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Perspective, Balance, Clarity

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About

Larry was born and raised in New York City. After receiving his MSW from Adelphi University in 1975 he left New York and began to build his professional career. His first job was in Niagara Falls, NY where he was a marriage and family therapist.

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Services

During the first session Larry identifies the major themes impacting your life and places them in a historical context so you can see how the past and the present operate as one interconnected system.

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Publications

Based on his integration of psychology and spirituality, Larry shows the reader how to achieve higher levels of personal development in Mysticism and Modern Life: Ancient Wisdom for Personal Growth.

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Learn more about Larry Laveman and his services by contacting him directly through this website.




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Recent Posts

Making Meaning From Misery

From the category Five Minute Articles For Your Consideration

The world is crying out in pain! People are suffering! Yet, for most of us, life goes on unchanged. Suffering is inevitable, but sometimes it pushes us to the limits of our tolerance. We can’t fully wrap our minds around the brutality of the middle east, the mass killing in Maine, or the destruction of Lahaina without feeling the primal scream of outrage welling up from within. Surely God didn’t intend suffering to be such a huge part of the human condition. In a world of such beauty and possibility, it is heart-breaking that we would be subjected to waves of unspeakable suffering.

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Deep In The Grooves

From the category Five Minute Articles For Your Consideration

During a Rolling Stone interview, Shania Twain conveyed a beautiful metaphor to encapsulate the period of time in our life when our personal world is amiss and we must encounter ourselves on a deeper level than ordinary awareness allows. She said, “Once I made it, it was, ‘Wow, I don’t have to worry about running out of gas until I get my next 20 bucks’, but that challenging part of life is still deep in the grooves.”

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Prayer

From the category Five Minute Articles For Your Consideration

I never used to pray. Its religious association didn’t appeal to me. As a child, however, my mom would have me say the “now I lay me down to sleep” prayer nightly. I never understood it. Why should I pray in case I die? It didn’t seem like the right message just before I went to sleep, so I stopped doing it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it contributed to my insomnia years later.

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