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About Bridal Counselor
Allison Moir-Smith, MA
Books
Look for my
forthcoming book Emotionally Engaged: A Bride's Guide to Surviving the Ups
and Downs of Getting Married, which will be published in February 2006
by
Hudson Street Press, an imprint of
Penguin.
Education
I have a masters
degree in counseling psychology with an emphasis in depth psychology from
Pacifica Graduate Institute
in Carpinteria, California, and a bachelors degree in English literature from
Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Professional
I am the founder of Emotionally
Engaged, offering individual counseling and workshops for brides and engaged
couples. Emotionally Engaged has been featured in
Bridal Guide, Cosmopolitan,
Elegant Wedding, Elle, Glamour,
FoxNews.com, Improper Bostonian.
I am a member of the
Boston Wedding Group.
I am also the
co-founder of
Your Soul’s Work,
offering workshops in career counseling, dreamwork, and journaling. I am
the author of 4 additional books, including political and personal
biographies. I was an editor at Forbes FYI in New York for over 8 years.
My magazine articles have appeared in Forbes FYI, Allure, Travel Holiday,
United Hemispheres, Delta Sky and the book of short stories, A Different
Angle: Women Write About Fly Fishing.
Personal
I live and work in Brookline, Massachusetts, with my husband,
Jason E. Smith, MA, a career counselor who is training to be a Jungian
analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of New England, and our daughter, Annabel.
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Allison Moir-Smith
Bridal Counselor & Author
of Emotionally Engaged
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Why I Created Emotionally Engaged
I was 34 when Jason popped the question. A former Forbes
FYI magazine editor and the author of 4 books, I had just finished my
master's degree in counseling psychology at
Pacifica Graduate Institute.
With all that
age, training, and life experience, I assumed my engagement would be a cake-walk
-- a delicious period of life full of fun, joy, love, and magic.
While my
engagement had all that good stuff, it was emotionally grueling at times, too.
Happy, sad, scared, angry, anxious, overwhelmed, confused.... (I think you may
know what I mean)...
I couldn't believe this was
happening to me!
So during my
engagement, I took myself on as a client, so to speak. I decided to make
sense of what was happening to me, so that eventually, I could help other brides
like you understand what they were going through.
Since then, I
have researched, read, written, counseled, lectured, interviewed brides,
lived and breathed the psychology of being engaged.
I teach brides
about the psychology of the family (which explains why everyone acts up) and the
stages of rites of passages (which explains why being engaged is universally
hard, in some way, for every bride).
I help brides
get a grip on they are going through emotionally, so that they can be better
prepared for their marriages ahead.
Let me help you be Emotionally
Engaged! Call TODAY for a FREE 15-minute phone consultation.
617-739-5353.
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Bridal Counselor
Allison Moir-Smith
on her wedding day
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