Books

The Present: Finding Zoe: A Spiritual Odyssey, Novel

Finding Zoe is in the 3rd draft editing process and I look forward to getting it published. This book has been on my heart and mind for years and only recently found its way to become a book. I wanted to write a story that speaks to an undying search for greater love, fulfillment, and meaning and managed to write it thanks to Joe Bunting and Sarah Gribble in an online course from The Write Practice called Write a Book in 100 Days.

The book beings with Eve, a young, depressed career-less woman, recently fired from her 3rd shift assembly line factory job, takes off on a journey around the country to find some direction and purpose for her going-nowhere life. Adopted at birth, she has trouble with her identity, feeling loved, and seeks something better than cutting herself to help her feel whole.

She meets a restaurant owner, whose falling-apart life was apparently and somewhat strangely turned around in just a few days by an innkeeper who owns a Bed and Breakfast in the Alleghany National Forest on Route 666 called The Almighty Inn. He suggests, that since Eve is heading in that direction, she might stop in and stay a couple of days with Josh, the owner, and see if Josh can help her as he did for him.

Stopping at a small church in Endeavor, PA to get directions to the B&B, she meets the caretaker and learns about this strange guy Josh who seems to know some remarkable things about life and is indeed someone who has helped many people over the years, but wonders if Eve’s character is strong enough to endure the healing process needed for the changes she seeks.

Eve arrives at The Almighty Inn with some fear and concern and spends what seems a lifetime learning from Josh who challenges her with one adventure after another, most without ever leaving the property.

Under the emotional strain of breaking, she manages to bear her soul to Joshua. Eve hits her highest highs and lowest lows and finds that belief is optional and that experience is everything. This opens the door to the possibility of emerging from her depressed state

In this journey, everyone and everything is what she must learn to love, no exceptions, to reach that level of fulfillment she seeks. The result is a story of one woman’s search for love that ends by falling in love with herself.

This book has something of timeless value to offer and I am excited to finally pursue this dream and share it with the world.


365 Days of Parenting Inspiration: A Yearlong Journey Into Parenting and Love

Also in process is a daily devotional-type (non-religious/non-spiritual) book on love and parenting titled 365 Days of Parenting Inspiration: A Year-Long Journey into Parenting365 Book and Love. This book is in the stages of being compiled from material that was created for The Post Institute’s love-based family-centered approach for parenting foster, adopted, and diagnosed children. The essence of this methodology, based on science, research, and psychology, is unconditional love.

Shortly after learning about this approach in a parenting boot camp with Bryan Post back in 2005, (we were already in the throes of fostering and had already adopted our first foster child), I had a heart-opening experience that endeared me to a unique way of not only bringing up challenging children who came from hard places, but that this approach to relationships works with typical biological children as well as with employees, bosses and everyone in between.

I returned to work the following Monday where I managed fourteen people and found, that this way of relating to people had a profound effect not only on them but on me as well. Life has never been the same. This book draws from the fount of wisdom from Bryan Post and Kristi Saul, the founders of The Post Institute, along with other mentors and contributors such as Pat O’Brien, Kirk Martin, the late Dr. Karin Purvis, Dr. Bruce Perry to name just a few. Included are inspiration ideas gathered over fifteen years of working with this love-based family-centered approach, and making daily applications in some of the most difficult circumstances of parenting other people’s children.


Unconditional Love: Essays on Parenting in a New Paradigm for All Parents, Especially for Parents of Foster, Adopted, and Diagnosed Children

In addition, a compilation of “the best of” my articles in a book of parenting essays titled (working title) Unconditional LoveEssays on Parenting in a New Paradigm for All parents of Typical, Foster, Adopted, and Diagnosed Children.

Much of this came from the training material and two books (Bryan Post’s From Fear to Love: Your Essential Guide to Parenting Adopted and Foster Children and his classic The Great Behavior Breakdown) that my wife Susan and I were published while we were partners in The Post Institute for ten years.

I hope to add my two books to the “classic” category as well. Perhaps a bit optimistic maybe …


David Book StackThe Future:

My love for stories that change lives has, for as long as I can remember, always been my favorite. Authors such as Og Mandino, Andy Andrews, Dan Millman, PaulCoehlo, James Redfield, Ken Blanchard are just a few that have made an impact on me.

I have a few more books in this genre that I hope to write once I get these published. I am always on the lookout for these types of books, so if you would like to recommend one or more, please do.

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