Author & His Daily Dose Quotations

AuthorHelperTrainingPhilosophyProfessional CredentialsCommunity ServiceSlogansDaily QuotationsPhotosFast-Facts by TopicFast-Facts by BookFast-Facts by Year6 Groups of Topics10 Skills & TopicsAll Menus

About the Author: Helper of Community

  • Be it as a person’s counselor or as a founding member of facilities for people experiencing homelessness, Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S., seeks to make others’ lives better by helping others improve how they function.
  • As a volunteer, he supports community services to improve others’ living conditions.
  • As a counselor, he “counsels” in the traditional sense: advising, directing, and nudging—or pushing—others into facing and resolving their issues.
  • Over 10,000 Quotations by topic on this website.
  • Over 975 posts are available for free reading on this website.
  • Over 1,000+ pages are available for free reading on this website.
  • Over 575 Fast-Facts are available for free reading on this website.
  • Over 200 pdf files are available for free reading on this website.
  • Over 150 Free education information links are on this website.

  • Read and master the life skill of acceptance using the best combination of CBT, REBT, & Stoicism.

About the Author

About the Author: Trained Professional

  • Mr. FitzMaurice has a variety of formal and advanced training in counseling, which includes Addictions Counseling, Family Therapy, advanced Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), and over 1,650 hours of diverse training for continuing education units (CEUs).
  • To make the best use of that extensive training, he takes an integrative approach, grounding himself in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT & REBT) and using the other theories to build upon that one core theory rather than focusing on multiple theories and mastering none of them.
  • After more than twenty-five years in counseling, Mr. FitzMaurice has worked in the substance abuse field, directed two community mental health programs, and spent fifteen years counseling in private practice. During that time, he refined many principles for counseling methods.
  • He now puts those principles and methods into book form to share them with a wider audience so more people can benefit than he can reach in person. He has over fifty books written, most of which are available worldwide as ebooks from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google, Kobo, and Apple.

  • Read and master the life skill of acceptance using the best combination of CBT, REBT, & Stoicism.

About the Author

About the Author: Self-Educated

  • The philosophical odyssey of Mr. FitzMaurice began in the late ’60s.
  • It has remained a mostly self-taught pursuit, with little formal training or education in philosophy.
  • The odyssey started with Western philosophy and a study of pragmatism and atheism.
  • For example, he read every work of Nietzsche translated into English here.
  • From there, he moved to study Zen, Buddhism, Hinduism, and misguided experimentation with psychedelics to achieve states of superconsciousness.
  • He continued into Eastern philosophy, pursuing Taoism and J. Krishnamurti.
  • Next came a study of Christianity that started with seven readings of the Old Testament and nine readings of the New Testament from cover to cover. A deep dive into the study of Western psychology followed this.
  • The ongoing influences for FitzMaurice’s thinking continue to be Christianity, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (REBT & CBT), General Semantics, and an Eastern combination of J. Krishnamurti, Taoism, Yoga, and Zen.
  • More information about the author’s life can be found in Stiffer: Stoic Mind.
  • More information about the author’s philosophy can be found in Mind-Moving (M-M): Healing’s Unifying Principle.

  • Read and master the life skill of acceptance using the best combination of CBT, REBT, & Stoicism.

“Stiffer

About the Author: Professional Credentials

  • Academic Credentials: Master of Science (M.S.) in guidance and counseling, with a specialization in agency counseling, from the University of Nebraska. Associate of applied science in human services – chemical dependency counseling (with honors, from Metropolitan Community College.
  • National Certifications: National Certified Counselor (NCC) [active for 20+ years, now expired]; Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor (CCMHC) [active for 20+ years, now lapsed]; Family Certification in REBT; Primary Certification in REBT; and Advanced Certification in REBT.
  • State Certifications: Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and Certified Gambling Addiction Counselor in Nebraska. Both were allowed to lapse.
  • State Licensure in 3 States: Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Oregon [lapsed mid-2018]; previously Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) in Nebraska; previously Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Iowa.

  • Read and master the life skill of acceptance using the best combination of CBT, REBT, & Stoicism.

“Stiffer

About the Author: Contributions to the Community

  • Community Service: One of the founders of the Francis House, Siena House, and Stephen Center homeless facilities still operating in Nebraska.
  • He also developed a community free yoga program from one class and thirty-two members to over 4,600 and over a dozen free yoga classes.
  • Certified Yoga Teacher: Trained and certified in Mumbai, India. FitzMaurice’s yoga classes format.
  • Charity Organizations: FitzMaurice used to be a proud supporter of several charities he now no longer believes are respectable or worthy. AmnestyInternational, Uman Rights Watch (HRW), ILO, LawyersCommittee.org, OHCHR.org, and the UN are too busy persecuting Israel for defending against the known terrorist group Hamas (Iran) to care about helping people suffering from Islamist regimes. Someone explain to them that triage requires focusing on the worst doing the worst, not donations or political-correct agendas. Someone help them face the fact that Christians are the most persecuted group worldwide.
  • Over 10,000 Quotations by topic on this website.
  • Over 975 posts are available for free reading on this website.
  • Over 1,000+ pages are available for free reading on this website.
  • Over 575 Fast-Facts are available for free reading on this website.
  • Over 200 pdf files are available for free reading on this website.
  • Over 150 Free education links are on this website.

  • Read and master the life skill of acceptance using the best combination of CBT, REBT, & Stoicism.

“Stiffer

About the Author: Author’s Slogans

  • Do the absolute right thing anyway.
  • “I am the enemy of self-constructions.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
  • “Self-constructions are public enemy number one.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

  • Click to go to a page for more information.

About the Author Menu


  • Read and discover the best diagrams and maps of how people play games with your mind and heart.

Games Ego Plays Cover

About the Author: Daily Quotations


  • Read and discover the best diagrams and maps of how people play games with your mind and heart.

Games Ego Plays Cover

About the Author: Author’s Photos

About the Author page

  • Well-Known Internet Photo
  • The above photo of Mr. FitzMaurice is outdated from a younger age, and it continues to be used because Mr. FitzMaurice is known by that photo. The hairstyle and glasses shown in the photo remain mostly the same, but the hair is now whiter, there are more wrinkles, and there are other visual signs of aging.

About the Author: More Recent Photo of Kevin in 2018

  • This is a passport photo, and the USA requires no glasses or smiling on passport photos.

A more recent photo of Kevin from 2018.


  • Read and discover the best diagrams and maps of how people play games with your mind and heart.

Games Ego Plays Cover

About the Author: 6 Groups of Topics Menu


  • Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.

“Stiffer


  • Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for your feelings and stress.

Breathe Your Mind

About the Author: 9 Skills & Topics Menu


  • Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.

“Stiffer


  • Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for your feelings and stress.

Breathe Your Mind