What if you took a hike, a saunter, a stravage across an ancient land and it changed your life, forever? Journey with Royce Fitts as he walks the oldest road in Europe and contemplates the greatest questions of our time…
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The Geography of the Soul: Dreams, Reality and the Journey of a Lifetime blends memoir, political and social consciousness, and spiritual wisdom and takes you to a hidden gem in the midst of the English countryside: the Ridgeway National Trail.
The author, Royce Fitts, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified dream worker, with a doctorate in ministry. His book explores relationships between physical and spiritual landscapes, personal and collective histories, and night-time dreams and how they weave together to reveal and heal the wounds of our lifetime.
The reader becomes Royce’s companion as he walks the oldest road in Europe and contemplates the greatest questions of our time: from environmental degradation and exploitative capitalism, to legacies of war and racism, to marriage and the aging process. Sharing a lifetime of experience, he devotes chapters to his own ambivalence about the Vietnam War in his youth and his current calling as a specialized mental health counselor with the US military.
Also key to the narrative: his early years on a Nebraska farm and deep affiliation with a small, fundamentalist Christian faith that led to his becoming a pastor, and eventually leaving that faith group to become a marriage and family therapist and a dream worker in private practice. This painful yet rich lived experience offers profound opportunities to consider the nature of religion and spirituality, and our quest for healing and meaning in life.
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Viviana Interviews Dr. Royce Fitts about his new book release, “Geography of the Soul” – available now on Amazon and wherever books are sold!
A word sometimes expresses a deep inner calling and dares to reach further than the dictionary definition would ever allow. John Muir’s saunter compels us to go deep and reclaim our awareness that we exist within nature, not simply traversing across it.
My own word, stravage, was gifted to me by a wounded, sometimes deceiving, yet wise and endearing individual. Then, as now, this new word invited me out of my rigid box of convention and revealed that I truly needed more defiant adventure in my life.
The man who gave it to me intuitively knew something that I did not yet know about myself: I must stray beyond old habits and stravage into territories that I was trained to see as too disruptive, too irresponsible, too risky. Perhaps it’s like a relationship that strays beyond the normal limits for the sake of adventure, health, and love. Or, maybe it’s like straying into the heretical. Sometimes, the greatest philosophical and spiritual insights come from such forays into the forbidden.
The word stravage, no longer laden with the rage of an oppressed and defiant Scottish people, still represents a powerful compulsion to follow one’s own path with a sense of passion, risk and love.- Royce Fitts, Author of The Geography of the Soul
Creating Your Authentic Life—With Fullness, Healing & Meaning
I sit in presence with you as you explore your own internal territory, your spiritual geography...who you are — wounds, joys, yearnings — and help you create your authentic life, full of integrity, joy and healing. Open-hearted soul-searching invites you to become deeply vulnerable and compassionate toward yourself and others. Your healing will be a gift for yourself, your relationships and for our beautiful, wounded world.
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In our gentle and deep work together, we will wonder and wander through your dream world and explore the beautiful meanings and healings in your dreams. You'll learn that your dreams are always on your side. They are a limitless inner resource — a library of wisdom! — full of insights, wholeness and healing. Your dreams are an adventure into your creative heart. Of course, I always honor "dreamer's choice" so there's never any pressure.
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