Ilenya Marrin, DSS
About the author
As the author of Nurture Your Self First: Gentle Steps in Personal and Planetary Transformation, I help people, especially women, to live with more self-compassion, resilience, success and inner peace. Nurture Yourself First is available through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Balboa Press and book sellers everywhere.
Give yourself permission to live in more light!
From painful necessity, I learned I do not have to be Super Woman. I must care for myself in order to be able to assist others. I now use my hard won learning to live in greater balance and inner peace. I am still learning and improving in this arena! But I have a lot to share about what works to transform your life through self-nurturing!
I have distilled my favorite, most useful strategies from over thirty years of working with clients, students and myself into a simple, practical approach centered around taking really good care of yourself. It is all about helping you love and care for yourself, which can automatically produce greater peace of mind, joy, loving and balance in the face of stress.
About Ilenya Marrin
Workshops and Presentations
I am available for book signings, workshops, and motivational and inspirational speaking engagements on many aspects of self-care and my experience with practical spirituality and spiritual psychology, for community groups, colleges, churches, businesses and non-profit agencies.
Intuitive Coaching
I specialize in brief consultations to help you nurture yourself, resolve issues and move forward with confidence. I share with compassionate respect for your beliefs, direction in life, and comfort level. Individual work is highly intuitive and available by Zoom or phone nationally and internationally.
Background
With over 25 years in the helping professions (social services, psychotherapy, and higher education), I most enjoy watching people blossom into greater fulfillment and joy. Having done my own in-depth inner work, I love supporting others in their journey of awakening.
Here is a video of my talk, Celebrate Your Infinite Potential, for the World Day of Prayer at the small Unity of Wichita Church, from September, 2019. Besides giving a glimpse of my speaking style, I share a little about my own journey of awakening spiritually.
Education
- BA in English, University of Texas, Austin
- MS in Counseling Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- MA in Applied (Spiritual) Psychology, University of Santa Monica
- Doctor of Spiritual Science (DSS), Peace Theological Seminary and College of Philosophy, Los Angeles
Author of
- Nurture Yourself First: Gentle Steps in Personal and Planetary Transformation
- The Power of Personal Peace: Reducing Stress by Loving Yourself From the Inside Out (e-book)
- A Way of Loving Intention (e-book)
- 77 Loving Steps for Success (e-book)
featured posts
From The Blog
Whatever your path, when you nurture yourself, you walk in light.
A Prayer for One Accord
Challenge: Write a Psalm Last year about this time, I attended a class on the Psalms at a local Methodist Church. A poet friend, Janet, co-facilitated the class. After the session on Lamentations, she suggested that we each go home and write our own lament. I don't normally write verse in the style of the…
Sparkle Juice
I seldom make frozen orange juice but I wanted a cup of it last week for a recipe. I had lots left over! How to use it up? One reason I do not make it often is I find it too sweet to drink.
Kansas Good: Melissa Dixon
Melissa Dixon plunges into her passion for creative connections every day as Executive Director for the Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) in Hays, Kansas.
