In her new book, The Happy Introvert: A Wild and Crazy Guide for Celebrating Your True Self, author Elizabeth Wagele seeks to inspire quiet, thoughtful types to have more self-esteem—and fun. Using her own playful cartoons, Wagele dispels the notion that introverts are always depressed, and illustrates the humorous differences between the two personality types and the inevitable miscommunications that result. She tackles parenting, adolescence, relationships, and other practical topics, and for good measure, gives extraverts a (gentle) ribbing for assuming that introverts are trying to be just like them, but are simply "not doing a good job of it."
Interests: Parenting (Jack 5yrs and Owen 3yrs), Human Growth and Development, Evolving Consciousness, Integral Life Practice, Coaching, Change Management, Creativity, and Freedom.
Inspiration: Witnessing my sons discovering the world and themselves, watching someone overcome all odds, listening to someone's deep dark secrets (and telling someone mine), a fully expressed performer, art, the rawness of humanity, and unconditional love.