How I Learned to Love the World: My Epic Journey from Solving Equations to Healing Hearts Through Writing, Therapy, and Memoirs

After six years of chasing the empty promises of the sixties counterculture, Jerry returned to Pennsylvania, where he soon realized there was more to becoming an adult than just getting a job. He had to overcome the mental darkness and complexity that had eroded his connection with humanity. Escaping his demons became the quest of a lifetime. On that journey, he pursued spirituality, self-help, and therapy. He joined groups, took classes, read books and learned from mentors. To absorb it all, he wrote his insights and organized them. Teaching others what he’d learned helped him escape the gravitational pull of his own thoughts. His breakthrough came when he discovered memoirs. Each one revealed the author’s inner world, so instead of being stuck inside his own mind, he could explore and connect with others. In his growing passion for the genre, he began teaching the art of turning life into story. In each class or group, he found a community of writers eager to understand themselves and each other. Through the long lens of the memoir genre, he could see how his life played out against the backdrop of changing times. During the sixties, when everyone was supposedly grooving together, he was falling part. To pull himself back together he pursued the seemingly individualistic claims of self improvement, which opened his heart to the love all around him.
ASIN: 0977189589
VSKU: BVV.0977189589.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Waxler, Jerry
Binding: Paperback
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