7/1/2024
Announcing Dr. Merriman’s Retirement as a Sleep Clinician to Focus on TWBH, The Way Back Home.
Sleep will still be an important part of her path moving forward.
To learn more about exciting plans for the future, here is the link of her retirement blog.
Thinkers 50, 2023 Reconnect, Rethink, and Reset
Dr. Merriman attended Thinkers 50, 2023 on November 5-6 in London, UK as well as their virtual event on October 4-5, 2023.
A wide variety of respected authors, experts and scholars in diverse fields of subject matter related to management and leadership weighed in over 4 days on topics that today’s leaders must grapple with in order to make our tomorrow better. The consensus was that the future looks bright despite the complicated, and at times seemingly intractable conflicts that we find ourselves facing. But it will require careful, thoughtful and deliberate efforts to protect and promote the core of what makes us human.
A special thank you goes out to Dorie Clark who was instrumental in my invitation to attend this conference and to the event organizers, Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer
10/6/2022
Dr. Merriman presented a webinar entitled “Fix Your Sleep in a Post-Pandemic World to Become a More Resilient Leader” for the Recognized Expert™ Community.
"Sunita's presentation was a fascinating look at a fundamental issue that troubles many of us - how to get better sleep. Speaking to a high level audience of professionals seeking to optimize their performance, she provided actionable tips and strategies to take control of our health, enhance our mind-body connection, and improve our breathing. Her holistic approach - steeped in integrative medicine - helps us get at the root cause of health challenges, not just the symptoms. We're all raving fans now!"
-Dorie Clark , Duke & Columbia Business Prof; WSJ Bestselling Author; Ranked #1 Communication Coach; Top 50 Business Thinker in World - Thinkers50
6/18/2022
Dr. Sunita Merriman was honored to have one of her poems,”Patch of Grass”, read aloud at the Among Trees event sponsored by Princeton University. Professional musicians and actors presented an evening of songs, scenes, poetry and more on the stage near Veblen House in Herrontown Woods.
Professional actors read a variety of poetry and writings about nature, many contributed by community members like Dr. Merriman. Among Trees is organized by Lecturer in Theater Vivia Font and Ben Steinfeld, (NYU Gallatin lecturer). The event is presented with support the Princeton Public Library in partnership with the Friends of the Herrontown Woods.
10/11/2021
In conversation with Kristin Osborn LMHC, LPCC, an internationally recognized psychotherapist, researcher, author, and an Associate in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and appointed Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Among her many other career honors, Kristin has also served as President of IEDTA, International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association.
“This talk brought a new awareness to me of the ubiquitous nature of sleep difficulties in people's lives and how trauma can impact on this further. Dr. Merriman's understanding of the relationship between treating sleep difficulties and thus improving a person's mood status was an eye opener to me, and it is something that clinicians need to consider in the holistic treatment both of psychological/psychiatric difficulties and how they interact with sleep and dental, and sleep apnea. This is a new area for both researchers and clinicians alike to consider.”
Dr Jonathan Egan, Deputy Director of the DPsychSc in Clinical Psychology , Director of Clinical Practice, NUI Galway, Ireland
5/14/2021
“Sleep Health, Wellness, and Self Discovery”- Dr. Merriman was invited to present as part of SEL Day at JPS High School in Edison, NJ on May, 14, 2021. The entire day was dedicated to Social Emotional Learning (SEL). She brings the message of Sleep Health and Self Love Self Care First® as a foundational block of SEL.
3/8/2021
Dr. Merriman was invited to be a guest at a live event with TMS Global RoundTable on March 8th, 2021 at 3 pm to discuss how ACEs can affect Sleep, and how Dental Sleep Medicine and Oral Appliance Therapy is an important part of the solution for such patients.
Hosts Rose Huey (ISTDP Practitioner), Dr. Tovah Goldfine (TMS Chiropractor) and Micahel Galinsky, (Film Maker, writer, and producer of All The Rage) make for a vibrant conversation on ACEs, Sleep, TMS, and how Dental Sleep Professionals can help.
This program was recorded Live on 3-8-2021. Pardon some sound issues.
12/17/2020
ACE’s, Integrative Medicine, and the Mind Body Connection. Why Dental Sleep Practitioners Must Take a Seat at This Table
A professional continuing education article by Sunita Merriman, DDS, D-ABCDSM, D-ABDSM in Dental Sleep Practice, Winter 2020
4/30/2021 - 5/1/2021
Dr. Merriman has been invited to participate at Princeton Public Library’s 2021 ‘Local Author Day’.
The PPL virtual author fair is now live! You can access the entire event here: https://princetonlibrary.org/localauthor/
Sunita’s page at this event can be accessed directly here:
Video: Dr. Sunita Merriman reads from "Stripping: My Fight to Find Me" (2018)
Princeton Public Library Local Author Day 2021 Author Readings
4/20/2020
ISTDP- Dr. Sunita Merriman in conversation with ISTDP practitioner, Rose Huey and Dr. T. Goldfine on TMS Round Table Global. Attachment and complex childhood trauma, the unconscious, recovery through Davanloo's- ISTDP (Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy) and poetry.
4/12/2019
Join Jennifer Morris of Hay House Radio as she speaks to her guest, author Sunita Merriman, on her Bright New Voices Podcast. Dr. Merriman is the author of "Stripping - My Fight To Find Me," a book of poetry about overcoming inter-generational emotional trauma.
7/18/2018
A conversation with a writer
Sunita Merriman, author of Stripping, My Fight to Find Me, discusses her poetry, developmental trauma, ACE's, depression, anxiety, and healing.
9/26/2019
The IEDTA’s 2019 International Conference, “New Frontiers in Experiential Dynamic Therapy,” took place in Boston, September 26-28, 2019, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Boston’s historic Theater District1 . This conference was co-sponsored by the IEDTA, William James College, and the Washington School of Psychiatry. Friday evening’s Gala dinner featured poet Sunita Merriman reading from her book “Stripping-My Fight to Find Me.”
“It was an interesting idea to have poetry at the gala. It was wonderful how it worked so beautifully and how it was so much appreciated. What a contemplative atmosphere your reading created - Your words were received by ears and hearts which are already finely attuned to these meanings and themes. The impact was extremely moving. Thank you. And thank for Stripping: My Fight to Find Me, a great book.”
- Allen Kalpin, MD, IEDTA 2019 International Conference, Organizing Committee
Photo: Sunita reading her poetry at the IEDTA 2019 Boston Conference Gala
