Caroline's Bio

Caroline Myss is a five-time New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. Caroline established her own educational institute in 2003, CMED (Caroline Myss Education), which offers an array of programs devoted to personal development. The Institute draws students from nineteen nations. In addition to hosting a weekly radio show on the Hay House network, Caroline maintains a rigorous international workshop and lecture schedule and continues a consultation practice as a medical intuitive with physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other health practitioners.

Caroline began her career as a journalist in 1974. After completing her Master's degree, she co-founded Stillpoint Publishing in 1983 and for the next seven years headed the editorial department, producing an average of ten books a year in the field of human consciousness and holistic health. Simultaneously Caroline began her career as a medical intuitive, with the assistance of C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon interested in the science of medical intuition. Caroline refined her intuitive skills by conducting health readings on Norm’s patients by telephone. By knowing only the patient’s name and age, Caroline can profile a person’s physical, psychological, emotional, and family history.

Based on her extensive research, Caroline developed the field of Energy Anatomy, a science that correlates specific emotional/psychological/physical/spiritual stress patterns with diseases. This research proved so accurate that it became the subject matter of a book co-written by Caroline and Norm: THE CREATION OF HEALTH. Eventually this groundbreaking research became standard classroom material on the principles of holistic health, psychological stress patterns, and alternative healing methods.

Caroline’s work has earned her an international reputation as a renowned medical intuitive. She is regarded as the leading pioneer in medical intuition and as a result of her work in opening this field, more than ten thousand practitioners are now active in the health field. From 1992 to 2004, Caroline and Norm developed an educational program to teach the Science of Medical Intuition. In 1996, they founded the Institute for the Science of Medical Intuition, which funds research in the field. This Institute remains active.

In 1996, Caroline compiled years of research in medical intuition with her work in the field of human consciousness, releasing ANATOMY OF THE SPIRIT, a New York Times bestseller that has been published in 28 languages and has sold over 1.5 million copies. Eighteen years of research in medical intuition led Caroline to explore more deeply the dynamics of why people do not heal. In investigating the underlying reasons why people sabotage their healing processes, Caroline identified a syndrome she calls "woundology," characterized by a person's reliance on the power of illness for manipulation of his or her world, as opposed to attaining an independent, empowered state of health. As with her other seminal research, this syndrome is now a recognized psychological condition. Her third book, WHY PEOPLE DON'T HEAL AND HOW THEY CAN, became another New York Times bestseller.

Caroline then pursued her interest in the language of symbols, myths, and archetypes. Her medical intuitive readings expanded beyond gathering data on health stress patterns to including the symbolic language inherent to each individual. Results of that research enabled Caroline to profile an individual's "Sacred Contract," a complex of 12 archetypal patterns that reflect in mythic language the agreements the soul made prior to birth. This research opened an entirely new area of work that drew worldwide interest. Based on this work, Caroline released SACRED CONTRACTS, which became her third New York Times bestseller. It is published in 18 languages and posts sales of well over 1.6 million copies. In 2003, Oprah Winfrey gave Caroline her own television program with the OXYGEN network in New York City, which ran successfully for one year.

Caroline followed with two more New York Times bestsellers, INVISIBLE ACTS OF POWER in 2004 and ENTERING THE CASTLE in 2007. Caroline’s latest book, DEFY GRAVITY, will be released in October 2009, a book exploring the mystical phenomenon of healing that transcends reason.

Throughout her career, Caroline has taught in thirty-five countries, continuing her international work at present. In addition to writing seven books, Caroline is the leading recording artist for Sounds True, Inc., the major audio recording company in the holistic field. She has recorded with them since 1990, producing 30 different titles. Her entire library of recordings now numbers over 180. Caroline does an average of six radio shows per month and five newspaper or magazine interviews in both national and international publications.

Board Memberships

From 1999 - 2004, Caroline served on the Board of the State of the World Forum with Jim Garrison.

For a complete listing of Caroline's audiotapes, CDs, videotapes, live workshop tapes and CDs, and other products, Caroline Products.

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