Ten years ago she surrendered and began her healing journey and now considers herself fully recovered. Shani gives talks and readings for being Ana and leads creative writing and mini-memoir writing workshops because she believes in the healing power of sharing our hearts through our words.
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WINNER of 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the Memoir category.
WINNER of 2011 Indie Excellence Awards in the Women’s Health Category.
FINALIST in 2010 Foreword Reviews Book of the Year in the Memoir and Women’s Issues categories.- FINALIST in 2011 National Indie Excellence Awards’ Memoir and Addiction & Recovery categories.
- FINALIST in 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards’ Women’s Issues category.
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More about me:
I’m South African/Israeli and I live in the Bay Area with my husband and am a very proud soon-to-be mom! Before moving to the U.S. four years ago, I worked as a freelance journalist and copy editor in South Africa. Read my favorite humorous anecdotal opinion columns about travel and women’s issues on my CLIPS page.
I love yoga and have practiced it for 15 years, I swim and walk a lot, I love camping, road trips, good food and dinner parties, laughter, good conversation, Chardonnay and the blessings of creativity. I love teaching creative writing and being in the flow of writing myself. And I absolutely love and worship sunshine and blue skies. Viva California, Viva!
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“And the day came that the risk it took to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” –– Anais Nin