Profile on Shelly
To the right you will find a short bio and summery of Shelly's
work.
For the media or the really
curious, there is a longer biography
following.
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you need my vita for any any reason, you can download it in here in pdf
format. This contains my career history, all my publications, research
papers, and other not-so-interesting facts to anyone but my mother.
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Long Bio (see the short one to the right)
Shelly
Marshall has dedicated over thirty years to working with
people in recovery from alcoholism and other drug addictions. Her books
Day
By Day (approximately two million sold) and Young,
Sober, & Free
(approximately 250,000 sold and now in its second edition) are classics
in the recovery field. Ms Marshall has seen the problem of addiction
from
every conceivable angle. Not only did she crawl out of the depths of
addiction at age
twenty-one, but her
mother, father, brothers, and even her daughter suffer from the same
disease.
Her degrees and published research may lend credence to her expertise,
but it is her personal life that allows her to touch the heart and soul
of
others with
her writing.
Shelly
Marshall has co-founded several recovery centers, both the
Hand of Hope (a halfway house for drug addicts in Denver) and the
Cortez
Community Mission (a detox center for Native Americans in the four
corners area
of Colorado). She worked on developing one of the country’s
first young
people's treatment programs for St. Lukes Hospital in Denver in the
early 70’s.
By the 80’s Ms. Marshall joined law enforcement as a deputy
sheriff in Bonner
County, Idaho. She has served on several boards from recovery ceters
to the
Council on Youth in Charles City County, Virginia.
In 1991 she began working in Russia for the NAN (No to
Alcoholism
and Drug Addiction) Foundation and earned a position as the NGO
representative
to the United Nations. She now has four books published in Russian and
continues to travel to Moscow on a yearly basis leading workshops for
professionals as well as addressing community organizations and Twelve
Step groups.
Her television and radio appearances in the United
States and
numerous other countries are always lively because Shelly is not afraid
to
share both poignant and amusing antidotes from her personal life and
travels.
Today she hosts several web sites on recovery, is involved in chats and
other
Internet forums popular in the recovery community, and she continues to
offer
support to the parents of drug abusing children.
Her
research has been published in five peer-reviewed, refereed
professional/scholarly journals, making Ms. Marshall world-recognized
as an advocate and activist for young people in recovery from
addiction. From
Russia to New Zealand, Shelly gives workshops and does consulting
internationally. Her contributions have been and continue to be
significant in the
addictions field
as a writer and columnist, as a trainer and keynote speaker, and as a
continuing researcher into treatment and recovery. As a leader in
recovery from
addiction, Ms. Marshall's work extends around the world. This has
earned her
the respect of her colleagues which is reflected in the words of Father
Joe
Martin:
She
stands as a beacon of simplicity in a world of confusion. I recommend
her work highly.
