Mariah Fenton Gladis

Mariah Fenton Gladis Foundation

“After 37 years as a practicing psychotherapist, I whole-heartedly believe that knowledge of mending emotional damage and living a healthy life should not be reserved for professionals but disseminated into the general population.

It takes healthy people with this know-how to create and maintain productive and harmonious relationships in their families, their community and the world.”

– Mariah Fenton Gladis
February 4, 1948 – July 7, 2018

The mission of the Mariah Fenton Gladis Foundation is to provide programs that bring a sense of love, compassion, and forgiveness to individuals, families, and communities with a desire to create and live better lives.

Welcome

Dear Friends,

This Foundation was built around Mariah, her spirit and soul that wanted to support, care for, love and heal regardless of status or finances. Nor did she ever see pathology in anyone she met; only people wanting to live better lives, love better, relate better, and have the opportunity to learn how to do that. She believed that each of us is a powerful agent of change and as more people spread love, compassion and forgiveness, the more we will create peace in our hearts, our families, our community, our country, and ultimately peace in our world.

I feel now more than ever a renewed commitment to Mariah’s legacy. And in that spirit have begun enlisting others in our community to help us continue and even expand our programs that offer tools to those that desire to effect change both inward and outward.

Please join us in Mariah’s spirit and wish us well on our journey, invigorated by her continuing presence of strength and guidance as we move forward with hope and promise.

Ron Gladis
President

Ron & Mariah Gladis

Latest News

– Easter Ham –

April 19, 2021
When I was in college at Villanova University, a Catholic school, everyone was required to take a religion class every year. The first class in my senior year, a young priest showed up, and after writing his name on the board, proceeded to reach into a box and take a bunch of communion wafers and toss them out into the room.
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Programs & Education
Mariah felt that mending emotional damage and living a healthy life should not be reserved for professionals but disseminated into the general population. Look through our transformative programs that effect change inward and outward.
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Resources
Browse our full library of articles and videos about Mariah, and download and read her inspirational booklet, “Bitterness Is Not An Option.” There are also tools, guides, and more.
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Donate
We cannot do this important and necessary work without your generous support as a sponsor, donor or volunteer. Pledge your support and make a difference right now. We are a 501c(3) charity and your contribution is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.
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About Us
Get to know us: our mission and goal, what is important to us, our history and the values we hold close to our heart and govern our programs and relationships. Hear Mariah’s story and meet the people behind the scenes.
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Newsletters
Our archived Newsletters let our community see our history of action and know what we’ve doing now. Subscribe by joining our mailing list.
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Blog
From time to time we like to update you on ‘what’s important’ in the Foundation.
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Mariah’s Story

For the past 40 years, Mariah Fenton Gladis has dedicated her life to creating moments of healing to people in all walks of life who have sought her guidance. These moments have changed lives. She has continued her work over the past 31 years with the increasingly weighty burden of ALS, a disease that now makes it difficult for her to walk and even to talk. Her continuing life’s work and her personal story are an inspiration to us all.

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Recent Newsletters

Ron at CCALS new Retreat House with Volunteer Michael Hodgkins
Winter 2021 Newsletter
December 31, 2021
I’m currently reading a book, Four Seasons in Rome, by Anthony Doerr, about a family that spends a year in Rome with their newborn twins. The book relates current and historical Rome, and I’m always fascinated by that time connection. But what I’m continually relating to is the author’s awareness of time and place
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Winter 2020 Newsletter
December 21, 2020
This year has been a difficult one and I’m sure you feel it too. There has been and continues to be a destructive pandemic which has killed over 1.6 million people worldwide and more than 304,000 in the United States as of this writing.
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Winter 2019 Newsletter
Winter 2019 Newsletter
December 19, 2019
Many years ago I was fascinated by the I Ching, an ancient Chinese philosophical text considered a guide to an ethical life, and an oracle of one’s personal future. It was fun.
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Winter 2018 Newsletter
August 27, 2018
This year has been a very difficult one for me personally and for our Foundation to weather. Mariah passed away on July 7th of 2018. After an extraordinarily successful campaign of workshops and talks through the Foundation in 2017...
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Fall 2017 Newsletter
November 19, 2017
This year, our goal has been to expand deeper and wider into our local and global communities with this ideas that drive the Foundation: delivering better access to Mariah and the soul of her teachings. Recent example: Mariah's May TEDx Talk, Arrive Already Loved™.
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Newsletter 2015
Winter 2015 Newsletter
December 19, 2015
Many years ago, when Mariah was still driving, she backed our large window van into a tree. Not a large crash, but enough to bend the rear bumper into a slight “V” shape. Certainly drivable, but also slightly unsightly. Six months later, I was driving the van...
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Winter 2014 Newsletter
December 30, 2014
2014 was a very busy year for The Foundation. Aside from continuing to promote wellness through client therapy and workshops on forgiveness and healing, I believe our emphasis on building lasting partnerships with like-minded community members is just as important.
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Winter 2013 Newsletter
August 27, 2013
It’s only December, yet I look out the window and see my world transformed into a black and white wintry wonderland. Naturally, my thoughts go to the idea of transformation and what gifts of transformation has the foundation brought to our community...
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Winter 2012 Newsletter
December 30, 2012
As we move toward the New Year, I’m very excited about the Foundation’s possibilities and opportunities. Since Mariah whole-heartedly believes that knowledge of mending emotional damage should not be reserved to professionals but disseminated...
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