Who I am...?
How do you define who or what you are? Here's my take...
We are each a river. I am a flowing river.
A river is defined by its banks...yet, by its nature...it can't stop and examine them. What defines us cannot be easily perceived. Our defining stories (the who I am's) are always elusive...until we grow. When we expand past what used to define us...we can examine it, learn from it...and thus gain wisdom. This creates new defining stories, new banks, becoming a new who I am...
Here are some some things I have 'been'...none of them are 'who I am'...but they have 'defined' me at times and I have gained wisdom from them. Perhaps, they will give you a picture, an understanding of who I may be now!
I grew up in Iowa. With three university degrees...I have been an Office of Naval Research Fellow, a Neuroscientist, a Psychobiologist, a Professor, a Chiropractor, an Alive Relationship Coach, a Seminar Leader & a Creator of Games. I have practiced transformational healing for 31 years and have provided over 350,000 office visits and have led or assisted in hundreds of seminars. I have had busy practices in Brooklyn & Bellmore in New York and in Viroqua, Wisconsin. I have developed the concepts of The River of Ahz, Alive Relationship and How to Activate Your Inner Brilliance and created Embrighten Coaching. I have created Catalyst Games...Love Springs for lovers and Dragon Wings for kids & their adults. With two ex-wives, three amazing, talented children and phenomenal love in my life...I have extensive relationship experience of the most varied, wisdom-producing sort.
Five exceptional mentors gave me guidance at crucial times leading to a truly amazing and very alive professional and personal life. Thank you, from my heart and soul...to my father, Dr. Robert Breitbach, for his teachings, his golden healing hands and his strength of character, to Dr. Donald Epstein for his creativity, vision and personal generosity, to Leonard Jacobsen for inspiring me into presence, to John Eric Moss, PhD for his joyful approach to life, and to my mother, Norma Breitbach, for her unwavering belief in who I am. And, thank you to those of you...who have loved and influenced (and pushed!) me...because you would not put up with anything less than the best of me.
In Gratitude,