About the author

    Dorre Lin Ray, D.C. is a chiropractor, therapist, teacher, and author. She has dedicated her life and career to the treatment and healing of emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical injuries and the different kinds of suffering. She has developed a whole new system and practice and has treated her patients successfully for over 40 years. 

    She has four years of training in Reichian Therapy/Bioenergetics, which focused on releasing emotional energy stored in the body coming from physical blocks and symptoms in the body. She has led OLLI classes and workshops on the subjects “Coming to Peace: Opening to our True Self: and Letting Go:” Dr. Ray also taught in Japan and Korea as a lead instructor for one of the primary pioneers in chiropractic, Major DeJarnette. Dr. Ray has been trained in hypnotherapy and personal and group therapy. She majored in philosophy/psychology at Iowa State University and received her doctorate degree from Western States Chiropractic College, Portland, Oregon. in 1977. 

    She has been using and teaching the Selfhood Practice for over 25 years. What is presented in this book is the culmination of her clinical and personal research as a chiropractor, holistic practitioner, teacher, and writer. The Selfhood Practice has been used successfully on PTSD patients as well as people who have common fears and phobias.  Her career has been focused on helping people reach their full potential, by letting go of past conditioning, programming, and negative identifications that have been blocks and barriers to their growth, development, and evolvement.