Debra Jarvis

Debra Jarvis offers a witty yet daring look at the way that survivors of disease and trauma can achieve new levels of emotional and psychological healing.

“Let that old story go, so that a new story, a truer story can be told” - Debra Jarvis, TEDMED 2014

ABOUT DEBRA

For writer, ordained minister, and hospital chaplain Debra Jarvis, humor is a powerful balm. She is not afraid to be funny even when doing very serious work with the sick and dying as a hospice chaplain, a pastoral consultant for volunteer groups caring for people with AIDS and MS, and staff chaplain at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance. Debra is the author of It’s Not About the Hair: And Other Certainties of Life & Cancer and numerous other books. Currently on sabbatical in Geneva, Debra’s last job was as writer-in-residence for the University Congregational United Church of Christ in Seattle. In her free time, Debra accompanies her Cairn terrier Max in his therapy dog work.