About Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle

Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle is a writer, therapist, and teacher. She has worked to bring meditation, yoga, and cognitive therapy into the medical domain to treat stress-related and chronic illnesses. She also helped to develop one of the first training programs in mind/body medicine in the country and trained health professionals through Harvard Medical School. After teaching meditation and cognitive therapy for more than 30 years, her focus now is on elder issues, conscious aging, and spirituality. Hoblitzelle has two adult children and four grandchildren.