Personal Growth Alternatives Newsletter
February 2005

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D., earned his doctorate in Psychoeducational Processes at Temple University. He is a proficient and skilled Reiki Master, Transformational Breath Facilitator, Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Advanced Master Shapeshifter Practitioner. He has a private practice in Integrated Energy Balancing Healing Psychotherapy Including Heart Centered Hypnotherapy, Shapeshifting Consciousness, Body Centered Psychotherapy, Aromatherapy, Quantum Physics thought retraining, and Imago centered couples work. Rusty presents workshops throughout the tri-state area including Holistic Integrative Breathing, Shapeshifting: The Ultimate Wake-Up Call!, Break on Through to the Other Side: Walking the Talk!, Igniting Personal Power: Proven Manifestation Techniques!, Advanced Recovery: The Next Step!, and Creating Sacred Relationships! In addition, Rusty is organizing bi-weekly groups to begin in the Spring 2005 time frame. He also facilitates certifications in Reiki I, II, III, and Holistic Integrative Breathing I, II, & III. Rusty also created the new alternative DUI curriculum for Bucks County Council for Alcoholism. In addition, Rusty was an Adjunct Professor for Temple University in the Department for Psychological Studies in Education teaching Group Dynamics, Learning Theory, and Intimacy & Control, and currently teaches psychology at the Thomas Jefferson University and social psychology and psychology at the University Of The Sciences in Philadelphia.

Personal Message

Friends, Brothers, and Sisters,

Happy Valentines Day!
Please read this message carefully as the FREE Manifesting Community Listings are changing for the better!! Starting with this newsletter you will have to list all of your community events/workshops/seminars/etc. manually. Directions are on my website and on this newsletter. This will provide more control over formatting and allow people to enter listings all the time. It will also free me up from administrative duties so I can concentrate on my passions. You will need to put an end date on the event if it is ongoing and then re-enter it when it expires. All listings will be automatically updated as dates pass by and as new dates are added. All events will be in date chronological order.

There will be a featured article every month that will be different than my articles in the Yoga Living or Wisdom magazines. Some of the articles may be the same as articles I submit to Inner Realm magazine in NY & NJ. You are welcome to offer me feedback on any of my articles. All of my articles can be accessed on my achieved article list on my website.

The table of contents will take you wherever you want to go in my newsletter or directly to my website. Please take special notice of the free lectures and support groups that I offer. And, as always, if you like the work I do please pass it along to people you care about. I am grateful for any referrals that come my way. I am accepting new clients for integrated psychotherapy in all three of my locations and encourage people to deepen their process through the workshops that I offer.

Enjoy Valentines Day and the winter season! Show and extend your love all year long!

Peace and Love,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Professional Message

Don't isolate! We're in the middle of the winter season and there can be the tendency to hide out this time of year. Stay connected. Push yourself to participate in community events. Look at the Manifesting Community listings in the newsletter. Look in Yoga Living, New Visions, Creating Community, and Wisdom for fun and interesting things to participate in. Go to Group Motion on Friday nights. Go to a 12 step or a 16 step meeting. Find a drum circle, sweat lodge, or spiritual service. Check out a Noetic Sciences meeting or a Reiki share. Try A Course in Miracles study group or join a meditation, yoga, or tai chi class. Call some people you have not talked to in a while and maybe go out to a movie, show, or dinner with them. There are a ton of things to do to stay active and connected during the winter season. Put yourself out there. As you're reading this I am enjoying my week skiing at Sugarloaf Maine. I go up by myself and meet new people when I get there. You too can go on skiing trips and meet new people by looking in the Snowdrift at any ski shop. Whatever you do, have fun! You deserve it! I know I do!

Peace, Joy, and Winter Fun,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs

For those of you who have taken my Holistic Integrative Breathing workshops or Transformational BreathWork workshops my guided cd's are now available! You will receive the primal drumming breath, joy breath, cosmos breath, divinity breath, and vision breath with all the affirmations included. These are all the breaths I teach in my all day breath workshop. The cost is $25 plus $3.85 shipping and handling. The breaths for my part 2 breath workshop will be available in cd's sometime early this summer. Just send a check to Rusty Stewart, Ph.D., 23 Timber Road, Horsham, PA 19044. I will send them out as soon as I receive your check. Thank you! more...

Wisdom Of The Earth Medicinal Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils

I am blessed and grateful to be able to make Wisdom Of The Earth's medicinal therapeutic grade essential oils available for purchase. I use Barry's oils in my private practice, in some of my workshops and personally for my own proactive holistic health. These oils can be very powerful when used on the chakras or along the spine during a breathing and energy session. I encourage all my clients, students, brothers and sisters to experience the healing power of these unbelievable highest quality essential oils! Read more about Wisdom Of The Earth Oils, cost, types, sizes, etc.

Table of Contents

Free Open Community Listings
Featured Event
Featured Article
Archived Articles
Workshops/Events Calendar
Free Lectures/Events Calendar
Personal Message
Professional Message
Holistic Integrative Breathing CDs
Wisdom Of The Earth Oils
Personal Growth Alternatives Website

Featured Event

Featured Article

Have a Love Affair with Yourself!

Whatever you do for Valentines Day celebrate who you are! We do not have to be in relationship or be actively dating to celebrate and love who we are. In fact if we want to be in a healthy relationship we better have a healthy one with ourselves first!

Are you taking care of yourself? Where do you put yourself on your priority list? First, second, last? What types of special things do you do for yourself? Do you put aside time just for you? Do you nurture or pamper yourself? Where does your energy go when you are in a steady relationship with someone? All of these questions will help determine if you are loving yourself. The more we love, do things, and celebrate our relationship with ourselves, the healthier person we will eventually attract into our lives. If we do not feel good about ourselves and feel less than whole don't look to another person to make you whole. It doesn't work. It's a temporary fix, just like drugs. The real love affair is an inside job. It takes commitment and courage. It takes discipline.

Valentines Day is traditionally a day for lovers, couples, dating, etc. And it still can be a reminder of how special certain people are in our lives. But it is all for naught if we do not experience a love affair with ourselves first. The love affair with self is eternal. Then we can truly extend out our authentic love for others without contingencies. Nobody can take away our love for ourself.

So whether you are with that special someone or not this Valentines Day remember that as long as you have that love affair with yourself everything is perfect. Do something for yourself that you have never done or have not done in a long while. Put yourself first! Celebrate with spirit and enthusiasm. Send yourself a Valentines Day card, or flowers, get a massage, or take a bubble bath with tea, candles, and incense. Really let yourself know how much you love and appreciate you. Then do whatever you are going to do for and/or with somebody else or not. Notice what you experience and feel when you give care to yourself first. Start a new Valentines tradition and ritual for yourself and remember that you can do these things for yourself as often as you like.

Happy Valentines Day to everyone, but most importantly to myself!

Love and Joy,

Rusty Stewart, Ph.D.

Workshop/Events Calendar

Reiki Level I Certification:

Friday, Saturday, and Sunday February 25, 26, 27, 2005: 9am-6pm, Chakra Shop, 3223 Germantown Pike, Fairview Village (Next to The Country Moon), PA, $250 full paid registration with $50 non-refundable deposit reserving your spot with full payment due by Friday February 25. Call 215-658-1093 to register.

Holistic Integrative Breathing:

Sunday March 18, 2005: 2pm-5pm, Morning Star Center, 1966 Creek Road, Bethlehem, PA, 610-838-2440, $35 full registration, limited to 15 people.

Shapeshifting: The Ultimate Wake Up Call!

Thursday March 17, 2005: 6:30-8pm, Whole Foods Market, 940 Route 73 North, Marlton, NJ, 856-797-1115, Free Introduction Mini Experiential Workshop.

Saturday March 26, 2005: 10am-5pm, Mary's Vineyard, 1812 Haddonfield-Berlin Road, Cherry Hill, NJ, 856-428-5495, $75 full registration. Sacred Fire ceremony to conclude and seal our commitment to ourselves, mother earth, and humanity!

Igniting Personal Power: Proven Manifestation Techniques!

Friday March 18, 2005: 7pm-10pm and Saturday March 19, 2005: 9am-6pm 2005: Chakra Shop, 3223 Germantown Pike, Fairview Village (Next to The Country Moon), PA, 215-658-1093, $146 full registration. A separate experiential 90-minute support, sharing, and practice group will be offered on a weekly or bi- weekly basis following the workshop. This group will be learning to apply personal power and various manifestation techniques in all areas of their lives!

Friday March 25, 2005: 6:30-8:30pm, Yogalife Institute, 821 Lancaster Avenue, Devon (Next to Whole Foods), PA, 610-688- 7030, $25 full registration.

Free Lectures/Events Calendar

Free Reiki Share:

Tuesday February 15, 2005: 7pm-9pm, Chakra Shop, 3223 Germantown Pike, Fairview Village (Next to The Country Moon), PA, Call 215-658-1093 to let us know you are coming, limited to 15 people. All Reiki practitioners' welcome!

Tuesday March 15, 2005: 7pm-9pm, Chakra Shop, 3223 Germantown Pike, Fairview Village (Next to The Country Moon), PA, Call 215-658-1093 to let us know you are coming, limited to 15 people. All Reiki practitioners' welcome!

FREE ONGOING 16 STEP EMPOWERMENT AND DISCOVERY SUPPORT GROUP:

Ongoing Every Thursday: 6:30pm-8pm, The Starting Point, Inc., 215 Highland Avenue, Suite C, Westmont, NJ. The beginning of an ongoing support group for any out of control compulsive behavior or attachment, based on Charlotte Davis Kasle's book Many Roads, One Journey. Call 856-854-3155 or 215-658-1093 for more details!!

Wellspring Counseling Center
63 E. Main Street
Moorestown, NJ 08057
609-332-4663

Three Convenient Locations To Serve You!

The Chakra Shop
3223 Germantown Pike
Fairview Village, PA 19409
215-658-1093

Personal Growth Alternatives
Horsham, PA 19044
Phone: 215-658-1093