Grateful to have earned this award from my community several times!
Started writing Sept 14, 1999
(morning after this photo!)
My work with LGBT+ youth is featured in California Educator
Advocating for LBGT+ youth
Sameer graciously titled my chapter
"Profile of an Extraordinary Teacher"
https://www.amazon.com/Read-This-Save-Lives-Classrooms-ebook/dp/B07H78KTZR
The California Teachers' Association Featured my TEDx Talk in their May issue--along with a beautiful Letter to the Editor from a former student who thanks me for being an ALLY!
Talked w/ Lisa about TEDx, Bright Eyes, teaching, ALLY, and writing the tough stuff. OUR EPISODE WAS #1 for KTAL in MARCH!
https://www.lccommunityradio.org/archives/live-true-from-trauma-to-triumph-with-bridey-thelen-heidel
"We Owned the Night" published in
MUTHA Magazine Jan 2023
PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEE!
https://www.muthamagazine.com/2023/01/we-owned-the-night/
SheWrites Press is distributed by
Simon & Schuster
BRIGHT EYES-A Memoir
available from
Simon & Schuster
September 24, 2024!
Thrilled
Bright Eyes-A Memoir
made the list of FINALISTS in the SFWC Writing Contest!
October 14, 2023
Speaker TEDx Talk--
ROB the Trauma:
Steal Back Your Life
https://tedxsouthlaketahoe.com/2023-lineup
August 24, 2023
Thrilled to be back with
Two Old Bucks to give updates about Bright Eyes-A Memoir
Shared the episode with my talented friend, Bruce Rettig
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1483333/13464539
April 26, 2023
As a member of Anna's group, Independent Creators' Community, we chat about the writing our way through
&
out of out of trauma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBkpaIlVRYk
April 19, 2023
Spoke at Alpine County's
First Five Rainbow Awards--celebrating the adults who support and nurture our youth.
Amazing evening!
April 1, 2023
LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER
Shared my story
"A Great Fucking Mother"
on stage in NYC!
Producer/Director Heather Christie
Chat with Live Violence Free about how we can use the same traits we developed to survive abusive/dysfunctional childhoods to hen create our own happily ever after
https://rss.com/podcasts/oneconversation/870893/
Discussed Bright Eyes
&
"We Owned the Night"
UPDATE: Became TOB's
#1 EPISODE for 2023!
Honored to have my story featured in
MUTHA Magazine's
January issue
Essay here:
Duran Duran invited me to write about my journey to meet them!
Published Duran Duran's website March 2020
I was the ice cream lady!
I believe we have the power in us to overcome our trauma--putting a safety lock on the triggers and creating a beautifully normal life.
Duran Duran on Sept 23, 2015
I'm in the pink top next to Janelle Monae...feet away from Simon!
September 13, 2019 in Lake Tahoe.
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