Author, Empowerment Speaker, Coach

Cynthia Garner’s work explores the intersections of mental health, belonging, and collective memory. An adoptee and survivor of narcissistic abuse, she has dedicated her life to rewriting her family’s story, helping others reclaim their bodies, minds, and hearts, and reimagining motherhood as an act of generational healing.

Through her books, talks, and creative projects, Cynthia blends personal narrative and mindful inquiry to illuminate how reclaiming our individual stories can shape our shared future.

Speaking and Appearances

Cynthia has spoken at universities, women’s leadership summits, mental health conferences, and creative wellness retreats. Her presentations integrate story, science, and mindfulness — offering practical wisdom rooted in lived experience.

Available formats include:

  • Keynotes and panels

  • Story-based talks and readings

  • Workshops and author events

  • Podcast and media interviews

To invite Cynthia to speak, email connect@cynthiagarner.com. Include your event details, audience, and preferred topic focus. For leadership and organizational consulting, visit Leading to Heal

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Storytelling That Heals and Connects

As a writer and narrative artist, Cynthia weaves lived experience with mindful awareness to spark conversation and courage. Her talks, artwork, and readings invite audiences to explore what it means to belong — in our families, our communities, and our bodies.

Themes include:

  • Healing after relational trauma and emotional abuse

  • Adoption, identity, and belonging

  • Boundaries and nervous system regulation

  • Mindful parenting and intergenerational healing

  • Storytelling, movement, and expressive arts as activism

Each engagement is both personal and relational, offering a compassionate, experiential, and often humorous perspective on what it means to be alive in these imperfect times. A recurrent theme is the responsibility we have to step out of survival mode and into engaged activism, and to be the change we wish to see in the world.

Narrative Consulting & Mindful Brand Storytelling

I help you hold a large vision and communicate it with clarity, authenticity, and purpose. My intuitive and empathic approach reveals the core patterns, beliefs, and strategies that shape your creative process and influence how others experience your work. Together, we refine your message so it resonates deeply, aligns with your values, and reaches the people you are meant to serve.

Speaking & Media Engagements

I offer keynotes, panels, and interviews that bring mindful awareness to leadership, workplace wellness, and embodied healing. My talks explore how trauma-informed systems and sustainable leadership practices can restore humanity, compassion, and collective care in our institutions.

Workshops & Creative Facilitation

Through workshops, talks, and writing, I help individuals and communities reconnect with the body’s intelligence and recover their inner authority. These experiences blend mindfulness, creative process, and nervous system wisdom to cultivate belonging, emotional regulation, and authentic expression.

1:1 Therapeutic Support for Soul-Led Women

For women ready to live with greater boundaries, authenticity, and ease, I offer personalized support that integrates mindfulness, expressive arts, nature, and body-based practices. Together we create space for truth to emerge, helping you move through old patterns into a life grounded in presence, purpose, and embodied wisdom. My work carries the energy of ferocity and tenderness, inviting depth, aliveness, and genuine healing.

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Recent programs include:

  • Trauma-Sensitive Mindful Leadership for Educators

  • Stress Reduction & Anxiety Management

  • Non-Violent Communication

  • Educator Wellbeing Intensive

  • Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Crisis Response

  • Collective Healing after Grief, Loss, and Trauma

  • Mindful Play and Creative Flow

  • Mindful Parenting through Divorce and Upheaval

Incorporating mindfulness and communication skills into workplace, educational, and therapeutic environments is powerfully transformative. Dr. Cynthia Garner works both individually with core leadership and in a whole-systems context, helping teams and community leaders integrate balance, focus, and care into moment-to-moment interactions and challenges.

Through therapeutic somatic exercises, verbal and non-verbal reflections, and neuroscience-backed instruction, Cynthia help communities build connection through the investigation and sharing of human experience.

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