Nancy O'Connor

name Dr. O’Connor has served on the faculties of the University of Oregon and the
University of Arizona. She has been a clinical psychologist for community mental health programs and in private practice 23 years until her retirement in 1998. The last 12 years of her practice she was the founder and Director of the Grief and Loss Center in Tucson, Arizona.

Dr. O’Connor has extensive experience as a seminar leader, workshop facilitator, teacher, trainer and lecturer. She has worked as a consultant to hospices, hospitals, schools, corporations, nursing homes, police departments and numerous private and public agencies both in the United States and abroad.

She is the author of several articles and books. Letting Go With Love: The Grieving Process is an international bestseller and has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide. How to Grow Up When You’re Grown Up: Achieving Balance in Adulthood is holistic approach to adult development and How To Talk To Your Doctor is a lighthearted approach at improving communications between patients and doctors, encouraging patients to be more empowered and participate in their own health care. Lottie’s Lot is a novel based on the true-life stories of her great grandmother Lottie Walker-Hastings and her children and grandchildren. In the Year 2323 is a musical comedy about population issues and global environmental issues and Letter Therapy: Healing Past Emotional Pain, Grief and Abuse.

For more information and to see her books got to www.lamariposapress.com
Telephone # 520-615-1233 Fax 520-299-4840

Health-and-Fitness

What To Do When Your Baby Needs Brain Surgery

14th November 2007
When I found out that my first great grand daughter needed emergency brain surgery I was shocked and devastated. She was only two months old.The official diagnosis was craniosynostosis which meant the five bones in her skull were fused together leaving n... Read >
Relationships

When Mother Nature Fires Back

07th November 2007
CATASTROPHIC LOSSES -MOTHER NATUREThe people who lost their homes in the recent California fires are suffering from multiple catastrophic losses. These losses are sudden, senseless, unexpected and unjust. The survivors are left with a special set of probl... Read >
Self-Improvement

Dying is a Different Expereince at Different Ages

06th November 2007
Age at DeathDeath is a different experience at different times in life, it is very different to die at two years old than it is at 12, 22, 42, 62 or 82. An infant or mentally disabled person has a very dim light, very little self-awareness. Knowledge of o... Read >
Home-and-Family

How To Support A Survivor of Suicide

12th October 2007
When a loved one commits suicide those left behind are stunned and in shock. They will go over and over the last days, minutes, conversation and time with the suicidee searching for clues and wondering why-why-WHY they couldn't see this coming. Wo... Read >
Self-Improvement

How To Grow Up Emotionally

18th June 2007
Our thoughts have a powerful impact on our feelings. They go hand-in-hand in dictating human behavior. If thoughts are the spark, emotions are the flame. Thoughts are the forest, emotions are the trees. Thoughts are the war, emotions are the battle. We be... Read >