
Alyson
Mead attended Boston College, the Slade School of Art in London, and New York
University's Tisch School of the Arts.
She has worked in publishing as an editor and ghostwriter, and in film
development at New Line Cinema, Sony Pictures, Village Roadshow, and the Buena
Vista Motion Picture Group. She
has also produced a documentary on mandated medical care, featuring Academy
Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon. Her plays have been staged at Off-Off Broadway and regional theaters around the country.
Alyson's
fiction, essays and articles have appeared in over thirty publications,
including Salon, In These Times, Bitch, BUST, Whole Life Times, Punk Planet,
MSN, The Sun, AOL's That's Fit, Tapestry, Stylus, Clackamas Literary Review, and the New
York Daily News, among others.
She has received the Columbine
Award for Screenwriting, the Roy W. Dean Filmmaking Grant, and awards from Writer’s
Digest and USA Book News.
She's also the bestselling author of Wake Up to
Your Stories and Wake Up to
Your Weight Loss, and has toured
across the country teaching meditation and giving workshops on a
variety of healing topics, including manifestation and the development of a
personal narrative practice. Her entrepreneurial spirit also helped to launch
the Write It Off Club, an online community that helps people use sane, holistic
methods to reduce reactivity and promote healthy weight loss.
Psychic since childhood, Alyson has been
reading people since the age of 19, and has spent the intervening years honing
her abilities with certifications at the highest levels in astrology, Reiki,
Matrix Energetics, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Mindfulness-Based Stress
Reduction, and sound healing.
These
days, she provides humorous and forthright readings and intuitive healing
sessions as the Sassy Psychic (http://www.sassypsychic.com),
serving celebrities, sports figures, and people from all walks of life.
