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The first person I ever interviewed was India's Prime Minister Morarji Desai at his suite at the United Nations Plaza Hotel as research for a two-year undergraduate project on Mahatma Gandhi. During my post-college years as a Director of Human Resources and later as a licensed, nationally certified psychotherapist, I conducted thousands of interviews, but none were as challenging as that first one.

When I was 22, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have answered, "a psychotherapist/ cook/ photographer/ musician who writes books". I've managed to fit all of those activities into my life. Now that I'm retired from treating mental health disorders, I spend my time doing "whatever is fun." That includes photography, writi The first person I ever interviewed was India's Prime Minister Morarji Desai at his suite at the United Nations Plaza Hotel as research for a two-year undergraduate project on Mahatma Gandhi. During my post-college years as a Director of Human Resources and later as a licensed, nationally certified psychotherapist, I conducted thousands of interviews, but none were as challenging as that first one.

When I was 22, if you asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have answered, "a psychotherapist/ cook/ photographer/ musician who writes books". I've managed to fit all of those activities into my life. Now that I'm retired from treating mental health disorders, I spend my time doing "whatever is fun." That includes photography, writing books, drumming for several bands, teaching hand drumming in two public schools, running community drum circles, and cooking for my wife.

MY BOOKS:

"MIXED NUTS, or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy," was my most difficult book to write. Psychotherapy is very personal for clients and clinicians. It's easy to be funny and flippant in the office, face-to-face with a client. It's much more difficult to do the same in writing and with such a sensitive subject. I didn't want MiXED NUTS to be a boring textbook or a joke book. The challenge was to share insights in a fun, easy-to-read, and entertaining way.

"American Baapu... India Through My Eyes" tells the story of how I came to have dozens of "unofficially adopted sons and daughters" in India without having known any of their mothers. In 2017, we stayed in five cities in India with five families. This book describes that experience and how it came about.

"My Life Cracks Me Up" was released in 2011. It was the most fun book for me to write. Imagine a memoir without loss, grief, or tragedy. It's my life in funny and serendipitous stories.

"Old Fart-hood... more of my life cracks me up" is my 2023 continuation of "My Life Cracks Me Up." More funny and serendipitous stories.

"Freestyle Community Drum Circles" (2nd Edition): Everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about hosting a freestyle drum circle.

"With more than 100 million worldwide users since 2010, Quora.com has ranked Rick among its top 25 most-read contributors in the topics of Behavioral Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Anxiety, Social Anxiety, and Therapists. He is ranked in the top ten most-read contributors in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Psychosis, Counseling, Therapists, Behavioral Psychology, and Panic Attacks and in the top three most-read in the topics of Psychotherapy, Abusive Relationships, Psychotherapists, Emotional Abuse, Psychologists, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy." ...more

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“There is an unspoken agreement in every successful relationship: "I'm not perfect and you're not perfect. I can ignore your imperfections if you can ignore mine. I choose to spend my life in your company.”
― Rick Cormier, MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

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“Love is how you treat someone.”
― Rick Cormier, MiXED NUTS or What I've Learned Practicing Psychotherapy

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“Three things make up who we are as individuals: what we think, what we feel, and what we do. If we manage to change any one of these three aspects of ourselves, the other two will follow.”
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“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
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“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
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“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
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