Dr. Ellen Langer will speak at the Healing Garden’s 10th anniversary event. (Courtesy photo)

Harvard's Virginia Thurston Healing Garden is celebrating 10 years of providing a community of support for women experiencing breast cancer. To kick off its 10th anniversary celebration, the Healing Garden is sponsoring a talk Saturday by world-renowned Harvard psychologist, Dr. Ellen Langer, author of the book, Counterclockwise, more than 200 research articles, and six academic books. Langer has been profiled on National Public Radio, WBUR's "Here and Now," the BBC, the Diane Rehm Show, the Dr. Oz Show on Oprah Radio, and New England Cable News. And this week it was announced that Jennifer Aniston will play Langer in a feature film based on Counterclockwise.

Langer, who supports the mission of the Healing Garden, is anticipating Saturday's celebration. "I am delighted and honored to speak at the Healing Garden's special anniversary," she says. "I look forward to sharing what I know about mindful health and the power of possibility that exists within us all. We have enormous control over our health and well-being as a function of our mindsets, and it's time we learned how to use it."

Carole Nathan, executive director of the Healing Garden, believes that Langer is truly representative of everything the Healing Garden promotes. "We are thrilled that Dr. Langer will be joining us as we officially kick off our 10th anniversary celebration," she says. "At the Healing Garden we believe that you are a person, not a disease. Dr. Langer's groundbreaking research work and writings are aligned with the Healing Garden's philosophy. Her work indicates that we need to integrate what the medical world generally knows to be true with what we know, or can learn about, ourselves. In order to do so, one must take note of what's new or different about the world and about oneself."

Langer's talk will take place Saturday, April 30, at the College of the Holy Cross. For more information, contact the Healing Garden at 978-456-3532 or visit www.healinggarden.net.