Michaela Haas, PhD, is the author of Bouncing Forward: Transforming Bad Breaks into Breakthroughs (Atria/Enliven, October 2015) and Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West (Shambhala, 2013). She has taught at the University of California Santa Barbara, the University of the West, and other study centers in America and Europe. She is a reporter, lecturer, and consultant. She has been practicing Buddhist meditation for twenty years and combines powerful storytelling with scientific research and spiritual depth. Visit http://www.michaelahaas.com.