1. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Michael is an Author and writer, a Holistic Health Practitioner, a personal growth seminar leader, as well as having been a Self-Esteem Coach and Mentor for teen girls.
He has dedicated his life discovering and healing himself and others emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
He has over 40 years’ experience as an Energy Healer with a B.A in Sacred Healing. As a certified Bowenwork Practitioner since 2005, he stimulates the body to heal itself of physical, emotional pain and trauma.
2. Describe your book Emotional Health: The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, and Pain in 30 words or less.
Emotional Health provides stories of people who healed their emotional suffering by healing physical and emotional abuse, improving emotional health, reducing pain, recovering from codependency and also spiritual awakening.
3. What was the hardest part of writing your book?
Writing for two years straight 5 days a week with no previous writing skills or training and no internet in the mid 90’s to do any research. Leaving the book for about 10 years and then basically scrapping over half the book when I looked at it again. I spent a year interviewing people about their experiences and another year doing rewrite after rewrite after rewrite. Rewrites pose the hardest part of writing.
4. What books have had the greatest influence on you?
In my mid 20’s I went into a “New Age” bookstore and intuitively picked the I Ching and the Tarot by Paul Foster Case. Carl Jung influenced me a lot. I once had his 20 volume hard cover set. I have also read and studied a lot of Rudolf Steiner, as well as the writings of Alice Bailey over many years. I also studied the Keys of Enoch by J.J. Hurtak for ten years. Now I am reading and absorbing Yogananda’s The Second Coming of Christ.
5. Briefly share with us what you do to market your book?
Initially, I went on a month virtual blog tour to promote my book by writing many different related types of blogs for people in my niche of energy healing and emotional healing. Since 2010 I have started an author’s blog site and written over 140 articles, mostly related to subjects in my book. I include the book on the site, as well as at the end of each article. I also promote a lot on twitter.
6. How do you spend your time when you are not writing?
In the past, I assisted in personal growth seminars for parents with emotionally challenged teen girls and also taught self-esteem groups for teen girls. Now I do some hiking tours in Sedona Arizona to assist people with emotional and spiritual breakthroughs while they are on the land.
7. What are you working on next?
At the moment, I am involved in major inner emotional and spiritual changes. I am preparing for a big shift in my life in the next 6 months which will be doing something on a bigger scale involving energy healing, teaching people and spiritual writing.
