Gifts of the Rain Puddle

Beth Kurland, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist, author and public speaker who has been in practice since 1994, working with people across the lifespan from preschoolers through adults. With a particular passion for and expertise in mindfulness and the mind-body connection, she specializes in using mind-body strategies to help people achieve whole-person health and wellness. Beth is the author of the award-winning book The Transformative Power of Ten Minutes: An Eight Week Guide to Reducing Stress and Cultivating Well-Being, a Finalist in the Health and Wellness category by Next Generation Indie Book Awards. In this book, Beth offers a practical, step-by-step guide to help readers learn strategies that they can bring into the course of their day to transform stress and create greater well-being, with short, daily exercises that take ten minutes or less. Beth has been writing poetry since childhood, and offers readers these poems, inspired from her own meditations, her work as a psychologist, and her life's journey to find presence, meaning and wholeness in each unfolding day.