Of Endings and Beginnings: A Memoir of Discovery and Transformation

by Robert B Speigel, PhD Samuel Joseph (Foreword by)

Overview

Of Endings and Beginnings: A memoir of Discovery and Transformation, by Robert Speigel, is a ground breaking journey from pain to health, from places of darkness to places of light. Using his life’s story…and the story of his family…Speigel in a very personal and intimate way takes us with him as he works and grows toward a better self. The readers of this book will certainly find many, many places in Speigel’s stories for their own personal moments of ah-ha. This is an important book for all of us who want to be healthy, functional, robust people. There is much for us to learn on our journey and Robert Speigel is a good teacher.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780937977071
Publisher:	Speigel and Associates Inc
Publication date:	10/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	196
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Robert Speigel is a Clinical Social Worker with a Master's degree from the University of Michigan. He is a Board Certified Diplomate of the National Association of Social Workers, an Advanced Certified Hypnotherapist, and a Washington State Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. In addition to private practice in Seattle, WA, Rob and his wife Mary Anne are Certified Personal Transformation Intensive Trainers conducting intensive 15-day residential trauma recovery programs. Please email Rob at [e-mail] if you would like to invite him to speak to your study group.
Rabbi Samuel K. Joseph, Ph.D. is Eleanor Sinsheimer Distinguished Service Professor of Jewish Education and Leadership Development at HUC-JIR/Cincinnati, where he teaches in the rabbinical school. His special interest is how Jewish institutions and organizations, from schools to synagogues to national groups, can be most excellent as they seek to fulfill their mission and vision.

Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction This Beginning The Brit Milah The Revolutionary War Ending The forest girl Beginning The forest girl Ending Coming to Peace with My Brother The Civil War Ending A Child of the Holocaust A Word on shock Prelude to the Dachau Experience The Origin of my Beloofs Dachau: The Beginning of the split Ego Setting Up for Our Children's Beginning We Move to Seattle Cruising Altitude Flying My Lear Jet into the Mountain Back to the Mother ship Soul Practice Only the Shadow Knows Will I Ever Graduate? Joy The Holocaust Reprise Processing the Reprise Why Hypnosis? Water Babies Spirit Guide Preparing for This Ending Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

The feeling that comes through Speigel's writing is powerful, like the rise and fall of waves, and I have a sense of an invisible swell gaining force and momentum beneath the solitary buoy that is he, bobbing about in a sea of self-examination and beloof work. As the reader I don't know where he is going from moment to moment, but I know that he is on a deep and meaningful journey and that it is leading him and me somewhere... I am caught up in the current and it's where I want to be.
The rawness of the writing, the depth work being held up to the light for others to see, the personal vulnerability and authenticity being modeled, the unexpected inner/outer connections being made that while entirely personal also touches a core within each of us ... is intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually compelling."

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