Valerie Wells is an author, visualization consultant, and motivational speaker. Her book, The Joy of Visualization: 75 Creative Ways to Enhance Your Life is a collection of 75 powerful, creative, fun visualizations to help you Achieve Goals, Increase Income, Decrease Stress, Solve Problems, and Strengthen Health. Naturally Powerful: 200 Simple Actions to Energize Body, Mind, Heart, & Spirit offers dynamic actions to help you plug into high-level power and use it to enrich key areas of your life.
Trained in Gestalt and Psychosynthesis therapy methods, Valerie developed the creative, interactive Goal Getter system of visualization to provide people with mental game plans for achieving success. As a visualization consultant, Valerie presents motivational lectures and seminars to corporate, health-care, and sports groups, and works privately with individuals. She guides people to effectively define their goals and to identify and eliminate mental obstacles so they can score success more efficiently and easily.
As a freelance writer, Valerie’s feature articles have appeared in newspapers such as the: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald, and in magazines such as: Fitness, Ms, New Miami, Self and South Florida. Among the well-known people she has interviewed for articles and on the radio are: Boxing champion, Muhammad Ali / “Fit for Life” author, Harvey Diamond / Indy 500 champion, Emerson Fittipaldi / Actress, Ruth Gordon / Mavericks’ lead singer, Raul Malo / Actress, Patricia Neal / “The Power of Positive Thinking” author, Norman Vincent Peale / Author, George Plimpton / Jazz pianist, George Shearing / Pulitzer Prize author, Isaac Bashevis Singer / and entrepreneur, Ted Turner.
Valerie hosted “The Thought Power Hour” on radio. Listeners phoned in and Valerie custom-designed mental imagery sequences on-air to help them achieve their goals. Well-known people who have successfully used visualization, shared their experiences. The hour included visualization exercises, contests, quotations, and prizes. Her drive-time visualizations, complete with sound effects and music, have aired on several radio stations.
For five years, Valerie served as a member of a Hospice interdisciplinary team, providing palliative care and psychosocial support to dying patients and their families. For two years, she was president of the South Florida Forum for Death Education and Counseling, an organization dedicated to upgrading the community’s knowledge of death and dying.