Irene Watson, author of award winning The Sitting Swing: Finding Wisdom to Know the Difference was born and raised in a tiny hamlet of Reno in the northern area of the province of Alberta in Canada. It was a farming community, mostly settled by immigrants from Russia, Ukraine and Poland during the early 1900s. She received her Master's Degree in Psychology, with honors, from Regis University, Denver. Irene and her husband, Robert, live in Austin, Texas.

Irene is the president of Higher Power Foundation, Inc. and facilitator of transformative women’s retreats and workshops through Rewriting Life Scripts. Irene's background includes entrepreneurship as well as counselor with an Employee Assistance Program and a Psychosynthsis Therapist. She brings 40 years of life changing experiences, facilitation and study into her hands-on programs. Irene is also the Managing Editor of Reader Views, a book review and author publicity service. She is co-authoring a new book "Rewriting Life Scripts: Transformational Recovery for Families of Addicts" which will be released mid-March.