After getting my degree and while working on my clinical internships, I began reading a few new age or contemporary spirituality books and really liked them, so I read some more.  I took a handful of related classes here and there, went to a few workshops of authors whose books I’d resonated with and before long, even before I got my license to practice psychotherapy, I realized that, in essence, these books and teachers were all saying pretty much the same things.  The concepts they espoused repeated over and over again and I thought that everyone else who’d bought the books and listened to the CD’s and attended the workshops was doing what I was doing:  incorporating the concepts into their lives with dramatic results.  I was dead wrong.

I discovered my misperception when, in my fledgling practice, a phenomenon of sorts revealed itself:  clients talking earnestly about their affinity for these concepts and living lives utterly divorced from them.  I saw then and there that my work would be to help bridge that chasm and it is my joy and privilege to support and encourage Spiritually Responsible Living.  I welcome your presence here and look forward to the unfolding.

P E A C E ,

Steven

P.S.  In 2008 I wrote and published a book about my experience after my partner died.  On one level, it’s about me applying the concepts to that process, but that’s not why I wrote it.  I wrote it to offer uplift and healing to anyone dealing with a loss experience and to gently challenge our beliefs about grief and loss.  The responses I’ve received show me that it’s doing that and more in ways I never could have imagined.  You can check it out for yourself – and even read the first chapter – at www.anextrayear.com.

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