Sunrises at Midnight

Virginia Marie Thompson, Ph.D., D. Div., bestselling poet, spoken word artist, nationally recognized psychotherapist, relationship & trauma specialist, Ancient Wisdom Teacher, international authority on the expressive arts in healing, professor, and social justice educator's expert life-affirming advice is regularly featured in major mass media including The TODAY Show, Women's Health, GLAMOUR, SHAPE, Woman's Day, Men's Health, and more.Living in the lush Forrest, lakes, hot springs and oceans of the subtropical Atlantic Southeast beneath tropical rains and sunshine, born in Marion, Indiana, a Midwestern town with its own story, she is strongly influenced by her heritage of Hertfordshire England, Scottish, Irish, and French descent.Expression through poetry has been an innate part of Virginia Marie since childhood, writing her first poem on a napkin with a chunky pencil as a gift for her mother. After achieving noteworthy success professionally her focus returned to her roots in poetry and writing dedicated to living Life as a messenger of Love, a bridge, to a new era of psychology: a grounded Spiritual Healing of the individual self and traumas.