Isa Bredow was born in Candelária, a small town which has a strong German background, in the countryside in Rio Grande do Sul, whose exuberant landscape, surrounded by hills and rivers, inspired her to write her first book at the age of 11, that remains unpublished until today.
She lived and studied in her hometown until she was 13. She went to Santa Cruz do Sul to enter high school and completed it in Porto Alegre, her second adopted hometown. Later, she enrolled in the Literature Course, in the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), but quit before ending it.
As she wished to grab a better understanding of life, she eventually got a degree in Psychology, in Unisinos, 1992.
After graduation, she went back to Santa Cruz do Sul. There she opened a practice and worked in a nun's school. She did a year course in the Center of Family Studies, in Porto Alegre, RS and had clinical supervision for three years.
Unsatisfied with the results she was obtaining with traditional Psychology, she left work and picked up her childhood dream, becoming a writer.
In her first book, to be released soon, and in her second book, still in progress, she wanted to find a better way to help people, trying to clarify the origin of many of their problems, grounded on their distorted ideas, causing so many conflicts in human beings.
At present, she takes part of a Christian spiritual order in São Paulo. She gives lectures and is always in contact with the Universidade da Paz, Unipaz-sul.

1 — "ANTES TARDE DO QUE NUNCA" (Better Later than Never), existentialist critic - coming out soon.

A Message From The Author

It is almost a common sense how much human beings yearn for happiness and only find delusion. Everyday we find more and more people with psychological blocks (competition, jealousy, alcoholism, drug addiction, stress, anxiety), with physical diseases that are, in most cases, rooted in their own minds. We see so much destruction in Nature, suffering of animals, wars, struggle for political power, so much aggressiveness in adolescence.

This goes unnoticed, because we are so involved with world's problems and its paranoia, that we cannot realize the reasons behind these behaviors. But most of us dream of changing this picture, right? We dream of:

— not watching no more news on TV telling us someone was killed because someone wanted to steal his wrist watch;
— not having any more discrimination against the poor, the colored and foreigners;
— stop destroying Nature.

This is not an Utopia. It may and it will happen, if we stop thinking the world lies in chaos and start struggling to rebuild it.

It is of the utmost importance that we begin to think with the heart. Indeed, because reasoning has not worked at all, cause, if it had worked, we wouldn't be living in a crazy world as we do now."

Translated by Thereza Christina Rocque da Motta

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