Introducing Dear You: Messages From Your Heart

MINNEAPOLIS - Sept. 25, 2014 - PRLog -- Practitioners in the healing professions have long known what business innovators and researchers are only just discovering now. Creativity is one of the most powerful tools human beings possess. Dear You: Messages From Your Heart (Gold House Press, 2014) is the newest book from award-winning author, artist and speaker Jacquelyn B. Fletcher.

Dear You is a series of insightful, hand-stamped letters addressed to “Dear You” from the tender yet pragmatic and sometimes challenging character “Your Heart.” Each short letter in the series delivers a powerful message of courage, hope and love on a variety of topics that span the entire spectrum of the human experience.

“Studies over the past twenty years have shown the remarkable impact that creative expression can have on our bodies and minds,” says Fletcher. “When I suffered a major heartbreak that literally brought me to my knees, I had to put this research to the test. By using my own creativity, I was able to heal myself. Dear You illustrates the universal experience of healing and showcases how we can all tap into our powers to evolve, grow, and transform as human beings.”

In Dear You, Messages From Your Heart, Fletcher illustrates how the power of the human imagination enables us to create completely new solutions to the inevitable problems thrown at us in life. In this easy-to-follow, whimsically pragmatic collection, Fletcher combines her own personal experiences, proven research and an extraordinary well of creativity and inspiration to deliver a series of letters that answers questions of the mind with solutions from the heart. Dear You demonstrates beautifully what artists and true healers have always known, that harnessing creativity can completely transform our mental, physical, and spiritual health.

Dear You: Messages From Your Heart serves as a heartfelt gift book and a tool for change for any individual seeking transformation, small or large. The book is accompanied by a unique collection of art and gifts available on Etsy. (https://www.etsy.com/shop/JacquelynFletcher?ref=l2-shophe...)

About the Author

Jacquelyn B. Fletcher is a mixed media artist, speaker and award-winning author whose works have appeared in media outlets around the world. She’s the author of A Career Girl’s Guide to Becoming a Stepmom (HarperCollins) and the co-author of Climbing the Mountain: Stories of Hope and Healing After Stroke and Brain Injury (Fairview Press) and Cancer Widow (Devlin Publishing). Jacquelyn is also the co-creator and host of the Healing Words television show and a founding faculty member of the Creative Writing at the Bedside program, both administered by the Mayo Clinic Dolores Jean Lavins Center for Humanities in Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota.

To check out the collection of Dear You art and gifts, or to find out about having Jacquelyn speak to your group, visit JacquelynFletcher.com.

“Jacquelyn Fletcher’s Dear You is at once both vibrant and ethereal. Her artwork provides its audience with an opportunity for reflection, contemplation and a soft, soulful, healing look at themselves.” – Heather McElhatton, Host of American Public Media’s A Beautiful World and author of Pretty Little Mistakes.

“Jacquelyn possesses an incredible ability through her art and her words to capture the universal experience of heartache and the sometimes difficult, but always worthwhile, journey of healing. The message of loving and honoring oneself and one’s heart is an important message for us all.” - Shannon Barry, MSSW, Executive Director, Dais: Domestic Abuse Intervention Services