Dr. Rosie Kuhn: a Reluctant Adventurer

Dr. Rosie Kuhn, author, sailor and transpersonal coach

Updated July 5 at 11 p.m.

Kuhn to read at Darvill’s Bookstore on July 7 at 6 p.m.

Dr. Rosie Kuhn has continually made choices throughout her life that took her further away from her life as a wife and a mother, yet “brought her ever closer to her own essential truths and a life far more fulfilling then she ever imagined.”

The Unholy Path of a Reluctant Adventurer had its origins when Dr. Rosie was in her early thirties, having ended her marriage and chosen to leave her children in the custody of their father. In order to be a more effective mom, she knew she needed to grow herself up, hoping that her children then would want to live with her.

The Unholy Path of a Reluctant Adventurer, published by The Paradigm Shifts Publishing Company©, is a 200-page story of many of Rosie Kuhn’s life’s adventures. It is an autobiographical account of her spiritual journey along life’s bumpy road.

Dr. Kuhn has lived on Orcas Island for more than eight years, and as well as being a transformational life and business coach, she developed and facilitated the Transformational Coaching Training Program for nine years.

About a year ago, she decided to stop working with the Transformational Coaching Program at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She continues to be a transformational coach, facilitating coaching training, just in different forms.

While waiting for “orders” on what comes next, much like a military assignment, she began to write a book in which she shared what it was like to have made such a choice and the events that followed, some of which empowered her to continue on the road to self-discovery and some that stopped her dead in her tracks.

Dr. Rosie Kuhn's memoir, a quest for home

Choosing to be a non-custodial mother was a decision that she was not prepared to make: “Not in a million years would I dream up such a life for myself. As a child all I ever imagined was that I was going to get married as early as possible, have children and live happily ever after. End of story. Someone – I don’t know who, must have put a curse on me; the one that says, ‘May you have an interesting life.’ Why else would a good Catholic girl end up having a life like this? What happened to my dream of being a happy mom playing with my children?”

Kuhn’s “reluctant adventures” included getting a master’s degree in social work, moving to Nova Scotia to practice counseling, crossing the Atlantic Ocean on a 93-foot schooner, The Tree of Life, starting over in California where she acquired a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology.

She published her first book Self-Empowerment 101 in 2007.

The Unholy Path of a Reluctant Adventurer and Self-Empowerment 101 are available through internet bookstores such as Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. Her books are also available in all digital formats through Smashwords.com. She blogs at ActiveGarage.com and at SoulFriends.com