A Personal Aristocracy

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I have another story about a book that’s a new-release and timely to mention. Several years ago a new client came to me by way of the internet. She found me from Alaska, where she had been immobilized for a year with post-traumatic stress. After speaking with her on the phone, she decided to come to New York to do Focalizing work with me. We did a month of two-hour weekly sessions, which helped re-regulate her central nervous system. She left New York with a new, clear sense of spirit and resilience that could propel her life forward. It warmed my heart to know that back in Alaska, she and husband, True Blue Indigo, were thrilled with the success of our work. A year later, I received a manuscript in the mail from True with a note that said, “Michael, if you feel what I have written has value can you help me bring it out in the world? This is beyond my capacity as a simple man of the wilderness.”

I initially wondered what I could do to help since I’m a therapist and author, not a publisher or a literary agent. Yet when I had read about a third of the manuscript, my jaw dropped in disbelief of its power, I had to call my publisher to tell him about what had just fallen into my hands. Within a week of sending him a copy, my publisher and True were in contract negotiation. The book was just released. What an honor it is to have it dedicated to me, with a mention in the acknowledgements that made me weep. If you would like to read a lyrical manifest for the modern age that gracefully invites us to live at our highest potential, buy this book: A Personal Aristocracy: Cultivating the Power of Spiritual Nobility.

The synchronicities and serendipities never end J