Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s here it’s there! Love and Suffering: A Spiritual Guide for Helpers, Healers, and Humans gets released today. That means anyone who pre-ordered the paperback will see the book in their mailbox very soon, and it is now available for ebook ordering (Amazon doesn’t allow pre-orders of ebooks, so now you can finally order one […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are just one week away from the United States release of Love and Suffering: A Spiritual Guide for Helpers, Healers, and Humans. The message of the book is simple: we must learn to face, embrace, feel, and transform our suffering. Only by uniting love and suffering with the practice of compassion will the world
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWe are just two weeks away from the release of Love and Suffering, and I’m continuing my weekly blog posts that expand upon themes in the book. Even though the book is more than 250 pages, there is still so much more that I wanted to include. In fact, during the editing process, I shaved
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWith just a few weeks to go before the release of Love and Suffering, I wanted to continue exploring the theme of what it means to love this world with a wide-open heart. On the path of loving everything, it is easy to love the good stuff. Who doesn’t love the sound of the morning
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Reading Time: 9 minutesWithout a doubt, a huge inspiration for my upcoming book, Love and Suffering, is the American Franciscan priest and writer Richard Rohr. I am incredibly indebted to his body of work and that of his organization, The Center for Action and Contemplation, for deepening my understanding of Christian theology, mysticism, and contemplative practices. Rohr was
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Reading Time: 6 minutesIn my upcoming book, Love and Suffering, I make two bold claims about mystical awakening. The first claim is that the mystical experience is universal. We are put in touch with a Greater Truth that transcends religious dogma and touches something at the core and heart of every human being. There is strong evidence that
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Reading Time: 6 minutesIf you’re reading this, you are browsing the endless expanse of the World Wide Web. Like we all do daily on our laptops, tablets, and smartphones, we see a link or headline that piques our interest, click on it, and begin to scroll through it until another link comes up that interests us, and we
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Reading Time: 6 minutesIn the introduction to my upcoming book, Love and Suffering: A Spiritual Guide for Helpers, Healers, and Humans, I tell the story of the incredible princess Miao Shan, who became the Boddhisattva of Compassion, Quan Yin. Also known as Avalokiteśvara and described as “The One Who Hears the Cries of the World,” she is often
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Reading Time: 4 minutesThere comes a time when researching content for a book, where the author slowly transitions from finding new information to include, and instead finds information that simply confirms what has already been written. This happened for me in the writing of Chapter 5 in my upcoming book, Love and Suffering, as I dove into the
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Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s June 2025, and two things are now official. First, I have completed my Counseling program from California State University, which means I am now officially a Mental Health Therapist. Second, I have a new book coming out September 1st, entitled Love and Suffering: A Spiritual Guide for Helpers, Healers, and Humans. These two events
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