Christopher D. O'Rear
About thirty years ago, I had a profound encounter with a friend at a time in my life when I felt unloved and unlovable. That experience, outlined in the introduction to the book, was a huge turning point in my life and I began to try figure out how I could be a friend like that to others – both personally and professionally. In my professional practice of psychotherapy, I also began to realize that many people do not have deep and meaningful relationships with others because they have not learned or experienced the things necessary to make better connections. Subsequently, so many people feel overwhelmingly lonely despite being surrounded by people daily or connected to so many via the internet. I wanted to share things that I have learned through training as a therapist, my years of being a therapist, and my own personal journey that I thought would help people form more meaningful connections with themselves and with others. Ultimately, I see this connection with self and others as spiritual experience that connects us with the divine. My hope is that people will learn something of themselves in this book and learn how to better connect with others so that their relationships feel more meaningful. I hope that people will find this book one piece of a larger antidote for the epidemic of loneliness that so many people are experiencing.
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