A Practical Guide to Love & Relationships - Paperback

Nefzger, Susan: - Susan Nefzger has spent decades asking the question that runs through everything she writes: why is it so hard for human beings to truly know themselves?The journey began in the 1980s, when a single book, "Many Lives, Many Masters" by Brian L. Weiss M.D cracked something open. Susan began attending Dr. Weiss's workshops and found herself drawn into a decades-long exploration of consciousness, spirituality, and the inner life. The search led her through the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda, founder of the Self-Realization Fellowship, and through a wide landscape of spiritual practices that would quietly shape everything she would eventually write.In parallel, she built a distinguished career. As a member of the founding team of the Georgia Lottery Corporation, Susan brought her communication instincts to one of the state's most ambitious public/private ventures amidst a 30-year career in public relations that would take her around the world. But even as her professional life flourished, the inner quest never quieted.The answers she had been seeking for decades arrived in May 2015, during a writing retreat in Glastonbury, England. In the ancient gardens of Glastonbury Abbey, a landscape layered with centuries of spiritual history something shifted completely. The words came in a torrent. What began as a retreat became a transformation, and what emerged from that sacred ground was the manuscript that would become her first book."A Practical Guide to Awareness" was followed the next year by its companion workbook, "Putting Awareness Into Practice" and Susan also launched Seeing Beyond the Ordinary, a poetry blog accompanied by her nature photography. Writing, she discovered, was not just a form of expression. It was a form of transmission.Her third book, "A Practical Guide to Living Fearlessly", arrived at exactly the right moment, inspired before the pandemic, yet shaped by the upheaval, fear, and division that followed. Grounded in personal experience, spiritual practice, and a step-by-step approach to dismantling the blocks that keep us from our best lives, it carries the hallmark of all Susan's work: depth delivered with warmth, and always, as she puts it, "with a dash of humor."Her fourth book, "A Practical Guide to Love & Relationships", publishes late summer 2026. Written during a period of profound social division, it arrives as both a timely and timeless invitation to examine the patterns we inherited before we were old enough to choose them, and to build the kind of honest, deep, and conscious connections we were always capable of.Today Susan works as a Focus & Self-Awareness Coach for executives and writers bringing the same framework that underpins her books into intimate 1:1 coaching engagements. She offers workshops and retreats from her homes in the vibrancy of Atlanta, G.A. hiking amongst 100 year old oaks, and Charleston, S.C., where the light of the lowcountry and the rhythm of the tides continue to fuel her writing, her photography, and her work with others.Four decades. Four books. One question and a lifetime of answers worth sharing.