed an extraordinary passion for writing. Honing his penning skills, he pursued his love of writing and authored “Ordinarily Extraordinary,” a nonfiction publication detailing his wife’s battle with breast cancer and its effects on him, their children and marriage. A raw, revealing and intense real-life tale, “Ordinarily Extraordinary” became an international best-seller within the first few months of publication and continues to receive global five-star reviews and endorsements.   

Writing his memoir, “Ordinarily Extraordinary,” helped him delve deeper into the grieving and healing processes as he adjusted to his new normal. A single father of four kids, Patrick sets a positive tone for his family, rejects pity and finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.  

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Dr. Debi Silber is the founder of the Post Betrayal Transformation Institute and is a holistic psychologist, a health, mindset and personal development expert, the author of the #1 bestselling book: The Unshakable Woman: 4 Steps to Rebuilding Your Body, Mind and Life After a Life Crisis and her newest book: Trust Again: Overcoming Betrayal and Regaining Health, Confidence and Happiness. Her recent PhD study on how we experience betrayal made 3 groundbreaking discoveries that changes how long it takes to heal. In addition to being on FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz Show, TEDx (twice) and more, she’s an award winning speaker, coach and author dedicated to helping people move past their betrayals as well as any other blocks preventing them from the health, work, relationships, confidence and happiness they want most.

April Gaines is a Professional Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counselor. A Certified
Advanced Alcohol and Addictions Counselor through McBap of Michigan. April has spent a total
of 21 years studying and obtaining numerous different degrees and certificates in the mental
health, substance abuse, healing and spirituality domains. A few of these certifications include
being a two times over Reiki Energy Healing Master, an Ama Deus Energy Healer, a
certificated Hypnotherapist, a Past Life Regression Therapist, a Certified Auricular
Acupuncturist and a Clairvoyant Psychic-Medium.
April has made it her life's mission is to help as many people as she can to develop permanent
self-esteem and inner peace through awareness. Teaching people they have innate worth, value
and purpose in this life. April has the gift of being a psychic-medium where she gets the
privilege to heal many souls, guide people in their life, and connect them to loved ones on the
other side. Everything she does is intended to heal, and spread love and light in the world.
April has created courses to teach self-esteem, worth, and inner peace. As well as a course in
tarot card mastery and developing psychic ability. April also serves on a weekly Echkart Tolle
spiritual panel, and has been a guest on many webinars, masterminds, and podcasts. All with
the intent to help heal as many souls as she can in one lifetime.
You can reach April at:
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Katherine Roberts

Writer * Speaker * Atheist Activist Email: [email protected]

For most of her life, Katherine was a spirit-filled, tongue talking, miracle-performing, faith-healing, scripture declaring, non-denominational, charismatic, Bible believing, Jesus-loving Christian. For 20 years, she devoted her life to ministering, and over the years she's been: "children's church leader

*women's ministry leader

"bible study writer and teacher

*youth leader

*chaplain

associate pastor

"guest speaker at various venues across Canada

In 2013, her calling was realized when she was ordained and became a senior pastor.

Less than 5 years later, she no longer believed any of it.

Today, after decades of faith and biblical study, Katherine is an atheist activist, anti-theist, and a secular humanist. She is currently working on a memoir of her journey from faith to reason.

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LANE GARDNER, PRESIDENT & CO-FOUNDER

In founding T H R E A D, Lane combines her life-long belief in the healing power of creative expression with over 25 years of experience as both a performer and arts educator.

A graduate of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM), Lane’s performance credits include leading roles at Lyric Opera Cleveland, Seaside Music Theater and the West End Theater in NYC. In 2015, she released her debut album, Fertile Ground, a heart-rendering and soulful collection of her deeply personal stories on her own label, Third Road Records. 

As an arts educator, Lane has taught in public and private schools, special education schools, youth centers and residential summer camps across the country. Lane has also worked with a wide range of arts organizations including The Metropolitan Opera Guild, The Conservatory of Performing Arts, New York Theater Workshop and LILA Women’s Wellness Center.

Through her role as Director of Programming for Music Ascension, she was instrumental in expanding the work Music Ascension offers, consulting with arts partners to design, manage, facilitate staff development and create highly specialized programming to include music and drama therapy. Alongside Founder/Director of Music Ascension, Pete Kalvert, Lane received the 2016 Innovations in Special Education Award from ASAH and the New Jersey School Board Association and the National 2017 Award for Leadership and Innovation in Special Education from NAPSEC. 

Throughout her career, Lane’s passion and dedication to human development through the arts has also led her to create and facilitate workshops and motivational talks for adults, in particular women’s groups, parents of children with special needs, survivors and those who have experienced trauma. She frequently presents her workshop series Stories Connect: The Power of Sharing Your Story at the Jung Center of New York.

http://www.threadconnects.org/
https://www.instagram.com/threadconnects/
https://www.facebook.com/ThreadConnects
mailto:[email protected]

LANE GARDNER, PRESIDENT & CO-FOUNDER

In founding T H R E A D, Lane combines her life-long belief in the healing power of creative expression with over 25 years of experience as both a performer and arts educator.

A graduate of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM), Lane’s performance credits include leading roles at Lyric Opera Cleveland, Seaside Music Theater and the West End Theater in NYC. In 2015, she released her debut album, Fertile Ground, a heart-rendering and soulful collection of her deeply personal stories on her own label, Third Road Records. 

As an arts educator, Lane has taught in public and private schools, special education schools, youth centers and residential summer camps across the country. Lane has also worked with a wide range of arts organizations including The Metropolitan Opera Guild, The Conservatory of Performing Arts, New York Theater Workshop and LILA Women’s Wellness Center.

Through her role as Director of Programming for Music Ascension, she was instrumental in expanding the work Music Ascension offers, consulting with arts partners to design, manage, facilitate staff development and create highly specialized programming to include music and drama therapy. Alongside Founder/Director of Music Ascension, Pete Kalvert, Lane received the 2016 Innovations in Special Education Award from ASAH and the New Jersey School Board Association and the National 2017 Award for Leadership and Innovation in Special Education from NAPSEC. 

Throughout her career, Lane’s passion and dedication to human development through the arts has also led her to create and facilitate workshops and motivational talks for adults, in particular women’s groups, parents of children with special needs, survivors and those who have experienced trauma. She frequently presents her workshop series Stories Connect: The Power of Sharing Your Story at the Jung Center of New York.