Introducing an unlikely contender

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Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind (Suny Press, January 2010) is the provocative story of an unlikely contender and her midlife transformation through boxing -- me!

I'm a psychotherapist in private practice in New Haven, CT.  I'm a Lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University, where I supervise mental health trainees.  I also host a popular music and interview show at WPKN-FM.

Never athletic as a child (I barely broke a sweat growing up in Newark in the 1950s), my "day job" has been quite sedentary.  In my mid-fifties I took up boxing and fell in love.  Boxing, sparring, attending fights, writing articles about fights, and ultimately my memoir, have been transformational events that I never could have imagined.  The boxing community has been warm and welcoming.  I created a new feature on my WPKN show, "In Your Corner."  Along with my co-host and coach John Spehar of Fighting Fitness in Orange, CT, we interview authors and athletes. 

I hope to keep you posted here on the journey of an new author, and someone who has finally realized what sports have to offer!  It's never too late.

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