Hall, Kathleen

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Hall, Kathleen

PERSONAL: Female. Education: Jacksonville State University, B.S.; Emory University, M.Div.; Columbia Theological Seminary, D.Min.; clinical training at Harvard University.

ADDRESSES: Office—P.O. Box 1150, Clarkesville, GA 30523. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Worked as financial advisor, pastoral counselor, adjunct professor, stress-reduction consultant, and wellness educator; founder of Wellness Solutions at Oak Haven, 1997, Oak Haven Conference and Learning Center, Clarkesville, GA, 2000, and The Stress Institute.

MEMBER: American Mental Health Counselor's Association, American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, American Institute of Stress (fellow).

WRITINGS:

Alter Your Life: Overbooked? Overworked? Overwhelmed?, Oak Haven (Clarkesville, GA), 2005.

Contributor to periodicals, including Fortune, Redbook, Woman's Day, Cosmopolitan, Wall Street Journal, Parade, Business Week, Real Simple, and Parents. Also contributor to television media.

SIDELIGHTS: Kathleen Hall worked as a financial advisor before becoming a wellness educator; she established a conference-and-learning center that evolved to become The Stress Institute, an educational facility that teaches stress control and work-life balance. Hall studied spirituality and medicine and has applied this knowledge to the messages she delivers to corporate and professional audiences comprised of people who want to learn how to relieve stress in their lives.

Hall's Alter Your Life: Overbooked? Overworked? Overwhelmed? brings the teachings of the institute to the printed page. She addresses the issues of balance among family, work, and community, as well as related subjects. Hall advises her readers to live an "intentional" life that she says, emphasizes awareness, choice, and energy. She proposes that the simple tasks and routines of the day can be made more pleasurable, leading to stress reduction through order, balance, and peace.

In a review of the book for the Radical Academy Web site, Jonathan Dolhenty wrote that Hall "has outlined a simple, easy-to-read, very practical and, above, all, undogmatic, blueprint for living an intentional life." BookReview.com contributor Kate St. Amour was also enthusiastic, noting that the book "is flawlessly written, well edited, and the information is presented in a format readers can actually apply to their lives."