Dr. Judith Orloff will visit the New York metro area to speak, meet readers and sign copies of her latest book, The Ecstasy of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways Letting Go Can Empower Your Life, in three April events. She will appear at 7 p.m. on April 2 at the New York Open Center, at 1 p.m. on April 5 at West Hartford Yoga andat 7 p.m. on April 6 at Unity Church of New York. An assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California-Los Angeles and intuitive healer, Orloff combines her training in conventional and alternative medicine in attesting that miraculous things happen when we stop pushing, controlling and trying so hard. Her new book is filled with strategies and solutions for surrendering anything that stands in the way of an extraordinary life, including stress, obsessive relationships, toxic people, money worries and fear of death.

Orloff dispels many outmoded ideas about health, aging, sex, power, beauty and money by showing that instead of defeat, surrender is the missing ingredient to success and bliss. It allows us to daily live in a passionate heart zone with faith in our self and the divinity of all life. Of The Ecstasy of Surrender internationally renowned inspirational author Marianne Williamson says, “It takes you straight into the light: our surrender to a love and power greater than our own. Dr. Orloff nails it.”

New York Open Center, 22 E. 30th St., 212-274-1829, OpenCenter.org; West Hartford Yoga, 23 Brook St., 860-953-9642, WestHartfordYoga.com; Unity Church o New York, 70 W. 36th St., 212-560-0756, UnityOfNewYork. org. Also visit DrJudithOrloff.com.