Wasabi Publicity, Inc.

Michelle Tennant

828-749-3200

Debbie Ford

Pop psychology and self-help systems today tout the benefits of being positive. Affirmations, success mantras, scores of teachers telling us to look at what we want and not at what we don’t want.

But Debbie Ford disagrees.

“If we won’t accept our pain, shame, guilt, and anger, it doesn’t matter how many hours of positive affirmations we do. We remain stuck, our power frozen inside.”

“It is the courage to embrace the totality of our humanity - both our light and our darkness - that will lead us to the experience of heaven on earth, because heaven is when we can love all of ourselves - both our human self and our divine self, both our light and our dark.”

BIO:With us today is Debbie Ford, New York Times #1 bestselling author, internationally acclaimed workshop leader and trainer who is committed to the evolution of human consciousness. Best known for her groundbreaking work known as the Shadow Process, Debbie works with over 10,000 people annually through her workshops and tele-seminars. She will appear as the expert coach on ABC’s Ex-Wives’ Club, hosts a weekly radio program on HayHouse Radio and recently launched an interactive website – -- to make her teachings even more accessible. Welcome, Debbie Ford.

Suggested TOPICS for DISCUSSION:

  • The Dark Roots of Addiction: Unearthing the root cause of addictions, and transform into empowerment
  • Spiritual Divorce: How to transform any loss or “leaving” into life-enhancing experiences.
  • Good Girls Don’t Get Angry: The myths about our Shadow side,how to identify these myths and break through
  • Confronting Our Inner Evil – and our inner jerk! How to face our Shadow side, and findits extraordinary gifts
  • The Dark Side of The Secret: Why positive thinking alone cannot bring deep, lasting personal transformation.
  • It’s All About Me: The ugly aspects we see in others are actually parts of our own inner self. How to end our internal wars to make peace in the outer world.

Online Press Kit (media):

Public Web site (for books, programs, workshop details, etc.)

1. What exactly is the Shadow? Can you give examples of people who have or have not integrated their Shadow side?

2. Is this resistance to our dark side a universal syndrome or is it more prevalent in Western culture?

3. How does your Shadow Process relate to twelve-step programs for addictions?

4. What is “dis-identification?” Does it distance us from our emotions? How can we use it?

5. If everyone embraces their dark side, won’t we just end up with a world of angry, rude people?

6. Do Children have a Shadow? And if so, how could we help our children to accept their Shadow?

7. Can people really experience deep, lasting transformation in a workshop or through a book or on a website? Doesn’t it take years of psychotherapy for most people to really change?

8. You’ve developed something called “the right questions.” What are these questions and how do they work in daily life?

9. You’ve said that we live in a fear-based society? What do you mean by that and what can we do about it?

10. You talk a lot about prayer, meditation, and our “divinity.” Does I need to be religious to get into what you offer?

To book Debbie Fordor another Wasabi expert, call Michelle Tennant 828-749-3200,