Bliss is the Way! Follow ME!

Dr. Blissful (Doc Martin) is an educational leader, consultant, and advocate for anti-bullying when she’s not writing for Splash Magazines World Wide. She wrote Breaking Free of Bullying in 2017 when her family suffered traumatic, life-changing events due to bullying. Her teaching focuses on Mindfulness & Brain-Based coping strategies to enhance reading especially for English Language Learners and students with reading disabilities including reading anxiety for ages 4 to 10. Dr. Blissful's speaking engagements include elementary schools in southern California and volunteer engagements for Athletes for Life Summer Camps with founder, Greg Bell, AFL, and NFL athletes. She is a diagnostic reading and writing specialist working in Compton schools educating literacy for underserved student via the J3 Foundation. 





Reading: Do You Really Know Your Child?

When my children were young and learning to read, they could not have been more different. My son, (who was later diagnosed with Autism), began reading as early as the age of two. So when my daughter came along a year later, my husband and I found that she could not read at all. It was almost as if our son had taken all the reading intelligence out of her. Frustrated and impatient, the more my husband sat with our daughter to read, the more upset he would become, and the more anxiety and introv