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ABOUT DR. CINDY HOARD

Cindy Hoard is a student and patient of treatment-resistant depression. She has undergone a wide range of treatments, therapies and activities to help herself over many years. As a consumer of many sources of information, research and modalities she has been an active participant in her own care. Over 40 years she documented her journey, expressed her reactions to lived experiences and kept a history of her progress in journals.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Spirit Rising: My Winding Tumultuous Odyssey with Depression is a memoir by Cindy Hoard blended with self-help; lived experience, treatments of depression, and the evolution of personal Spiritual life in the process. There is a unique integration of her professional knowledge as a psychologist; and her personal insight and involvement with depression. The two sources inform and impact each other.

Each reader will have a unique trip on this journey with benefits for patients, family members dealing with depression, physicians, friends, professional therapists, spiritual directors, professors and anyone curious about the multiple issues, insights and approaches to the adventure with treatment-resistant depression.

Carole Spiers FISMA, FPSA, MIHPE

CEO Carole Spiers Group

Chair ISMAUK

Founder, International Stress Awareness Week

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Carole Spiers is an international Business Stress Consultant and currently serves as the Chair of the International Stress Management AssociationUK.

On their behalf, she founded Stress Awareness Day in 1998 and to recognise its anniversary in 2018, established International Stress Awareness Week

As an international Motivational Speaker, Carole has provided keynote addresses at international conferences in the UK, Europe, and Middle East. She is a regular BBC Guest-Broadcaster is regularly called upon by the international press and media for comment.

She is CEO of the Carole Spiers Group, an international stress management and wellbeing consultancy. Carole has over 25 years of experience as an industry expert on how to reduce stress, build resilience and improve health and wellbeing.

She has published books such as Tolleys "Managing Stress in the Workplace" and "Show Stress Who's Boss!"

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolespiers-stresskeynotespeaker/

www.carolespiers.co.uk