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name: Donald Altman
about: Donald Altman, M.A., LPC, is a psychotherapist, former Buddhist monk, international mindfulness expert, and award-winning author of over 15 books on spirituality and mindfulness translated worldwide. Donald currently writes the Practical Mindfulness Blog for Psychology Today. His book The Mindfulness Toolbox was Gold Award winner of two national book publishing IBPA awards in the Body-Mind-Spirit and Psychology categories. Two other books, Clearing Emotional Clutter and The Mindfulness Code were chosen by Spirituality and Practice as "On of the Best Spiritual Books" of 2016 and 2010, respectively. Profiled in the Living Spiritual Teachers Project and featured as an expert in The Mindfulness Movie, Donald has been an adjunct professor at Por Donald Altman, M.A., LPC, is a psychotherapist, former Buddhist monk, international mindfulness expert, and award-winning author of over 15 books on spirituality and mindfulness translated worldwide. Donald currently writes the Practical Mindfulness Blog for Psychology Today. His book The Mindfulness Toolbox was Gold Award winner of two national book publishing IBPA awards in the Body-Mind-Spirit and Psychology categories. Two other books, Clearing Emotional Clutter and The Mindfulness Code were chosen by Spirituality and Practice as "On of the Best Spiritual Books" of 2016 and 2010, respectively. Profiled in the Living Spiritual Teachers Project and featured as an expert in The Mindfulness Movie, Donald has been an adjunct professor at Portland State University's Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program, as well as the Lewis and Clark College Graduate School of Education and Counseling. Donald's new novel "Travelers" is a gripping mystical journey of spiritual awakening and initiation that takes place in a psychiatric hospital. Inspired by Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," Travelers is a story of overcoming loss to find hope, healing and renewal. He lives in Portland, Oregon. ...more