About Me and What I write
My Work
Heather S. Friedman Rivera, Ph.D. is the author of twenty books spanning fiction and memoir, with a body of work that explores reflection, healing, imagination, and the inner journey.
An Amazon best-selling author and contributing author in seven additional volumes, her writing has appeared in magazines and has been featured in print, r
Heather S. Friedman Rivera, Ph.D. is the author of twenty books spanning fiction and memoir, with a body of work that explores reflection, healing, imagination, and the inner journey.
An Amazon best-selling author and contributing author in seven additional volumes, her writing has appeared in magazines and has been featured in print, radio, and web television.
Dr. Rivera is a retired registered nurse and former clinical hypnotherapist who specialized in past-life regression. She trained under Brian Weiss at The Weiss Institute and earned a creative writing certificate from Wesleyan University. She also holds J.D. and Ph.D. degrees.
She lives with her husband in a cottage in the Hawaiian jungle, where she writes, hikes, and cares for their two cats and three guinea pigs.
She is deaf and has cochlear implants—her superpower is bionic hearing.
To learn more about her work, or to say “Aloha,” you can reach her at drheatherrivera@gmail.com.