MACKIE Magazine August-Sept Issue 4 November 2013 Anniversary Issue | Page 16

Ester Nicholson is an author, Agape International-licensed spiritual therapist, motivational speaker and inspirational recording artist who brings her personal experience of 25 years of sobriety coupled with a deep understanding of spiritual teachings to audiences around the globe - with riveting keynote addresses, soulnurturing music, transformative workshops and a popular online radio program. For the past 17 years, she has studied under Michael Beckwith, founder of Agape and a featured teacher in the book and motion picture, The Secret. A gifted vocal artist with her own national releases, she has completed two world tours with Rod Stewart and Bette Midler in addition to appearing on such television shows as Oprah, The Tonight Show, The View, Good Morning America and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Ester is currently hosting a top-rated, weekly talk show on Unity Online Radio, facilitating workshops and giving keynote addresses to institutions, companies and organizations, incorporating concepts from 12 Keys To Freedom: A Path to Metaphysical Recovery – her soon-to-be-released book (now available in Kindle and pre-release versions) based upon spiritual principles and the 12-Step recovery process. “We are collectively standing at a recovery moment? in our history - with challenges that face us on so many levels. As a people, as businesses, as educators and as organizations, we are at a point where we need to rethink, re-tool and re-engineer our future. For me, that suggests a basis in straight talk, back-to-our-roots thinking, and embracing a future that is consistent with foundational principles we all share - regardless of our religious or cultural background.” - Ester Nicholson As a teacher she illustrates, through her own personal struggle with - and ultimate transcendence over, misguided beliefs that result in personal crisis, addiction and suffering. Nicholson shares, “It has become very clear to me that a false sense of identity and an ignorance of our true nature is the primary blockage to full 16