Achieving Everlasting Joy

About the Book

Every once in a while something comes along that is pure dynamite. It is so with this small and potent book. It is about inspiration, psychology, spirituality and self-growth. It is not a "therapy" per se, yet it is more than the sum total of all of the above.

In actuality, it is a softer, more compassionate, transforming way of life and living, perceived by the wisdom of the ancient Peruvian Inca Indians, wide open both emotionally and spiritually, with a sophistication not realized in our "so-called" modern society.

It is a book for people like you and me who are serious about wanting and finding JOY everlasting, without the pressures of competition, hierarchy, and aggression. It is a gentle pathway to alignment with the sacred consciousness and the coming of the divine within the inner being.

About the Author

A near death experience when Ellen Spivey was twenty-three years old started her on a journey to unconditional love and joy unending. She became a force that encourages and supports both women and men on their pathways to emotional and spiritual wholeness and is known as a dynamic, wonderfully compassionate person to those who have been touched by her life. Ellen has always used a “growth” model in her work as a Clinical Social Worker and was instrumental in developing Women’s Studies programs in two college settings with the goal of empowering women as they grew to their potential. Ellen has always believed that men also have been equally affected by the environment in which they grew up and have just as deep a need for validation and true personal power as do women, although it may not look that way on the surface.

‘ACHIEVING EVERLASTING JOY, A Journey Map” was written by Ellen as a support and help to all people in their struggle to become integrated and transformed. She states that the multidimensional Inca Medicine Wheel shows us where we are in our emotional/spiritual evolution, the places we need to travel to in reaching our goal, and the steps around the “Wheel” that we need to take to reach joy everlasting.

Ellen Spivey is also an artist painting mostly unique portraits and wildlife. She has a special love of Native American cultures and has many Indian portraits, often with wildlife and bits of landscape in them. She sometimes hides faces of people and animals in the paintings and many times they just magically appear without her being aware of them. On one occasion she painted a Native American woman riding a pony across a night sky, with bursts of stars and clouds. It was hanging at Tu Tu Tango Café where she painted and hung her work when a customer mentioned an angel in a cloud, and sure enough there it was as plain as day, once it was pointed out. Ellen was one of fifty Florida artists who painted at the café on International Drive in Orlando, during dining hours. She has also shown her work in galleries in North Carolina as well as Florida. At present she is one of ten artists with a co-op gallery that features Florida wildlife and landscapes that are true to the natural environment with the goal of preserving as much of the beauty and splendor of the state as it once was. Ellen also paints “soul” portraits and “spirit guides” on commission.

Ellen spent six years in the mystical Smokey Mountains in North Carolina where she lived, worked, painted, and grew. It was a rendezvous with nature as she had experienced and loved as a child. She came back to be with family in Florida and resides in the central area of the state. She lives with one of her three grandsons and her cat.