Today we have Steve Ryals with us again. Steve is the author of Drunk with Wonder-Awakening to the God Within.

If you missed Steve’s first interview where he goes more into how he overcame alchohol, drug and sex addictions and how his path was started to write Drunk with Wonder-Awakening the God Within. Please go to this page to listen to the first interview http://healyourselftalk.com/drunk-with-wonder-with-steve-ryals

Steve is a wonderful guest speaker and always a delight to have on Heal Yourself Talk Radio.  I always walk away from doing an interview with Steve, refreshed and feeling wonderful.  Steve is a great person and I am honored to have him on HYTR again. Today he taught me to reach out to my inner child and hold her and tell her that she is good, and to give her a hug…you have to listen to the show to understand this statement. It was truly a touching moment in my life and one I am glad to be able to share with my listeners.

Steve gives us a wonderful visialization on what it feels like when we change our habits-I loved this one! We also talk about how do we learn to deal with a fear based society and how to change the way you think about yourself and the passion we have in our lives, this and more on today’s show. We also talk about how to get over being a victim and how to move out of the “poor me” stage and go into enlightenment.

For more information and to purchase Steve’s book Drunk with Wonder please go to his site at http://www.drunkwithwonder.com

Steve’s Biography

Biography

Steve Ryals, author of the newly released Drunk with Wonder: Awakening to the God Within (official publication date: August 15,2006), went from homeless and shooting drugs in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district at 17 to graduating from UC Berkeley on the Dean’s List six years later.

Steve was raised in a home filled with love but also filled with hurt, anger, secrets and both emotional and physical abuse (not sexual, just the “whacking” kind). Not surprisingly, Steve took to drugs & alcohol like a Rottweiler takes to delivery people. Though it took decades, Steve has now been free of alcohol for over five years.

Though a high-school dropout, Steve has three college degrees:

AA in Liberal Arts: Pasadena City College, 1971

BA in English Literature: UC Berkeley, 1973

AS in Business: Solano Community College, 1980

Steve is a minister of the Universal Life Church, a licensed Massage Therapist and a Reiki Therapist.

Steve co-founded a number of businesses. One, Ryals & Associates, Inc., is still in business 24 years later (though Steve is no longer associated with it). Another, Planet Earth Music, rode the dot-com boom of the late 90s, only to crash and burn early in the new century.

Steve has been writing poetry for over 40 years (over 20 of his poems appear in Drunk with Wonder) and has also written numerous short stories and a science fiction novel or two, which have so far remained unpublished.

Steve founded Rock Creek Press in 1990, and has self-published three poetry books as well as other authors. A graphic artist as well as a writer and editor, Steve continues to produce newsletters and other graphic materials for a small but avid customer base.

In 1992, Steve created an audio version of his poetry book Winds of Dawn with his friend BODHI, who played improvisational keyboards, piano or flute on each track. Using an original watercolor commissioned for the project, Steve created a package of book and cassette that still sells whenever Steve performs.

From 1994-2004, Steve was a free-lance music reviewer for New Age Retailer and then the Sedona Journal of Emergence. He wrote and published over 1,200 reviews, hundreds of which are still available online.

Steve has also had articles published in PC World and Electronic Design magazines.

For the past 10 years, Steve has lived in the wild mountains of Mendocino County in Northern California with his beloved wife JoAnn. They thrive in an off-the-grid environment, producing most of their electricity from solar panels, with hydro in the winter. Drunk with Wonder was written, edited and designed with almost no help from fossil fuels. Steve is proud to say that Drunk with Wonder is printed on 60# Thor Offset acid-free, recycled paper (85% recovered fiber, 30% post consumer) with soy-based ink.

 

Drunk with Wonder: Awakening to the God Within is the culmination of years of research and decades of personal experience. It’s been hailed as where “Conversations with God meets What the Bleep Do we Know?”

http://www.drunkwithwonder.com

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