Marj Frazer Lacey is a Marriage and Family Counselor specializing in helping people discover and express their own authentic selves in order to create lives of authenticity, congruence, and joy.
Self-knowledge and self-trust, she says, are the building blocks of lasting mental and emotional health. Life's inevitable rough spots are always more difficult when you're out of touch with who you are at the core. Whether your challenges are in the areas of relationships, career, or other aspects of your life, a vital part of the solution lies in getting in touch with your own essential self.
Marj's book, It's Not a Life Sentence, provides step-by-step guidance in identifying the influences, demands, and absorbed beliefs that may have taken you away from your natural, life-affirming path. As you follow the process described in the book, you also recover positive memories, recall sometimes forgotten talents and skills, and explore new decisions which will enhance your life now.
In addition to her work as a therapist, Marj has worked as a journalist, free-lance writer, instructor at high school and college levels, and educational counselor. She is the mother of three grown sons and resides in Vista, California.
She invites you to visit her website, marjfrazerlacey.com, where you may read excerpts from It's Not a Life Sentence. The book is available from Infinity Publishing.
Marj provides online life coaching through mytherapynet.com.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for.
--Oscar Wilde
I wonder if I've changed in the night. Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is "Who in the world am I?" Ah, that's the great puzzle.
--Lewis Carroll
The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.
--Norman Vincent Peale
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.
--William Blake
You are the bows from which as living arrows your children are sent forth.
--Kahlil Gibran
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
--Samuel Johnson
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
--Robert W. Service
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
--William James
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
--Mark Twain
Self-trust is the first secret of happiness.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.
--Ralph Ellison
Contact Marj for an online session at mytherapynet.com
Contact Marj and see excerpts of It's Not a Life Sentence at marjfrazerlacey.com
Order It's Not a Life Sentence from Infinity Publishing.