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You can heal your heart and embrace hope, even in the face of Alzheimer's.
In Embracing Alzheimer's: A Spiritual Journey to Healing the Closed Heart, Licensed Marriage and Family therapist Marilyn G. Marco combines decades of clinical experience with profound spiritual insight. Having cared for her own mother through Alzheimer's, Marilyn understands the heartbreak of this disease - but she also believes in a path of healing and transformation.
This groundbreaking book explores the connection between unresolved trauma, heart health, and cognitive decline, offering practical strategies and spiritual guidance for both prevention and caregiving. With compassion and clarity, Marily shares:
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How opening your heart can create resilience and peace
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Simple lifestyle changes that support brain and body wellness
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Spiritual practices to prevent caregiver burnout
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Channeled messages of humor, wisdom, and hope from loved ones beyond
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A new way to respond to Alzheimer's - with courage instead of fear
Embracing Alzheimer's is both a guide and a companion, offering education, encouragement, and empowerment for individuals, families, and caregivers. If you're ready to see Alzheimer's in a new light - one that includes healing, love, and spiritual growth, this will show you the way forward.
My mother, Ada Burke Geist, was a cowgirl. She grew up on a ranch in Wyoming.
In the years shortly before her Alzheimer's set in.
In the throes of Alzheimer's, my mother loved hats.
The photos above are of Marilyn's mother whose experience with Alzheimer's inspired this book.
Marilyn G. Marco, LMFT, has been a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist since 1981. She has a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. from San Francisco State University. Marilyn is passionate about empowering people to be their best selves and to discover their gifts to contribute to the world. She loves meeting people with differing backgrounds and experiences and watching them come alive as they uncover their power. Having experienced firsthand the devastation of Alzheimer’s with her mother, Marilyn wants to not only educate people who are dealing with this disease, but to shift the response from fear to being proactive and hopeful in the face of this disease.
Marilyn loves hiking in the woods, watching sunsets at the marina, and thrives on deep connections with friends. Having cruised Mexico and the South Pacific with her husband on a 37-foot sailboat, Marilyn discovered strengths she didn’t know she had, and a spiritual connection to the Divine through experiencing being a speck on the ocean.
Marilyn lives in Oakland, CA with her partner and ocean cruising mate, Jim Marco.