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Karen Sherman on Motivational Minds Radio

November 3, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

On October 26th, 2009 Justin Sachs of Motivational Minds Radio interviewed Karen H. Sherman, PhD about her new book Mindfulness and the Art of Choice: Transform Your Life from Loving Healing Press. Each person is entitled to have “the good life.” Most don’t experience this because of getting caught up in reacting, continually recycling old patterns that keep you stuck and emotionally frozen. By practicing the simple tools in Mindfulness and the Art of Choice, you’ll learn how to live mindfully and create the great life you want. The Art of Choice Will Make a Difference

Understand why you have not been able to achieve the life you desire

Become aware of the signals that indicate you are responding in an old “knee-jerk” reactive patterns

Notice and turn off old negative thought patterns

Learn ways to heal old leftover emotional wounds

Deal with specific everyday issues that get in the way of a satisfying, joyous life

Karen Sherman, Ph.D., has been in private practice for over 20 years. Her first book, “Marriage Magic! Find It, Keep It, and Make It Last” was originally published in 2004 with co-author Dale Klein. She is also a contributing author to “101 Ways to Self-Improvement, Vol. 2,” a featured writer on “Yahoo Personals,” has a weekly blog on ThirdAge.com, and writes the Disputes column for Hitchedmag.com. She is interviewed regularly in the media, and is a frequent guest on both national and international talk radio stations. Dr. Sherman conducts a variety of workshops on relationships and lifestyle issues. She serves on the faculty at CW Post University and she is active in many counseling associations. Karen resides on Long Island, New York, is married and has two daughters. In her spare time, Karen enjoys reading, traveling, and playing Suduko.

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New Quarterly Journal - call for submissions

March 13, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

I am very pleased to announce a new quarterly journal which follows the interests of our authors in the areas of personal growth, relationships, trauma recovery, living with disabilities, the struggle for identity, and bereavement in adults, children and elders. Karim Khan (a.k.a. Ernest Dempsey) who has been at the helm of a successful literary quarterly The Audience Review (http://www.worldaudience.org/pubs_aud_rev_issues.html )
has accepted the post of Senior Editor for this project, ensuring it will come to fruition.

As such, we are soliciting articles including essays, memoirs, poetry, and art in all areas. Articles should be 1,000 to 4,000 words and submitted in plain text format. All though we aren’t really interested in reprinting material from existing printed books or journals, you can of course mine your own blog posts or other electronic media writings you have done in the past. You can direct ALL submissions to Karim directly at dempsey87 “at” yahoo.com

Once we get off the ground, we hope to have specific “themed” issues, but first things first

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Karen Sherman on Personal Best with Dr. Arron Grow

February 15, 2009 by Victor Volkman.

On February 10th, 2009 Dr. Arron Grow interviewed Karen H. Sherman, PhD about her new book Mindfulness and the Art of Choice: Transform Your Life from Loving Healing Press. Each person is entitled to have “the good life.” Most don’t experience this because of getting caught up in reacting, continually recycling old patterns that keep you stuck and emotionally frozen. By practicing the simple tools in Mindfulness and the Art of Choice, you’ll learn how to live mindfully and create the great life you want. The Art of Choice Will Make a Difference

Understand why you have not been able to achieve the life you desire

Become aware of the signals that indicate you are responding in an old “knee-jerk” reactive patterns

Notice and turn off old negative thought patterns

Learn ways to heal old leftover emotional wounds

Deal with specific everyday issues that get in the way of a satisfying, joyous life

Karen Sherman, Ph.D., has been in private practice for over 20 years. Her first book, “Marriage Magic! Find It, Keep It, and Make It Last” was originally published in 2004 with co-author Dale Klein. She is also a contributing author to “101 Ways to Self-Improvement, Vol. 2,” a featured writer on “Yahoo Personals,” has a weekly blog on ThirdAge.com, and writes the Disputes column for Hitchedmag.com. She is interviewed regularly in the media, and is a frequent guest on both national and international talk radio stations. Dr. Sherman conducts a variety of workshops on relationships and lifestyle issues. She serves on the faculty at CW Post University and she is active in many counseling associations. Karen resides on Long Island, New York, is married and has two daughters. In her spare time, Karen enjoys reading, traveling, and playing Suduko.

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Diane Tegarden - Divorce Tips for Women

January 14, 2009 by sysop.

On Monday, January 12th, 2009 Victor R. Volkman spoke with author Diane Tegarden about practical D-I-Y divorce tips for women. Diane is the author of Getting Out of Limbo: A Self Help Divorce Book for Women from FireWalker Publications. which provides step by step instructions on how to achieve financial and emotional independence in preparation for a divorce. During Women’s History Month in March 2008, she was interviewed on several Radio Talk Shows about divorce and domestic violence,Her company, FireWalker Publications Inc., was formed in 2004 to promote her passionate, original written works, materials, ideas and creations. Since 2005, she’s written exclusively for two online content producers, Associated Content and Constant Content.Listen to the PodCast!
Diane Tegarden, is the author of three published books, and currently lives in Pasadena, with her husband, three cats and a dog. She’s been a print journalist since 1992, writing on a wide range of subjects including; renewable energy, environmental concerns, holistic health, women’s issues, and Native Spirituality. Her work has been published in: The Pasadena Star News, Security Sales Magazine, The Pasadena Weekly, The Solar Flare, The Daily Sundial, and many other weekly and monthly publications .She released her first poetry ebook, “Light Through Shuttered Window” in December 2007. Which is a compendium of her poems about life, love and the process of creativity. She is also the author of a science fiction novel entitled Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time” about renewable energy and the changing face of the planet. www.firewalkerpublications.com
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Karen Sherman on Inside Scoop Live show

April 13, 2008 by Victor Volkman.

On April 6th, 2008 Juanita Watson interviewed Karen H. Sherman, PhD about her new book Mindfulness and the Art of Choice: Transform Your Life from Loving Healing Press.Each person is entitled to have “the good life.” Most don’t experience this because of getting caught up in reacting, continually recycling old patterns that keep you stuck and emotionally frozen. By practicing the simple tools in Mindfulness and the Art of Choice, you’ll learn how to live mindfully and create the great life you want.The Art of Choice Will Make a Difference

Understand why you have not been able to achieve the life you desire

Become aware of the signals that indicate you are responding in an old “knee-jerk” reactive patterns

Notice and turn off old negative thought patterns

Learn ways to heal old leftover emotional wounds

Deal with specific everyday issues that get in the way of a satisfying, joyous life

Karen Sherman, Ph.D., has been in private practice for over 20 years. Her first book, “Marriage Magic! Find It, Keep It, and Make It Last” was originally published in 2004 with co-author Dale Klein. She is also a contributing author to “101 Ways to Self-Improvement, Vol. 2,” a featured writer on “Yahoo Personals,” has a weekly blog on ThirdAge.com, and writes the Disputes column for Hitchedmag.com. She is interviewed regularly in the media, and is a frequent guest on both national and international talk radio stations. Dr. Sherman conducts a variety of workshops on relationships and lifestyle issues. She serves on the faculty at CW Post University and she is active in many counseling associations. Karen resides on Long Island, New York, is married and has two daughters. In her spare time, Karen enjoys reading, traveling, and playing Suduko.

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Nancy Oelklaus - Eye of The Needle: A tool for difficult conversations

January 22, 2008 by Victor Volkman.

We proudly present an “Eye of The Needle”, an excerpt from Nancy Oelklaus address to the International Association of Business Communicators in Austin on 1/8/08. This is a powerful tool for approaching the difficult conversations in your life.Executive Coach Dr. Nancy Oelklaus will be leading a four-month series for personal transformation in Quad 3B at Riverbend Church, 4214 Capital of Texas Highway in Austin, on the fourth Saturday of each month, January-April, from 1:30-4:00 p.m. The group size is limited to 10 people, and the monthly fee is $85.
Here are the topics for each session:

Dissolve Barriers: Forgive the actions and behaviors of the past, both yours and others.
Imagine: With former barriers dissolved, from the heart, imagine the life you truly want to live in relationship with God, yourself, and others.
Co-create: Create the reality you want to live in.
Sustain: Establish daily practices to sustain the change youve made.To enroll, e-mail Nancy@TheSuccessAccelerator.com.
For more information, call 512-431-4946.

Journey From Head to Heart Is…

a toolkit for those who are exhausted from solving never-ending problems, working harder and harder and not arriving at the destination where they truly want to be

A Map for how to make the journey from head to heart and then integrate the two so that the power of ego is diminished and the Authentic Self can emerge to live and work from the power of the human spirit.

A Reference book that may be used for many years to come as the reader meets life’s challenges with success that satisfies both the head and the heart.

Journey from Head to Heart is exactly that, integrating logic, reason, emotion, spirituality, Christianity, science, and ancient wisdom from a variety of sources to create a recipe for wholeness. The tools and processes are designed for people who are a little wary of “touchy-feely” or “New Age” approaches.

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Nancy Oelklaus - Journey from Head to Heart

December 2, 2007 by Victor Volkman.

This week, Authors Airwaves features Nancy Oelklaus reading a special sneak preview from Chapter 1 of her new book Journey From Head to Heart: Living and Working Authentically, available in March 2008 from Loving Healing press. Specializing in helping people make transitions,
her knowledge and skills have been learned through more than 30 years of working in education and business to understand how adults learn and change—and how they can do it faster so that they may spend more time in “happily ever after.” Listen to the PodCast!

A toolkit for those who are exhausted from solving never-ending problems, working harder and harder and not arriving at the destination where they truly want to be.
A Map for how to make the journey from head to heart and then integrate the two so that the power of ego is diminished and the Authentic Self can emerge to live and work from the power of the human spirit.
A Reference book that may be used for many years to come as the reader meets life’s challenges with success that satisfies both the head and the heart.Journey from Head to Heart is exactly that, integrating logic, reason, emotion, spirituality, Christianity, science, and ancient wisdom from a variety of sources to create a recipe for wholeness. The tools and processes are designed for people who are a little wary of “touchy-feely” or “New Age” approaches.

Journey from Head to Heart: Loving and Working Authentically

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Marian K. Volkman - Maximizing Happiness in Your Life

August 5, 2007 by sysop.

This week we feature Marian K. Volkman on “Maximizing Happiness in Your Life” recorded live at the 2006 Mind/Body/Spirit Festival in Warren, Michigan. Can we choose happiness or does it all happen by chance? What is happiness, anyways? The answers to these questions along with the four keys to success are answered in this week’s interactive and lively discussion. Marian is the author of Life Skills: Improve the Quality of Your Life with Metapsychology and Turtle Dolphin Dreams (a work of visionary fiction).
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Life Skills highlights key factors from the subject and illuminates the ways that these factors can be used on a daily basis for improved quality of life, as an individual, in relationships, and in the wider world.

Learn handy and usually quite fast techniques to assist another person after a shock, injury or other distress.
Learn simple methods for expanding your awareness on a daily basis.
Gain a deeper understanding of what a relationship is, and how to strengthen and nurture it.
Learn the components of successful communication, what causes communication to break down, and how to repair breakdowns.
Gain vital keys to understanding those behaviors of other people that have previously been inexplicable to you.
Gain the ability to more accurately predict certain patterns of human behavior, and to be more effective in dealing with the negative ones.
Learn an effective tool for making important life decisions.
Explore human potential.

What if we shared planet Earth with other intelligent species?
What if inter-species communication were really possible?
Seek out some answers in Turtle Dolphin Dreams… An extremely unusual work of fiction in which three creatures, a turtle, a dolphin and a human link minds through dreams to bring a unique perception of the world. Most of the narration is by the Turtle (via the human) and Dolphin’s voice comes through both turtle and human, yet somehow this strange book hangs together and holds the reader’s attention.”A pearl is a small thing, and yet it is as precious as any jewel. So is this little book.”
–Robert Rich, Ph.D.

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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, Search Lights For My Soul, 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, The Story That Must Be Told, 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, Dance On His Grave debuted at the same time her non-fiction short story debuted in The Story That Must Be Told: True Tales of Transformation. 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.).
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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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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 on Authors Audio. 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.