Hugh Prather

Hugh Prather (January 23, 1938 – ) is an author, minister and counselor who is most famous for his first book Notes to Myself (ISBN 0-553-27382-5), which was first published 1970, sold over 5 million copies and has been translated into 10 languages. [1]. Born in Dallas Texas, he earned a bachelor's degree at Southern Methodist University in 1966 after study at Principia College and Columbia University. He studied at the University of Texas at the graduate level without taking a degree.

Together with his second wife, Gayle Prather, to whom he has been married since 1965, he has authored books including The Little Book of Letting Go, How to Live in the World and Still Be Happy; I Will Never Leave You: How Couples Can Achieve The Power Of Lasting Love; Spiritual Notes to Myself: Essential Wisdom for the 21st Century; Shining Through: Switch on Your Life and Ground Yourself in Happiness; Spiritual Parenting: A Guide to Understanding and Nurturing the Heart of Your Child; Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions; I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me; A Book of Games: A Course in Spiritual Play; Love and Courage; Notes to Each Other; A Book for Couples by Hugh Prather and Gayle Prather; The Quiet Answer; and There is a Place Where You Are Not Alone.

While Prather could be categorized as a New Age writer, he draws on Christian language and themes and seems comfortable conceiving of God in personal terms. His work underscores the importance of gentleness, forgiveness, and loyalty; declines to endorse dramatic claims about the power of the individual mind to transform individual circumstances; and stresses the need for the mind to let go of destructive cognitions in a manner clearly reminiscent of that recommended by the cognitive-behavioral therapy of Aaron Beck and the rational-emotive therapy proposed by Albert Ellis.

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