Arnie is transforming organizational healthcare, as well as our individual lives through his work as an author and publisher. By experience and education, Arnie is a certified Spiritual Director, a PhD, a poet, a health consultant, a certified financial planner, and a chaplain. By humanity, he is a friend. A man who’s walked an impossibly bumpy road. He is all the layers of a human being with a lived life. Through deep meditation, open spirituality, Chinese medicine, and rich friendships, Arnie found his way to sublime. To arrive, he paired spirituality (the air) with deep work (the earth). Doing the hard work was essential for him to find his way home. Now he’s guiding others to their true home, too--inspiring readers and thinkers with his debut novel, BEFRIENDING YOUR STRANGER. Arnie also works towards his mission of providing a healthcare company that meets the rapidly expanding demand for alternatives to "managed care"​ and "gatekeeper medicine"—a demand being expressed by healthcare providers, insurance brokers, employers, and the general public. Sophus Health works with some of the most progressive-thinking, health-minded, and financially savvy employers in North America, who are boldly co-creating authentic health and wellness programs integrally tied to insurance. The U.S. has reached a tipping point: we can either move into wonder and be open to the exploration of human possibility and sacred space, or we can remain stuck and see limitation coming from old, mechanistic thinking, seeing the human being as a commodity. Our choice at Sophus is clear.Arnie's extensive education and background have prepared him me to see new possibilities in the integration of health insurance and wellness products. One of his graduate degrees is from the University of Massachusetts where he designed “Integral Medicine for the Whole Self,” the first holistic healing educational curriculum at a major university.