Austin, TX (PRWEB) May 28, 2009
Austin's Slow Family Living (Slow Family Living) co-founder Carrie Contey, PhD will be featured on The Today Show's fourth hour segment with Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb this Thursday, May 28th beginning at 10 a.m. (EST).
The segment will focus on how families are being forced to look at new ways of living family life in the face of the recession. As a co-founder of Slow Family Living along with Austin writer and mother of four Bernadette Noll, Contey will be interviewed with the editor of Parents Magazine.
Slow Family Living offers families a new way of thinking about, seeing and implementing family life. They bring the science, the practicality and the lens for understanding, believing and appreciating the richness of building and maintaining lifelong family connections.
"We want people to see that family life can be the well where members can go to fill up and to have fun," Noll said. "Slow Family Living provides the tools, support and inspiration that guide people in slowing down, connecting and enjoying life as individuals and within the family," Contey added.
About Slow Family Living:
Slow Family Living was founded by Carrie Contey, PhD and writer and mother of four Bernadette Noll. Through classes, workshops, retreats, ebooks and the website (http://www.slowfamilyliving.com) Carrie and Bernadette offer parents tips and tools for slowing life down, connecting and enjoying family life more.
About Carrie Contey, PhD:
Carrie Contey, PhD is a nationally recognized early parenting coach, consultant, speaker, educator and author. Her passion is providing parents with the support, information and tools to create conscious, connected and balanced lives in all stages of early parenting from before conception through childhood. She earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a specialty in prenatal and perinatal psychology, and an M.A. in prenatal and perinatal psychology from Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. She also holds an M.Ed. in health education and health promotion from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in psychology from Hamilton College. (http://www.carriecontey.com)
About Bernadette Noll:
Bernadette Noll is a mother of four, writer, blogger, teacher and co-founder of movements including Slow Family Living and Future Craft Collective. She is passionate about helping families to allow life to unfold in a way that is joyfully and consciously connected through slowing down, finding comfort in the home, and creating the space to see and honor the family as an entity while keeping sight of each member as a unique and valuable individual. (http://www.bernadettenoll.com)
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