Ashley Davis Bush, LCSW is a psychotherapist with thirty years of experience in the mental health field. She is the author of ten self-help books, including the classic Transcending Loss and the Daily Reader, Hope and Healing for Transcending Loss. She is also a trained spiritual director and Reiki master with a specialization in contemplative practices. Ashley founded the Antigua Threshold Singers, a chapter of the Threshold Choir, who sing for dying patients on the threshold between life and death. She and her husband, also a psychotherapist, divide their time between New Hampshire and Guatemala. They have five grown children.