Like many people, Kathleen Hall found that despite great success and material wealth, she had yet to identify purpose, meaning, and balance in her work and her life. She left her Wall Street firm and devoted herself to understanding the relationships between mind, body, and spirit, and between professional and personal fulfillment. Since then, she has studied with great spiritual leaders including the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and the exiled Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh. She has also learned from medical experts like Dr. Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Dr. Herbert Benson at the Harvard Mind-Body Institute.
Inspired by those diverse influences, Dr. Hall has written A Life in Balance, a guided journey to joy, peace, and an intentional life grounded in the four roots of the SELF:
* Serenity. Find what brings us peace, and channel it into everything we do * Exercise. Align the body with energy and health through walking, yoga, martial arts, and more * Love. Build community and relationships that heal others as well as ourselves * Food. Pay attention not just to what we eat, but to what we experience through all our senses
Our lives pull us in many different directions; to find happiness, we must first create balance. Filled with wit, wisdom, and compassion, A Life in Balance will help any reader identify and stay true to his or her authentic self.
"National stress and work life balance expert Dr. Kathleen Hall is founder of The Stress Institute (www.thestressinstitute.org), C.E.O. of Alter Your Life, author and speaker. Her advice has been featured by national print and broadcast media outlets, in many published books, and at Fortune 500 corporate offices. She traded a finance career on Wall Street at the World TradeCenter to redefine success on her own terms.
Dr. Hall's advice has been featured by all the major national media including NBC's The Today Show, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Fortune, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Business Week, Parents, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Woman’s Day, and Parade.
Author of A Life in Balance: Nourishing the Four Roots of True Happiness (AMACOM, January 2006) and Alter Your Life: Overbooked? Overworked? Overwhelmed? (Oak Haven, April 2005), she offers simple methods for reducing stress and living a balancedlifeof true happiness.
Dr. Hall earned a Masters of Divinity from EmoryUniversityand a Doctorate in Spirituality from Columbia Theological Seminary. Her diverse background of study with medical pioneers includingDr. Dean Ornishof the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Dr. Herbert Benson at the Harvard Mind/Body Institute as well as illustrious spiritual teachers including the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu and President Jimmy Carter. Dr. Hall has perfected her expertise in these related fields—where science meets the soul.
Dr. Hall lives on a ranch with her family and rescue animals outside of Atlanta, Georgia."
