Author, technologist, inward problem-solver.

From external accomplishment to internal questions.

Michael Forrest is a veteran of the high-technology industry, with over 30 years of experience in leadership roles at global firms and more than 35 granted U.S. patents. But after stepping away from that world and reflecting on his accomplishments, he came to a difficult realization: much of what he had spent his life pursuing… didn’t truly matter.

That realization led him inward. Michael has long been fascinated by the vast power and capability of the human mind — something he believes remains largely underexplored by science and medicine. Having seen friends and family struggle with depression — and experiencing it himself — he began searching for a different way forward.

An inward problem solver by nature, he developed his own intuitive approach to navigating difficult emotions, adapting to tense situations, and finding lasting contentment. That search now lives most fully in his Mindspirations series — four full-color, notebook-sized coffee-table hardcovers exploring wonder through a forest, an ocean, the human body, and an old man’s mountain — and in the Elijah & Friends Awareness Series, a growing collection of high-chroma illustrated books for kids of all ages. Two longer-form standalone titles — the 13+ illustrated novel Elijah Comes Aware and the real-life wake-up call WTF — round out the shelf.

A way to change how we think — and, ultimately, how we experience life.