Jeanie Seward-Magee, B.S.W., is an active Mindfulness Practitioner, a writer of newspaper articles and books, a Mindful Way Course presenter and a facilitator on the practices of mindfulness worldwide. Her first book A Mindful Way - Eight Weeks to Happiness was published in 2005.  She was born and educated in the United Kingdom. In the mid-1960s she immigrated to Canada and for twenty-five years owned a number of successful human resource companies. Jeanie presently resides quietly with her husband John on the beautiful west coast of Canada, living on Bowen Island, B.C.   She travels extensively and spends part of each year with her four grown-up children, their partners and her grandchildren. She has published two books in a series of books on mindfulness that she is currently writing.