Linda Moran

Overview

Linda Moran has been published nationwide. This versatile freelance writer is equally at home with service articles, essays, newsletters, columns, and op-ed. Her first book was published in September 2004 by Betterway Press.

Moran specializes in advocacy, non-dieting, disabilities, inspirational, marriage, parenting, parents as teachers, and rational self-help. She is both exhortative and reflective in her style, both practical and emotional in her connection to the reader.

Moran is listed in the database of the PPA (Parenting Publications of America). She recently received further expert training from Eva Shaw, Ph.D, author of The Successful Writer's Guide to Publishing Magazine Articles. View course completion letter.

Moran is featured in a five-page interview in the new edition of The Renegade Writer by Linda Formichelli and Diana Burrell.

Linda Moran's First Book

If you've had it with your dieting life, then How to Survive Your Diet and Conquer Your Food Issues Forever is for you. Moran clearly explains in this revolutionary book that much of the work required to achieve true, lasting, weight loss, is adaptive change, in our beliefs and self-talk. This book uses the principles of cognitive therapy to help former dieters to adjust their beliefs and change their self-talk. If you feel you've become a slave to dieting and would like to get your life back, but still wish you could lose weight, this book won't disappoint.

How to Survive Your Diet, published by Betterway Press, can now be ordered from Amazon.com. View order information. 

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Author of the Diet Survivors newsletter

Written by Linda Moran, Diet Survivors™ is a free monthly e-mail newsletter that serves as a companion to the book, How to Survive Your Diet and Conquer Your Food Issues Forever. Subscribe.

Moderator of the Diet Survivors message board

Fed up with dieting? Find out what non-dieting is all about at the Yahoo! Diet Survivors message board.

Co-author of the Life Planners newsletter

Written by Mike and Linda Moran, Life Planners is a free monthly e-mail newsletter that helps parents and caregivers of folks with disabilities to plan for the future. Month by month, this newsletter offers small bits of advice about how to write your child's Letter of Intent. View the .

Linda Moran's Magazine Publications

2003 to 2006

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More about Linda Moran's publications

Linda Moran is a mother of four, licensed educator, and trained crisis counselor. Before starting her family, she worked for eight years as a computer programmer for a multinational corporation. Her oldest child has a chromosome disorder and moderate to severe cognitive delays, in addition to speech impairment and physical delays. Linda has an impassioned interest in how people learn, adapt to circumstances, and stay positive. She believes that success or failure in life is determined far more by one's beliefs and attitudes than by circumstances or even "learning styles." The many hats she has worn in her life, paired with her passion for "winners," uniquely equip her to advise her readers in rational problem-solving techniques.

Of the many challenges presented to her by her disabled child, one of them has been potty training. Her son, in her words, "challenges us to think outside the box on a daily basis." As he approached the age of twelve, Moran consulted a behaviorist and then implemented a rather unusual approach, with complete success. Her personalized service piece, titled, "Better Late Than Never—How David Finally Learned to use the Bathroom" appears in the summer issue of Down syndrome News, newsletter of the National Down Syndrome Congress.

Moran likes to write about childhood disabilities for the general community. She seeks assignments on such sensitive but powerful topics as, "Who are the special needs children in your child's class?" and "What exactly is inclusion and how does it affect my child?" She has contacts in the disability community and understands the complexity of the myriad of issues surrounding rights, public education, and the concerns of the general community. Go to the contact me page to reach Linda to discuss writing ideas.

The author's recently published essay, "Outing My Kids," appeared in the March 2004 issue of Exceptional Parent magazine. It is a true life story of Linda's decision to expose her children's differences, at home and in school. The story reveals Linda's discovery of the unforeseeable gifts this decision has brought to her kids, their classmates and their teachers. Linda believes that all of us have something peculiar or different about us, and that openness, as opposed to suppression, is the great equalizer. Read the story on this Web site . View the entry in the table of contents on the Exceptional Parent Web site . To order a copy of the March 2004 issue, call the publisher at (201) 489-4111. The story can also be found in the ProQuest database as a publication of Exceptional Parent.

Moran is passionate about advocacy, disabilities, public education, school support at home, reflection, self-help, spirituality, and more. All of her work is flavored by her preoccupation with the link between thinking and success, and her gift for finding the sacred in the ordinary. Her tearful story, " David and the World Trade Center," was published in the newsletter of the National Down Syndrome Society in 2003 and then was reprinted with the author's permission in the Spring/Summer 2003 issue of The Religion and Spirituality Division Quarterly . A third reprinting appeared in the August 2004 in the Parent Paper (of northern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York).

This author and writer makes a habit of challenging conventional wisdom. In that vein, her op-ed piece, titled, "Nurturing the Neediest First" appeared in the Parent Paper (of northern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York) in October of 2004. This piece offers an alternative to the view to the oft-spoken conventional wisdom that "one's marriage must come first before the children."

Moran's personal experiences with weight gain, yo-yo dieting, and ultimate triumph over the diet mentality have fueled her to write How to Survive Your Diet, her first book, published by Betterway Press.