Rhode Island Authors Showcase - Featuring Mari Dias!
The Rhode Island Authors Showcase is back! Each day in November, I’ll be featuring a different RI author. Each post features a giveaway – a book, an anthology, or something else! All you have to do to be eligible for the daily drawing is leave a comment on the blog post. I’ll use a random number generator to pick a winner one week after the blog post (to give you time to catch up).
By commenting on each post, you’re also entered to win our bigger prizes: GRAND PRIZE is a $250 Amazon gift card, BONUS PRIZE is a $100 Amazon gift card, and the CHEER UP YOU WON SOMETHING PRIZE is a $50 Amazon gift card. The big prizes will be chosen, again using a random number generator, on December 7.
It's my honor to welcome Mari Dias to the blog today. Mari was a guest here last year and had the most engagement of anyone! Here's a chance to learn more about her:
Mari, what name do you use as an author? Dr. Mari Nardolillo Dias
Where is your hometown? North Kingstown, Rhode Island
What genre(s) do you write? Nonfiction memoir
What have you written? GriefSPEAK: Stories of Loss, Volumes I and II (2021, 2022)
Who are some of your favorite authors? Irvin Yalom, Chloe Benjamin and John Irving
What were your favorite books growing up? The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright, The Boxcar Children Mysteries Series by Gertrude C Warner and Nancy Drew Series by Carolyn Keene
What do you like best about writing? The catharsis and debriefing it affords me. It is a great method of self-care.
What do find most challenging about writing? The solitude and the aloneness.
Where do you draw your inspiration? From my clients
You’ve just been given the chance to collaborate on a book with Irvin Yalom. What’s the title going to be? Life of Sighs
In Mari's words: As a Thanatologist, certified grief counselor, and hospice volunteer, I find bereavement and end of life counseling to be my destiny. It is humbling and gratifying; I am privileged to work with grieving a loss (death and non-death), both expected or traumatic, as well as spending the remaining months of an individual’s life with them.
I have worked with people of all ages as they grieve. I use methods based on the cognitive and emotional development of the individual. This includes play, theater, art and storytelling therapies for children, which is modified for teens. When working with adults I use individual and group facilitation with an integrative therapeutic approach.
My website is www.gracepointegrief.com
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GracePointeGrief
Mari is offering a $25 Amazon gift card to one lucky winner. To be eligible, just consider this:
It’s Thanksgiving time. You have an empty chair at the table. Who has passed that you would like sitting in that chair to enjoy this family feast? If you believe in signs, what sign do you associate with this person?
