About the Author
Kelley Wear, M.D. is an American author, surgeon, life coach and speaker who has over twenty-two years of experience as a national public speaker in venues across the country and has won multiple prestigious awards for her research contributions. In addition, she has nine publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. Wear recently wrote her debut memoir, the journey of a broken child. The book was written to honor her brother, Maury who lived nearly his entire adult life knowing he was dying but keeping it a secret.
In addition to being a writer, Dr. Wear founded The Hand Center, a hand surgery subspecialty clinic based in Boulder, CO in 2009. She resides as the President/CEO, overseeing its widely successful operations in two locations.
Dr. Wear is a strong patient advocate who serves on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Medical Society (CMS) as the appointee for Boulder County as well as the Board of Directors for the Boulder County Medical Society. In addition, she spent four years as a delegate to the CMS for Boulder-based physicians. She is a recognized leader in her community.
Besides enjoying a rewarding surgical career, Dr. Wear received her psychology degree in 1993 at the University of Colorado. In the nineties, she worked at Friendship House, a residential therapeutic community in Boulder, for those with severe mental health issues. She has been a defender of human and environmental rights. She has travelled extensively, evaluating the living conditions of various remote villages. She spent several months in Katmandu, Nepal where she performed surgeries for the indigent during a Maoist insurgency. In 2016, she served at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. She continues to be an active member of Physicians for Human Rights and is currently involved in community service at Bridge House working with the homeless population as well as disadvantaged youth.
Dr. Wear considers the memoir her greatest accomplishment and hopes that it serves as an inspiration to the millions of others who are unable to live their lives fully because of the paralyzing impact of toxic shame. Using a combination of her psychology background over a decade of intense meditation practice, she further developed a groundbreaking successful protocol to help bring transformation of our worst life traumas into our greatest spiritual power. Her ultimate goal is to cut through the myth that children are broken, not the resilient human beings that they are. Dr. Wear shows with distinct clarity that we have everything that we need within us to overcome our worst experiences.
She is the mother of a dauntless 16-year-old artist and a rescue mom to multiple critters.
