Genevieve Behrend (1881 - 1960) is the inspirational author of the powerful classic Your Invisible Power. She was the only student of Thomas Troward (1847-1916). She was born in 1881 in France and grew up in Paris. Between 1912 - 1914 Genevieve Behrend's life focused solely on the wisdom and philosophy of Thomas Troward whose influential and compelling ideas provided much of the groundwork to the spiritual philosophy known today as New Thought or mental science.