About This Book
Kelvin Rockwell’s thirteen-year-old son, Spencer, is doing what teenage boys do, ignoring his father and growing apart. His four-year-old, Jason, is still planted firmly in his ‘mommy and me’ phase. And his wife, Holly, has spent years demonstrating apathy towards their marriage. The emotional reward of family is disappearing from Kelvin’s life. In an attempt to find an answer to his nhappiness, Kelvin leaves his family for a few days to visit Santo Cielo, a remote village along the coast of Baja California. There, he experiences a life far removed from his own and explores his frustrations with Father Juan Miguel Santos, an old priest who shares his wisdom and life lessons. The first lesson Father Santos teaches Kelvin is that a marriage is like a garden. It must be weeded every day. Kelvin thinks back to a comment Holly made years after they were married â€" that she wasn’t comfortable with him â€" and they did nothing to resolve the problem. The weed that Holly planted squarely in the middle of their marriage hadn’t been pulled. Instead it joined other weeds, choking the color out of their marriage. Weed Therapy follows Kelvin as he searches his soul and his memories in response to Father Santos’s lessons, including the simplest of messages â€" that Kelvin deserves to be happy. Motivated by the old priest’s advice, Kelvin returns home and attempts to put the lessons into action, to replace the weeds with a beautiful garden.
