Dr. Catherine P. Perry, M.Ed., DD         Author,  Spiritual Healer, Intuitive, Life Coach                                                         

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                        DR. CATHERINE P. PERRY, M.ED, DD                                              Author, Spiritual Healer, Intuitive, Life Coach                                freedom@catherinepperry.com   ~   www.courageouswake.com

P.O. Box 1516  ~  Paramus, NJ  07653-1516  ~   Phone: 888-330-7248

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Dr. Catherine P. Perry, M.Ed., DD is a gifted intuitive, spiritual healer, inspirational speaker, life coach, and author of the new book Courageous Wake.

A psychotherapist-turned-spiritual healer, Dr. Perry was born a natural visionary, change agent, and harmonizer. She didn't always understand her powerful ability to manifest positive change in herself and in others. She saw glimpses of this phenomenon growing up, in the corporate world, in adult social settings, and with her clients when she was practicing psychotherapy and traditional counseling. Through an intense spiritual awakening and healing journey chronicled in her recently released book Courageous Wake, she came to the realization that, no matter what vocation she chooses, she is on Earth to make a difference using her innate spiritual healing gifts.

When asked what makes her work unique, Catherine asserts,  "I walk-my-talk. I weave-in my rich experience base ~ a vast expanse of scientific knowledge along with wisdom from personal experience; Add to that my sense of humor, compassion, and naturally healing life-force-energy... a potent recipe for life-altering shifts."

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Press Release 1/2010

YouTube Video  1/2010

Radio Interview 12/2009   

                                    

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Questions and Answers About Dr. Catherine P. Perry

Q:     Where are your from?

A:     That requires a longer-than-usual answer. My father was in the military, so I'd lived in three different cities from birth to 7-years-old. I lived in Norfolk, Virginia then Queens, New York then Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The longest I've lived in any one place is Baton Rouge. I now reside in Paramus, New Jersey.

Q:     What are your unique attributes and defining qualities?

A:     I am a visionary with a twist of humor. I am a natural harmonizer and change agent; my energy is a-breath-of-fresh-air bringing with it compassion and the wisdom of a very old soul. I am real.

Q:     What were some of your most unique life experiences?

A:      There are so many, but I'll share these two:

          First: I recall the day I avoided being a face on a milk carton. I was eleven. A man lured me and my friend into the woods under the guise of needing directions ~ help finding his car. He exposed his genitals and groped my friend. I, at a mere four-foot-three-inches tall, yelled, "I'm going to kill you!" at the top of  my lungs as I sprinted toward the pedophile. He torpedoed out of the woods, as if a lion were chasing him. I learned that my small stature had nothing to do with my power. I also learned that my voice has the power to affect change. 

          Second: I remember sneaking out at 14. I climbed out of my bedroom window, met up with two girlfriends, and took a midnight stroll near our school. Ten minutes into our excursion, police flashed their lights and stopped us. They ordered us into the back of their car. Their scathing lecture warning of the dangers of walking the streets at night was nothing compared to what I imagined my parents would do: Grounded for life, no TV for a year, or worse. As the police pulled up to my front yard, they broke out into laughter. Apparently, every piece of underwear I owned was hanging in the oak tree near my bedroom window. I didn't know what prankster delivered that humiliating gift, but the police decided not to tell my parents where I'd been. Seeing my embarrassment, the officers agreed I'd learned my lesson. They watched me crawl back through the window into my room. I lay in my bed thanking the panty phantom. I learned that miracles are available at any time and in any form.

Q:     Who were your greatest influences? What impact did they have on you?

A:     My Mom: She was a catch-22. I never new where I stood with her. Sweetness mixed with rage and music and condemnation and humor and piety. I didn’t want to end up like her—so conflicted, so emotionally imprisoned, so rigid, so scared. Experiencing the dimensions of Mom led to a deliberate life of self-discovery and growth. I had to take charge of my life, make my own rules, define myself on my terms, and have the courage to follow my own path. As I say in my book Courageous Wake, "Sometimes we get parents who teach by showing us what not to do."

         My Dad: He was another paradox. A loving, brilliant, and funny man whose vulnerabilities would send him back into his own childhood. Experiencing his rage and fear made life confusing. It was difficult to figure out what version of him I should trust. I was conditioned to think I was to blame for his emotions and behavior. It took many years to learn that I was not responsible for other people's expectations, disappointments, and problems. 

         My Stepmom: She was a school counselor. At 23, I reached out to her for help. She counseled me for a couple of hours about the source of my eating disorder and about how to replace my ineffective coping choices with a healthy one (feeling my feelings, allowing myself to cry). My eating disorder literally vanished that night.

          My eighth grade teacher: She told a story that changed my life. She heard the voice of God in the moment that her son died. The "calm" she described as she heard the Divine message injected something into me that can never die. I go into much detail about this story and its impact in Courageous Wake.

Q:     Who would you most like to emulate?

A:     In childhood, I wanted to be a combination of Cinderella ~ including the benefit of having the fairy-god-mother, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnette, and Glenda ~ Good Witch of the North ~ from The Wizard of Oz.   It's a perfect blend of beauty, magic, fun, humor, and the power to send away the "bad guys" saying, as Glenda did to the bad witch,      "Be gone. You have no power here!"

         As an adult, I want to be the best version of myself. I am my model, my authority.

Q:     What do you do better than anyone on the planet?

A:     Be Catherine Perry.

Q:     What is your favorite personal quality?

A:     Compassion for my fellow humans. My sense of humor is a close second.

Q:     What is your least favorite personal quality?

A:     I am a recovering perfectionist. What a waste of time and energy ~ worrying about getting things "right" and not making mistakes. I have made some big ones and learned that being perfect would have blinded me to what I needed to know.

Q:     What are you most proud of accomplishing so far in your life?

A:     My childhood was marked with physical and emotional abuse. I am now a mother who successfully stopped the intergenerational pattern of abuse. I stopped it in its tracks and never engaged in that behavior with my son and stepdaughters. As producer/director Ron Howard once said, "Those are the real heroes ~ the people who stop the cycle of abuse and do not perpetuate it." It is the best thing I've ever done. No amount of money or career success can compete with that.     

Q:     Describe what you do?

A:     I help people melt the roadblocks to happiness, good health, and success. I use Energy healing techniques such as Reiki, BioGenesis, and Karuna Ki, advanced spiritual hypnosis, and life coaching from a spiritual perspective. 

         Lately, I've been doing more book promotions activities than individual healing sessions; however, I am still accepting new clients and working with them by telephone. I am also available for healing workshops, both public and private ~ no group is too small or too large.

Q:     How did you come to call yourself a spiritual healer and intuitive?

A:     I chronicle the bizarre chain of events (in my book) that led to coming out of what I coined "the spiritual closet." While working as a psychotherapist, I discovered some unusual things happening in therapy sessions. I had the ability to see into people's lives and to flow my energy out of my body and into the clients' bodies. At the time I first noticed the phenomenon, I didn't know what the heck to call the activity that was sort of driving itself.  People were healing and solving problems much more quickly that I'd expected with so-called conventional therapy.

Q:     What results have you seen after you've worked your healing magic with clients?

A:     The most dramatic case involved sending energy into a woman with stage-four breast cancer. The energy was filling and surrounding the place within the woman where she felt guilt and deep resentment. Within two sessions, her medical doctor confirmed through tests that the cancer was gone. Two months later, the woman was still in remission. Other results include lowering blood pressure, seeing people quit their addictions, diminishing behavior problems with children, repairing failing marriages, and removing blocks to creativity~ removing writer's block or painter's block. The list of results is huge.

Q:     Why do people hire you? What ultimately do they seek?

A:     Ultimately, people want to be happy. What ever their initial reason for calling ~ be it fear, self-doubt, guilt, a need for clarity in uncertain times, being overwhelmed, grief, sadness, the search for balance, to increase financial prosperity, to heal or enhance relationships, or to heal past trauma ~ the end result is: they want to feel happy, passionate about life.        

 

Questions and Answers About the Book Courageous Wake

Q:     Courageous Wake is the title of your new book. Why did you write the book?

A:      I like to teach by demonstration. This is my contribution. My story empowers people to stand grounded in their truths, to be their own authorities, and to come out of whatever closets they are hiding in.

          I was divinely guided to pull together some of my journal entries of healing, of spiritual awakening, of facing and overcoming adversity, and of summoning the courage to take great risks. At first, I didn't understand what I was creating. I had often witnessed my therapy clients responding positively to my personal stories, so I knew my twist on self-help with a personal touch would be inspiring, empowering. 

Q:     What kind of challenges did you face while writing the book?

A:     Doubt. Not trusting myself or my intuitive guidance created many stops and starts in the process. I would forget that my intuitive or psychic self knows more than my logical-analytical self. The more I meditated and remained open to my intuition and divine guidance, the more productive I was.

Q:     You pull back the curtain, so to speak, on organized religion, specifically the Catholic Church, in Courageous Wake. What do you have to say to loyal Catholics and other religious folks about your assertions?

A:     Rather than an attack on religion, I simply invite people to expand the possibilities in how they experience God. Each of us has our own subjective spiritual experience. How one person feeds herself or himself is up to that person. It is not for me to say they should abandon their religions. My point is: Whether you call it God, Goddess, The Force, Creator, Jolly Green Giant, Higher Self, or Jesus, It communicates directly to us ~ through us. I know this through experience, not because I read this in a book or heard some priest or pastor tell me. What I hear, through divine inspiration, are the corrections to the misunderstandings in the Bible. I receive my knowing through mystical experience. I understand the mystical messages embedded within the scriptures. Those writings are not to be taken literally.

Q:     You were educated within a scientific framework. How does the spirituality piece fit in with the science piece?

A:     In both arenas, the the question for debate is: What is true knowledge? How we discern what knowledge is and how knowledge is obtained has been up for discussion for eons. The bottom line is, I know what I know, because I know. This is the same statement made by Carl Jung (The Swiss psychiatrist who invented analytical psychology and coined the terms Collective Unconscious and Synchronicity) when asked how he knows that our consciousness is infinite and exists with or without the body. There are some things we just know. That's it. That is the answer of a mystic. No outside authority is necessary to know one's truth. Albert Einstein knew this. Jesus knew it. Joan of Arc knew it. On some level we all know it. The bridge between the spiritual and the scientific is our personal experience ~ trusting our intuitive knowing. The bridge is there; I am simply shining a light on it.

Q:   Into your story, you weave in the assertion that the American Psychiatric Association needs to give more attention to the metaphysical aspects of the human condition. How so? 

A:    The APA by nature studies the metaphysical. Metaphysical merely means "beyond the physical." The focus of mental health is on the mind, a metaphysical construct that has yet to be completely understood. When I suggest the APA revamp human development theories, I'm talking about those metaphysical experiences such as communication with spirits, God, angels. I'm referring to psychic, clairvoyant, telepathic, and other phenomena that, at this time, are relegated to occurring within certain cultures who's traditions include believing in and practicing such activities. The assumption (by the APA) is that mental health providers must "respect" those cultures' right to other-than-mainstream beliefs. They (APA), however, do not acknowledge the vast group of people ~ those who weren't indoctrinated into those specific cultures named in the APA literature ~ who regularly experience psychic and other metaphysical phenomena like re-experiencing trauma from a past life or receiving direct communication from a discarnate being.

Q:     Have you contacted the APA about this discrepancy?

A:     My letter is ready, but I haven't mailed it. I have the feeling that if enough people come out of the spiritual closet and simply openly express what they experience on a day-to-day basis (receiving angelic guidance, having prophetic dreams, speaking to the dead through mediumship), then critical mass may do the trick in creating the appropriate shift in the minds of the APA. People must stop fearing being labeled "crazy," and assume their experiences are valid. In the early 1970's the APA considered homosexuality a mental disorder. It took widespread expressing and horn-honking to shift that myth out of existence. The same is true of the concept of a round Earth. Those who first spoke of their experience (not falling off the edge of the so-called flat world) were believed to be heretics. We need to speak up about our experiences to shift the presently accepted realities.

Q:     What message do you want your readers to walk away with after reading Courageous Wake?

A:     One: Pay attention to your intuition ~ your inner guidance that is always available to you. This is your connection to your truth, your wisdom, your power. It is your connection to the divine. Trust in this and you empower yourself beyond your wildest dreams.

         Two: There is no such thing as normal. Define yourself on your terms. Give yourself the freedom to be who you are ~ not who others expect you to be.

Q:     How can people get a copy of Courageous Wake?

A:     Directly through my Web site www.courageouswake.com, through the publisher www.authorhouse.com, and through 25+ online sites such as Amazon.com and Barnesand Noble.com.  

         The book is available in paperback, hard cover, and as an Ebook.