Ester R.A. Leutenberg has worked in the mental health field for many years as a publisher, author, and advocate for those suffering from loss. She personally experienced a devastating loss when her son Mitchell, after struggling with a mental illness for eight years, died by suicide in 1986. Soon after Mitchell's death, as a way of both healing and helping others, Ester co-founded Wellness Reproductions & Publishing with her daughter Kathy Khalsa and they developed these therapeutic products: The SEALS series for teen-agers, the Life Management Skills series for adults, and a variety of other therapeutic card, board, and bingo games, balloons, and posters. Ester has co-written the following series of reproducible activity workbooks and card decks created for facilitators: GriefWork, Mental Health & Life Skills, Teen Mental Health & Life Skills, Mind-Body Wellness, Coping, Transitional Life Skills for Teens, Erasing the Stigma of Mental Health through Awareness, and Working with Family Deborah L. Schein, PhD has been an early childhood educator since 1972. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology, a master's degree in education with a focus on curriculum and instruction. She spent many years teaching in early childhood classrooms in urban and suburban settings, and at numerous colleges. More recently, she completed a Ph.D in early childhood education, researching a definition of spiritual development for young children. This quest began when a young child came to her excitedly holding a worm in his hand. At this moment Deb realized that a language of spiritual development did not exist in this inner city school and possibly from most early childhood programs. Amy Leutenberg Brodsky, LISW-S works assisting children and adults in psychiatric crisis. Amy combines her skills and talents as a social worker and artist, and is well known for her creative illustrations of the Emotions product line, therapeutic games, and over 80 books with Wellness Reproductions and Publishing and with Whole Person Associates ]] and now, Nurturing Spiritual Development in Children by Understanding Our Own Spirituality.