For twenty-five years, Matthew and his wife raised saddle mules, Navajo sheep, and summer thunderstorms on a canyon ranch outside of Sedona, Arizona. Matthew has a doctorate in clinical psychology.

 

  Obsessed with the new field of eco-psychology; the disconnect between human behavior and Nature frightens him.

 

   After studying anthropology at the University of Alaska, Matthew enjoyed seven winters in a meditation monastery in Switzerland and thirteen summers smoke jumping out of Fairbanks, Alaska. After graduate school he spent ten years as the clinical director of Nanizhoozhi Center in Gallup, NM—a mental-health treatment center recognized for adapting ancient Native American practices into modern interventions. His Navajo friends—along with their hogan-ceremonies, NAC tipi, sweat lodge, sundance cottonwood tree, and the desert sky—are woven into the fabric of his heart.

 

   Matthew hides out in Northern Arizona with his wife, their animals, and his spiritual mentor, J.C. Coyote