Kathleen E. Paulsen, Ph.D., RScP
Biographical Note "I have only now realized that something
endless has broken ground in me,
and I have no choice but to live
and love until it grows me like a tree."
--Mark Nepo My earliest awareness of God occurred one day in 1939, when I was three years old. Germany had invaded Poland;  my baby sister was
being born, and my parents were troubled, as my father had just received a notice to report to his draft board. Unfettered by adult concerns, I was alone dancing in our living room, celebrating life. Suddenly, I had an intense knowing that I was not three at all, but was actually very ancient. I felt that I was older than my parents, and I was one with eternity. My three-year old vocabulary had no words for this experience, but I never forgot the feeling,
and from that point on wanted to know what this experience was about.
I was four years old when my maternal grandmother introduced me to New Thought. She had been diagnosed with cancer and after several surgeries had been told she had only six months to live. At the time that she developed cancer, she believed that her life was over. Then two of grandmother's adult children suddenly were in crises and needed her help. Grandma, deciding that she now had reason to live,
discovered the writings of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, Emma Curtis Hopkins, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emmet Fox, Emilie Cady, Mary Baker Eddy and other New Thought writers and began applying their teachings to her life. In six months she had no signs of cancer. While she was discovering her wholeness, she lived with us, and taught me the Unity School of Christianity principles that she was studying. She
also taught me the "Prayer of Faith" by Hanna Moore Kohaus. At age six when I developed panic attacks in response to childhood trauma, I discovered the power of prayer and the use of affirmation in my own life. As I used the "Prayer of Faith" like a mantra, Spirit moving in, through, and as me, eliminated my panic attacks.
At age ten, I discovered the power of denial. I had complained to my mother of feeling headache and nausea. "I probably shouldn't say this,
Kathleen, " she had said to me, "but I have no doubt that you're going to have migraines just like I have and just like every woman in my family has had for generations." For a split second, I was horrified, and then Spirit spoke through me, and I found myself vowing silently, but with fierce passion: "I will NOT have migraine headaches!" After that even though my sisters and cousins on that side of my family all developed migraines, and even though, I too have experienced the
warning aura of classic migraine, I have never had a migraine headache. In the instant that Spirit spoke through me, and I found myself denying all power of migraine headaches over my life, I believe I experienced a spontaneous cure.
My childhood was rich in both blessings and trauma, but my grandmother taught me early to find the pony in the room full of manure, and I have. In early adulthood, as a young mother of three,
during a particularly trying time, I read Victor Frankl's, Man's Search for Meaning. Inspired by Frankl, I vowed to find meaning in suffering, so that I could learn from it in order to be able to help others. This led me to earn two masters degrees and a doctorate. I have worked as both teacher and psychotherapist in secular settings while simultaneously pursuing increased understanding of the activity of Spirit in life--as if these were two different things. After finding
Seaside Church of Religious Science in 1997, I knew I had found my spiritual home, where I soon discovered that Spirit, Life, and I are one. I have three grown children and six grandchildren, and am married to Larry "Lucky" Paulsen with whom I celebrate life. Return to Main Practitioner Page
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