Focusing Emptiness: A Mytho-Poetic Journey to the Lost Child - Softcover

Michael P. Staples

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9780997660005: Focusing Emptiness: A Mytho-Poetic Journey to the Lost Child

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ISBN 10: 0997660007 ISBN 13: 9780997660005

Publisher: Michael Staples, 2016

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Focusing Emptiness is a story about the impact a traumatic childhood can have on the way in which a life unfolds. Weaving together lived experience with the mytho-poetic language of the unconscious, it follows Michael, who in his early teens, boards a bus for one of the most dangerous places in the world: wartime Vietnam. Michael's early family drama crafted an inner world of fantasy, masking his ability to see the reality of what he has gotten himself into. His life becomes a collision course with reality...and reality will win. How does he survive himself long enough to find his way back to the lost child on the other side of his fantasies? Is it possible to reclaim and heal his damaged inner world? Focusing Emptiness is a profoundly honest exploration of wounding and repairing the inner landscape.

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About the Author:

Michael Staples holds dual licenses in Radiation Therapy and Depth Psychotherapy. He is the author of over twenty journal articles in these fields, and has worked in both large academic institutions (University of California at San Francisco, Stanford Medical Center), and in a number of private clinics and community based hospitals. In the 1970s, Michael was one of the primer U.S. writers in the martial arts field, his area of focus being Chinese martial arts. He was the author of four books; White Crane Gung-Fu (the first book about the White Crane style in English), Hop-Gar Kung-Fu (the first book about the Hop-Gar in English), Tibetan Kung-Fu, and Wushu of China (the first book about the Compulsory routine in China called Chang-Chuan, or Long-Fist). He published a little over seventy feature magazine articles, served as Chinese styles editor for one of the first Encyclopedias of martial arts. Michael is also a Psychotherapist and founder of Sonoma Psycho-Oncology, a 501c3 non-profit.

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