Brenda Adelman grew up in Brooklyn with a bohemian artist mother who read Shakespeare to her as a bedtime story and  a Jewish Guido dad who taught her how to drive a Cadillac at six and how to shoot a gun at ten.  Sexy bohemian artist mom. Brooklyn Jewish wanna be Italian dad. It could have been funny. It was. Until that fateful night in October 1995. Mom was shot. Dad was jailed. His gun, the weapon never found. He quickly took a new bride, my mother's sister. Brenda's life experience , specifically, how she finally was able to release her anger toward her father, her aunt and herself through the art of forgiveness is what her ebooks, home study courses, teleclasses and articles are about. She teaches the process she learned in the order that will shave years off of readers suffering.

Critically acclaimed one-woman show, My Brooklyn Hamlet,(based on her life story) performed for thousands of people, Hero of Forgiveness award 2008 International Hawaii Forgiveness Project
Best Actress 2007 Zaki Gordan Film Festival for short film "Daddy's Girl"