I've had many jobs and lived in many cities in the U.S. No work has been better than being a regression hypnotherapist. It's the work that has helped others the most and that has been most rewarding to me. I love traveling by car in the U.S. and have considered world travel as a vagabond, as written about by Rolf Potts.

In 2013 I published my first book, The Healing Power of Hypnotherapy (Amazon Kindle), and I finished my second in 2017. The title is Unthaw It! and it's about solving customer-service problems when I worked at the Sears, Roebuck headquarters. (OK, so you know "unthaw" is not a word; right?). Two-three more books will follow; all on different topics.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to travel throughout the U.S. by car, meeting many new men and women (and families). I have yet to set foot in Montana, N.D., Wash. and Oregon (and Alaska and Hawaii), but I've been in all the other states.

I'm hoping to kick that dirty, ol' thing called inertia and hit the road this year. I have pondered the wisdom of a motorcycle-sidecar rig (with tent, sleeping bag, dog) or a small motorhome for full-time RVing. Somehow, I can't let go of the idea of traveling. Why should I? There is so much to see! Hmm, could I host while RVing full-time?

Interests

• photography
• solo travel
• storytelling
• horseback riding

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Founders' Son (about Abraham Lincoln). Anything by Lee Child and Fiona Quinn. I read 106 books last year.
Movies: Patch Adams, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Bucket List, It Could Happen to You, Meet Joe Black, The World's Fastest Indian, Secondhand Lions.
Music: Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven. Rolling Stones, Fleetwood Mac.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

(How can I stop at just one?)
A zip-line outside of Santa Rosa, Calif. at the Six-Day Course (est Training).
Whitewater raft trip through Grand Canyon. There were 15 of us in three little rafts for 23 days!
The Firewalk, with Tony Robbins in 1986.
5½-week low-budget trip from Denver to northern Belize. $400 door-to-door. And no couches!
Small-plane pilot.
Motorcycle cop in Colorado (volunteer).

Teach, Learn, Share

Able to teach mastering self-sufficiency and increasing self-confidence.
Love helping people solve problems through regression hypnotherapy.
Teach accomplishment through goal-setting.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Great conversation, laughter, respect.
Stories about travel, stories about people, stories about jobs.
How I traveled for six months, trading hypnotherapy for room-and-board.
Introducing hypnosis and hypnotherapy, including regressions and past lives.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Canada, Mexico

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belize, United States