Conversations, Interviews & More
Below you’ll find a selection of heartfelt conversations, insightful interviews, and other though-provoking appearances featuring Marlena Fiol and other noteworthy authors and hosts.
How do we find the strength and compassion to forgive those around us? How do forgive ourselves for the things we’ve done?
Join Marlena Fiol and Tom DeWolf on Tuesday, January 26th at 5pm Central time for Finding Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World. In this hour-long conversation, Marlena and Tom will explore the challenges of forgiving oneself, one’s family and those around us – and the healing that can result. Don’t miss your opportunity to join this timely conversation, as we close out what has been a divisive, conflict-ridden year for many, and move forward toward a more hopeful future together.
How do we overcome life challenges? What prompts us to initiate change? And what makes some of us choose to reveal all of this in writing?
In this virtual event Brave Women: Revelatory Memoirs, hosted by WNBA-SF, Marlena Fiol and Nita Sweeney speak candidly about depression, childhood abuse, parenting issues, and inequality, as well as the transformation each of them experienced in facing these difficulties. Click below to join these two authors on Friday, December 18 at 12:00pm PT (3:00pm ET).
How Can We Begin to Heal during this Bitter and Divisive Time?
Marlena Fiol and Doug Bradley partner with A Room of One’s Own bookstore in Madison, WI for Healing in a Broken World. Based on their personal experiences and extensive research, Marlena and Doug explored ways to generate healing within each of us individually and to stimulate collective goodwill and peace where there is fear and divisiveness.
What Can the Dark Times Teach Us?
Marlena Fiol joins host Tom Nolan on the Prayer on Purpose TV program to share her experiences of grief and brokenness, and what those dark times taught her. Click the button below to watch Marlena’s interview, which begins 18:11 minutes into the show.
How Can Life’s Challenges Help Us Reach our Fullest Potential and Tap into our Deepest Creativity?
Marlena Fiol joins Melisa Caprio on her weekly radio show Postcards to the Universe on OMtimes Radio to explore the ways that our greatest challenges can help us create the life we crave. Click the button below to listen to the podcast.
Sometimes It’s Hardest to Forgive the Ones We Love
Mango’s Heart Wisdom Panel features Marlena Fiol and Judy Ford in conversation about love and forgiveness. Click the button below to listen to their tips and practices for self-care, love, compassion, and connection.
Have you or someone you know experienced the pain of family estrangement?
The Roots of the Tree: Family Dynamics, Forgiveness and Reconciliation with Dr. Joshua Coleman and Marlena Fiol. In this hour-long conversation hosted by Book Passage in San Francisco, Marlena and Josh explore the complicated dynamics within families, causes of family dysfunction and estrangement, and paths to forgiveness and reconciliation. Click play to listen to their honest and insightful conversation.
Confronted by our current challenges, do we choose to shut down in fear and anger, or will we show up with kindness and compassion?
Annie Bloom’s bookstore in Portland, OR welcomes Marlena Fiol and Sherry Belul for a conversation about loss and love, and about what it means to keep showing up, over and over again, even during the darkest times. Click play to listen to this timely conversation.
Nothing Bad Between Us
Marlena Fiol, PhD
Nothing Bad Between Us: A Mennonite Missionary’s Daughter Finds Healing in Her Brokenness is a heartwarming and often shocking tale of a religious father and his sinful daughter that will transform your perception of what it means to simultaneously rebel against and yearn for a father’s love. Marlena is four months old when her parents are called as missionaries to establish a leprosy compound in a Mennonite community in South America. Throughout her early life, she grapples with contradictory desires to please her autocratic, hero-doctor father, and revolt against his often-abusive control. Nothing Bad Between Us reveals unexpected openings to find redemption and reconciliation in the most broken parts of ourselves.