Edie Weinstein

Rev. Edie Weinstein, LSW is a work in progress. Her creative, career and spiritual paths have led her to become a writer, speaker, interfaith minister, reiki master, clown, greeting card text writer (for Kathy Davis Designs/Recycled Paper Greetings) and social worker. She engages in life fully, inviting others to join her. As a guide, she holds a mirror up to those with whom she works, so that they may see their own beauty and discover their own answers. She is available to speak to your business, health care organization, school, faith and community group.

She is a graduate of the New Seminary in New York City and an ordained Interfaith Minister assigned to the staff of The Interfaith Temple. She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) in 1981 and a Master of Social Work Degree from Rutgers University in 1985. Since that time, she has worked with individuals, couples and families facing life challenges.

She was ordained through the New Seminary, a two year program based in New York City. It is a a 501C3 non-profit organization, incorporated under the guidelines of the Board of Regents of the University of NY on behalf the NY State Deptartment of Education. She is ordained by the Interfatith Temple and is on the staff of the Interfaith Temple of New York.

Edie is permitted to perform legal wedding ceremonies throughout the United States.

In 1988, along with her husband Michael, she co-founded Visions Magazine, a monthly publication focusing on alternative health, psychology & spirituality. She has interviewed such notables as Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Grover Washington, Jr., Olympia Dukakis, Ben & Jerry, Patch Adams, Shirley MacLaine, Kenny Loggins and Dennis Weaver.

Edie Weinstein has learned a great deal about healing as the adoptive parent of a special needs child and a care giving and bereaved spouse. Michael died on December 21, 1998 while awaiting a liver transplant. She is also a volunteer for The Gift of Life Donor Program, Gilda's Club and Rubye's Kids.

A free-lance journalist, her writing has been printed in publications such as New Visions, Holistic Living, The Doylestown Intelligencer, the Philadelphia Inquirer, YogaLiving, Wisdom, Mystic Pop, In Your Prime, the "What The Bleep Do We Know?" website and The Bucks County Writer. She has been interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, WWDB 96.5 and National Public Radio.

Her alter-ego is "Feather", a faerie clown who teaches people the value of healthy humor. She has discovered laughter as a balm for her own emotional wounds.

Edie Weinstein is a work in progress, like everyone else on the planet; the artist of her own design and the mistress of her own bliss. She is a career journalist with 23 years experience interviewing some of the most amazing movers and shakers on the planet, including Ben & Jerry,Shirley MacLaine, Ram Dass, Michael Beckwith, Jack Canfield, Marianne Williamson, Dan Millman, Wayne Dyer, Elizabeth Lesser, Arielle Ford, Debbie Ford, SARK, Bernie Siegel and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In addition, she is an interfaith minister, dynamic motivational speaker, opti-mystic, (seeing the world through the eyes of possibility), transformational coach, social worker and PR Goddess.

She writes a regular column for Wisdom Magazine called The Bliss Mistress Guide www.wisdom-magazine.com, a daily blog for the interfaith website Beliefnet, called the Bliss Blog http://features.beliefnet.com/blissblog

and a weekly blog for VividLife www.vividlife.me and a growing number of other venues.

Here are two recent radio interviews, for your listening pleasure

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/realriches/2011/12/06/real-riches-with-tanna-corona

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/consciousdiscussions/2012/02/26/world-of-writing-with-edie-weinstein

Here is a youtube video for The Bliss Mistress Guide To Transforming the Ordinary Into the Extraordinary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zzoV923uw