{"product_id":"9781440171185","title":"There Is a Place Where We Meet: (The Poetic Journey of a Psychotherapist)","description":"After over 25 years of working with people, and attempting to help them, as a psychotherapist, trainer, and teacher, I have not only walked through the joys and struggles of my own life experiences, and those of family and friends, but I have had the benefits and privilege of learning and living vicariously, while listening to untold hours with literally thousands of clients during their own struggling and searching. I have been encouraged by and privileged to watch the healing, growth, and transcendence from life's struggles of thousands of people, and I have felt pain and sadness in witnessing the deterioration, resistance and self-destruction of countless others. I have come to believe that the primary determining factor of whether one experiences transcendence or deterioration is a determined willingness to go through the struggles, and to develop an attitude: ''¦that looks courageously into the eye of the storm, and says assuredly: 'You will not break me'¦''\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poems are captured moments of my own experiences, and reflections on the journeys of others, as we have separately and together enjoyed the sunrises and sunsets, while sometimes weathering the storms in between. May these poems help you better understand yourself and your fellow travelers, and no matter how difficult or deep your own abyss of darkness, may you always find Hope!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE RHYTHM OF LIFE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday could not have been \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithout yesterday's haunting wind,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlowing by and changing my life,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStirring up realities and other sundry strife. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe happenings of this hour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWould rightfully have no power,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWithout the joys and pains of past,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShaping and creating me at last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHad even one conversation been altered,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr one person or event faltered,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis moment in which I now breathe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWould not now be, as is, conceived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a Great Choreographer, somewhere, someplace,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho orchestrates my moves and your every pace,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatching our steps in infinite, perfect time;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen, this dance, once confusing starts to rhyme...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"iUniverse, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134471880944,"sku":"9781440171185","price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781440171185_p0.jpg?v=1763785523","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781440171185","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}