I get results with people

• As hospital chaplain and ethics consultant, I helped people ease their self-criticism about not being the model patient feel that their prayers were heard by the way in which I prayed, going through tough times with them and helping them feel safely accompanied to the other side of the tribulations.
• I have testimonials from a number of people about the results of my Intuitive Consulting. See the testimonials on this website.

2. I get results as an author.

3. During my career, I published more than 50 articles, book chapters, and book reviews, in German (I wrote them myself) and English on illness and faith, pastoral care, education for pastoral care, health care ethics. I published editorials in medical journals.
4. I was the Project Director and Co-Editor of the book, Clergy Ethics in a Changing Society, which was named one of the 10 best books in ministry in 1991.
5. Amazon.com best-seller: Russell Burck, Senior Shock: How to Absolutely Obliterate Money Worries, Boredom, and Fear in Your Retirement (ULTIMATE ENTREPRENEUR $UCCESS SECRET$) (Volume 2), 2014
6. In retirement, I’ve published about 30 more items, esp. LinkedIn articles on Intuition: about 10. In most of these articles, I write solely about my experiences of intuition, telling stories about how intuition has helped me.
7. I create memes, phrases, and language-frames:
   1. “Without the patient, there isn’t any health care team.”
   2. “Good work leads to more work.”
   3. Many memes for spiritual growth, for example,
      “You may forget that the highest powers of the universe don’t set conditions for loving you. The lover never forgets to love you as you are.” Or the meme at the bottom of this website:

3. I get results with myself.

   1. I have had a lifelong issue with anger outbursts. One of my psychiatrists found the language in DSMIV: “Explosive Outburst Syndrome” or “Disorder.” I caused myself and others a lot of trouble with it. My hand analysis teachers had enough of that and told me to go get some really good anger therapy, like Rolfing. I have been in cranio-sacral therapy for nearly five years now. My outbursts are much rarer and milder than they were before.
   2. I have learned about my own intuition, how to use it and how to recognize it in real time.

4. Personal qualities

• I take unusual routes. At a time when people were recommending study of a single discipline, like psychology, I wanted a doctorate in interdisciplinary studies. I wanted to be able to determine whether a concept in psychology meant the same thing as an apparently similar concept in theology. For example, is psychopathology the same thing as sin?
• This course of study has been quite helpful as I listened to physicians talk about patients’ conditions and treatments during clinical rounds.
• My work on German Protestant Pastoral Care (subject of my dissertation) helps me see doctors’ patterns of communications that are similar to ministers’ efforts to communicate with parishioners. The big problem I discovered in my dissertation is that German Protestant pastors sought to communicate a message to parishioners, rather than to listen to them.
• I attended clinical rounds in intensive care units and held rounds for nurses.
• I provided ethics education in several residency programs, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, obstetrics.
• I accept challenges and risks. I am one of the first Americans to teach American style pastoral care in Germany in German.
• I taught in East Germany at a time that it was a crime for a foreigner to do so.
• I use my creativity to solve problems that come with doing unusual things.
• I have a sense of humor.
• I like listening to people and learning from them.
• I am highly intuitive and I know some of what that means.
• I like learning and continue to learn at my advanced age.

5. Lifestyle Choice

   1. As my career ground to an end, I considered myself and my career a disgrace, owing to the anger issues I mentioned above and to disagreements with other ethics consultants about what credentials were necessary to be an ethics consultant. Approaching retirement, I wanted a business of my own, but floundered. I sought help from fingerprint and handprint analysis teachers, who said that my hands show that I am to be an intuitive spiritual consultant who helps people take dark issues of life and turn them into something transformative.
   2. I thought I needed more training or education about intuition, but I soon found that by writing about my own intuition, I became something of an expert in intuition.
   3. The education I got about intuition brought me into a spirituality that I had not experienced as a minister. I have explored some woo-woo areas, which I won’t go into here.

As a result of going through these various steps, I am now confident in my niche, in my ability to help physicians owing to my interest in them and my many years of experience with them, and in my self-respect, which does not deny the distress I experienced at the beginning of retirement, but which affirms my worth and value now. I am now happier than I have been for years.