Since creating Inward Bound in 1994, Ms. Elsasser returned to school and received a master's degree in Transpersonal Psychology with studies in Religion, Philosophy and Gender from Vermont College of Norwich University. She is also trained as a family mediator. Over the years she has created numerous workshops and given several presentations to various groups including Brattleboro Retreat in Vermont, The American Heart Association's Go Red Campaign and Keene State College. She has been a presenter for Abnormal Psychology courses at a local community college, guest speaker on Portsmouth’s Public Radio, and was the host presenter of pre-screenings of The Celestine Prophecy movie in both New Hampshire and Maine. She has also performed several weddings. Her manuscript, The Missing Piece/Peace, is the result of four years of graduate research. It is a blending of her personal story, professional experience and historical research. It focuses on the loss of an actual experience of a spiritual connection to something beyond ourselves, one that is uniquely sacred to each individual. She explores why it is so difficult to shift our beliefs, how often the “truths” that have been distorted for power and control have led to that loss. And she shares some of the transformational tools that can help us experience connecting to a sense of unconditional love and deep inner peace. For some years it has been a hope to have her manuscript published. The expression, “Life is what happens while you’re making other plans” too accurately describes it’s delay. Most recently, she has been on medical leave. With increasing good health and the encouraging commentaries she has received from those who have read her work, she is hoping to focus on updating her manuscript to reflect the evolutionary shifts taking place in our paradigm. An increase in the intolerance and divisiveness of some institutionalized religions and some skepticism of the "New Age" doctrine. Citing how the "Secret" law of attraction (that you create your destiny through your thoughts) has in some ways diminished our spiritual connection. While positive thinking is powerful, this "magical" thinking often leaves a trail of guilt and failure. It denies the reality that sometimes in life the only thing we do have control over is how we respond to those things we cannot change. To do that we need to weave in the factor of a personal experience of connection to the Divine, knowing we can be negative and still be loved, afraid and feel comforted, knowing that we are never, ever truly alone. Believing that facilitating inner change is a sacred trust, Ms. Elsasser has continued to devote her professional career to using transformational tools that focus on enabling the client to experience their own inner truth. The great “ah-ha” that facilitates true inner change. “As a guide, it is both an awesome and humbling experience to witness the transformation that evolves when a client becomes enlightened from within and begins to live their life with the compass of synchronicity (meaningful coincidence). The depth of wisdom they discover is truly alchemical.” Sbe
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