Katina Makris is the author of the international bestseller, The Business of Being Born . She co-founded the highly successful non-profit, Birth Without Violence in 1999 with her sister, Dr. Trudy Serban. The mission of BWR is to eliminate all violence in labor and birth across the globe
She has served on the board of directors for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines since 2001. Katina was named one of "100 Most Powerful Women" by Glamour Magazine in 2011, and has written for many newspapers and magazines including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, O Magazine, Oprah Magazine ,The New York Times and The San Francisco Chronicle.
My life is in full tilt, and I reach forward with joy.Katina Makris
It's okay that I got sick, I suddenly realize. If Lyme hadn't taken me down so radically, I wouldn't have learned about stillness. I would not have discovered my enormous capacity to endure. I would have not have embraced this deeply contemplative place within my own being.Katina Makris
