Diana Raab


Diana Raab is an American author, poet, lecturer, educator and inspirational speaker.

Early Life

Diana Marquise Raab was born in Brooklyn, New York of two immigrant parents. She received her B.S. from Cortland State University in Health Administration with a minor in Journalism. She received her R.N. degree from Vanier College in Quebec, Canada and took her licensure in French. In 2003, she earned her MFA in Writing from Spalding University's low residency program in Kentucky. Raab was a medical journalist for 25 years. She has a Ph.D. in Psychology with a concentration in Transpersonal Psychology from Sofia University in Palo Alto. Her research involved the transformative and healing aspects of memoir writing.

Career

Research

Raab received her Ph.D. in Psychology with a concentration in Transpersonal Psychology. Her dissertation/thesis abstract, Creative transcendence: Memoir writing for transformation and empowerment. This narrative inquiry examined the transformative and empowering dynamics of writing a memoir in connection with transcendent and pivotal experiences, particularly the experience of a certain loss, and the relationship between Maslow's theory of metamotivation B- creativity and D- creativity, and the writing of a memoir.

Teaching

Raab lectures and facilitates workshops in memoir, poetry, and writing for healing and transformation.

Writing

She is a regular contributor to Psychology Today,, Thrive Global., PsychCentral, and Wisdom Daily.
Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies includingThe Writer, Yoga Journal, Mind Body Green, Well Being Journal, Rattle, Black Fox Literary Review, New York Spirit, The Washington Post,