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I'm so glad you're here. I  hope that these offerings and resources help you feel supported in healing and finding your way to the light! Dawn is breaking.

xo, Mary

 

DEEP DIVES WITH MARY

Do you want to actually enjoy the holidays this year? Feel energized, feel more love and joy rather than frazzled, overwhelmed, frustrated and needing a vacation afterwards to recuperate?

Join Mary and Paul Fraser to learn psychological and energetic tips, tricks and tools that will leave you changed and ready for a holiday season like you have never before experienced!

Drawing on Mary’s background in psychology and research and Paul’s 30+ years in Chinese medicine with a focus on Qi Gong, you will walk away with practices and tools that will help you protect, clear and channel your energy for the most joyful holiday season… and beyond!

Sunday, December 3rd
1-5pm
The Montecito Club in a private ocean view room

Tea served throughout with a concluding wine celebration and integration!
Space is limited to only 15 people
$425 all inclusive 

Mary Firestone is a graduate of Princeton University and has an MA in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University. Her first book, Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom +Joy after Trauma (Sounds True, 2022), according to Dr Joe Dispenza, “is medicine for anyone who wants to free their mind, body, and soul from the past.” Providing others with healing and growth opportunities has been her lifelong passion. Mary is a trauma/joy expert and inspirational speaker who has been interviewed on over two dozen podcasts internationally, is the KEYT news mental health expert, and has presented at hospitals, schools, and to private groups. Mary founded the Trusting the Dawn Summit series focused on healing and connecting to joy in 2023. She also co-founded Firestone Sisters Inc. with her sister, Lucy in 2012, with the aim of inspiring others on their retreats and with their essential oil based perfumes. She's been featured in Spirituality & Health, Authority, Connected Woman, Aware Now and more. She resides in Santa Barbara, California with her family. 

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About the Book

Mary Firestone survived the unthinkable. In 2018 she lived through the Montecito mudslide that dropped 200 million gallons of rainfall in 15 minutes, washing away her home. Trapped alone in her bathroom while pregnant, not sure if her husband and four-year-old son were still alive, she wasn’t thinking that her trauma was a gift in disguise. Yet, as she began her journey to healing, this is exactly what she discovered.

In Trusting the Dawn, Firestone draws from both her own real-life experiences and her background in clinical psychology to offer a radical, integrative handbook for not only healing from trauma but awakening to even more joy and meaning because of your experiences. Stories of triumphant survival and interviews with experts bring to life an extensive resource guide and a holistic toolkit filled with a wide variety of pathways to healing―from movement therapies like yoga, to aromatherapy and flower essences, to traditional talk therapy and support groups, to pharmacology and Chinese medicine, to mystical healing methods, and much more.

Central to Firestone’s teachings is the idea that your trauma, in whatever form it slayed you, can become an initiation into a fuller, more illuminated, and more joyful life. Trusting the Dawn is a call to action to see that you are more complex, multi-dimensional, connected, and powerful, not in spite of what you’ve been through, but because of what you’ve endured.

Trusting the Dawn bridges the story of a real-life trauma with the practical tools to transform yourself and your life. This book is medicine for anyone who wants to free their mind, body, and soul from the past.”

DR. JOE DISPENZA, New York Times bestselling author of You Are the Placebo: Making Your Mind Matter and Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon

PRAISE FOR TRUSTING THE DAWN

“Mary’s vulnerability in sharing her healing journey from trauma to thriving is an absolute inspiration. In Trusting the Dawn, she provides valuable resources for anyone touched by trauma to effectively heal and transform.”

KELLY NOONAN GORES, author and producer/director of the acclaimed Heal documentary

“For anyone who has experienced trauma on any level, Mary Firestone’s words will serve as a beacon of hope, a road map to finding your way back to a new normal and living life to its fullest. This book will stay on your bedside table for years after you read the last word.”

LYDIA FENET, bestselling author of The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You

“I am blown away by Mary’s bravery in sharing her vulnerability in order to heal after trauma―her journey will undoubtedly help others to recognize that they are not alone and that there are many ways out and through to the other side. Her candor and heartfelt, sage wisdom reframe trauma as an asset you can reappropriate as strength to lead a better life.”

JILL KARGMAN, author, writer, and actress

“Mary’s brilliant reframing of trauma in Trusting the Dawn is an inspiration to us all to live a more authentic and joyful life. Mary embodies what it means to emerge transformed, owning the phrase ‘What if this is happening for us, not to us?’ Mary’s book debut is a must read, a road map through trauma to transformation, and an essential tool kit for our lives.”

LAUREN ROXBURGH, bestselling author and presenter

“Mary Firestone is a leader of growth consciousness. She has a heart as big as the moon and is equally brilliant. What makes Mary a true influence in my life is her willingness to do the work, work the love, and transform pain into purpose. She is a shining star of talent and grit.”

DR. JENNIFER FREED, author and celebrity psychological astrologer

“Through our willingness to breathe in the dark, we are able to find the light. Mary shows others that finding their light in the darkness is possible. And it’s even brighter than before it went dark.”

SHAMAN DUREK, author of Spirit Hacking and Alchemy Elementals

 OTHER OFFERINGS

The First

The First, is not simply a fragrance that one wears. It is a powerful layered experience that allows one’s spirit to breathe. This is a reminder that fragrance can awaken the spirit, stir the soul and inspire each of us to take the first step towards living our most ecstatic lives. Hand crafted and vegan.

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Wild Precious Life Retreats

Our Wild Precious Life Retreats are the physical and tangible culmination of inspired experiences, content, and products that encourage women to seize their most ecstatic lives by nurturing their minds, bodies, and spirits.

Open

Open is an alchemical invitation to attract and harmonize with limitless possibility, potential and love around us and within ourselves. This fragrance stirs memory while gently awakening the spirit to create and call us to our most ecstatic experience of love.

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EVENTS AND PRESS


PODCASTS

The HEAL Podcast

Finding Freedom After Trauma with Mudslide Survivor Mary Firestone

From Trauma To Triumph

#11 Mary Firestone on trauma healing, resilience and awakening joy

Your Woo Woo Best Friend

Radical, integrative approaches to healing, from ketamine to Vedic meditation, plus the magic of retreat travel with Mary Firestone

Dawson Church

Choosing Freedom and Joy After Trauma: Mary Firestone and Mirjam Paninski in Conversation

The Growth Guide

How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma with Mary Firestone

Sah D'Simone

Ep. 95 - Trusting the Dawn: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma - with Mary Firestone

Light Watkins

132: Mudslide Survivor and Trauma Expert Mary Firestone on How to Heal From Tragedy

Starting Over With Shannon

Ep.53 Free your mind, body & soul from the past & find post-traumatic growth w/Mary Firestone

Spark Change

Trusting the Dawn: Insights for Parents, with Author Mary Firestone

Boundless Authenticity

How To Choose Freedom And Joy After Trauma | Mary Firestone
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I'm Awake! Now What?

Mary Firestone - Author discusses post-traumatic growth, healing, and trusting ourselves Ep. 221

The Sweetest Little Life

Trusting the Dawn with Mary Firestone

Feminine Warrior

Finding Joy & Freedom Through Trauma

Health Gig

Mary Firestone on Trusting the Dawn

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Mary Firestone: Trusting the Dawn: Choosing Freedom and Joy After Trauma

The Juliet Root Show

Episode 78: Trusting the Dawn: Choosing Freedom and Joy After Trauma

Is My Aura On Straight?

Episode 084: How to Choose Freedom and Joy After Trauma WITH Mary Firestone

Enlightened Empaths

Trusting the Dawn with Mary Firestone

Mental

PTSD 💐 There were also such surprising moments of connection with Mary Firestone

 

TV

KEYT ABC Santa Barbara

April 27, 2023

Trauma expert and author Mary Firestone returns to discuss the benefits of breath work

KEYT ABC Santa Barbara

February 6, 2023

Trauma expert Mary Firestone shares ways to reconnect with your inner self

KEYT ABC Santa Barbara

January 13, 2023

Local resident and Montecito Mudslide survivor shares tools to cope with recent storms

KEYT ABC Santa Barbara

November 15, 2022

Local Santa Barbara author sits down with our News Channel 3-12 team to discuss new book

KATU ABC Portland - AM Northwest

August 23, 2022

Mary Firestone Shares Survival Story in "Trusting the Dawn"

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FEATURES

Princeton Alumni Weekly

Mary Firestone ’99 Encourages Others to Find Hope in Healing

The Montecito Journal

Firestone Sisters Launch New Perfume

Connected Woman Magazine

WHO IS SHE: Mary Firestone

Spirituality & Health Magazine

A Letter From an Author: Mary Firestone

Elephant Journal

Trusting the Dawn {Book Excerpt}

Santa Barbara News Press

Montecito mudslides survivor to discuss ‘Trusting the Dawn’

Santa Barbara Independent

Santa Barbara–Based Author Mary Firestone on Her New Book, ‘Trusting the Dawn’

Aware Now

Issue 31: The Dreams Edition

KEYT

Montecito mudslide survivor releases new book about how to free their mind from the past

Just Breathe Magazine

Taking Your Power Back After a Traumatic Experience

Medium’s Authority

Mental Health Champions: Why & How Mary Firestone of Firestone Sisters Is Helping To Champion Mental Wellness

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