Welcome to LifePath
At LifePath, we help you find clarity & courage on your own unique journey. We offer Circle of Trust® retreats to restore and renew, personal consulting to help you cope with life's difficulties and remain true to yourself, Clarity Sessions to help you make important life decisions, stress management and work-life balance for individuals and organizations, and other programs to help you find your way. 
               - Albert Bellg, Ph.D.
                 psychologist, writer,
                 retreat facilitator

Simply Mindful: A New Book!

I'm pleased to announce publication of my new ebook, Simply Mindful: A Daily Practice to Reclaim Your Life.  The book is for all of us who are looking for peace and insight when life gets difficult.  It includes interesting stories from my patients, easy-to-do mindful practices, and a compassionate approach to our most challenging life experiences. 

You can get a free sample of Simply Mindful when you click on the heading above.  You can also purchase the 145-page ebook in an easy to read PDF format for $10 at the link below. 

Personal Consulting

If you're dealing with difficult situations, managing a major change in your life or work, looking for personal renewal, or making an important life decision, personal consulting can help you find your way.

This is not psychotherapy for the treatment of mental health issues - there are no diagnoses, and any notes I take will not become part of your medical record.  This work is about helping you find the deep insights and understandings you need to find and stay on the path that is most true to who you are. 

Loving Acceptance Meditation

Part of our human challenge is that our lives are divided and in pain.

One way we can create the opening we need to lay down our anger and fear is through the regular mindful practice of loving and accepting each other and ourselves, and seeing beyond the pain in our relationships and lives.

We can practice this is with with a loving acceptance meditation.  We have been doing this meditation in a small group nearly every week since the Spring of 2010.  Starting at 12:15 p.m. (CT), the 30-minute meditation takes place each week in the Upper Lounge at First Congregational Church, 724 E. South River St., Appleton, Wisconsin. 

If you cannot be physically present, we welcome you to join us in spirit wherever you may be at that time. The theme we focus on changes every week, although the overall format generally stays the same. 
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
                                          - Carl Rogers
In this culture, we know how to create spaces that invite the intellect to show up, to argue its case, to make its point. We know how to create spaces that invite the emotions to show up, to express anger or joy. We know how to create spaces that invite the will to show up, to consolidate effort and energy round a common task. And we surely know how to create spaces that invite the ego to show up, preening itself and claiming its turf! But we seem to know very little about creating spaces that invite the soul to show up, this core of ourselves, our selfhood.
                                     - Parker J. Palmer