Dr. Bob Weathers

The first part of the title of this book carries a paradox. Comfortably numb. It names something many of us know intimately, even if we do not always admit it. We want comfort. To be numb is to be protected from pain, at least for a while. But it also means being protected from joy. From intimacy. From vitality. From the full ache and wonder of being human.

Addiction offers comfort. That is part of its power. It works, at least at first. Then, over time, what once brought relief begins to take hostages. So the question becomes: How do we move from being comfortably numb to being fully alive? That is the heart of this conversation.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers

If Volume I of this series -- "From Comfortably Numb to Fully Alive" -- is a distilled clinical, personal, and recovery-based reflection on how addiction works and how recovery restores aliveness, this Volume II serves as a contemplative Christian deepening of the same journey, asking how the Gospel illuminates addiction, stress, shame, mercy, nourishment, and return.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers with Guy du Plessis, Dr. Derek Tollefson, & Kevin Webb

Recently released on Cambridge University Press: the first workbook written for individuals progressing through the Recovery Resilience Program, a person-centered, strength- and resiliency-based relapse prevention and recovery-oriented intervention designed for individuals in addiction recovery.

Please see also this book’s accompanying volume, also recently published: a facilitator’s guide geared specifically toward healthcare professionals and addiction recovery workers.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers with Guy du Plessis, Dr. Derrik Tollefson, & Kevin Webb

Recently released on Cambridge University Press: a facilitator’s guide — geared specifically toward healthcare professionals and addiction recovery workers — to aid individuals progressing through the Recovery Resilience Program, a person-centered, strength- and resiliency-based relapse prevention and recovery-oriented intervention designed for individuals healing from addiction.

Please see also this book’s accompanying workbook for clients, also recently published on Cambridge University Press.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Stanley Block & Guy du Plessis
Foreword by Dr. Bob Weathers

Seeking treatment for substance abuse or addiction is half the battle—staying sober is the other. In this important book, physician Stanley Block and addiction specialist Guy du Plessis present a powerful, easy-to-use program for overcoming addiction utilizing the mind-body bridging modality.

Certified as an evidence-based intervention by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and listed on the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs (NREPP).

Available in paperback or Kindle.

John Dupuy & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I embarked on a journey to carefully meditate – in an approach grounded in the age-old monastic practice of lectio divina (or holy reading) – in this case, on the photographic images supplied nearly daily by this book’s first author, John Dupuy. I imagined at the very beginning that I might cull thirty (an even month’s worth) of my favorite images from John’s prolific output; then reflect poetically on each in more detail; this followed respectively by practical applications and suggestions for you, the reader. What you have now in front of you – for your own lectio divina – is the fruit of that joining…

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Steven Beazley & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I set out on a mission to carefully meditate on the text of the doctoral dissertation written nearly three decades earlier by this book's first author, Dr. Steven Beazley. Thus began my second, in-depth journey through Steven’s work – the first was all those years ago, as his dissertation chair in the university. Here then you will find an in-depth exploration -- starting with Steven's penetrating observations, along with the poetry, music, and reader exercises they evoked in me -- of "silence and the space between" as a primary language of the heart that we would all do well to reclaim and incorporate into our daily lives.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. James Finley & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I began in earnest to gradually work my way through the entire range of ideas supplied throughout the original doctoral dissertation by this book’s first author, my beloved friend Jim Finley. The title of Jim’s thesis was: The Contemplative Dimensions of Psychotherapy: A Transpersonal Approach. I could not imagine at the very beginning how many of my own personal journal entries (including haiku poetry, exercise invitations, and accompanying music) I might cull from Jim’s rich thoughts. As it turns out, there were 155 journal entries in total. I hope you enjoy them, especially Jim’s profound insights!

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Bob Weathers

This short volume of my own original poetry, followed by guided invitations to your own private journaling and sharing with others, is offered in humblest and most loving gratitude for my lifelong counselor and personal mentor, Donald Sloggy. Don’s unutterably profound influence on every aspect of my life informs each of these following haiku poems of mine.

You will see that each poem, in haiku form, is followed by a suggested exercise, then substantial blank space provided immediately underneath. Here I encourage you to set down any response which might organically arise within you, in whatever medium most calls to you: a visual image perhaps; a poignant memory in prose narrative; yes, and maybe even your own haiku poem. This little book, after all, is not meant to be simply read. As soulful Rumi reminds us: "Let the beauty we love be what we do."

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Bob Weathers & Dr. Kevin Fujimoto

My dear, lifelong friend, Kevin, and I collaborated on this book -- combining my love for music and poetry (his, too), plus Kevin's incredibly keen eye for beauty. His original paintings, and then his tying those images to my own, original poetry, are featured throughout. Add to that, then, my linking original music I've composed. Our subtitle ("Creative Exercises") means this book is intended for you, the reader to join in, as well, by means of personal reflections and daily responses evoked by Kevin's and my entries.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers &
Amanda Tate, MSW

My daughter, Amanda, and I collaborated on this initial book -- combining my love for music and poetry (hers, too), plus Amanda's incredibly keen eye for beauty. The book is intended for the reader to join in, as well, by means of personal reflections and daily exercises. Each entry is linked to an original musical piece, composed specifically for this project. A co-created bounty is what we envisioned here...Enjoy!

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers

This short volume of my own original poetry, followed by guided invitations to your own private journaling and sharing with others, invites you to read slowly, then respond, as you feel prompted: writing it down, or painting it, or rendering it in song.

The aim here is to encourage each of us to set aside what time we might each day -- for spontaneous creation, which after all, is what the soul or heart within each individual most wants to be and do.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Edward Teyber, Dr. Faith McClure, & Dr. Bob Weathers, plus others

Master clinicians from a wide variety of different theoretical and practice orientations offer candid insights into all aspects of shame, including how it develops, how it relates to psychological difficulties, how to recognize it, and how to help clients resolve it.

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Mario Jacoby
Translation by Dr. Bob Weathers

Infant research observations and hypotheses have raised serious questions about previous mainstream psychoanalytic theories of earliest childhood development.

In this book, Mario Jacoby shows how early emotional exchange processes, though becoming superimposed in adult life by rational control and various defenses, remain operative and become reactivated in situations of intimacy.

Available in hardcover or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers

The first part of the title of this book carries a paradox. Comfortably numb. It names something many of us know intimately, even if we do not always admit it. We want comfort. To be numb is to be protected from pain, at least for a while. But it also means being protected from joy. From intimacy. From vitality. From the full ache and wonder of being human.

Addiction offers comfort. That is part of its power. It works, at least at first. Then, over time, what once brought relief begins to take hostages. So the question becomes: How do we move from being comfortably numb to being fully alive? That is the heart of this conversation.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers

If Volume I of this series -- "From Comfortably Numb to Fully Alive" -- is a distilled clinical, personal, and recovery-based reflection on how addiction works and how recovery restores aliveness, this Volume II serves as a contemplative Christian deepening of the same journey, asking how the Gospel illuminates addiction, stress, shame, mercy, nourishment, and return.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers with Guy du Plessis, Dr. Derek Tollefson, & Kevin Webb

Recently released on Cambridge University Press: the first workbook written for individuals progressing through the Recovery Resilience Program, a person-centered, strength- and resiliency-based relapse prevention and recovery-oriented intervention designed for individuals in addiction recovery.

Please see also this book’s accompanying volume, also recently published: a facilitator’s guide geared specifically toward healthcare professionals and addiction recovery workers.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers with Guy du Plessis, Dr. Derrik Tollefson, & Kevin Webb

Recently released on Cambridge University Press: a facilitator’s guide — geared specifically toward healthcare professionals and addiction recovery workers — to aid individuals progressing through the Recovery Resilience Program, a person-centered, strength- and resiliency-based relapse prevention and recovery-oriented intervention designed for individuals healing from addiction.

Please see also this book’s accompanying workbook for clients, also recently published on Cambridge University Press.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Stanley Block & Guy du Plessis
Foreword by Dr. Bob Weathers

Seeking treatment for substance abuse or addiction is half the battle—staying sober is the other. In this important book, physician Stanley Block and addiction specialist Guy du Plessis present a powerful, easy-to-use program for overcoming addiction utilizing the mind-body bridging modality.

Certified as an evidence-based intervention by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and listed on the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs (NREPP).

Available in paperback or Kindle.

John Dupuy & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I embarked on a journey to carefully meditate – in an approach grounded in the age-old monastic practice of lectio divina (or holy reading) – in this case, on the photographic images supplied nearly daily by this book’s first author, John Dupuy. I imagined at the very beginning that I might cull thirty (an even month’s worth) of my favorite images from John’s prolific output; then reflect poetically on each in more detail; this followed respectively by practical applications and suggestions for you, the reader. What you have now in front of you – for your own lectio divina – is the fruit of that joining…

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Steven Beazley & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I set out on a mission to carefully meditate on the text of the doctoral dissertation written nearly three decades earlier by this book's first author, Dr. Steven Beazley. Thus began my second, in-depth journey through Steven’s work – the first was all those years ago, as his dissertation chair in the university. Here then you will find an in-depth exploration -- starting with Steven's penetrating observations, along with the poetry, music, and reader exercises they evoked in me -- of "silence and the space between" as a primary language of the heart that we would all do well to reclaim and incorporate into our daily lives.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. James Finley & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I began in earnest to gradually work my way through the entire range of ideas supplied throughout the original doctoral dissertation by this book’s first author, my beloved friend Jim Finley. The title of Jim’s thesis was: The Contemplative Dimensions of Psychotherapy: A Transpersonal Approach. I could not imagine at the very beginning how many of my own personal journal entries (including haiku poetry, exercise invitations, and accompanying music) I might cull from Jim’s rich thoughts. As it turns out, there were 155 journal entries in total. I hope you enjoy them, especially Jim’s profound insights!

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Bob Weathers

This short volume of my own original poetry, followed by guided invitations to your own private journaling and sharing with others, is offered in humblest and most loving gratitude for my lifelong counselor and personal mentor, Donald Sloggy. Don’s unutterably profound influence on every aspect of my life informs each of these following haiku poems of mine.

You will see that each poem, in haiku form, is followed by a suggested exercise, then substantial blank space provided immediately underneath. Here I encourage you to set down any response which might organically arise within you, in whatever medium most calls to you: a visual image perhaps; a poignant memory in prose narrative; yes, and maybe even your own haiku poem. This little book, after all, is not meant to be simply read. As soulful Rumi reminds us: "Let the beauty we love be what we do."

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Bob Weathers & Dr. Kevin Fujimoto

My dear, lifelong friend, Kevin, and I collaborated on this book -- combining my love for music and poetry (his, too), plus Kevin's incredibly keen eye for beauty. His original paintings, and then his tying those images to my own, original poetry, are featured throughout. Add to that, then, my linking original music I've composed. Our subtitle ("Creative Exercises") means this book is intended for you, the reader to join in, as well, by means of personal reflections and daily responses evoked by Kevin's and my entries.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers &
Amanda Tate, MSW

My daughter, Amanda, and I collaborated on this initial book -- combining my love for music and poetry (hers, too), plus Amanda's incredibly keen eye for beauty. The book is intended for the reader to join in, as well, by means of personal reflections and daily exercises. Each entry is linked to an original musical piece, composed specifically for this project. A co-created bounty is what we envisioned here...Enjoy!

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers

This short volume of my own original poetry, followed by guided invitations to your own private journaling and sharing with others, invites you to read slowly, then respond, as you feel prompted: writing it down, or painting it, or rendering it in song.

The aim here is to encourage each of us to set aside what time we might each day -- for spontaneous creation, which after all, is what the soul or heart within each individual most wants to be and do.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Edward Teyber, Dr. Faith McClure, & Dr. Bob Weathers, plus others

Master clinicians from a wide variety of different theoretical and practice orientations offer candid insights into all aspects of shame, including how it develops, how it relates to psychological difficulties, how to recognize it, and how to help clients resolve it.

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Mario Jacoby
Translation by Dr. Bob Weathers

Infant research observations and hypotheses have raised serious questions about previous mainstream psychoanalytic theories of earliest childhood development.

In this book, Mario Jacoby shows how early emotional exchange processes, though becoming superimposed in adult life by rational control and various defenses, remain operative and become reactivated in situations of intimacy.

Available in hardcover or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers

The first part of the title of this book carries a paradox. Comfortably numb. It names something many of us know intimately, even if we do not always admit it. We want comfort. To be numb is to be protected from pain, at least for a while. But it also means being protected from joy. From intimacy. From vitality. From the full ache and wonder of being human.

Addiction offers comfort. That is part of its power. It works, at least at first. Then, over time, what once brought relief begins to take hostages. So the question becomes: How do we move from being comfortably numb to being fully alive? That is the heart of this conversation.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers

If Volume I of this series -- "From Comfortably Numb to Fully Alive" -- is a distilled clinical, personal, and recovery-based reflection on how addiction works and how recovery restores aliveness, this Volume II serves as a contemplative Christian deepening of the same journey, asking how the Gospel illuminates addiction, stress, shame, mercy, nourishment, and return.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers with Guy du Plessis, Dr. Derek Tollefson, & Kevin Webb

Recently released on Cambridge University Press: the first workbook written for individuals progressing through the Recovery Resilience Program, a person-centered, strength- and resiliency-based relapse prevention and recovery-oriented intervention designed for individuals in addiction recovery.

Please see also this book’s accompanying volume, also recently published: a facilitator’s guide geared specifically toward healthcare professionals and addiction recovery workers.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers with Guy du Plessis, Dr. Derrik Tollefson, & Kevin Webb

Recently released on Cambridge University Press: a facilitator’s guide — geared specifically toward healthcare professionals and addiction recovery workers — to aid individuals progressing through the Recovery Resilience Program, a person-centered, strength- and resiliency-based relapse prevention and recovery-oriented intervention designed for individuals healing from addiction.

Please see also this book’s accompanying workbook for clients, also recently published on Cambridge University Press.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Stanley Block & Guy du Plessis
Foreword by Dr. Bob Weathers

Seeking treatment for substance abuse or addiction is half the battle—staying sober is the other. In this important book, physician Stanley Block and addiction specialist Guy du Plessis present a powerful, easy-to-use program for overcoming addiction utilizing the mind-body bridging modality.

Certified as an evidence-based intervention by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and listed on the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs (NREPP).

Available in paperback or Kindle.

John Dupuy & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I embarked on a journey to carefully meditate – in an approach grounded in the age-old monastic practice of lectio divina (or holy reading) – in this case, on the photographic images supplied nearly daily by this book’s first author, John Dupuy. I imagined at the very beginning that I might cull thirty (an even month’s worth) of my favorite images from John’s prolific output; then reflect poetically on each in more detail; this followed respectively by practical applications and suggestions for you, the reader. What you have now in front of you – for your own lectio divina – is the fruit of that joining…

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Steven Beazley & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I set out on a mission to carefully meditate on the text of the doctoral dissertation written nearly three decades earlier by this book's first author, Dr. Steven Beazley. Thus began my second, in-depth journey through Steven’s work – the first was all those years ago, as his dissertation chair in the university. Here then you will find an in-depth exploration -- starting with Steven's penetrating observations, along with the poetry, music, and reader exercises they evoked in me -- of "silence and the space between" as a primary language of the heart that we would all do well to reclaim and incorporate into our daily lives.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. James Finley & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I began in earnest to gradually work my way through the entire range of ideas supplied throughout the original doctoral dissertation by this book’s first author, my beloved friend Jim Finley. The title of Jim’s thesis was: The Contemplative Dimensions of Psychotherapy: A Transpersonal Approach. I could not imagine at the very beginning how many of my own personal journal entries (including haiku poetry, exercise invitations, and accompanying music) I might cull from Jim’s rich thoughts. As it turns out, there were 155 journal entries in total. I hope you enjoy them, especially Jim’s profound insights!

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Bob Weathers

This short volume of my own original poetry, followed by guided invitations to your own private journaling and sharing with others, is offered in humblest and most loving gratitude for my lifelong counselor and personal mentor, Donald Sloggy. Don’s unutterably profound influence on every aspect of my life informs each of these following haiku poems of mine.

You will see that each poem, in haiku form, is followed by a suggested exercise, then substantial blank space provided immediately underneath. Here I encourage you to set down any response which might organically arise within you, in whatever medium most calls to you: a visual image perhaps; a poignant memory in prose narrative; yes, and maybe even your own haiku poem. This little book, after all, is not meant to be simply read. As soulful Rumi reminds us: "Let the beauty we love be what we do."

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Bob Weathers & Dr. Kevin Fujimoto

My dear, lifelong friend, Kevin, and I collaborated on this book -- combining my love for music and poetry (his, too), plus Kevin's incredibly keen eye for beauty. His original paintings, and then his tying those images to my own, original poetry, are featured throughout. Add to that, then, my linking original music I've composed. Our subtitle ("Creative Exercises") means this book is intended for you, the reader to join in, as well, by means of personal reflections and daily responses evoked by Kevin's and my entries.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers &
Amanda Tate, MSW

My daughter, Amanda, and I collaborated on this initial book -- combining my love for music and poetry (hers, too), plus Amanda's incredibly keen eye for beauty. The book is intended for the reader to join in, as well, by means of personal reflections and daily exercises. Each entry is linked to an original musical piece, composed specifically for this project. A co-created bounty is what we envisioned here...Enjoy!

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers

This short volume of my own original poetry, followed by guided invitations to your own private journaling and sharing with others, invites you to read slowly, then respond, as you feel prompted: writing it down, or painting it, or rendering it in song.

The aim here is to encourage each of us to set aside what time we might each day -- for spontaneous creation, which after all, is what the soul or heart within each individual most wants to be and do.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Edward Teyber, Dr. Faith McClure, & Dr. Bob Weathers, plus others

Master clinicians from a wide variety of different theoretical and practice orientations offer candid insights into all aspects of shame, including how it develops, how it relates to psychological difficulties, how to recognize it, and how to help clients resolve it.

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Mario Jacoby
Translation by Dr. Bob Weathers

Infant research observations and hypotheses have raised serious questions about previous mainstream psychoanalytic theories of earliest childhood development.

In this book, Mario Jacoby shows how early emotional exchange processes, though becoming superimposed in adult life by rational control and various defenses, remain operative and become reactivated in situations of intimacy.

Available in hardcover or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers

The first part of the title of this book carries a paradox. Comfortably numb. It names something many of us know intimately, even if we do not always admit it. We want comfort. To be numb is to be protected from pain, at least for a while. But it also means being protected from joy. From intimacy. From vitality. From the full ache and wonder of being human.

Addiction offers comfort. That is part of its power. It works, at least at first. Then, over time, what once brought relief begins to take hostages. So the question becomes: How do we move from being comfortably numb to being fully alive? That is the heart of this conversation.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers

If Volume I of this series -- "From Comfortably Numb to Fully Alive" -- is a distilled clinical, personal, and recovery-based reflection on how addiction works and how recovery restores aliveness, this Volume II serves as a contemplative Christian deepening of the same journey, asking how the Gospel illuminates addiction, stress, shame, mercy, nourishment, and return.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers with Guy du Plessis, Dr. Derek Tollefson, & Kevin Webb

Recently released on Cambridge University Press: the first workbook written for individuals progressing through the Recovery Resilience Program, a person-centered, strength- and resiliency-based relapse prevention and recovery-oriented intervention designed for individuals in addiction recovery.

Please see also this book’s accompanying volume, also recently published: a facilitator’s guide geared specifically toward healthcare professionals and addiction recovery workers.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers with Guy du Plessis, Dr. Derrik Tollefson, & Kevin Webb

Recently released on Cambridge University Press: a facilitator’s guide — geared specifically toward healthcare professionals and addiction recovery workers — to aid individuals progressing through the Recovery Resilience Program, a person-centered, strength- and resiliency-based relapse prevention and recovery-oriented intervention designed for individuals healing from addiction.

Please see also this book’s accompanying workbook for clients, also recently published on Cambridge University Press.

Available in paperback or Kindle.

Dr. Stanley Block & Guy du Plessis
Foreword by Dr. Bob Weathers

Seeking treatment for substance abuse or addiction is half the battle—staying sober is the other. In this important book, physician Stanley Block and addiction specialist Guy du Plessis present a powerful, easy-to-use program for overcoming addiction utilizing the mind-body bridging modality.

Certified as an evidence-based intervention by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and listed on the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs (NREPP).

Available in paperback or Kindle.

John Dupuy & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I embarked on a journey to carefully meditate – in an approach grounded in the age-old monastic practice of lectio divina (or holy reading) – in this case, on the photographic images supplied nearly daily by this book’s first author, John Dupuy. I imagined at the very beginning that I might cull thirty (an even month’s worth) of my favorite images from John’s prolific output; then reflect poetically on each in more detail; this followed respectively by practical applications and suggestions for you, the reader. What you have now in front of you – for your own lectio divina – is the fruit of that joining…

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Steven Beazley & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I set out on a mission to carefully meditate on the text of the doctoral dissertation written nearly three decades earlier by this book's first author, Dr. Steven Beazley. Thus began my second, in-depth journey through Steven’s work – the first was all those years ago, as his dissertation chair in the university. Here then you will find an in-depth exploration -- starting with Steven's penetrating observations, along with the poetry, music, and reader exercises they evoked in me -- of "silence and the space between" as a primary language of the heart that we would all do well to reclaim and incorporate into our daily lives.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. James Finley & Dr. Bob Weathers

As this book’s second author, I began in earnest to gradually work my way through the entire range of ideas supplied throughout the original doctoral dissertation by this book’s first author, my beloved friend Jim Finley. The title of Jim’s thesis was: The Contemplative Dimensions of Psychotherapy: A Transpersonal Approach. I could not imagine at the very beginning how many of my own personal journal entries (including haiku poetry, exercise invitations, and accompanying music) I might cull from Jim’s rich thoughts. As it turns out, there were 155 journal entries in total. I hope you enjoy them, especially Jim’s profound insights!

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Bob Weathers

This short volume of my own original poetry, followed by guided invitations to your own private journaling and sharing with others, is offered in humblest and most loving gratitude for my lifelong counselor and personal mentor, Donald Sloggy. Don’s unutterably profound influence on every aspect of my life informs each of these following haiku poems of mine.

You will see that each poem, in haiku form, is followed by a suggested exercise, then substantial blank space provided immediately underneath. Here I encourage you to set down any response which might organically arise within you, in whatever medium most calls to you: a visual image perhaps; a poignant memory in prose narrative; yes, and maybe even your own haiku poem. This little book, after all, is not meant to be simply read. As soulful Rumi reminds us: "Let the beauty we love be what we do."

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Bob Weathers & Dr. Kevin Fujimoto

My dear, lifelong friend, Kevin, and I collaborated on this book -- combining my love for music and poetry (his, too), plus Kevin's incredibly keen eye for beauty. His original paintings, and then his tying those images to my own, original poetry, are featured throughout. Add to that, then, my linking original music I've composed. Our subtitle ("Creative Exercises") means this book is intended for you, the reader to join in, as well, by means of personal reflections and daily responses evoked by Kevin's and my entries.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers &
Amanda Tate, MSW

My daughter, Amanda, and I collaborated on this initial book -- combining my love for music and poetry (hers, too), plus Amanda's incredibly keen eye for beauty. The book is intended for the reader to join in, as well, by means of personal reflections and daily exercises. Each entry is linked to an original musical piece, composed specifically for this project. A co-created bounty is what we envisioned here...Enjoy!

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Bob Weathers

This short volume of my own original poetry, followed by guided invitations to your own private journaling and sharing with others, invites you to read slowly, then respond, as you feel prompted: writing it down, or painting it, or rendering it in song.

The aim here is to encourage each of us to set aside what time we might each day -- for spontaneous creation, which after all, is what the soul or heart within each individual most wants to be and do.

Available in hardcover, paperback, or Kindle.

Dr. Edward Teyber, Dr. Faith McClure, & Dr. Bob Weathers, plus others

Master clinicians from a wide variety of different theoretical and practice orientations offer candid insights into all aspects of shame, including how it develops, how it relates to psychological difficulties, how to recognize it, and how to help clients resolve it.

Available in hardcover.

Dr. Mario Jacoby
Translation by Dr. Bob Weathers

Infant research observations and hypotheses have raised serious questions about previous mainstream psychoanalytic theories of earliest childhood development.

In this book, Mario Jacoby shows how early emotional exchange processes, though becoming superimposed in adult life by rational control and various defenses, remain operative and become reactivated in situations of intimacy.

Available in hardcover or Kindle.