Article: The Liguorian Magazine

In the November/December 2025 issue of the magazine, The Liguorian, my article “The Catholic Trinity of A Christmas Carol” appears. The article uses Charles Dickens’ classic holiday story as a metaphor for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost of the Christian Trinity as represented in the story as the three ghosts in Dicken’s story.

It is an incredibly researched article with a unique interpretation of “A Christmas Carol” that makes the well-known story into a faith-based metaphor for our modern times.

You can read the spiritually deep article with this link: B.K. Bergman’s Article in The Liguorian.

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Write Now Therapy!

I created writenowtherapy.com in 2021 (also known as getoveritnow.com) as an accessible self-help approach for people where traditional therapy is not an option. Focusing my profession on a very avant-garde approach allows me to use both my personal experience and my professional education in a very non-traditional way. As a mental health professional, I educate people to use writing therapy as a self-help aid.

When I was working toward my MFT, I pivoted with a Master’s degree in Psychology to focus my research and practice on writing as a therapeutic option. Narrative Therapy was already a common practice in many therapists’ offices; however, I was finding there were opportunities to push therapeutic writing further as a low-cost, self-help, guided model.

What I learned from my education and research was that writing as therapy was a highly effective approach, even outside the therapist’s office. I also found that traditional therapy was not a widely accessible option for most people. Whether it was the cost or stigma that still lingered for traditional therapy (especially for men), therapy wasn’t an option for everyone. In fact, in one study listed on the Scientific Evidence page of writenowtherapy.com, doctors worried that if a patient disclosed a mental issue to them, they were not as likely to mention it to another professional, particularly if the person was a new therapist or “stranger.” From there, writenowtherapy.com was born.

Click here to check out the site today!

In 2025, I introduced small group retreats as an avenue to get in-person guided help in a relaxed, personal setting. Come join one of these sessions up in the beautiful California Central Coast. These are either hosted in the wine country of Paso Robles or on Avila Beach.

For info on the retreats click here

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Serial Fiction: The Giantologist

“The Giantologist” widens its reach! The serial fiction novel is now available on three serial fiction websites. Tapas, Royal Road, and Scribble Hub each have the story being posted in chapters and is expected to be 100% complete on each site by the end of 2026.

Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/139424/the-giantologist

Scribble Hub: https://www.scribblehub.com/series/1957954/the-giantologist/

Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/The-Giantologist/info

Back in 2008, I wrote a 556-page manuscript titled A History of Giants. I shopped the manuscript to nearly 100 publishers and agents with no success. The book’s length (nearly 200K words) was going to require the story to be edited down greatly or divided into three books. I tried to find a path forward with editing the book and several starts were attempted and abandoned.

Ultimately, I had a copy of the book produced through Lulu, one of the old self-publishing options at the time, and then put the book up on a shelf and moved on.

Last year, I posted the story on Amazon’s Kindle Vella since Pangloss Seas Books was offered exclusively on Amazon. It seemed like the perfect avenue. That was until Amazon shut down Vella in February 2025.

It was then recommended that I look at Tapas as a new home for the story. “The Giantoligist: A History of Giants” is now posted on Tapas with a schedule to add more chapters from the manuscript through 2025. The story remains at a lengthy 556 pages, so new chapters are plentiful. What’s nice about this continuing saga is that it is a completed story and not simply just a work in progress.

Here’s the blurb about the story:

Twins Darby & Darius are set to spend the summer with the grandparents they barely know the summer after their parents die. On their grandparent’s farm, they learn of their grandparents’ adventures in their search for the existence of giants on Earth. Follow the twins as they walk through their grandfather’s history lesson of ancient giants to the possibilities of giants today. A remarkable story of adventure, faith, and family!

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Screenplay: Badger’s Alley

A pioneering family struggles for survival on their way to California. Their violent fight for survival centers around the villainy Badger’s Alley of the Sierra Nevada mountains where survival ultimately comes down to just how far a person is willing to go to survive.

Badger’s Alley, was listed as a top 25 screenplay on Coverfly.com in December 2023. Additionally, it was also nominated for an IMAGINARIUM award for best screenplay that same year. It garnered further recognition as a finalist in the Creative Screenwriting’s Unique Voices Screenplay Competition and other awards recognition in 2023.

Awards & Recognition

Golden Script Contest

Western films have seen periodic resurgences, but every once in a while comes a filmmaker with an authentic narrative voice. Badger’s Alley is authentic from all aspects, but the dramaturgy is the one thing that stands out. Badger’s Alley is right on the target; it succeeds as a drama and delivers the points.

Female Film Festival

Immediately grabs the audience and gets them excited to carry on with the story. I was immediately tense and became hyperaware of the world and space created. It creates moments where it engages the audience in a variety of emotions on the spectrum and this is done so well.

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Novel: Life in Harmony

“Take the most unexpected turn”

Living in the smallest of towns with an array of hippies, farmers and artists, who are as different as they are close, can be taxing enough without the realization that some of Harmony’s residents may not be what they appear. When Michael and Kate uproot their lives in LA after a miscarriage and move to Harmony, CA (Population 18), they had no idea they’d be sharing their home with a spiritual apparition of a four-year old girl named Ruby. Life in Harmony entertains the thought that the trials we face happen for a reason, and sometimes it takes supernatural intervention for us to understand ourselves, our relationships and the world around us.

Life in Harmony is available now from Pangloss Sea. Click one of the links below to purchase the book today!

To experience the world of Harmony please check out harmonynovel.com. The website is produced in association with VERVETIDE Media & Studios.

Life in Harmony is now exclusively available on Amazon! Click one of these links to purchase the book:

Amazon Print Edition

Amazon Digital Edition

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Inspiration for Harmony Shop Closes

Wampum Trading CompanyThe Wampum Trading Post in Sam Simeon, California closed late in April 2016. Wampum Trading was the original inspiration for the “Gifts from the Sea” shop in my novel, Life in Harmony. Wampum Trading with its seashell souvenirs, incense, and Native American jewelry and artifacts became Ruth’s shop in Harmony in my novel (minus the Native American items).

Wampum Trading had been a long-time staple just south of Hearst Castle along Highway 1 between Monterey and San Luis Obispo. I spoke with Nancy, the owner, early in the week that the store closed. She informed me that the building that houses Wampum and Castle Warehouse was being torn down for a new development by the land owner.

Wampum Trading like Gifts from the Sea was an easily missed treat to those speeding along Highway 1 up and down the coast. It was a quaint little gem for those who appreciated it. I invite you to read some of the Yelp! reviews for the store and it’s neighboring store Castle Warehouse (while there are two different businesses both share the same roof so it was really hard to tell the difference). Many of the reviews are similar stories to what happen to Kate and Michael in Life in Harmony.

Sometimes we stumble into a new adventure along life’s highway when and where we least expect it. Wampum Trading Post was that store for me and so many others. Sadly as Joni Mitchell said, “Don’t it always seem to go, You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”

 

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