Ultimately all of my books are about helping you discover the real you, the transcendent treasure of your True Self, and not the surface you, the ego, that you usually refer to when you say "I," but this deeper "I."
The traditional word for this deeper, more vast you is spirit. The modern term is consciousness or awareness. Why is it important to access this real You? It is because the very nature of the real you is unshakeable unconditional no-matter-what-happens happiness, love, peace, and joy.
All of my books draw on the insights I derived from the profound spiritual experiences I’ve been blessed to have had and from my years of clinical experience working with people struggling with stress in their lives. After all, stress kills! Heart disease, cancer, and stroke are all stress-related.
These books offer inspiring stories, specific steps, tools, and techniques for transforming and ultimately transcending the pain and suffering caused by the stress gap between what is and what we would love to have happen in our lives.
Above all else, these books remind you that you are more vast than the space between stars—you are the ever-present limitless light of consciousness in which an ever-changing stream
of thoughts and feelings (the mind), sensations (the body), and perceptions of what you see, hear, touch, taste, and smell (the world) appears and disappears, arises and passes away from moment to moment . . .
while you remain like an unseen eternal sun endlessly radiating unconditional no-matter-what-happens happiness, love, peace, and joy.
8 Steps to Love: How to Return to Love When You Need It The Most—The Moment Stress & Conflict Begin
A Matter of Love: A Fascinating Journey of Finding & Fulfilling Your Divine Destiny
Words Become Flesh: How Words Hidden in Your Heart Become the Flesh of Your Life
The Space Between Stars: The Magical Space Where Stars & Miracles Are Born
The Buddha defined enlightenment as the end of suffering. It could also be said that enlightenment involves realizing that who and what we really are, our essential identity, is the light of awareness or consciousness whose very nature is love, peace, and joy.
Love Conquers Stress: Applying the 8 steps to Love to Various Stressful Situations
Love, Stress & Sex: Applying the 8 Steps to Love to Various Stressful Situations Involving Sex
Slay the Dragon—Not Each Other
To See As God Sees: A Quest for Restored Vision Becomes an Eye-Opening Adventure
Dr. Steve has been a stress specialist since 1980 when he completed his dissertation on stress and received his doctorate in clinical and child psychology from the University of Virginia.
Late in 1995, Dr. Steve had a life-changing spiritual experience and he left the clinical practice of psychology a year later. A variety of other spiritual experiences followed and he was led to study shamanic healing practices with Mayan shamans in Guatemala and Mexico, past life therapy with Dr. Roger Woolger and Dr. Brian Weiss, and spirit releasement therapy (clinical de-possession) with Dr. William Baldwin. In 1998, he founded SET (Stress Effectiveness Training) for Life Seminars. It was during this phase of his life he began to see how his shadow had been in the lead in the emotional form of a hero-rescuer-savior pattern and in the physical form of advanced glaucoma. He shares aspects of his healing journey in all of his books and a significant part of his healing journey has been and still remains the daily study and practice of A Course in Miracles whose teachings are threaded throughout his books.
Through his writings and seminars, Dr. Steve is dedicated to helping people all over the world eliminate the needless suffering and senseless evil caused by ineffective ways of handling stress and conflict.
To this end, Dr. Steve has often appeared on national television and radio. Since 1995, he has been using a Christ-based—inspired and guided by the Holy Spirit—form of the deeply relaxing ancient healing art of Reiki. With the healing power of the Holy Spirit working through him, he has helped many people here and abroad find relief from stress and stress-related pain and disease. In addition, in A Matter of Love, The Space Between Stars, Words Become Flesh, To See As God Sees and If my shadow’s in the lead that means my back is to the Light, Dr. Steve details extraordinary spiritual experiences, Reiki healings, and stories of how Reiki along with the spiritually-based therapies mentioned above have helped people suffering from paranormal stress.
In March of 2012, Dr. Steve was inducted into the Delaware Basketball Hall of Fame. It's a miracle to even have been able to play basketball after having polio at the age of seven. But he did, even receiving an offer to play in the NBA. Instead, he pursued his doctoral studies in Clinical and Child Psychology.
Dr. Steve has embarked on a mission to bring forth the integration of psychology and spirituality to all via his ongoing YouTube video series. Watch the talks here and be sure to like and subscribe.
