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               ABOUT THE AUTHOR

         CAMILLE A. SMITH, PhD, DD, DM, RCH., spent her life researching how to overcome ineffective parenting, starting at age 14. After many years of experience in support groups with countless faces on the same quest - to get beyond nature's bind that is keeping us stuck - Dr. Smith took action to resolve the dilemma. She discovered how to "re-parent" ineffective coping styles using The 7 Secret Steps that lead us to the life-path that has been waiting within us the whole time. From her extensive work, she earned doctorates in Counseling Psychology, Divinity, and Metaphysics; is an Ordained Minister; and is Board Certified as a Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist/Analyst.  

 

     She is the epitome of what Toni Burbank, Executive Editor for Bantam Books, describes in Book Editors Talk to Writers, "What really turns me on is that the author has in some way been preparing all of his or her life to write this book. There is a tremendous commitment on the author's part to this book. That commitment will evoke a mirroring commitment in me. That's publishing at its best."

          After developing an illness in 1990, she was unable to continue with the demanding Corporate Executive life for the Food Service Division of Campbell Soup Company, where she was one of only three women in top management. She previously was Western Regional Manager for a similar division of Litton Industries, and was their first woman hired in sales. However, she persevered in her quest for rehabilitation and created a successful new career in the field of Psychology. Although she lost faith that she could create this "dream" when she became ill, her research endeavors earned her doctorates in the fields of her dreams, which included Divinity and Metaphysics, and Take Back Your Power! was born.

         During her successful business career, she not only managed the Western United States for two Fortune 500 companies, but also created and produced corporate seminars, conventions and trade shows, receiving acclaim for her public speaking and teaching abilities. She won awards from top food service corporations for her outstanding sales/marketing skills. (She also attended night school, seminars, and groups to further her interest in psychology; co-authored and produced a seminar in Denver, Colorado entitled Going Beyond Your Limits that was later used by several major corporations; and, her poetry was included in the book, Group Therapy for the Adolescent, by Norman Brandes, M.D., published by Jason Aronson, Inc., NY.)

      After leaving the corporate world, she became involved in support group re-parenting, counseling in private practice, and helping battered women and children revive their inner spirit that was so beaten down they had lost hope. In 1998, she began assisting Dr. L. Luce, Ph.D., with the rehabilitation of abused children through the State of California Department of Social Services. Her 560 page self published handbook, Take Back Your Power!, is used in her current groups to empower those entrapped by the invisible fear barrier, to take action and breakthrough to their hearts desires.

         Dr. Smith is a member of The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation; American Association of University Women; Business and Professional Women's Association. She has been acclaimed in Who's Who of American Women 1983, 1984, and Who's Who in the West in 1985 and was honored in the Who's Who of Executives & Professionals and is included in the Dictionary of International Biography, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England.