Ann Goffe

 

Ann Goffe has a colorful career past as a community organizer, small business entrepreneur, and natural health counselor in her native Jamaica. She has also lived in the Eastern Caribbean and the United States, settling in Philadelphia where she practices psychotherapy and life coaching.

Ann is the founder and director of the Trickster and the Prize, a workshop which represents the author’s ten-year quest to find the meaning of, and the means to, well-being. Her work, which is based on  research in psychology, folklore, and religion, on her clinical observations, and a relentless self-inventory,  presents a new and hopeful answer to an old question: why do we human beings, in spite of our best intentions and strongest desire, fail to keep our word to do our best and make our dreams come true?

In 2011 Ann’s younger son, Daniel, died at the age of 23 of a drug overdose. His death heralded a series of extraordinary events, unbelievable yet undeniable, that rang with a clarion call from Daniel:  neither time nor space nor flesh, not even death can conquer love. And in the end love is all that matters.

For the Love of Daniel is a tribute to Daniel, written with the desire to share his good news.