Melody's second edition of her life altering book provides an updated version with new stories and concepts. Your life and relationships will never be the same. Your understanding of the world, and everyone in it, including yourself will be expanded. As one reader said "Its like ten years of therapy in one book".
Melody was raised in the wings of a theatre as her mother directed plays for the local high school. Writing and acting out plays with her brother and sister since elementary school became the platform for Melodys later work. She went on to study Acting and Directing at the University of Oklahoma, then moving do Dallas in 1976 and graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas. Melody went on to film, television, commercial, voice over and industrial work.
During her child-raising years Melody went back graduate school at theTexas Womans University. She is now a Professional Counselor and Marriage and Family Therapist. After practicing almost 20 years, she came up with a model for understanding human relationships and wrote the books, Cycles of the Heart: A way out of the egocentrism of everyday life, Oh, WOW This changes everything , The Landmines to Goldmines Play book for couples and The Oh WOW Healing Guide. Melody began speaking and presenting on her unique model in 2003 and is now a highly sought after motivational speaker.
Returning to film work in 2005, Melody is represented by Landrum Arts, LA and The Linicomn Agency. She is currently writing while developing shorts and feature films for production and maintaining a small private counseling practice.
This book was a quick read and contained lots of strategies about forgiveness, empathy, compassion, and learning to recognize emotional reactions. There were lots of scenarios and examples. To me, it was really written for people who have endured extreme trauma. However, it was good to read about the cycle of egocentrism vs the cycle of compassion. Love yourself first will always ring true. Forgive yourself. Show grace to others and to yourself. We are all doing the best we can with what he have been given. Life is hard, but it is never too late to adjust your way of interpreting and reacting to your environment. My copy is highlighted! :)