Alexandra Kennedy, MA is a psychotherapist in private practice since 1976 and author of Losing a Parent (HarperCollins, 1991) and The Infinite Thread: Healing Relationships Beyond Loss (Beyond Words, April 2001), Offerings at the Edge (iUniverse 2007), and How Did I Miss All This Before? Waking Up to the Magic of Our Ordinary Lives (iUniverse, 2010).

  She was stunned by the power of her grief when her father was diagnosed with cancer in November 1988—even though she had been a psychotherapist for fourteen years and had attended death and dying workshops with Stephen Levine. Her father died three months later. She wrote Losing a Parent in the year following his death, sharing not only the story of her father’s dying and her grieving but also the resources and strategies that helped her move through her grief while raising a family. Since then, she has devoted much of her therapy practice, teaching, and writing to grief. In 2001 The Infinite Thread was published, with an emphasis on healing relationships beyond loss, along with issues not commonly explored, such as the grief handed down through generations. Her most recent book How Did I Miss All This Before?, an intimate account of courageous spiritual transformation in the midst of life’s common challenges, is written for everyone wishing to find greater openness to life in each precious moment.

  Alexandra lectures at universities, professional organizations and major conferences. Weaving together inspiring case histories, practical advice, and experiential exercises, she provides a unique perspective to grieving through her work with the imagination. She also offers lectures, workshops and seminars on facing loss as an opening to the sacred, the loss of a parent, healing relationships beyond loss, dreams as messengers of the night, women’s spirituality, mid-life renewal, the power of the imagination, the empty nest, and related issues.

  Alexandra has been interviewed in USA Today, the San Jose Mercury News, the San Francisco Examiner, New Woman and the Boston Herald as well as on NPR's "Talk of the Nation," CNN's "Sonja Live", KQED's "Family Talk," and "New Dimensions Radio." She is a faculty member at the University of California Santa Cruz Extension and adjunct faculty member of John F Kennedy University. She taught a popular graduate level course on dying and grieving at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology for six years. Her articles have appeared in Yoga Journal, Mothering Magazine, Magical Blend and the California Therapist. Her articles have been published online at innerself.com, groups.msm.com, learnwhatsup.com, beyondindigo.com, care-givers.com, wisdomseekers.org, among many others.

Alexandra Kennedy Publications

How Did I Miss All This Before?
Waking Up to the Magic of Our Ordinary Lives
iUniverse 2010

Offerings at the Edge
iUniverse 2007

The Infinite Thread: Healing Relationships Beyond Loss
Beyond Words Publishing May 2001
Chinese translation 2003

Your Loved One Lives On Within You
Berkley/Putnam 1997
Portuguese translation 1999

Losing a Parent: Passage to a New Way of Living
HarperCollins 1991
Portuguese translation August 1994
French translation February 1996

Articles:

• "Empty Nest" Encyclopedia of Human Development, 2005
• "Empty Nest, Full Heart" Mothering.com
• "Opening Our Hearts to Death," chapter in the Brazilian book Morrer Nao Se Improvisa" by Bel Cesar
• "Love After Death," Yoga Journal September/October 1997
• "Your Relationship Needn't Die," AHP Perspective May 1997
• "On Losing a Parent," AHP Perspective October 1997
• "Grieving the Loss of a Parent," The California Therapist, May/June 1993
• "Writing Your Own Fairytale," Mothering, January 1993
  reprinted in Vantage Point, The Educational Center, September 1996
• "Journeying Through Grief," Shaman's Drum, November 1992
• "Parents Losing Parents," Mothering, July 1992
  reprinted in Resourceful Woman, Visible Ink Press, December 1993
• "Bringing Death Closer," Magical Blend, February 1992
  reprinted in Last Rights Magazine, Canada, June 1992
• "When a Parent Dies," Vibrant Life, November 199
• "Grief and the Holidays," New Dimensions Newsletter, October 1992
  reprinted in Zen Hospice Newsletter, December 2000
• "The Power of Imagination," New Dimensions Newsletter, March 1991

Tapes:

• "Losing a Parent" Tape # A229, Sounds True Catalog
• "Losing a Parent" (from Art of Dying Conference) Tape # ADX-10, Sounds True
• "After Loss" (from Art of Dying Conference) Tape # ADX-16, Sounds True
• "Your Loved One Lives On Within You" Tape (Living Well, Dying Well Conference) # LWG-7, Sounds True
• "Bridging the Worlds: Death as Healing" Tape #2271, New Dimensions
• "Losing a Parent" Tape # NMT-45, New Medicine Tapes
• "The Healing Power of Grief" Tape # LWG-7, Sounds True Catalog

Interviews:

The Women Doctor’s Guide to Health and Healing by Linda Nooney, Oxmoor Health, Dec 2003

My Mother, My Friend by Mary Marcdante, Fireside, 2001

Newsletter:
editor of Bridging the Worlds, a newsletter of the imagination, 1991-1996

Alexandra Kennedy Media Appearances:

National and Regional Print:

Anchorage Daily News
USA Today (2x)
Mothering (3x)
New Woman
Common Boundary
Baltimore Sun
Boston Herald
Daytona Beach News Journal
Common Boundary
East West Journal
Science of Mind
Contemporary Psychology
Spiritual Frontiers
Yoga Journal
Assn. Humanistic Psychology's Perspective (2x)
Realistic Living
Magical Blend
Bloomsbury Book Review
Shaman's Drum
New Dimensions Radio Newsletter
Vibrant Life
Baltimore Resources
Pathways (Washington DC)
Common Ground of Puget Sound
The California Therapist (3x)
New Age Retailer
Right to Die Society of Canada's Last Rights

National Electronic:

CNN "Sonja Live" (2x)
NPR "Talk of the Nation"
New Dimensions Radio (2x)


International Electronic:

CBC Radio, Canada "Wellness Show"

San Francisco Bay Area:

San Jose Mercury (6x)
San Francisco Examiner (5x)
Santa Cruz Sentinel (2x)
Aptos Times
San Mateo Times
Marin Independent Journal
Peninsula Times Tribune
The Ark
Santa Cruz Magazine
Santa Cruz Good Times
KGO "The Karel Show"
           Carla Perez
          "Crescendo"
KABL "Let's Face It" (2x)
KQED (PBS) "Family Talk" 3x)
KSFO/KYA "Straight Talk"
KPFA "The Morning Show" (2x)
KNLY "Heart to Heart"
KSBW "Viewpoint"
KFTY TV Evening News
KTVU TV "Bay Area People"
KBLX "Bay View"
K-101 "K-One-on-One"
KNEW/KSAN "Bay Area Forum"
KPOO "In Conversation"
KRQR (CBS) "Sunday Magazine"
KDBK/KDBQ "SouthBay Today"
KTID/KAPX "Community Closeup"
KUSP "Radiogram" (3x)
            "Body, Mind and Spirit"
KKUP "Changes"
KEST/KNRY "Seeing Beyond"
KAZU "Dreams Another Way of Knowing" (3x)
             "Discovery" (4x)
             "Roadside Café"

National:

WBIX-AM Boston: "The Frankie Boyer Show"
WBBM-FM Chicago: "Connection"
Chicago Sirius Radio Network: "Your Healthy Family"
Chicago Wait Radio: "The Karen Ross Show"
Houston Texas: "Wisdom Radio"
Los Angeles Adrenalineradio.com: "A Woman’s Forum" (2x)
CHSR HealthyLife.net Los Angeles: "Creative Health and Spirit Show"
Ohio Syndicated Radio: "The Louie Free Show"
WGAU-AM Atlanta GA: "Athens"
KMNY Pomona CA: "Vera's Voice"
KDKA (NBC) Pittsburgh: "Amplify" (4x)
KQON Minneapolis MN
WCHT Escanaba, MI: "Powertalk Radio"
KIOT Santa Fe NM: "Transition"
KQXI Denver CO: "Addiction Free Radio"
KGNU Boulder CO: "Tributaries"
Jackson MI: "Between the Lines"
KFGO Fargo North Dakota