Emma Mellon is gifted at translating experience into language, at listening to and observing the highly-nuanced ways of being she sees in her clients and in her own life.

In her writings, those skills translate into poetry, memoir and non-fiction that share as a theme our continually deepening humanity with all its challenges, pain and pleasures.

Published Works

Waking Your Dreams: Unlock the Wisdom of Your Unconscious, Health Communications Inc., November, 2006, is a fun, instructional and highly personalized approach to tapping the rich resources of the dream life.

Now Is the Time of Being Kissed: Poems, 1996.

"Waking Instructions" in What Have Your Lost? An Anthology, ed. by Naomi Shihab Nye, Greenwillow Books, 1999.

"Christmas With TwylaRose" in Chicken Soup for the Soul Celebrates Dogs, Health Communications, Inc., 2004.

"Christmas With TwylaRose" in Christmas Dogs, Chamberlain Bros./Penguin USA, 2005.

Emma Mellon has also been published in: The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Daily News, The Times of Delaware County, Celebrating Greyhounds Magazine, Counselor Magazine, Philadelphia Stories, Tea Magazine, The Schuylkill Valley Journal and the British journal, Psychopoetica.

Dr. Mellon is currently at work on a new book about greyhounds, therapy and connectedness.

Excerpts from Waking Your Dreams:

This is not a dream dictionary. Dreams will not sit still for that. They are neither disciplined nor singular. They wiggle and tease and stamp their feet and change shape. They won't be trussed up in alphabetical order like words.

Dreams don't give themselves away easily. They like to be courted. They want us to spend time, to think less and feel more, to imagine and to play.

…dreams are real experiences. They take up energy and space in consciousness and are the instinctive point of view in a world where the answer is always expected to be outside: in a leader, a pill, a product, a promise or a doctrine. Dreams draw us down into our mysterious underworld where our humanity has its source...

Tonight or tomorrow night, or next week, you will have a dream. The images will seem obscure, mad and maybe rude, like the babblings of a fool. You'll be tempted to grab that dream dictionary from the shelf and put all the mystery to rest with a bit of research. Or maybe you'll be tempted to shake off the dream and get on with your life. This book gives you another option. Order Waking Your Dreams now!

Would you like a Dream Consultation?

Explore that intriguing dream with a Dream Consultation, a 25-minute phone session with Dr. Mellon, focused on the images of your dream. This is not meant to be psychotherapy or to substitute for it.

To schedule a Dream Consultation, call Emma Mellon at 610-240-9591. The fee is $45 prepaid.