Brenda Adelman
MA, Spiritual Psychology
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Brenda Adelman, M.A., Forgiveness Expert
Brenda Adelman Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Freedom through Forgiveness
- Career Focus
- Speaker, Actress/Playwright, Life Guide, Coach
- Affiliation
- SAG
Brenda Adelman grew up in Brooklyn with a sexy, bohemian artist mother and an alpha male Jewish wanna be Italian stallion father. Big characters. Big laughs. Until that fateful night in 1995. Mom was shot. Dad was jailed. His gun, the weapon never found. He quickly move din with and then married Brenda's aunt, her mother's sister. Three years later and in a deep depressio Brenda started writing very dark poetry that led to penning her powerful and often times funny one-woman show about the power of forgiveness.
Adelman received a Master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology in 2001, received a best actor award for a short film called, Daddy's Girl, about her one-woman show, My Brooklyn Hamlet, and is the recipient of a Hero of Forgiveness award from The Hawaii International Forgiveness Project.
Adelman has performed her show and/or spoken on her 3 Step Forgiveness Process for thousands of audience members as diverse as the US Military, trainers in the field of domestic violence, women prisoners, abuse survivors, college and high school students and faculty, youth at risk and for theatre festivals worldwide.
She is passionate about teaching people how to take responsibility for the next steps in their lives by making healthy choices from a place of self-love and self-forgiveness. Brenda coaches one-on-one over the phone or in person and leads teleclasses when time permits.
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
How to Forgive Your Father's Betrayal So You Can Have More Love in Your Life Now
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/How_to_Forgive_Your_Father_s_Betrayal_So_You_Can_Have_More_Love_in_Your_Life_Now.html
Family Dysfunction, Festivities, and The Power of Forgiveness
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Family_Dysfunction_Festivities_and_The_Power_of_Forgiveness.html
The Three Steps to Forgive and Finally be Free
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/The_Three_Steps_to_Forgive_and_Finally_be_Free.html
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How to Love Your Loneliness
Vienna, Austria circa 1987: I had just graduated from college and was alive with the excitement of exploring the world. My brother, Warren, had been living in this breathtakingly beautiful city for several years and I missed him. He was acting in an English-speaking movie starring Ben Kingsley and I got to hang out on the set; I even got a day’s wages as an extra playing a Russian peasant in the film. Warren met his girlfriend, who would later become his wife, on set.
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How to Forgive Your Mother’s Betrayal: So You Can Truly Stand in Your Power
My mother died in 1995. As many do after someone dies, I put her up on a pedestal. It’s only now, fourteen years later, that I have begun to look at the affect the unhealed parts of our relationship have had on me and the unanswered questions they have left for me. Would we have resolved our issues had she lived? Would I have been able to stand forth in my own feminine power with her big personality hovering over me? Could I have forgiven my judgments of her? My mother loved me. This was never in question. She was controlling. I’m sure she thought it was for my own good.
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The 5 Top Reasons to Never Forgive and Why You Must
I have been performing my one-woman play, My Brooklyn Hamlet, on and off since 2000. It is based on my journey from deep despair and darkness to acceptance and peace after my father (whom I adored) shot and killed my mother (my best friend) and subsequently married my mother’s sister. After each performance, I lead a Q & A session. I also offer live workshops on the power of forgiving the unforgivable. After seeing the show, audience members share about their hearts opening. They reveal how they have gained more compassion for the people in their lives and for themselves.
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How to Forgive Your Father’s Betrayal So You Can Have More Love in Your Life Now
Did you know that if you are angry, un-forgiving and resentful of your father you are actually hurting yourself? Think about it for a minute. Who holds that anger in their body and mind? You or him? This energy becomes toxic to the person feeling it and usually shows up as depression (which can be anger turned in on oneself) or a high level of anger toward others (those who you love and don’t deserve it) or as sickness (the anger creates stress within you and all kinds of blockages). How can you truly accept yourself as a good man if you hate the very man that gave you your life?
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The Three Steps to Forgive and Finally be Free
I was raised by wiseguys in Brooklyn (my father one of them). He taught me how to drive a Cadillac at six and how to shoot a gun at ten. He had a nickname for me, Brenda Badenda, his Great Defenda. I was definitely Daddy’s little girl. Mom was an eclectic bohemian artistic who practically strapped me to her back and took me traveling each summer with her around the globe. She taught me Shakespeare by reading it to me as a bedtime story from the time I was three years old and took me to Broadway shows on the weekends. She was my best friend. My parent’s love for each other was intense.
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Family Dysfunction, Festivities, and The Power of Forgiveness
Holidays are meant to be happy, joyous and life-affirming times. Filled with joy and gratitude we return home to our families, fill our bellies with delicious food and our hearts with cheer. Right? Well, truth be told that in most cases this just isn’t true. Instead of happiness, anger brews. Instead of joy, tolerance rules. Instead of gratitude, resentment surfaces. Here are three reasons for this: 1. Unhealed issues between family members have never been addressed and dealt with in a safe and healthy way.
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Moving Out of Denial and into Acceptance that My Father Murdered My Mother
In 1995 I was newly engaged, moved across the country to be with my fiancé and was excited to start acting in Los Angeles. I had wanted to move to Califo ia ever since one of my closest friends moved there from NY several years earlier. I 'fell' into a retail management job as soon as I arrived because a store I managed in Trump Tower in Manhattan had another location in Beverly Hills and they wanted me.
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My Mission
We can all choose to walk a path with an open heart and inner strength.
My work can support your path to be one of personal development, service to a greater cause and positive influence in your circle of friends and family.
My mission is two-fold, to offer insights that enable people to discover their innate courage and core of strength, and second, to do so in a creative and effective way that fosters freedom and more joy in their relationship with themselves and those that are most important to them. I do this via the presentation of my one-woman show, My Brooklyn Hamlet, workshops, speaking and 1:1 and group coaching.
Contacting Brenda Adelman
brenda@forgivenessandfreedom.com
To reach Brenda you can call (310) 429 1193
How to get started
Breakthrough Forgiveness Session: Private laser coaching with me for 45 minutes. I gently start coaching your core issues and old limiting beliefs out of you so you can get unstuck and start creating the life you know you were meant to lead.
Transcending Tragedy Coaching: Brenda’s unique life story and how she healed from it qualifies her to work closely with those suffering deep pain from loss of a loved one through tragedy, sickness, an accident, or abandonment. She helps you move through that place of pain, blame and ‘stuckness’ to the other side. The place where your heart is open and doesn’t hurt all the time, where you learn how to trust yourself and others and know how to make choices from a place of awareness and how to take your life back.
There is light. There is joy. There is freedom. It is close enough to touch. In this 2-hour customized session specifically created around your unique ‘story,’ the aim is to support you as you move from that place of darkness and hopelessness to an opening of your heart and a trusting of Self.
Tree of Life Forgiveness Coaching: Commit to a minimum of 30 days to transform your life.
Speaking and Workshops: Since 2000 Brenda has guided 1000’s of theatre-goers, people in spiritual communities, faculty and students of colleges and high-schools and trainers and survivors in the field of domestic violence in effecting proactive, intentional change. She deeply knows the issues and skills involved in forgiving the unforgivable in order to experience freedom and peace. She has a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from The University of Santa Monica, but more than that she has lived the lessons she learned and knows how to teach them to others. She is a trained prayer chaplain and sat on the board of Unity Church of Sedona.
Brenda offers a number of speeches and workshops geared to awaken people to their true potential. She emphasizes the importance of digging beneath the surface so you can succeed in your life right now. To reinforce and support the forgiveness tools people receive from her speeches, Brenda offers on-site coaching and teleseminars.
Other highlights
In my FREE monthly ezine, I share articles, ideas, tips, and strategies designed to help you with your journey of forgiving and freedom. Sign up at: http://www.forgivenessandfreedom.com
Free 5-week e-course: 'The 5 Top Reasons to Never Forgive and Why You Must' sign up at http://www.forgivenessandfreedom.com/resources
Critically Acclaimed one-Woman Show, My Brooklyn Hamlet, with workshops and other presentations. Learn more at http://www.forgivenessandfreedom.com/one-woman-show