Cynthia Garner is the author of Fierce Boundaries: Practical Skills and Somatic Exercises for Healing in a Traumatized World. She holds a Doctorate in Bodymind Health from the Parkmore Institute, and works as a leadership coach, mindfulness instructor, and somatic psychotherapist.
Cynthia offers small group mentorship, writing, and mindfulness courses online and also hosts the Welcome You Podcast as Dr. Cindy. On the show, she speaks from her lived experience as an adoptee, former educator, single mom, and survivor of prolonged emotional abuse, and gives practical guidance for breaking free from toxic relationships and healing wounds of belonging.
About the Book:
As parents, educators, and helping professionals, we need our strength now more than ever. Yet a lifetime of people-pleasing and putting others first has left many of us too exhausted and under-resourced to manage the task ahead of us. We have given ourselves away, and we are lost in a sea of unskillful coping, depression, anxiety, loneliness, and unacknowledged grief. The exercises and skills in this book will help you set the fierce boundaries you need to come home to yourself, curate your mental real estate for optimal health, transform traumatic stress, and interrupt cycles of addiction, fear, and abuse.
Cynthia Garner is a doctor of body-mind health, a somatic psychotherapist, a single mother who survived an emotionally abusive relationship through mental illness, and a former classroom teacher turned mindfulness instructor. In this book, she shares her life experience and expertise to provide a field-tested pathway for turning poison into medicine and reclaiming a sense of agency in these troubled times. She offers proven therapeutic practices for healing our relationship to ourselves, and a new narrative for those of us willing to try a different approach — believing that healing is possible and that we are worthy of carving out time and space for rest, joy, and wellbeing.
Release Date: May 1, 2024