When therapists work in a heart-centered way, they feel freer to be both professionals and loving human beings. Working from the Heart advocates for a deeper understanding that the therapist's expressions of non-sexual, non-romantic love are a core ingredient in effective psychotherapy. Each chapter in Working from the Heart focuses from a heart-centered perspective on a particular aspect of therapeutic work that has been insufficiently addressed in traditional training and supervision. Chapter topics include: removing patients' psychological blocks to receiving love; enabling patients to access their Higher Selves to solve complex life dilemmas; how to slog through professional and personal conflicts about touch in order to discern in what situations and with which patients gentle touch is the right therapeutic action; why a heart-centered approach is so important for male patients; how therapists can engage their "Big Hearts," aspects of their Higher Selves, during sessions; and how to create sanctuary for patients and therapists alike. Working from the Heart addresses these issues in an informal style in order to make the book more accessible to wider spectrum of readers. Ryan is sharing his ideas, gleaned from thirty-five years of experience, and inviting a conversation. For more information, please visit http: //www.williampryan.com/.

In 1767 travel into Florida was difficult. The Spanish held St. Augustine for almost 200 years as a military camp but now they were gone. British Governor James Grant wrote letters about his good friend, the Indian Grey Eyes who took 500 cattle from Georgia down into unmapped Florida. He helped to blaze a new road, one that would lead to the planned Minorcan settlement of New Smyrna to the south. It would be called The King's Road and would exist from 1774 to 1914 as the main entry into Florida

An early Florida adventure with Grey Eyes

See Colonial British Florida with the eyes of a Seminole Indian. The white men do strange things as a young boy meets the demands of passage and becomes a Seminole cattleman in Florida as so many really were. He will move through many adventures that describe the true history of early Florida. Reading I am Grey Eyes will bring you a better feeling for the often dry historical events that now will connect into a life story.

Florida author William P. (Bill) Ryan creates historical fiction based on real characters, letters and original documents. Grey Eyes will tell you of the terrible Seminole War of 1835, the destruction of the great Bulow plantation, Minorcan settlers, and the exodus of Seminoles and their black companions to the Indian Territory in the West.

Who was this Grey Eyes?

Discover the legend of The Lost Colony, a great Florida slave uprising, and other early Florida stories by following original maps and the stories of Grey Eyes.

Author William P. Ryan is a Director of the Flagler County Historical Society. He brings history to life with his first person style. The Old Kings Road Series of books include:
"The Search for Old Kings Road""I am Grey Eyes a story of old Florida""Osceola his capture and Seminole legends""Bulow Gold""Florida's Door to Time"

Also available on Amazon Kindle books

Museums are store places for timeHistory magic happens as time flows in the door of a small Florida museum. Florida author and historian William P. Ryan offers untold true stories in his first person style that is both entertaining and informative. The connection is Inventor Nicholas Tesla's experiments in space and time of 1898. Fiction? Perhaps not. New linked stories of Florida history flow before The Bunnell Boy's Club, whose aging docents discover the safety of the world may lie in their hands. Ormond hotel keeper and 19th Century author John Anderson, the infamous Andersonville Prison, Germany's Stalag Luft 17B prison, private pilots flying against U Boats, a seaman of 1564, a Lost Colony and many others all unite to tell their authentic, well researched stories. These surprisingly are connected to the shelves and books in the Bunnell History Annex.Florida Door to Time is a must read for those interested in the Florida history..Background: The first alternating current electric generators built illuminated the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. They were purchased by Henry Flagler to bring modern power to his now vanished Ormond Hotel once located near the small Florida village of Bunnell. Tesla's secret experiments smashed the time envelope containing our past, the present and the future all together. This storm in time makes it possible for visitors from the past to arrive and offer previously unknown stories. The members of 'The Bunnell Boy's Club' discover that 'saving the world' may have a price to be paid. The museum's careful folders and collections could be a dangerous door into the present, one that might even affect your life today.Researched fact and fiction are here interlinked in this entertaining book.The AuthorAuthor William (Bill) Ryan enjoys finding stories of history that were forgotten or unknown. His writing brings his characters alive again in his first person style. He moves you through the real stories of Florida not anchored by the dry dates, times, and places of normal Florida historical writing. His imaging background combines illustrations with the word to inject living realism. All stories occur either on or near The Old Kings Road an ancient Florida highway built by the British prior to the American Revolution. His Old Kings Road series currently include: The Search for Old Kings RoadI am Grey EyesOsceola His Capture and Seminole LegendsBulow GoldFlorida Door to TimeAvailable at Amazon

The Search for Old Kings Road
A first route into Florida

British engineers built it before the American Revolution. This remarkable road ran from the Florida border at the St. Mary's river south to what would become the settlement of New Smyrna. It was intended to bring settlers into then almost unpopulated Florida.

From 1774 it became the main route into Florida. It existed right up into the 20th century.

Here were the battles, the famous men, refugees, the rich plantation economy, a huge slave revolt, and one of our country's worst wars, one that lasted seven years. Florida's Old King's road was important in its rich early history. The early highway has vanished, its stories untold, it is blocked by new construction often now existing in name only.

This is William (Bill) Ryan's search for the history of this old highway and some it's stories. They resulted in four other books that tell of events along Old Kings, once called "An American Engineering Treasure." Some small pieces of the original roadway still exist. They are vanishing unmarked into the Florida brush. By connection of the dots he found on old maps and early accounts a story evolves of this early American roadway along which much of Florida's history occurred.

Author William P. (Bill) Ryan is a director of the Flagler County Historical Society. He retired to Florida from a career in high technology photographic equipment, was internet webmaster for Flagler County Public Library's Florida memories group, and is a frequent speaker to Florida history groups. His first person writing style brings history alive.

Five Old Kings Road series books include:

"The Search for Old Kings Road" "I am Grey Eyes a story of old Florida" "Osceola His Capture and Seminole Legends" "Bulow Gold" "Florida's Door to Time"

In museums, book stores and Amazon.com

Bulow Gold - a tale of old Florida

The discovery of a lost journal of "Aunty Mary" a slave housekeeper to the Bulow famil of Sourth Carolina and Florida will take you to a new, well researched tale of the building and destruction of a great plantation. The courage and planning of Wilhelm Bulow is carried onward by his son John Joachim Bulow as the great works of Bulowville appear. These exist now in the Bulow Plantation Ruins State Park in Flagler County Florida.

Author William P. Ryan combines carefully researched facts with the voice of "Aunty Mary" who will tell of a great treasure and Florida historical events from 1812 to the Civil War. This historical fiction combines the building of a great plantation, the life of the slaves, Indian Wars and adventures in Colonial Florida. New untold family legends are combined to explain many of the mysteries that exist in the Bulow plantation remains. The "Aunty Mary" journal draws upon existing original documents, studies and research of the Florida Plantation era until it was destroyed in the Seminole War beginning Christmas eve of 1835. Author William Ryan calls this 'factual historic fiction' relating what he believes actually happned.

The mysterious death of young Bulow in St. Augustine is revealed for the first time in any publication. This and many other exciting stories will take you into the days of early Florida guided by "Aunty Mary" and her young ancestor "Lizzie."

The Author brings characters alive in a first person style. He is a Director of the Flagler County Historical Society and is noted for his research into the Old Kings Road, the Colonial Era British roadway into Florida. His series of books include:
"The Search for Old Kings Road" "I am Grey Eyes a story of old Florida" "Osceola his capture and Seminole legends" "Florida's Door to Time" All offered on Amazon Kindle books

The White Flag and the Second Seminole War

The great Seminole Indian leader Osceola was captured by General Hernandez in 1837 under a white flag of truce just south of Moultrie Creek in St. Augustine Florida along side the Old Kings Road, a roadway built by the British prior to the American Revolution. His capture was long debated in the US Congress, the Court of England and in European capitals throughout the world. Osceola's capture while flying a white flag became a world affair when he later died in Army captivity. His famous portrait by artist Catlin was widely published.

Discover the new legends of Osceola

This book is deeply researched using original documents and maps. As historical fiction Osceola will tell you his story in the first person. He speaks of events that led up to a sesperate conflict in Florida, one that lasted for seven years. Discover many new, untold stories here including the lost painting of Osceola's family, located by the author in an English museum. Follow the life of a young Indian boy named Powell who is strongly influenced by the wars and terrible events of his times. This book was named as "very accurate as to the times of Osceola"by Seminole historians.

Osceola His Capture and Seminole Legends

Gain new insights into the complex events that began the Seminole Wars. Discover an Indian point of view. Author William (Bill) Ryan discovers stories of history that were forgotten or unknown. His deep research brings characters alive again in his first person style. He takes you far beyond the dry theme of dates, times and places found in many Florida accounts. William Ryan is a Director of the Flagler County Florida Historical Society, and is an active lecturer and tour director of historic sites. Many of his events take place along the Old Kings Road which was a main entryway into Florida from 1774 to 1914.

The Old Kings Road Series of books by William P. Ryan include:
"The Search for Old Kings Road" "I am Grey Eyes" "Osceola His capture and Seminole Legends" "Bulow Gold""Door to Time in Florida"

All offered on Amazon.com Kindle books, Amazon Create Space

When therapists work in a heart-centered way, they feel freer to be both professionals and loving human beings. Working from the Heart advocates for a deeper understanding that the therapist's expressions of non-sexual, non-romantic love are a core ingredient in effective psychotherapy. Each chapter in Working from the Heart focuses from a heart-centered perspective on a particular aspect of therapeutic work that has been insufficiently addressed in traditional training and supervision. Chapter topics include: removing patients' psychological blocks to receiving love; enabling patients to access their Higher Selves to solve complex life dilemmas; how to slog through professional and personal conflicts about touch in order to discern in what situations and with which patients gentle touch is the right therapeutic action; why a heart-centered approach is so important for male patients; how therapists can engage their "Big Hearts," aspects of their Higher Selves, during sessions; and how to create sanctuary for patients and therapists alike. Working from the Heart addresses these issues in an informal style in order to make the book more accessible to wider spectrum of readers. Ryan is sharing his ideas, gleaned from thirty-five years of experience, and inviting a conversation.