Awakening With Love For A Life Worth Living
A Simple Yet Powerful Guide For A Healthy And Happy Life
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Hi. Welcome. I'm happy for you, that you're choosing to explore more about Love. And, I'm excited to offer you what I've learned, and continue to re-learn...about the Greatest Gift of the Universe........Love. A lot of folks, think it's very blasé, blasé to talk about “love”...very over done, etc. And I certainly know there's been a ton of books written about this topic. So what makes this one unique and worth your time? All of what I share here is inter-woven with amazing blessings, gifts, learnings of what literally has saved mine and many other lives. A little about me, to start. I'll offer more in a bit. I'm almost 80. And sooo grate-full to still be alive. A freakin miracle! By all rights, should have bought the farm eons ago. And I do feel like I've died many times over during this amazing, yet often perilous thing called my life. And yet, with the help of many wiser than me, and a sometimes shaky... yet ever deepening belief in and relationship with a Higher Power.... greater than me, I keep re-choosing....to Live....With ...Love....in my efforts to keep re-claiming the goodness of me, and to keep on keepin on with being a better version of me. So, not real complicated. That's basically it,, and what I've got to offer. If you'd like some more, details and how to's.....please keep readin. In my mid 40's I became Suicidal.... and made a very difficult Choice to Commit to Live ….in life long recovery...from many “addictions”///unhealthy habitual quick fixes....while simultaneously working as a trauma therapist, supporting many others with their life threatening pain. The commitment to spend the rest of my life in gratitude, learning about how to love me, so I could share that love with others, became my reason for living...real living. I have stumbled many times....yet....always re-membering...re-connecting...with who I truly am.,..Love, makes all the sometimes treacherous hills and valleys well worth it. I am one of the least perfect people I know....and yet.....I know that each of my “imperfections” are perfect for me....and definitely a gift from the universe to remind me to come back home to my most loving self. So is my story totally unique? Yes and No. I Am Totally Unique. As I believe Everyone is. And I Am Much Like So Many Millions of others. Again, as I believe Everyone is. So that's what I have to share initially as an intro. More about me and my Living Love Lessons to come.
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This book offers a variety of helpful strategies, poems, stories, and short essays on basic principles and approaches to developing and maintaining a healthy, happy, and love filled life. It reflects my life long journey in learning about what love really is, how to develop it, and sustain it. These love lessons are derived from my own personal healing work, as well as from my career as a trauma therapist and what has helped so many of my clients. May you find comfort, inspiration and support here for your own healthy, happy, and love-filled life.
About the Author
Dr. Roberto Schiraldi, EdD, LCP, LCADC is a licensed professional counselor, licensed clinical alcohol and other drug counselor, and has been a racial justice advocate, trainer, and trauma therapist for over 40 years. Roberto is retired from Counseling and Psychological Services at Princeton University, where he was coordinator of the alcohol and other drug treatment team, and was previously employed in a similar capacity by Temple University, where he received his doctorate in Holistic Health Education and Counseling. He is a past President of the New Jersey Association for Multicultural Counseling, past Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the New Jersey Counseling Association, and has been a member of numerous racial justice organizations, boards, and committees. He is a pipe carrier in the Sicangu Lakota Native Spiritual Healing Tradition, a Vietnam era veteran, and member of Veterans For Peace. ~ To contact me, please go to my website www.robertoschiraldi.com, (with related racial justice podcast interviews, and information on how to order my other books, and two abridged audio books, both recorded in my voice (each approx. two hours long), one on ‘Healing Love Poems for white supremacy culture’, and the most recent one, on ‘Awakening With Love’).