Rosalyn Rourke

When Wisdom Arrives: From Imagined Unworthiness to Freedom is Rosalyn's first book. It is both a fable and a memoir. Unworthiness is another name for the feeling described as inner shame. Shame has not always been discussed as a psychological phenomenon. Rosalyn was one of the pioneers in the 1980's teaching shame as a phenomenon different from guilt. She graduated from Smith College School for Social Work in 1973 and has had a successful psychotherapy practice for more than 30 years. Rosalyn is a master Teacher and Coach of a personality system called the Enneagram. Her longtime experience with Non-Duality and A Course in Miracles helped make sense out of the unexpected death of her daughter Melissa at age 39. Rosalyn felt drawn to come out of a happy retirement to share her breakthroughs from suffering, shame and personality constriction to a life of equilibrium and stability. Rosalyn lives with her husband of 50 years in both Marco Island, Florida and Seattle, Washington. When she is not teaching or writing, she enjoys creating abstract art and spending time with her daughter, Ally, grandson, Ryan, and grand dog, Oaklee, a black micro doodle therapy dog.