About Randi Kreger

Randi Kreger’s Bio & Resume

Randi Kreger

Randi Kreger is an international expert on effect of borderline and narcissistic personality disorder behavior on friends, family members and clinicians. She is the cofounder and clinical advisor of the Personality Disorders Awareness Network.

Books

  • Coauthor, Stop Walking on Eggshells for Partners (Fall 2022, New Harbinger) with Bill Eddy, author of Splitting
  • Coauthor, Stop Walking on Eggshells for Parents (2022, New Harbinger)
  • Coauthor, Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder (third edition 2021, New Harbinger).
  • Author, The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook: Practical Strategies for Living with Someone who has Borderline Personality Disorder (2002, New Harbinger).
  • Author, The Essential Family Guide for Borderline Personality Disorder: Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells (2008, Hazelden Publishing).

Publisher, Eggshells Press

Eggshells Press publishes a variety of CDs, booklets, and books about borderline and narcissistic personality disorder written by Randi Kreger and other experts. These products are more targeted for specific audiences, such as parents and partners who are divorcing.

Website Owner / Online Community Leader

  • Owner of the 1000-member support and educational group Moving Forward, MovingForward@groups.io.
  • For four years, one of Psychology Today’s most popular blogger on borderline and narcissistic personality disorder, with more than one million hits per year.
  • Owner, StopWalkingOnEggshells.com, John Gunderson, M.D. recommended the site in his book, Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide (2001, American Psychiatric Publishing).
  • Owned and managed the 20,000-member Welcome to Oz family community for people who care about someone with a personality disorder from 1996-2015. Currently manage to group Moving Forward at MovingForward@groups.io.
  • Answered about 1,000 questions on the website Quora with about one million views and a few thousand followers.
  • Facebook followers of about 4000 plus participation on other people’s BPD and NPD pages.
  • Professional member of the BPD Family Facing the Facts message board. Received a BPD achievement award from this organization.

Public Speaker and Consultant

Given presentations and provided consultation about BPD for a variety of consumers and medical professionals, including the following:

  • Invited Speaker, Narcissism Conference, International Society of Schema Therapy, May 1-3, 2021, Washington, D.C.
  • BPD consultant for a major motion picture (yet to be released)
  • Family Perspectives on BPD: The Basics and Beyond, Carter Center in Atlanta, National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder: Secrets of Setting Limits, November 4, 2011. Available for viewing on YouTube.
  • National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, book signing, 2009
  • Seiwa Shoten Publishers in Japan, lead a half day and full day conference in Tokyo for family members (Fall, 2008)
  • Family Perspectives on Borderline Personality Disorder: New York, NY, October 19-20, 2002. Sponsored by the Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation, the Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health, the New England Personality Disorders Association, and the Personality Disorders Foundation. One of 30 speakers.
  • New Directions in Borderline Personality Disorder II, National Institutes of Health, May 30-June 1, 2002
  • Testified in a deposition in lawsuit filed by Martha Stewart against the National Enquirer, 1998
  • Illinois Association of Rehabilitation Facilities, Springfield, Ill. Oct. 2000. Workshop for professional rehabilitation staff.
  • The Impact of Borderline Personality Disorder: one seminar for clinicians; one for consumers, Milwaukee County Mental Health Division, November 1998, Shirley Kostich organizer, director of communications and special projects.
  • North Carolina Center for Adoption Education, 1998, Keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, North Carolina. For both clinicians and family members.
  • Advocates for Recovery, Milwaukee, WI. Seminar for volunteer peer counselors for Milwaukee Health Association of Milwaukee County. 1998

Media Spokesperson

Part of BBC documentary “On the Borderline” reaching a UK audience of over 1 million people and many more around the world via the BBC website. Lifestyle Magazine, seen globally on The Hope Channel and the Trinity Broadcasting Network; the Saturday Evening Post; The Chicago Tribune; Monitor  (the American Psychological Association);  Milwaukee Magazine; Northshore Lifestyles; Update (a publication of the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill); PajamasTV, and a wide variety of local and syndicated radio shows throughout the United States.

Nonprofit

Cofounder and former member of the board of directors of the Personality Disorders Awareness Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting projects that help children, families, and others understand and cope with BPD. Involved with The Black Sheep Project.

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“Randi literally saves people’s lives. To those of us who’ve read her stuff and found out that we’re not crazy and there’s a name for this disorder, she is a guiding star, a light in the darkness, and a voice crying out in the wilderness.”

–A reader