About Your expert instructor

Colleen Georges

Positive Psychology coach, speaker, educator, and author, Dr. Colleen Georges, flips scripts by helping people RESCRIPT limiting life stories into empowered, limitless adventures. A recovering catastrophizer, Colleen’s own experiences dealing with and overcoming anxiety, panic attacks, and low self-esteem have shaped her work helping others rewrite negatives into positives. In her TEDx Talk, “Re-Scripting the Stories We Tell Ourselves,” Colleen illustrates how we can change our internal dialogue to transform the lives we live. Through her teaching, coaching, speaking, and writing, Colleen shares a core message—we can choose to leave behind shame-fueled, worry-driven, auto-piloted narratives, and instead script self-compassionate, hopeful, purpose-directed journeys.

Colleen is the founder of RESCRIPT Your Story, LLC where she provides life and career coaching, leads community wellness groups, and delivers organizational trainings and speaking engagements. Colleen is also a Rutgers University Lecturer in counseling, women’s leadership, and social justice, a member of the Rutgers Speaker’s Bureau, and teaches Psychology of Women at Middlesex County College.

She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology, and Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Rutgers University. Colleen is a NJ Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Comprehensive Positive Psychology Coach, Certified Professional Career Coach, Certified Professional Life Coach, Certified Anxiety Specialist, and holds over a dozen certifications in coaching and counseling.

Colleen is a Huffington Post contributor, author of RESCRIPT the Story You’re Telling Yourself: The Eight Practices to Quiet Your Inner Antagonist, Amplify Your Inner Advocate, & Author a Limitless Life, and co-author of several best-selling self-growth books including 10 Habits of Truly Optimistic People, Contagious Optimism, Inspiration for a Woman's Soul: Opening to Gratitude & Grace, Midlife Transformation: Redefining Life, Love, Health and Success, and 101 Great Ways to Enhance Your Career. Her expertise has been featured in various media including Live Happy, Inspire Me Today, Mashable, Rewire Me, The Job Network, Care.com, New Jersey Family Magazine, and The Trenton Times.

Colleen, her husband, José, son, Joshua, and two cats, Kitty and Sweetie, live in New Jersey. Connect at www.ColleenGeorges.com