Sarah Anne Edwards, PhD, LCSW,

Sarah Anne Edwards, PhD, LCSW⁵⁷⁶⁹

I'm an ecopsychologist and Licensed Clinical Social
Worker. For the past twenty-five years, I've counseled people who are searching for the sense of well-being that comes from finding a meaningful way of life that provides a secure income and fits with who they and what they value most.

Now with the economy and environment under-going such dramatic changes, my husband Paul Edwards I co-direct Pathways to Transitions, providing resources, counseling, consulting and Training for Transition.

Over the past ten years we have made many changes in our own life, our work and our home to improve our eco-nomic well-being. Since 2006 we've worked with others in our community to form a non-profit organization called Let's Live Local that's working to make our community more resilient and sustainable in changing economic times. I'm one of 18 US Transition Initiatives Trainers working with community groups that would like to create such an effort in their own community.

Together Paul and I started a local Transition Initiative in our own community, Pine Mountain Club, Let's Live Local.

Together with Paul I've written 17 books on personal, career, and lifestyle choices. Our latest book, Middle-Class Lifeboat, Careers and Life Choices for Navigating a Changing Economy, presents the rich variety of ways people all across the country are changing the way they live and work in response to today's economic and ecological realities and and their desire to preserve core values of integrity, contribution, and meaningful relationships with others and the natural world around them.

We live in the Los Padres National Forest in what we call a nearby-far-away place north of Los Angeles. here I also Director of the Pine Mountain Institute offering online continuing education programs (CEU's) for helping professionals who want to meet the psychological, spiritual, and practical needs of others who are adjusting to energy and environmental-related changes and their economic consequences.

In my novel, Sitting with the Enemy, I've portrayed the many ways our culture presses us to abandon our core values and how nature can bring us back to ourselves. In the sequel Rose from Katani Falls, the characters are grappling with same issues we're are all facing as our economy shifts and we adjust to a more realistic and sustainable way of life.