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Sr. Mary Elizabeth Lloyd - AIDS Orphans Rising

January 22, 2008 by Victor Volkman.

Juanita Watson of Inside Scoop Live! interviews Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, author of the new book AIDS Orphans Rising: What You Should Know and What You Can Do to Help them Succeed. Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd has been helping the orphans and the Child Headed Households of the missions of the Religious Teachers Filippini for the past 12 years. Her experiences in Albania, Brazil, Ethiopia, Eritrea and India have spurred her on to produce this work. Sister Mary Elizabeth holds a doctorate degree in Nutrition and Public Health from Columbia University. 100% of the profits from this book will go to help the orphans. Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd
Every 14 seconds a Child Headed Household is formed
 
The death of parents from AIDS leaves behind little children, often four or five of them, who desperately want to stay together as a family. In the literature, they call them Child Headed Households. Imagine watching your mother and father slowly die before your eyes, leaving you to bury them and then to raise and care for your younger brothers and sisters. AIDS Orphans Rising takes you through the daily lives of these children.By 2010, there will be 25,000,000 AIDS orphans! Left alone, they will be uneducated, disenfranchised, and unwanted: ripe candidates for radicalization and exploitation by dictators and terrorists. If good people like yourself do not reach out to these children so they can get love, an education and set up in some profitable enterprise, civilization will deteriorate to a point that you will not even recognize it.

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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!    Click here for RSS feed! PupuPlayer PRO		 Nancy Oelklaus
  •  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.		  Turtle Dolphin Dreams

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Peggy Fisher and Sylvia Dickey Smith - Finding Transformation in a Marital Crisis

July 29, 2007 by sysop.

Peggy FisherListen to the PodCast!!   Click here for RSS feed!   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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Sylvia Dickey Smith 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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