"Death, the ending or death of anything - is a transition, a passage. It is how you navigate this transition that will set the stage for your next beginning. The more you understand the process, the great adventure of change, transition, and death, the more you can use the experience to consciously -- with your full attention at work upon it -- create the next phase of your life, design your new reality." -- Dr. Angela Brownemiller ADVENTURES IN CHANGES, TRANSITIONS, AND DEATHS: PRIMER FOR LIFE'S MINOR AND MAJOR CHALLENGES AND PASSAGES is written for anyone who is undergoing, has undergone, or will undergo death, or a major ending or transition of any sort. This includes divorce, being fired, leaving home or having one's children leave home. It includes abrupt changes or endings such as having one's home damaged in an earthquake, experiencing an injury, or having something precious stolen. It also includes gradual but definite changes such as: changes in behavioral patterns -- shifting out of a steady or an addicted relationship to a drug, a person, a behavior; outgrowing a stage of life, a philosophy, a belief, an attitude; aging; having one's oldest friend die; or, undergoing the disease process, whether it is temporary, chronic, or terminal.

And, of course, we include the model of death with which we think we are so familiar: physical death, which is seen by many people as the ultimate of all deaths. Indeed, physical death -- fear of it, avoidance of it, viewing it as final -- is an excellent model for all the deaths, small and great deaths, that each and every one of us must endure. ...

---Dr. Angela Brownemiller, also known as Dr. Angela(R), is an author, and a journalist, social thinker, clinician, psychotherapist, trainer, and speaker. The views of Angela Brownemiller are centered on the great potential of the human mind, heart, and soul, and on the rights of all of us, who and whatever we are (or think we are). Angela Brownemiller views the human consciousness as a wealth of opportunity for exploration, insight, knowledge - and survival. For more information on her work, see DrAngela.com. A publication of Metaterra(R).