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Daniel A. Miller is a speaker on control and acceptance issues, and the author of Losing Control, Finding Serenity: How the Need to Control Hurts Us and How to Let It Go, The Gifts of Acceptance: Embracing People and Things as They Are, a 2018 Library Journal Best Wellness Book of the Year, and The Way of the Wave: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents. danielamiller.com

"The writing of Losing Control, Finding Serenity was a 25-year journey. Following a rapid fire series of traumatic events that shook me to the core, including an arsonist setting a fire below my son’s bedroom, a business betrayal, near bankruptcy, a natural disaster, and major surgeries to eradicate skin cancers, I purchased my first computer and began writing in a f Daniel A. Miller is a speaker on control and acceptance issues, and the author of Losing Control, Finding Serenity: How the Need to Control Hurts Us and How to Let It Go, The Gifts of Acceptance: Embracing People and Things as They Are, a 2018 Library Journal Best Wellness Book of the Year, and The Way of the Wave: Nature's Model for Navigating Life's Currents. danielamiller.com

"The writing of Losing Control, Finding Serenity was a 25-year journey. Following a rapid fire series of traumatic events that shook me to the core, including an arsonist setting a fire below my son’s bedroom, a business betrayal, near bankruptcy, a natural disaster, and major surgeries to eradicate skin cancers, I purchased my first computer and began writing in a free-flow manner in an effort to make some sense of what I had gone through. I wrote about my gripping fear, unmitigated anger and resentment, powerful compulsion to control, and obsessive worrying. I kept writing as I faced new challenges and gained additional insights as to what brought me more peace and serenity, and less stress and conflict. My writings became my personal 'self-help' guide.

"Increasingly, it became apparent to me that there existed an inverse correlation between the compulsion to control and inner peace and security. I found that when I was able to let go of control, life’s 'natural currents' were freed, and when I engaged those currents intuitively and un-forcefully, unexpected and exciting rewards were bestowed upon me in all areas of my life. Conflicts diminished. Family bonds strengthened. Intimate relations became more intimate. My creative horizons expanded. And work became more rewarding and profitable.

"My writings eventually evolved into my book about control. It is my hope and desire that the 'decontrol' tools and strategies that I propose will enable others to gain the freedom and contentment that comes when you let go of control.

"In writing the book, it became apparent to me that the best antidote for control was acceptance. I decided to explore the acceptance dynamic through research, talking with others about acceptance, and examining my own struggles and experiences with acceptance. Five years later, The Gifts of Acceptance was published. The book garnered some awards and earned a starred review on Library Journal.

I had not planned to write another book. But while moving some boxes to a storage shed during Covid, I came across 15 chapters of an unpublished book I penned in 1988 called The Wave. The book was an attempt to use ocean waves as a metaphor for aligning with our life currents with greater ease and clarity. However, I didn't then know or understand enough about the workings of the Wave to articulate the concept well.

I decided to give the book another try by writing a couple chapters. Things flowed so smoothly that nearly 40 years later, The Way of The Wave: Nature's Model of Navigating Life's Currents will be published on March 18, 2025. Because the book is more personal than the others, I decided to narrate the audio book version."

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