Regina Louise is the author of Permission Granted and her best-selling memoirs Somebody’s Someone and Someone Has Led This Child to Believe were made into an award-winning Lifetime movie I am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story, which was the recipient of a 2020 Christopher Award, a recipient of the NAMIC Vision Award which “celebrates diversity in television programming,” and nominated for a 2020 NAACP Award for best director.
Regina is a Hoffman Process teacher, independent workshop facilitator, social-emotional coach, and motivational speaker who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her story has been featured in media outlets like NPR’s All Things Considered, Good Morning America, CNN, BBC World News, Essence Magazine, the San Francisco Chronicle, and many more. She is a summa cum laude graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies, and University of California, Riverside where she obtained a master’s of fine arts.
“As a result of going the distance and staying the course of my highest good, I became inspired by my challenges to spend the past three decades advocating for what’s possible when we honor the sacred within us: our own love, our own acceptance, our own dignity, our own bodies as a place of refuge,” writes Regina. “Unconditional love permits me to know what is true about me: I am right to be here! I am right to love myself! By grace alone, I am worthy.”