Some of you may know that I created and conduct The Ah-Man Freedom Workshops, all-day sessions that address the three principals of Trust, Forgiveness and Acceptance.  This month, I’ll be focusing on each of those principals.  First up…Trust. Let’s face it; we have all experienced losing trust.  When someone we love or respect or just […]

I Am Ah-Man, Man-Heart-Trust is the result of my desire to write my memoirs.  I wrote the book after I had been sober for 10 years, and it depicts how I was able to bear my continuing life experiences – death, disease, divorce, and more – while staying connected to myself, my heart, my Ah-Man, […]

For the past few weeks, I have shared the story of my life journey; from discovering who I was and why I was here at a very young age…to losing everything due to my addictions…to rediscovering who I was. However, as exciting it was to get back in touch with who I was, it was […]

I'll pick up where I left off last week.  One morning I awoke to find I was passing blood through my urine.  I knew this was not good.  I had been on the blood thinner Coumadin since my second open heart surgery 4 years earlier.  But because of my heavy drinking (alcohol is also a […]

When we last left 18-year-old Michael, he/I had gone to an ashram in West Virginia to become a monk. A couple of years later, I left the monastery, and it gradually became apparent that I was no longer acting from the place of who I was, i.e., a spirit soul, part and parcel of God, […]

Back in 1973, I was given a book called the “Bhagavad Gita.”  I had been visiting a Hare Krishna Temple and talking to its devotees for a while, and they would tell me that I was not this body (the young man I was at the time); that I was spirit soul, meaning that the […]

A couple of weeks ago, I shared the first part of my journey of healing from the mental, emotional, physical and sexual abuse I suffered at the hands of my alcoholic parents.   It was not until I started undergoing therapy for my own alcoholism that the healing process began. Therapy was extremely important for me, […]

[In honor of Father’s Day, I’m taking a break.  Several weeks ago, I invited each of my 3 offspring to give me a day off from the blog by sharing with you a powerful memory associated with me.  Well, to paraphrase the old Meat Loaf song, “One Out of Three Ain’t Bad.”  This week, I […]

Last week, I shared the fact that I have few memories of my father prior to his becoming an active alcoholic.  Years later, when I was in rehab myself, I remember being shown pictures of alcoholics in the latter stages of cirrhosis of the liver.  It was when I saw those pictures that I began […]

I began healing from the painful memories of my Dad some 35 years after his death, and it was an incredibly powerful experience, in more ways than you can possibly imagine.  I’m going to continue a story that I began in my June newsletter.  But first, you need to know that, unlike my older siblings, […]