Joseph Langen

Commonsense Wisdom for Everyday Life (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

What do you make of your everyday experiences? Do you take the time to discover their meaning and importance? Often we are too busy and decide we will think about them later. I have a tendency to add them to my list of life's mysteries and hope to reflect on them when I have time.

Whatever happens in our lives ripples out to affect everyone around us and sometimes people far away from us. We have an opportunity to influence the rest of the world on a daily basis. Commonsense Wisdom for Everyday Life offers reflections on the thoughts, actions and relationships we all experience on a daily basis. We seldom stop to consider what we think, do and share with others and how these intertwine our lives and the lives of those around us. This book gives you a chace to spend a little time thinking about where your life is going and whether you need to make any changes in the course you are taking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Joseph Langen
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781476174525
• Artikelnr.: 52344892

Autorenporträt

Personal

Born in Dunkirk, NY, he moved to Rochester, NY when his father returned from his navy duties in World War II. He considered being a priest, and spent nine years in the seminary and monastery. He was married for twenty nine years and raised three children. He is currently in a wonderful relationship and lives in Leroy, NY.

When he returned to the world at large after his monastery stay, he decided to explore psychology and switched from a philosophy major in the monastery to psychology and received his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He stayed in Buffalo to receive a master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling. Then he moved to the University of Illinois for his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology. Along the way during his training, Gowanda Psychiatric Center and Chenute Air Force Base Counseling Center gave him practical experience.

Work Life

After graduating, he moved to Philadelphia where he worked for two years at Temple University Counseling Center. Next he spent two years at De La Salle In Towne, an experimental day treatment center for delinquent boys. Then he came back to Western New York and worked at Genesee County Mental Health in Batavia. Being in a rural area with limited resources, he learned to work with a great variety of people of all ages. After eleven years, he decided to return to Rochester where he grew up and took a job at DePaul Mental Health where he learned about family therapy, ending up as supervisor of the children's treatment program. By 1990, he felt ready to be more on my own and became an independent contractor at a practice in the Buffalo area. Eventually he moved the rest of the way into private practice and returned to work in Batavia. He has since retired from psychology practice and now writes full time. He also worked for three years as an AmeriCorps volunteer at GO ART! in Batavia, NY.

Writing

He began writing short stories in the 1980's for his own amusement and published one. In 1990. When he began private practice, he started writing a quarterly newsletter for his referral sources. Eventually he converted this to a biweekly newspaper column now published online as Sliding Otter News. These articles formed the basis of two of his books, Commonsense Wisdom for Everyday Life and: Navigating Life: Commonsense Reflections for the Voyage.

In light of his seminary and monastery background, he took an interes...