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I’m a 53-year-old Woman with a Menagerie of Squeezable Stuffed Animals.
For Marci Brockmann, joy in life comes through real, human connections for it is there that empathy and compassion are born. She is a survivor of mental illness and addiction. She loves with all her heart and is a devoted mother, wife, teacher, friend, daughter, aunt, and sister. She is a multi-passionate person unconventionally combining all aspects of her creative life into everything she does. She’s a high school English teacher, author, artist, and podcaster.
Her Permission to Heal podcast engages in meaningful, deeply human conversations using voices to inspire connection, compassion, understanding, empathy, and whole-hearted wellness. Listen. Subscribe. Review. Share.
Marci’s memoir Permission to Land: Searching for Love, Home & Belonging is about surviving a dysfunctional, mentally abusive family and thriving – learning to love yourself and build a life of love, joy, success, and belonging.
Permission to Land: Personal Transformation Through Writing is a guided expressive writing journal with over 100 pages of writing prompts to help you uncover your past, illuminate your present, and guide you into your own bright, hopeful future with more clarity, awareness, and confidence than ever before.
Both her books are available on Amazon, B&N, or anywhere books are sold, and at MarciBrockmann.com.
Excerpts can be found here on Elephant Journal and her YouTube Channel – What’s up, Marci?
Please support PTH and Marci’s philanthropic goals of helping people with addiction recover through treatment to rebuild their lives through a subscription through Patreon and help PTH be of benefit to a larger audience. Patreon.com/PermissiontoHeal
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