A nurse and medical doctor, their main interest since 1972 has been counseling, healing and teaching. They travel internationally teaching about personal growth, relationship, parenting and healing. They are the founders and directors of the Shared Heart Foundation ( www.sharedheart.org ), a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the world one heart at a time. They are contributors to the New York Times bestselling series, Chicken Soup for the Soul. They write a monthly column, “New Dimensions of Relationship,” which appears in 80 publications internationally. In 1992, they built a center for their work on 16 hilltop acres in the Santa Cruz mountains, where they live, counsel individuals and couples, and facilitate workshops and trainings. The Vissells have two daughters born in 1976 and 1981, and a son born in 1989. They are committed to “walking their talk,” so they spend as much quality time as they can cultivating their relationship with each other and with their children.
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