MARY CLISTA DAHL
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Mary Clista Dahl, MA is an author who has been playing with words since age three. Mary has lived experience of “psychosis” and is well known in the national and international mental health communities for promoting hopeful recovery solutions for what is clinically described as serious mental illness, encouraging others to understand their labels as attributes. Also labeled with Multiple Sclerosis, Mary enjoys assisting others in creating hopeful and customized treatment plans. She spent thirty-five years guiding others into their careers where she learned it’s not about getting a job, it’s about finding your essence.
Mary is a self-proclaimed fun loving, freezie pop slurping, crystal coveting, nature wandering girl, whose self-therapies are collecting books, notebooks and journals and making friends in the unlikeliest of places by striking up conversations with strangers everywhere. An enthusiastic cheerleader of her fellow humans, she strives to be the best listener to everyone, lending a hand however she is able. Despite all of the lethal warnings today against them, she eats ice cream, cheese and fresh bread as comfort food and likes it.
SCOTT RANDALL LINDBERG
Scott Randall Lindberg is a passionate musician, songwriter and teacher. He is also an author and storyteller whose popular heartwarming and hope filled stories entertain and inspire readers worldwide. His first book, The Heart Speaks was published in 2023, and Lullaby: A Bedtime Story, his first children’s book will be released in 2025.
Scott is a gifted artist and photographer with a talent for capturing celestial and spiritual entities and auras. He is a gemstone expert and artisan, crafting necklaces which he shares with the intention to elevate the vibration of the planet one crystal at a time. He is well known for his guided angel meditations.
Scott describes himself as a meandering musician, unreasonably silly, unrealistically positive, starstruck storyteller, an encourager, a playful friend makin’ earth shakin’, cookie bakin’ mystic puddle jumpin’, heart thumpin’ giggling troubadour, joy talkin’ woods walkin’ feather finding fun fiend.
Together they are Twelve Angels, in Yellow Springs, Ohio providing offline human to human support through music lessons, creative gatherings, friendship, compassion, hugs, generous giving, nature walks, listening and resources. They are particularly fond of helping those in recovery stay there.
Even if we haven’t met you yet, we already love and believe in you.
Contact Mary via email at maryclistalaughs@gmail.com for interviews, speaking engagements, sanctuary visits, library browsing or in-person one-on-one mental health listening sessions or writing coaching.
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
Hafiz of Sharaz
Photo Courtesy of Scott Lindberg