Carol Kivler
MS, CSP, CMT
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- Depression, Recovery from Mental Illness, Health & Wellness
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- Will I Ever Be the Same Again? Transforming the Face of ECT (Shock Therapy), The ABCs of Recovery from Mental Illness, Mental Health Recovery Boosters
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- Speaker, Author, International Executive Coach, Business Owner
Carol Kivler, MS, CSP, CMT is a highly sought after professional speaker, author, international executive coach/consultant, and founder of Courageous Recovery. Through Courageous Recovery, she shares her story and advocates for those suffering from depression and mental illness. Carol’s high-energy and compelling keynote presentations change thinking and inspire participants to reach beyond the myths and stigma surrounding mental illness.
Carol is a consumer in recovery, who has successfully overcome 4 major bouts of clinical depression. She speaks to psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, counselors, medical/nursing students and to consumers. Carol has been speaking to the mental health field since 2001. She has presented Grand Rounds for over 18 audiences; spoken at over 20 nursing schools/nursing conventions and delivered more than 35 programs at consumer conferences.
Carol is on the APNA Consumer Advisory Panel, a member of the Nursing Sub-Committee of the ISEN and part of the ISEN’s Patient Advisory Committee.
For more information about Carol and her programs please visit: www.courageousrecovery.com or e mail Carol at: carol@courageousrecovery.com
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Seven Essentials for Dealing with Depression
We know from statistics that one out of every four Americans will be faced with a depressive episode in his or her lifetime. That means that many of us will experience a friend or family member’s fight with depression. But do any of us know how to deal with depression when it hurts someone we love?
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Driving a Business Through the Storms of Clinical Depression
A theater veteran named Noel Coward coined the phrase “The Show Must Go On” back in the 50s; but I gave it new meaning in the 90s as it summed up my life better than any other cliché. I was the president of a very successful communications company providing executive coaching and training. I was also suffering from medication-resistant clinical depression that landed me in the hospital to undergo electroconvulsive (shock) therapy. Running a business is challenging enough to begin with. Running a business during bouts of severe depression can seem impossible!
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Demystifying ECT
As a courageous survivor of ECT (Electric Convulsive Therapy), I am often asked to speak to consumers and their family members about ECT. Many have the same exact questions I had when I was first asked to consider ECT as a treatment invention for my clinical depression back in 1990. Today, 18 years later I’ve had over 50 ECT treatments. During my four major bouts with clinical depression, ECT has become my “ladder out of the depression pit.” Like many of you, I, too, was ter
September 26, 2008
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Contacting Carol Kivler
Courageous Recovery
33 Traditions Way
Lawrence, NJ 08648
609-882-8988
For speaking engagements, interviews, book orders or book signings, contact Karen Meltzer at karencourageousrecovery@comcast.net