Mary LoVerde,
as a busy mother with a demanding career on the faculty of the
University of Colorado School of Medicine and Director of the
Hypertension Research Center, Mary LoVerde tried the 'superperson'
route -- and failed. Struggling valiantly to keep up, she turned to
time management, prioritizing, delegating, and simplifying. Yet, she
continued to feel overwhelmed and torn apart. One day, while furiously
working away at her computer and shouting at the kids to keep their
distance, she realized a startling fact. In her zeal to get everything
done, she had become disconnected -- from her family, from her work,
and from the person she was and wanted to be. LoVerde adopted a new
life motto: When you can't keep up, CONNECT.
Author of Stop Screaming
at the Microwave! How to Connect Your Disconnected Life (Simon
& Schuster, 1998) and contributor to the best-selling inspirational
collections, Chocolate for a Woman's Soul and
Chocolate for a Woman's Heart, LoVerde has touched many
readers with her stories -- including her gift of a "Memory Jar,"
filled with handwritten reminiscences, to her mother. She presents a
wealth of uplifting insights and innovative ideas for taking small
steps in the right direction for a less stressful, more satisfying
life.
Inspired by her mother, who was
separated from her sisters and put into foster care at the age of
nine, LoVerde is the national spokesperson for Camp to Belong,
which reunites brothers and sisters placed in different foster homes
for events of fun, emotional empowerment and sibling connection. She
is blessed with family (her husband of twenty-one years, Joe, and
their three children, Sarah, Emily and Nicholas), a rewarding career
and a sense of personal fulfillment. LoVerde makes time to share
family meals (though she hates to cook and considers pizza today’s pot
roast), establish new family rituals (like feasting on gourmet takeout
and singing carols by candlelight on Christmas Eve), and cheering each
other on and laughing together -- even when she’s on the road and far
from their home in Aurora, Colorado
