On this interactive Zoom/conference call/podcast, I will be sharing the best of what I have learned from living both a rich personal life and a rewarding professional life as a psychotherapist for almost 52 years. I will introduce specific tools for managing stress and disruptive emotions, and I will demonstrate how to apply these tools, sometimes using myself as a model to demonstrate their effectiveness.  The format includes discussion, use of the tools, and audio or video of some of our favorite teachers sharing what works for them.

My interest in practical spiritual teachings has grown steadily over the years following my introduction to the work of J. Krishnamurti in the early 1980s. Favorite authors and teachers, whose works I include in our discussions, include A Course In Miracles, The Way of Mastery, Why Is This Happening To Me Again by Dr. Michael Ryce, The Tao Made Easy by Alan Cohen, Diederik Wolsak’s Choose Again, Shirzad Chamine’s book Positive Intelligence, Guy Finley’s book The Courage To Be Free, Michael Singer’s books The Untethered Soul and The Surrender Experiment as well as books by Alan Cohen and the works of Carl Jung, Byron Katie, Alan Watts, Anthony deMello and Pema Chodron, to start the list.  One can easily see that I have always been drawn to teachers who invite us to observe and question rather than to prescribe a fixed thought-pattern or belief system. 

I intend to provide free, accessible tools for dealing with the stresses many of us experience today.  Listeners are encouraged to bring their own personal challenges and questions to these conversations.

The podcasts and support group are free.  The replays of the podcast are available wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple, Amazon, Spotify, and more.