What the Marriage of Two Couples Therapists Reveals About Risk, Transformation, and the Astonishing Healing Power of Intimacy
By Erin Wood
Maumelle author and therapist Dr. Judy Tiesel-Jensen has won the prestigious Nautilus Book Award as well as an Independent Publisher Book Award for her book, Invitation to Intimacy: What the Marriage of Two Couples Therapists Reveals About Risk, Transformation, and the Astonishing Healing Power of Intimacy, released November 16, 2022.
The Nautilus Awards recognize “Better Books for a Better World,” honoring books that support conscious living and green values, high-level wellness, positive social change and social justice, and spiritual growth. Past recipients include wellbeing pioneer Dr. Deepak Chopra, human rights activist Desmond Tutu, and novelist Barbara Kingsolver. Tiesel-Jensen won Silver in the Relationships & Communication Category.
The Independent Publisher Book Awards honor the year’s best independently published titles from around the world. Tiesel-Jensen won Silver in the Relationships/Sexuality Category.
About the awards, Tiesel-Jensen shared, “It’s always gratifying to hear acquaintances report how well they liked my work, but it’s a whole different honor for the book to be recognized by Nautilus and IPPY. While friends may be motivated to support me, the experts on the awards panel have no such agenda. Each entry was evaluated ‘blind’ by professionals in the literary field, so it makes their recognition all the more meaningful. My hope is that these awards will help promote the book to a wider readership who, in turn, may be moved to experience transformational intimacy in their own lives.”
Signed copies of Invitation to Intimacy are available for $18.95 at etaliapress.com (take 10% off with code SPRINGMAG) and can also be purchased through local and national booksellers.
Hot Springs native, Erin Wood is a writer, editor, and publisher in Little Rock. She owns and runs Et Alia Press (www.etaliapress.com). Wood is author of “Women Make Arkansas: Conversations With 50 Creatives” (April 2019) and editor of and a contributor to “Scars: An Anthology” (2015).
