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Stephan McLaughlin
Author
Biography
Stephan McLaughlin is a devoted son, brother, husband, and father
who expresses a deep love for his family and people. An active
outdoorsman with a respect for the environment, Stephan lived for
many years in Utah, where he enjoyed hiking, biking, snowboarding,
and the practice of Aikido, a Japanese martial art. He later founded
Aikido at the Center in Memphis, Tennessee, where he continues to
practice and teach.
He was a successful entrepreneur and small businessman for 34 years.
However, after entering the world of recovery, he was moved to
follow his passion for human relationship. For the last 12 years, he
has spent more time working in the nonprofit world than the
for-profit one. His dedication to seek and share the meaning of
healthy relationship inspired him to found the HEAL organization, an
educational nonprofit that publishes books and sponsors conferences,
workshops, and spiritual events that support positive change.
Today Stephan pursues his life mission to create harmony by loving
and nurturing himself and others into wholeness and integrity
through his active membership in the Mankind Project and HEAL. This
work includes multicultural, conflict resolution, and intervention
programs and processes. He also collaborates with his associates at
HEAL and with other gifted facilitators from around the world to
increase awareness of healthy relationship through experiential
workshops and community-building groups called Circles.
Married to his beloved wife Corinne for 14 years, they relish the
joys of nurturing and the challenges of parenting their young
daughter, Madeleine. The family pod also includes a yuppie puppy,
Zoe, and two dwarf hamsters, Brownie and Chunky. Stephan currently
resides with his family in Memphis, TN.
Synopsis for
Seeking Self: an inner journey to healthy relationship
by Stephan McLaughlin, Jr.
Our
current state of discontent or satisfaction can be better understood
through honest and sincere self-inquiry. Seeking Self: an inner
journey to healthy relationship is a guidebook to such an
exploration. Stephan McLaughlin, Jr. offers Five Ways that anyone,
whether motivated by suffering or curiosity, can follow to learn,
heal and grow. These Ways show us a path to a deeper relationship
with our real Self and can ultimately help us establish a
cornerstone for growing more meaningful relationships with other
people.
Simply stated, healthy relationship begins with being more aware of
Self and the impact of our personal beliefs and choices. The reader
is gently awakened to the significance of the little things in our
lives, our words, actions, reactions, beliefs, assumptions, feelings
and needs, and how these come together to form our relationship
experiences and consequences.
With refreshing candor, humility, and clarity, Stephan McLaughlin
shares his own story of healing and transformation. Anyone who has
sought to discover their own identity, overcome addiction, or find
happiness in relationship with others will be able to identify with
and benefit from this inner journey. The relationship skills and
tools that Stephan presents are simple and profound. More
importantly, they work! One’s entire life and relationships can
change for the good by applying the experience, strength, and hope
found within the pages of this wonderful book.
Without blame or shame Stephan inspires us to claim our woundedness
and consider the nurturing and healing choices that helped him
create more fulfilling and joyful relationships in his own life. The
intention of Seeking Self: an inner journey to healthy relationship
is to share these gifts with each reader so they too can know Self
in a healthy, loving way and begin to experience the inner joy and
harmony they desire and deserve.
Media
Endorsements
“Truth is a powerful antidote for incorrect information. This
wonderful book is filled with truth. Read it, use it, and discover a
new perspective about who you are and who you could be.”
John W. James, author of The Grief Recovery Handbook and
When Children Grieve
“I love the 5 Ways of making healthy relationships! They are simple
yet profound; a road map to guide us on the incredible human
journey. Thank you, Stephan, for showing us what is truly possible
when we realize that touching others comes through knowing self.”
Louise Diamond, author of The Peace Book: 108 Simple Ways to Make
a More Peaceful World
“If you are out of touch with the wonder and lovability of your true
self, this book provides a map and guidebook to help you on a
remarkable journey of discovery.”
Don Jones, author of Wisdom For The Journey and Leader Chair
of The Mankind Project
“Some books are tools. Some books are toolboxes. Seeking Self
is just such a box. In it you will find enough information, insight,
and inspiration to build or renovate your life. Open this box/book
and you will see what I mean.”
John Lee, author of The Flying Boy and Courting A Woman’s
Soul
NEWS RELEASE
Contact: Sharaze Colley
Tel: (901) 320-9179
Fax: (901) 320-3062
Email:
sharaze@healfoundation.org
For Immediate Release...
A Handbook for Lifelong Learners
Seeking Self an inner journey to healthy relationship
MEMPHIS: All human beings yearn to understand why they feel the way
they feel. Awakening to the emotions happening inside helps us work
through issues, unkind words and actions, and explain choices that
prevent our growth.
In the search for Self, we often turn to self-help seminars,
workshops, and books that are filled with should's, ought-to's, and
how-to instructions. Lifelong learners understand that personal
growth happens deep within the core of our being, not just a simple
change in habits. Through careful, conscious attention to how we use
our power, to how we respond to our feelings and needs, and how we
connect emotionally with our Self, we can discover ways to align
with our highest potential and create the love and harmony we wish
to experience.
Seeking Self is a gentle guide that offers 5 Ways for the reader to
discover who they really are and to understand how the choices they
make can create the consequences, love, and happiness they wish to
experience. Through this discovery, they come to know Self in the
context of a loving and nurturing relationship, one that prepares
them to interact with others in more healthy ways.
Author Stephan McLaughlin, Jr., has been on the journey of Self
discovery for over 20 years. He is able to reach his audience
through an open and honest disclosure of his personal story, and how
his choices created such dis-ease and dissatisfaction in his life
that he surrendered to new ways of thinking, behaving, and living.
Only by changing the very nature of his response to life's
challenges was he able to experience peace and love as never before.
Stephan's story is his gift to others who seek to create more loving
and nurturing relationships and interactions in their life and shift
to a love-centered way of being.
ISBN: 0-9661575-2-4
To order contact:
HEAL Foundation Press
PO Box 241209
Memphis, TN 38124
Tel: (901) 320-9179
Fax: (901) 320-3062
email:
info@healfoundation.org
URL:
www.healfoundation.org
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