About Joyce Vissell

The Vissells' books have been translated into five languages. They lecture and lead about 20 workshops per year internationally to audiences who welcome their warm, relaxed and yet profound wisdom. Joyce and Barry have written a monthly column for over 30 years, "New Dimensions of Relationship," which they email for free to anyone. These articles also appear in about 80 print publi-cations internationally, and countless e-zines, websites (including their own), and blogs. Ram Dass describes Joyce and Barry Vissell "as a couple who live the yoga of love and devotion." Marianne Williamson says, "I can't think of anything more im-portant to the healing of our society than a connection between spirituality, relationship and parenthood. Bravo to the Vissells for helping us find the way." Barry and Joyce are two people deeply in love for 52 years, who have raised three children and "walk their talk." They are the authors of The Shared Heart, Models of Love, Risk To Be Healed, The Heart's Wisdom, Meant To Be, and A Mother's Final Gift. A story from Meant To Be was made into a Sunday Night NBC Movie, "It Must Be Love," starring real-life couple, Ted Danson and Mary Steen-burgen. The Vissells, since 1983, are the founders and direc-tors of the Shared Heart Foundation, a non-profit organi-zation dedicated to changing the world one heart at a time (SharedHeart.org). Joyce and Barry live at their retreat center and home near Santa Cruz, California, where they counsel individu-als and couples, and lead retreats and trainings when they're not travelling.Go to SharedHeart.org to sign up for their free heart-letter, to read past articles on many aspects of personal growth and relation¬ship, to see their event or workshop schedule, or to contact Barry or Joyce.