Jeanne Malmgren

Jeanne Malmgren is an author and psychotherapist who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountain of South Carolina. She holds two degrees from Clemson University: a B.A. in Modern Languages and an M.Ed. in Clinical Mental Health. During her first career of journalism, she worked as an Associate Editor at The Mother Earth News magazine, then spent 20 years as a feature writer and editor at Florida's largest newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times. Her work there was published in many national newspapers via...See more

Jeanne Malmgren is an author and psychotherapist who lives in the Blue Ridge Mountain of South Carolina. She holds two degrees from Clemson University: a B.A. in Modern Languages and an M.Ed. in Clinical Mental Health. During her first career of journalism, she worked as an Associate Editor at The Mother Earth News magazine, then spent 20 years as a feature writer and editor at Florida's largest newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times. Her work there was published in many national newspapers via newswire and won awards from the Florida Society of News Editors, Society of Professional Journalists, and the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors.Jeanne is a longtime Buddhist and co-founded a meditation center in Florida. She co-authored "Journey to Mindfulness" (Wisdom Publications), the autobiography of her spiritual teacher, the eminent meditation master Venerable H. Gunaratana. She now has a private practice of psychotherapy, her second career, where she specializes in mindfulness- and nature-based treatment.In recent years, Jeanne's writing has appeared in literary magazines, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was anthologized in a collection of nature essays focusing on Upstate South Carolina. She won a writing residency from the Emrys Foundation for the Arts and publishes an internationally popular Substack newsletter, "Rx Nature." See less