In the late 1980s I was haunted by Whitney Houston's rendition of "The Greatest Love of All." The song reaches to a crescendo with the line "Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all." I loved the song, but my lack of self-love was brought home every time I heard it.

After a spiritual crisis in 1991, I was visited by a Spirit Guide who walked over to me while I was in emotional turmoil. At the time I sitting on a cold boulder next to a rushing mountain creek. Soon after the visit I started bringing in messages from Spirit. Over time many of them became focused on self-love and Spirit or God's importance in the process. This loving and wise book provides nine keys to help you love yourself.

Just opening this book starts a process, one Spirit calls a divine journey. The ebbs and flow of this journey are natural and the wonderful messages in the book will help console and remind you that loving yourself includes loving yourself when you are low. will take you on a journey and show you how loving yourself is a critical and first step in real spiritual growth and for spiritual health. Practical and interactive, as a reader you can heal and grow more consciously learn new ways of processing your own life's unfolding. Self Love as Spiritual Practice will inspire you and Spirit will guide and comfort you.

Loving yourself will help your personal shift and thus you can better participate in the greater shifts we are experiencing on this our planet earth.

See how to buy this book and more about it on the Self Love pages of this website.

Best Sex, Worst Sex

Women's True Stories

Best Sex, Worst Sex tells a story through thirteen women's sexual experiences, the story of women's breadth as sexual beings and the dimensions of sexual misuse and fulfillment.

When the idea for this book came to me, I was at a woman's conference, a place of such trust and power it lifted us and bound us together. All the women in the book attended the conference. Telling the stories of both the best and the worst sex creates a dynamic that means traveling into our upbringing, values and vulnerabilities, and delving into our needs, desires and truths. Telling both means neither dwelling on the worst or romanticizing the best. As the dynamic of best and worst sex peers through the carnal and into the core of us as women. It explores our sexuality in context with the full dimensions of emotions; rather than present our sexual acts, we present ourselves as whole beings.

The stories are as different as we are. Mighty, a punk rocker, loses touch with her vulnerability which propels a gang rape. Diane, an academic, has best and worst sex coincide. Kate, a writer, attracts men who need to conquer her. Janet, a woman of wealth, dances around violence. Johanna, a performing artist, is torn by her desire for both genders. A nun, Sister Sarah's repressed sexuality is unleashed within celibacy. Annie, a business woman, sees sexuality in a whole new light.

Indeed, the power of this book is to see sexuality in a whole new light. One that opens up to an expanded view of sexuality. A necessary element in our paradigm shift.

How to Eat What You Want and Be Thin

The first book I wrote was inspired by the fact I taught my brother how to stop binge eating based on my own learning.

I have a vivid memory of riding the "L" to work in Chicago when I as in my early 20s. I would sit and think that it would be heaven on earth if I could eat what I wanted and be fifteen pounds lighter. My fantasy came true. It wasn't a miracle. No fairy godmother waved her magic wand. I learned how to be thin and then it became amazingly easy. Believe me that does not mean my weight is constant, but I've also learned to allow some flux as the years go by and seasons change. Now, I've lived this way for over 30 years. A prime motivator for making learning how to be thin was that I simply did not want to waste a lot of energy worrying about what I eat or did not eat that day.

While this book was initially inspired in the age of the fad diet books, it still offers the advice and process for you to transition from working at following a diet to lose weight to being thin naturally. It is a process.

As I mentioned above, one of the most powerful aspects of this is that the energy you now give to fretting about your weight and eating can be redirected into much more powerful endeavors.

Buying the Self Love as Spiritual Practice

Self Love as Spiritual Practice is now available through Amazon and Barnes&Nobel.