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Peggy Fisher and Sylvia Dickey Smith - Finding Transformation in a Marital Crisis
July 29, 2007 by sysop.
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Peggy M. Fisher earned her M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has held various professional careers as a registered nurse, army officer, teacher and guidance counselor. Now retired, she has finally accepted her journey as a writer. She is the author of Lifting Voices: Voices of the Collective Struggle. Her poems have appeared in several anthologies including Commemorating Excellence: the 1998 Presidential Awards. Peggy’s book, , placed second in the Self-help category in the Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award 2007. She is one of the featured authors in an anthology of essays, , to be published by Loving Healing Press in June 2007. Peggy Fisher has completed a memoir, tentatively titled, Journey to the Jewels Within. Peggy M. Fisher has attended many workshops and conferences over the years including the Hurston-Wright Foundation, Goucher College, The Philadelphia Black Writers’ Conferences, the New Jersey Council of the Arts Writers and Arts Programs and The International Women’s Writing Guild Conferences. In July 2003, Fisher completed the Amherst Writer and Artists Creative Writing Workshop Leadership course of study. This Spring she participated in poetry workshops led by Cave Canem Foundation fellows
Peggy M. Fisher has presented workshops in writing for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers at their annual conference for the past three years. She continues her commitment to young people by meeting with them to talk about their needs as she completes a book on coping for teens. Peggy M. Fisher is available for readings as well as workshops. |
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It’s been said that Sylvia Dickey Smith sees everything and misses nothing. She was born and reared in exotic southeast Texas, the land of Cajuns, cowboys, pirates and Paleo-Indians. She entered this world backwards—feet first, and left-handed—and has done most things backwards ever since.At 17 she married a preacher and for the next 28 years followed him across the state as he pastored various local churches. Seven of those years were spent on the Caribbean island of Trinidad, W.I. working as foreign missionaries before returning to Texas at mid-life. At 41 she took her first freshman class and fought her way to a BA in Sociology and a Masters in Educational Psychology while raising four children and being ‘the preacher’s wife’. After that, she worked with non-profit and for-profit organizations within the human services field and conducted private practice as a licensed professional counselor before embarking on a career as a novelist. Her first mystery novel, debuted at the same time her non-fiction short story debuted in . Her plans are to one day develop the short story into a memoir. She currently lives in Round Rock, Texas with her husband, Bill, an Army Colonel (Ret.). Visit the author’s website |
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The Story That Must Be Told: True Tales of Transformation, Vol. I Edited by Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman Loving Healing Press (2007) ISBN 9781932690385 Read the review on ReaderViews.com Synopsis: What will you do when life puts you to the ultimate test? This slim volume contains 21 true stories of courage, love, endurance, and undying hope from people around the USA and UK. Follow each of our authors as they detail what it took to face impossible circumstances and powerfully transform them into forgiveness, understanding, and grace. |
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Alan E. Smith - Introduction to Complementary and Alternative Therapies
July 21, 2007 by Victor Volkman.
| This week Authors Airwaves presents Alan E. Smith, author of the new book Unbreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Therapies. This book is all about hope. From ancient healing therapies to the latest American innovations you have more options for great health today than ever before. Complementary and alternative therapies, known as CAM, are about more than just improving your health. These therapies are about helping you rediscover the joy, the wonder and the beauty of living. We invite you to listen to Alan reading from Chapters 1, 2, 6, and 7. Also, a bonus track describes The Alexander Technique, a simple method of changing the way the body moves to improve range of motion and posture while relieving chronic pain. one of the more than 130 techniques featured in this book. |  |
| They say you can’t “unbreak the mirror”, meaning the damage is done. In the world of healthcare the analogy would be mainstream medicine treating the symptoms of the broken mirror with drugs to try and glue it back together. To UnBreak Your Health™ means discovering the real source of the problem and treating all of it. In this book, you’ll find information new and old and begin to see patterns and concepts between therapies that are consistent through thousands of years and across civilizations around the world. |  |
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David W. Powell - Combat Trauma and Recovery
July 13, 2007 by sysop.
| David W. Powell, author of the award-winning memoir My Tour In Hell: A Marine’s Battle with Combat Trauma, shares his unique insights into the nature of warfare and its impact on the human psyche with interviewer Jake D. Steele. David enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the US Marines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would be able to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he never thought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Even less that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of Da Nang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell. David’s journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteran shows us all how fragile our humanity really is. In addition to killing the enemy on the field of battle, he was witness to countless cruelties including murder both cold-blooded and casual, cowardice under fire, and a callous disregard for life beyond most people’s imagination. With each new insult, he lost a little bit of his soul, clinging to his Bible as his only solace while equally certain of his own demise. |
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| Upon returning to civilian life after a two year enlistment, he found himself with nightmares during sleep, intrusive thoughts while awake, a hypervigilant stance combined with an exaggerated startle reaction, and a seeming inability to control basic emotions like anger and sadness. The price he paid for what would only be diagnosed decades later as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was broken marriages and relationships, inability to hold down jobs leading to bankruptcy, alcohol abuse, and having to hide the service he willingly gave to his own country.
In 1989, David eventually recovered through a simple but powerful technique known as Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and is now symptom-free. Not just for veterans, TIR has since been successfully applied to crime and motor vehicle accident victims, domestic violence survivors, and even children. His story shows what is possible for anyone who has suffered traumatic stress and that hope, healing, and recovery can be theirs too. |
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