Morgan Thorn Grey - Evolve: A Guidebook to Intentional Living

Morgan Thorn Grey,

LCPC, ExAT, Energist

2022. Morgan Thorn Grey. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Published by the Unapologetic Voice House

www.theunapologeticvoicehouse.com

Scottsdale, AZ.

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-955090-27-8

E-book ISBN: 978-1-955090-28-5

Library of Congress Control Number: 2022909719

Cover designer: Marie Stirk

Edited by: Jessica Wolf

This book is in acknowledgment to my children who have helped me learn and grow and continue to inspire me along this path of life.
And to my wife who will follow me anywhere with encouragement ...just around the next corner

Welcome to your Workbook

As a therapist, I play the role of advisor, guide and healer. It is both my passion and responsibility to pass along my knowledge. This passion comes not only from my education but what I have discovered working with my clients that resulted in empowering them to find their own passion and to live their best life.

The idea for this workbook came to me one day in a session with a client as she spoke about a book she was reading that was very meaningful to her. As she spoke, I could see how the authors experience seemed to weave together with what the reader learned and what my client then did to grow from these experiences. It made me realize how my collective experiences have given me the wisdom and ability to be the compassionate healer that I am today.

In life we all experience times of anger, sadness, loss, continued frustration, feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, shame, regret, loneliness, addiction, joy, gratefulness, miracles, hope, lov and yeseven suicidal ideation. As a behavioral scientist I wanted to figure out what all these emotions and experiences mean. I wanted to break it down and create a formula that can guide us all to a better way of living.

When I was in third grade I attended a birthday party in which we had a guest appearance by none other than the Fairy Godmother. We were each allowed one secret wish that we whispered into the Fairy Godmothers ear. She then handed us a typed-up response on a fortune-cookie sized piece of paper. Mine said, You do not wish for raiment and such, you will get your wish my dear, for you do not ask for much. My wish was to be happy. I was nine-years old, and I carried this paper in my wallet well into my 20s until I lost it (or I lost hope of ever finding it). As I think back to my nine-year-old self, this wish seems pretty deep. My pursuit of the illusive Happiness has provided me with a lot of help along my way. As May West would say (and I would quote her often, usually after I realized the latest stupid thing I just survived didnt literally kill me) Ive always relied on the kindness of strangers. And indeed, I relied on others to either fill me up or tear me down. These people and my experiences have shaped my philosophy and my work I do today. In the end, my pursuit of happiness was realized in the small steps Ive made to reclaim and take charge of my life. Instead of relying on the kindness of others, I have come to rely on myself.

This all started with a painfully slow realization. I create my world with my thoughts. I create what those thoughts are and I am in charge of how to change them. It is in the discovering of the what and the how around that reality that my philosophy unfolds.

Im glad you have found yourself here.

Whether you picked this book up to help decrease stress, increase awareness, gain clarity about a new direction, to quit a habit, seize control over your seemingly chaotic life, understand yourself or your relationships, make sense of the challenges our planet and everyone on it is facing, or just feel better and live a happy, empowered and content life, this book will walk you through how to become more aware and ultimately live the life you were meant to live.

This workbook lays out my approach in therapy and is a blend of psychology, spirituality, and science. May aim is to craft this in a way that makes it easy for you to understand, learn and apply to your own life.

While those are lofty goals, rest assured we will walk before we run into saving the planet.

We will start with you.

As you go through this workbook my intention for you is to experience an increased awareness of your thoughts, your emotions and your behaviors. As you work through this book, I would like you to learn how you create your world and how you can change your world. My hope is that you will gain new perspectives, see new beginnings and begin to imagine and create the world you want to live in. Today you can begin your transformative, intentional life. You are the pebble dropped into the pond on this earth and just like the ripples moving out on that pond, you will soon see how working on yourself not only affects you but affects those around you. You are the healer. And, as you continue your journey of mastering the Laws of the Universe for yourself, you will positively affect your family, your friends, your communities and for the planet.

You are taking a brave step todaya commitment of sortsand I am honored that you are going with me. I am always available for a consultation throughout your journey. You can reach me online at TheArtofLivingStudio.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

Morgans Education

I have always considered myself an artist and graduated with a degree in visual communications and illustration from the University of Kansas. When I received my Masters Degree in Community Counseling from the University of Phoenix, I knew I needed to further my counseling education into the artistic field and so I also completed graduate studies in Expressive Arts Therapy from the I.S.I.S. Southwest (International School of Intermodal Studies). As my understanding expanded of how energy impacts our lives I became a certified Integrative Quantum Medicine Practitioner and Teacher.

CHAPTER 1:
The philosophy behind Intentional Living

My approach to intentional living blends psychology, spirituality/energy and science. In my career as a licensed therapist and expressive art therapist I began work in the nonprofit sector. I have had the privilege to work in many mental and behavioral health settings from outpatient, residential treatment, group homes, domestic violence and homeless shelters to private practice bringing into every scenario the expressive arts as a form of healing. All of these venues also provided me the privilege to work with many types of people, all seeking the same thingunderstanding, healing and purpose. I have worked with clients alongside volunteers, supervisees, interns, and teams of other clinicians. While working with and among all these communities, I continued my focus on finding the formula, the truth, the answer, to the question that was in my mind as well as theirs how do humans get through the traumas, woundings, disappointments and setbacks of life and into a place of happiness? The intention of this workbook is to a help you find that formula, that truth, that path forward..

With this endgame in mind, I looked at the intersectionality of the energy healing of meditation, chakras, I Ching, expressive arts, and the science of epigenetics, as well as behavioral health science. I began teaching my clients how to meditate, sit in a drum circle, paint, sculpt, move their bodies, move through yoga asanas using the chakras to heal energetically and to tune into the messages of their bodies. I continued my study and found Louise Mita, founder and developer of Integrated Quantum Medicine, or IQM ( wwww.taoenergy.com ). IQM is a form of energy healing that combines traditional Chinese medicine and quantum theory. I began studying IQM in 2014 and I am an authorized Certified Practitioner and Teacher of IQM. As it turns out, it is the element that ties all my efforts into a final result of perfect health.