About William Weil and New Earth Relationships

"I've wanted to help people in their relationships ever since I was ten, when I would resolve my six-year-old sister's disputes with her girlfriends. I was 12 when my mother died, but it wasn't until high school that I received any counseling. I was amazed at how I could go from feeling horrible to fine in just one hour. My life changed in 1981 when I did the 'controversial' est training - an intense program that allowed you to totally transform the quality of your life in just two weekends! For years I trained to be a seminar leader for est, which became Werner Erhard and Associates and then Landmark Education.  For five years, I led weekly three-hour seminars to roughly 100 people, and I would coach many of these people between sessions. Since then I've become a student of relationship experts such as John Gray and Harville Hendrix, and spiritual teachers like Eckhart Tolle.

I wrote New Earth Relationships to fill a void in the literature on relationships, namely:

• No relationship author was speaking from a place of deep, vulnerable experience - I wanted to write something that people could really relate to, with real personal stories that are both interesting and impactful.

• I couldn't find anything that provided a context for relationships that was powerful enough to lift folks up through the hard times in and out of relationships.

• I was compelled to combine the best advice of our most notable relationship experts into easy-to-read, practical and relatively brief "how to" manual.

I coach people in relationships because I'm brilliant at it, and I can't stand to see so many people suffering around me."