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elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">More About John<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1eb7b8f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1eb7b8f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<header><h1 class=\"title entry-title\">More About John<\/h1><\/header><section class=\"entry\"><p>When John Otterbacher talks about \u201cliving out beyond your fears\u201d, he is speaking from experience.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Early Life and Education<\/h2><p>He grew up in the working-class neighborhoods of Grand Rapids, Michigan, choosing to enter the seminary at the age of thirteen.\u00a0 He left monastic training at the age of twenty-one, paying for college with a series of factory and construction jobs.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Career<\/h2><p>After graduating from Aquinas College with a degree in Psychology, he completed Master\u2019s and Doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology at St. Louis University.\u00a0 He has done additional post-graduate study in Urban Affairs, Human Relations, Political Process and Organizational Development prompting the Detroit Free Press to describe him as \u201cbeing educated within an inch of saturation.\u201d<\/p><p>John first became politically active in the efforts of Robert Kennedy and Dr. King.\u00a0 Upon returning to Grand Rapids as an assistant professor and clinical psychologist at Aquinas College, he was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives at the age of 29 and the Michigan Senate at the age of 31. During his eight years in the Michigan legislature, John was a firebrand on health issues, leading successful fights for nursing home reform, the development of a statewide emergency medical service system, and passage of both a new Public Health Code and the Michigan Mental Health Code.\u00a0 The Detroit Free Press described him succinctly as \u201ca refreshing change at a moment when political thought is wallowing in stagnation.\u201d\u00a0 John ran for the U.S. Senate in 1978, losing in the Democratic primary to Senator Carl Levin.<\/p><p>John returned to private practice after his tenure in the legislature, spending a decade providing consultation to individuals and organizations.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Family Life and Sailing<\/h2><p>In the mid-1980s, John took up sailing, spending three years \u201clearning\u201d in the Great Lakes.\u00a0 He and Barbara then took their children, John Ryan (13) and Katie (8 months) on a fifteen-month cruise to the Mediterranean and the Caribbean.\u00a0 During this period, he also sailed single-handed across the Atlantic, from Casablanca to Barbados.<\/p><p>In 1998, John and Barbara did an extended encore cruise with their girls (Katie, 9 and Erin, 5), spending the next six years sailing the Atlantic (four crossings), the North Sea, the Baltic, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean.\u00a0 During those years John began writing seriously.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Work<\/h2><p>Since returning to Grand Rapids in 2004, John divides his time between writing, speaking, and a limited private practice.\u00a0 He has been published in Journal of Clinical Psychology, Sailing, Cruising World and Yachting Monthly (England).\u00a0 He has been published in\u00a0<em>Thin Ice<\/em>\u00a0(Eerdman Press).\u00a0\u00a0<em>Sailing Grace<\/em>, his first full length book, has been honored as \u201cBest New Non-Fiction Book\u201d by the National Indie Excellence Awards, \u201cMichigan Notable Book\u201d and as a finalist for \u201cBest Book\u201d Award by USA Book News.\u00a0 It was retitled and published as\u00a0<em>Outrageous Grace<\/em>\u00a0for the non-North American market worldwide by Adlard Coles (London).<\/p><p>A screen adaptation of\u00a0<em>Sailing Grace<\/em>\u00a0is currently being circulated in Hollywood.<\/p><p>With the growing acclaim for\u00a0<em>Sailing Grace<\/em>, John has become a sought-after speaker to diverse groups and organizations: health care and corporate, educational, nautical, and literary.\u00a0 He has recently finished a new book, titled\u00a0<em>What Remains<\/em>.<\/p><\/section><p>John\u2019s latest book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/johnotterbacher.com\/books\/\">What Remains<\/a><\/em>, is an old man\u2019s first-person, present-tense account of touring backroad America by motorcycle, a journey which deepens his affection for people as they are and re-ignites his sense of adventure about aging itself.<\/p><p>John\u2019s books and speaking are less about dying than living, about finding the adventure in even the most difficult circumstances.\u00a0 Out of personal adversity and years of experience as a psychologist, he fashions a message of hope, perseverance, and love.\u00a0 He confronts life\u2019s realities \u2013 the limits of control, the bankruptcy of victimhood, the power of attitude \u2013 with a blend of forthrightness and humor one news commentator described as \u201can elixir for anyone tiptoeing through life.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-46d3c2a\" data-id=\"46d3c2a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-37d6f2f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"37d6f2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i>\u201cI don\u2019t get to choose everything that happens to me. I do get to choose my attitude towards life and others. I do get to set my priorities, move in the direction of my dreams, and build a life that reflects my deepest values. I don\u2019t have to let fear run my life. 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