Beth Witrogen McLeod is a journalist, author, speaker, and consultant on spirituality and aging, caregiving, and midlife renewal. Her expertise has grown from personal experience caring for simultaneously terminally ill parents and a spouse dying of lung cancer. She has transformed these journeys of loss and grief into a hearty and impassioned sense of aliveness and joy at midlife.
Beth's commitment to public service has ranged from writing and producing an award-winning, Pulitzer-nominated newspaper series, The Caregivers (San Francisco Examiner, 1995), to writing Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal (Wiley, 1999), which was also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Publication of this book, and its wide acceptance, launched a speaking career that has taken her around the U.S. many times, speaking before Congress as well as aging and wellness groups.
Beth's articles on aging parents, spirituality, and health have been published in Good Housekeeping, Health, SELF, Family Circle, Cooking Light, Caring, the Wall Street Journal, Aging Today, and online at Consumer Health Interactive, WebMD, and ThirdAge, among others. She is an online chat leader (first with AARP 1995) and instructor, including a course she developed for Barnes & Noble University Online, "Taking Care of Your Aging Parents."
Beth has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Christian Science Monitor, Prevention, Money, and USA Today, and has appeared on The Today Show, Wisdom Radio, NPR, and PBS specials. She is the editor of Rodale Press' And Thou Shalt Honor (2002), and continues to expand her range of expertise into wellness, renewal, and spirituality at midlife.
She is currently working on a new book about reclaiming the life unlived; for her photography career, please visit her companion portfolio site at www.witrogenphoto.com. Request press kit.