LAURIE NADEL

Laurie Nadel, Ph.D, is the author of eight books, including The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes about how universal spiritual values can help us heal from catastrophic life events.  

A journalist for the first two decades of her career, Dr. Laurie works with Miami-Dade firefighters who have long COVID and offers monthly meditation workshops for long COVID patients through the Pulmonary Wellness Foundation (www.pulmonarywellness.org).

She practices Buddhism and is the author of a book on Zen and the art of windsurfing.