I believe that people who come from extreme religious backgrounds need to recover and live in a solution rather than focus on the problems. I have worked with people deal with recovering from extreme religions and know people can achieve their own personal definition of their spiritual sense of self. I believe we need to look at spiritual recovery through a holistic lens and examine how it affects the mind the body and the spirit.
I am a recovering Mormon and left the church decades ago. I was able to define my own spirituality and spiritual self; however, it took years of recovery and a great deal of hope, inspiration and the willingness to explore myself outside of any religion that ties me.  I was given the opportunity to sit with spiritual advisors including the Dalai Lama. Today I believe in a little bit of everything and left the confines of religion to walk a spiritual path.
 
 My Ph.D. is in holistic health and my masters in psychology. I am a retired psychotherapist who retired three years ago to focus on holistic mental health. I believe a person cannot fully heal unless we use the mind- body-spirit approach to healing. I am a holistic mental health practitioner and have a private practice in Tucson Az and serve client not only in the USA but have a few international clients as well who are looking for a holisitc way of healing.  I also have an accredited school that teaches holistic mental health. I run a non-profit for those who lost someone to suicide, and I am very involved in working with grief and loss. In addition, I work with addictions and recovery and have been proudly sober for nineteen years.
Well if that isn't enough, I have a production company and we do music and video's. The great thing is everything I do today I do with love and passion because I feel I have a freedom that I can call all mine. That freedom came from breaking free from a people and a church and discovering myself.