Who is Diana Donald ?

My writing career began later in life and my stories for children were inspired by the many young people I’ve met in my practices, both physiotherapy and psychotherapy, my own children and my grandchildren.

I grew up in Westmount, Montreal and graduated from McGill University in Physiotherapy. My first work experience took me to the Vancouver General Hospital and then on to a cerebral palsy clinic in Australia.

On my return, I was married and we raised two boys and two girls who now have children of their own.

In mid-life, shortly after we moved to Toronto, I conquered breast cancer. With an abundance of support I rode the crest of that wave and landed safely on the sand. The experience motivated me to enroll in the Master of Arts Program in Counseling Psychology at the Adler School of Professional Psychology. Combining these techniques with my own innate understanding of the importance of imagination in the healing process, I realized that mountains can be moved with imagery.

Thus, in over 20 years of private practice, I have combined an Adlerian Holistic approach with relaxation, meditation, creative visualization and reconnective healing as tools to change perception and see needs being met. With imagination there’s always a way.

Imagination is in the recesses of our soul, where we connect with our deepest and highest selves and so in writing ‘My Special Angel’, published in 2003, I was offering children a chance to be in touch with their imagination; to be in touch with them selves and to know how great it is to be exactly who they are.

Short stories followed. The first was a Christmas gift for one of my grandchildren. Then I knew I needed one for each of them; for the one who loved horses, the one who loved the water, the one who cherished her violin and the music that flowed from it; the one who loved reading and the one who’s mind was so much bigger than he could possibly imagine . . . and so the stories began.

Children are our miracles, our teachers and our future; we do live on in them. How blessed I feel to have been led by children.

Meditation and Positive Thinking ...

have been a way of life for Diana for many years. The mystical relationship between mind and body and the magic of this reality is discussed in the following article “Thinking Yourself Well” found in the

September 2004 Issue of Canadian Living.

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Something to think about ...

We build a new tomorrow on the plans we make today. Everything we make happen in our lives comes as a thought or a vision first because we can’t give birth to that which we haven’t conceived.

With imagination there’s always a way. Imagination is what we were given in order to see inside. It’s there that we see that the seeds of our dreams were planted inside long ago. And it’s there that we realize those dreams are ready to be born. So use that imagination that was given to you. Use it to connect with your deepest and highest self. Use it to paint the pictures of those dreams. Use it to take you to where you want to be. Get out that canvas and start painting and see it all with that inner eye. Imagination is our direct line to healing. Imagination is our direct line to greatness.

We’re all essentially capable of greatness … because greatness is simply the human spirit stretched … a brush stroke at a time.

Pick up your paintbrush and watch it all come to fruition. Give life to that which you’ve conceived. If you can see it, it will happen. Know in your heart that power is yours.