Life's Big Questions

About the Author

Jonathan Robinson is an author of 14 books, a psychotherapist, a life and spiritual coach, and a professional speaker. He has reached over 100 million people and his work has been translated into 47 languages. Jonathan has been a frequent guest on Oprah, CNN, and other national TV shows, and his work has been featured in USA Today, Newsweek, and Reader’s Digest.  Jonathan is the cohost of the popular podcast, Awareness Explorers. Known for providing people with immediately useful ideas and methods in a humorous and entertaining manner, Jonathan regularly speaks at churches, businesses, and Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and Google.  Dr. Siegel, who prefers to be called Bernie, not Dr. Siegel, was born in Brooklyn, NY. He attended Colgate University and Cornell University Medical College. He holds membership in two scholastic honor societies, Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and graduated with honors. His surgical training took place at Yale New Haven Hospital, West Haven Veteran’s Hospital and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He retired from practice as an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Yale of general and pediatric surgery in 1989 to speak to patients and their caregivers. In 1978, he originated Exceptional Cancer Patients, a specific form of individual and group therapy utilizing patients’ drawings, dreams, images and feelings. ECaP is based on “carefrontation,” a safe, loving therapeutic confrontation, which facilitates personal lifestyle changes, personal empowerment and healing of the individual’s life. The physical, spiritual and psychological benefits which followed led to his desire to make everyone aware of his or her healing potential. He realized exceptional behavior is what we are all capable of. Bernie, and his wife and coworker Bobbie, who died in 2018, lived in a suburb of New Haven, Connecticut. They have five children and eight grandchildren. Their home with its many children, pets and interests resembled a cross between a family art gallery, museum, zoo, and automobile repair shop. It still resembles these things, although the children are trying to improve its appearance in order to avoid embarrassment. He has authored many books, including Love, Medicine & Miracles, Peace, Love & Healing How To Live Between Office Visits, Prescriptions for Living, Help Me To Heal, 365 Prescriptions for the Soul, Smudge Bunny, 101 Exercises for the Soul, Love, Magic & Mud Pies, Buddy’s Candle, Faith, Hope & Healing, Words Swords, A Book of Miracles, The Art of Healing, and Love, Animals & Miracles.