My background was a troubled and challenging one. I grew up in a dysfunctional abusive home and It was one that I had to overcome. It taught me a lot about what I now write about to help others who have similar challenges. I believe that we all have the ability to overcome our pasts and that is what I write about in all of the various topic areas that I write articles and Ebooks about and that I talk about in my audio programs. Educationally, I have taken Radio and Television Arts and Social Service Worker courses at the College level. I have also taken several University courses in Religious Studies, Philosophy, English, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology. I find that specializing in more than one field of study or thought provides me with a refreshing on-going ability to assimilate information from a myriad of sources in ways that can light my creative fire and give new meaning to what it is that I have to share. I am a very free and philosophical thinker who does a lot of that thinking, along with a lot of my living, outside the convential box of the masses if you will. I like the widest possible view from there best. I have Ebooks and Audio Programs as well as my Counseling, Life/Mental Health Coaching available at: Phoenix Rising Publications