It's a double-caf low-fat Frappuccino-kind of world, and all that bustle doesn't stop just because it's time for bed. While you sleep, your mind is busy going over everything you've experienced during the day. Now, with the only dream book that interprets both classic and new twenty-first century symbols - everything from speed dating and Botox to text messages and iPods - you can tap into your unconscious with the turn of a page. Discover the messages hidden in your dreams, your hopes, your fears, your unrealized strengths and potential. You'll learn how to recognize life-altering opportunities and become the person you've always dreamed of being.
The Dream Doctor, Kelly Sullivan Walden
I began my dream research at the age of five! Growing up, my younger sister and I shared a room. Every morning, we would wake up excited to share our dreams and compare notes about what we thought our nighttime adventures might have meant. We bought up every dream dictionary we could find and poured through them to widen the spectrum of our understanding. When I grew a little older I became interested in Carl Jung, Carlos Castaneda, in addition to many other spiritual and esoteric teachers, who took my understanding of dreams to a deeper level.
Fifteen years ago, when I became a certified clinical hypnotherapist, I began working with clients via their subconscious minds to access their core beliefs, drives, and desires, in order to more effectively assist them to heal from past traumas and to align with their future goals.
Over my years of working with hundreds of clients, I began to see dreams as a way of doing laser surgery on the soul, in that dreams leave tell-tale clues as to the most direct route to an individual's unique route to healing or to their one-of-a-kind way to thrive. When I realized that no dream books on the market dealt with contemporary symbols or synthesized the realm of dream interpretation in the life-affirming way I did, I felt compelled to write my latest book, I HAD THE STRANGEST DREAM, THE DREAMER'S DICTIONARY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY.
It has been such an honor to have been asked to appear on numerous television, news, and radio programs over the past few years to talk about my passion and empower so many people on a mass level. I never could have dreamed that there would be such a mainstream interest in dreams. But, of course there would be--it is one thing we all have in common...and in understanding our dreams (or at least being in touch with them) can exponentially enhance our lives, our intuition, and our ability to expedite the process of making our desires come true.
Two years ago I became President of the Women's National Book Association (LA Chapter), and as a result was invited to participate in a conference at the United Nations (a dream come true). It was there that I received the insight (imagine the feeling of being struck by lightening) to begin The Dream Project (www.DreamProjectUN.org), an educational program that inspires students (grades 6-12) to discover (dream) and invent solutions to the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (goals to combat, by 2015: poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. The Dream Project has been nominated for a CTAUN Best Practices Award (Committee on Teaching About the United Nations) and has become the most fulfilling work I've ever done. I could have never been receptive to such a great and ambitious calling had I not been in the practice of bridging the gap between my nighttime dreams and daytime desire/purpose. By the way, as a result of the Dream Project, last year, not only was I invited to attend a conference at the United Nations, but I was invited to speak and share about the Dream Project, the absolute, highlight of my career.
You never know what might happen to you once you begin paying attention to your dreams...you might discover gold in your own backyard, find the cure for cancer, speak before the United Nations, or find out the reason you were born and the way to fulfill your highest destiny!
To your dreams!
Kelly Sullivan Walden
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Kelly has appeared on numerous television, news, and radio programs, and has been featured in US Weekly, L.A. Times, Women's Day, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and The Chicago Tribune.
Kelly and her husband, Dana Walden, divide their time between the hustle-bustle of Los Angeles and the serenity of a 40-acre ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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