Guest Post by Ann Brandt Author of “A Caregiver’s Story”

Within three years I learned about two different rare diseases. I also mastered the art of caregiving. My husband and I practiced caregiving on each other. He was first. Persistent, excruciating pain in my right shoulder was found to be caused by Guillain Barre Syndrome—GBS—a rare disease that causes paralysis for a period of time, then recedes, leaving the patient to rebuild his or her body—slowly. GBS—so goes the saying—stands for Getting Better Slowly.

However, I had to step up the healing process because my husband was taking his turn as the patient. His disease was far more serious and decidedly life-threatening Cancer. more explicitly, cancer of the brain. Moreover, in line with the precedent we seemed to have established for rare diseases during this period, George’s brain tumor was diagnosed as Primary Central Nervous System Non Hodgkins Lymphoma—PCNL, a rare type of brain tumor. The prognosis was grim—twelve weeks at best.

I had experienced caregiving from the other side of the bed, so to speak. So, I had the advantage of knowing how it feels to be helpless and ill. However, my illness had not been life-threatening, just inconvenient. Moreover, during my recovery I slept most of the time, waking up only for short periods. George’s battle would test abilities that I had never dreamed of.

During my turn as patient, I had maintained my wits and cultivated my already quirky sense of humor. When a wheel fell off the wheelchair as George was pushing me into Denny’s on the way home from the hospital, I laughed. When we attended a play one evening in a place at the top of a hill and George hit a patch of ice, the wheelchair with me sitting and George hanging on—for dear life, I imagined—whizzed down to the parking lot while onlookers gazed in amazement. I laughed for two days.

Brain cancer is different. I still found humor, but the opportunities were few and the circumstances bleak. Most of the treatments were done with George as a hospital patient. I’m convinced that people who work in oncology units are special. Their empathy and caring ways made me feel that everything was going to be OK.

It helps to be in denial. Contemplating a future without George was so awful that I couldn’t think about it. The future was a long black tunnel that I wanted no part of. And so my friend denial kept me going. Each morning I would walk the dog, eat breakfast and join the traffic going into the city, hoping to be at the university hospital in time for morning rounds so I could glean as much information as possible from doctors and students. Many evening drives home provided a beautiful sunset—colors changing from orange to purple and fading to create an effect of a large pearl covering the sky.

Caregivers need an outlet, a way to unwind. My garden was my solace. Alone and quiet, I puttered among my flowers, weeding, deadheading spent blossoms, watering. Then I would heat up a hot dog or fry an egg, watch the evening news and go to bed. Some caregivers I have spoken with cannot bear to be alone. I cherished my solitude. Life was on hold and I floated through each day in a kind of daze.

The day came when the treatments ended. The final MRI was done and we waited for the results. The biopsy and the journey had begun on May 5, 1998. On September 15, 1998 the doctor telephoned. “The tumors are gone.” He had to say it three times before we understood those precious words.

When life is handed back to you those four words carry a lot of responsibility. A lot of repair work was in store for both my husband and me. George had to rebuild his memory, create new neuro pathways for reasoning and communication. His body was weak from the brutal doses of chemotherapy. I had to rest and resist the temptation to worry about symptoms. Many survivors of tough diseases harbor a small seed of worry: Is it coming back?

In the years since that awful summer of 1998, we have attended many support groups meetings, counseled many brain cancer patients and their families. I volunteered as patient liaison for the Guillain Barre Foundation for nine years and remain as a member of the local GBS support group. You might say we had a couple of life-changing illnesses.

The Book: 

This is a Guest Post by Ann Brandt Author of “A Caregiver’s Story”

Guide to Awaken Your Deepest Wisdom

Have you found your deepest wisdom? Well, Rosalie Deer Heart’s newly published book “Awaken: Awaken Your All Knowing Heart” is a practical personal guide about love and how the act of loving adds to the expansion of personal and collective consciousness. This is a brilliant resource to expand your awareness in finding your deepest wisdom in order to live authentically. She provides helpful insights on how to live a more fulfilling and loving life. She also includes strategies and exercises to map an individual process and progress.

Rosalie Deer Heart dedicated her life to provide a Resource to the Source. Her personal stories add insight, inspiration and humor to theories of consciousness and energy healing. She weaves theories and stories about love, intuition, creativity, spirituality, manifestation, healing and psychology. Her mission and joy is to provide methods to align your life with your soul purpose in order to access your intuition and receive detailed guidance to empower your goals.

About the Author

Rosalie Deer Heart was born psychic. She can access information and interpret energy about your soul purpose and your unique spiritual signature.

For six decades, she devoted her life being a psychotherapist, teacher, author, sculptor, minister, and cosmic catalyst. She’s also the president of Heart Link Publications and one of the members of Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.

She also authored several books namely: Healing Grief: A Mother’s Story, Harvesting Your Journals, co-authored with Alison Strickland, and Soul Empowerment, co-authored with Michael Bradford.

She now lives in Maine and travels around the world offering workshops and retreats. She savors love, peace, nature, creativity and stars. Heart lives in Maine with her daughter, two wonderful grandchildren, and three cats.

The Book: 

Your Guide for Birthing Your Business Plans

Bonnie Willow’s book, Love, Light and Business is a creatively written, extremely informative book that brings the two worlds of holistic healing and business together in one easy-to-understand manual. It is an invaluable resource for practitioners everywhere. It gives clear guidelines for creating your marketing and business plans, and for determining what style of business you want to create. Every aspect of running a healthy business is covered. An added benefit is the guidance you will receive for interacting with your clients in an ethical, professional and holistically conscious manner.  What makes this book most unique is the enlightening way it illustrates the parallels between human anatomy and the anatomy of a business.

With many years of expertise in the holistic wellness field, Bonnie Willow combines the most effective techniques, concepts and insights to support your goal of uplifting your consciousness to materially manifest that higher state in your business.

About the Author

The Book: 

It’s Not What You Know… It’s What You DO With What You Know

If you are stuck and in pursuit of information that will take you through specific tangible steps to reach your goals, Leap Of Action authored by Beat Schindler is the answer to your prolonged journey.

People find that attaining anything worthwhile in life is not easy. Yes, that is correct because distractions are always present … always at risk of getting in the way of getting things done. Distractions are time guzzlers, sap your energy and prevent focus on what’s truly important in life. Sometimes we get caught up to the extent that we stop growing. But stalled personal growth leads to overthinking, accidents, procrastination, fear, doubt, low self-esteem and freak out moments – to name a few.

Leap Of Action is a road map that helps you break free of distractions and resistances. It is designed to re-energize people, to fully engage them in life once again, and to lead them back to personal growth and development – the natural course of things when what’s preventing it is eliminated.

More than a book, Leap Of Action is a series of exercises designed to vastly enhance peoples’ ability to respond to the many opportunities and challenges they are bound to encounter on their journey. Exercises and action are emphasized because success is not what you know, but what you do with what you know.

According to Beat Schindler, “The first thing that people should understand is that they are in between of two lives – the life they have been given, and the one they are making of it.” Every day everyone decides – consciously or unconsciously – how we are going to use the new day’s time and energy. In this way we are always in the process of transforming what we receive, into what we make of it – for ourselves and for the people around us.

The distractions are many and the demands on our energy are endless. It’s hard to stay focused, remain emotionally stable and be motivated always. Not so with Leap Of Action, says Beat Schindler.

About the Author

The Sacred Gift…

Toni Elizabeth Sar’h Petrinovich, the author of “The Call: Awakening the Angelic Human” enlightens the connection between the spiritual and biological dimensions of mankind. Her approach to explaining the connection between DNA and spiritual growth is really remarkable. It accelerates the knowing and remembering of who you are.

About the Author

Toni Elizabeth Sar’h Petrinovich gained her Doctorate Degree in Metaphysics from the University of Metaphysics in Sedona, AZ. She is a Master Teacher, Metaphysician and a Quantum Physics Researcher
 
She has the capacity to see beyond the physical realm. She is kinesthetically aware of the invisible world and uses her gifts of clairvoyance and clairsentience to help people to tune in with their own soul and access these dimensions.

The Book: 

Real Life Story Unfolds

Minister Willie Holloway’s book “The Life and Times of Willie Holloway” is a real story of his life. This compelling book was written with the hope to inspire other people and learn from his testimonies. He shared a tremendous experiences as to how GOD had lend a hand over him to overcome all the obstacles and struggles he had been through. He revealed his personal insight on a life of drugs, sex, violence, physical and verbal abuse of his childhood.

This book shows that life is really full of trials, difficulties and challenges. He displayed an incredible sense of hope. He never give up of hoping that God will change him and will bring him back in finding the right path for a better existense.

Our faith is our weapon to free us from any evil traps that threatens to destroy us.

About Willie Holloway

Minister Willie Holloway was born in Blytheville, Arkansas.  When he was a teenager, he and his family moved to Neelyville, Missouri and there, he attended high school.

During high school years, Willie played basketball and baseball. He dreamt of becoming a professional baseball player but God had other plans for his life at the age of seventeen. He kept ignoring the calling and went on to do what he wanted to do. As he kept fighting against God’s will for his life, his life was suddenly changed by a dream about hell, which compelled him to write this book.

Today, Willie Holloway is a full-time Minister and a Motivational Speaker. He is very dedicated to God’s work. He speaks with the teenagers about the danger of drugs.

He and his wife Evelyn resides in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. They were blessed with six children and twelve grandchildren.

The Book:  

Your Ultimate Book Marketing Guide

Are you in pursuit of information on how to market your business and gain more exposure online? D’vorah Lansky’s new book “Book Marketing Made Easy: Simple Strategies for selling Your Nonfiction Book online” is an ultimate book marketing guide for authors who aims for a comprehensive, easy to follow step by step tips, tools, and strategies to market yourself as an expert and boost your business online presence as well.

With several years of being an expert in the field of online marketing and mentoring leaders, D’vorah was branded as a “Relationship Marketing Wizard”. She mentors and train business leaders across the globe, online and offline through one-on-one training, group workshops, seminars and tele-seminars.

D’vorah’s “Book Marketing Made Easy” focuses in sharing her expertise with professionals to effectively market their businesses online by growing relationships and heighten their connections through a modern way of obtaining online exposure.

Please watch this video interview with D’vorah. The video of Michelle is a bit weird, but D’vorah looks great and has the best information!

About D’vorah Lansky

Since 1994, D’vorah spent thousands of hours in the study and application of Internet marketing. She’s always been interested in the technology, way back DOS times with her 40 megabyte-hard drive. She teached herself  how to build websites, program databases, and eventually build and design a WordPress blogs.

Aside from being a Published Author, Book Marketing Expert, Client Retention Specialist, Online Marketing Specialist, D’vorah Lansky is also a busy mom.

She loves meeting people and learning new things. Her passions are reading, dancing and laughing. Reading and Writing are the major focus in her life. She calls it …her “Daily Vitamins”.

D’vorah was born in Hartford Connecticut. She gained her B.A. degree at Sonoma State University and finishes her Masters Degree in Education, Integrative Curriculum at Lesley University.

She is also the founder and host of the Book Marketing Conference Online series of event.

Her Book: 

A Vivid Imagination of Realistic Fantasy

Shifters Evolutions Saga is a series of six books written by an Award Winning Author and Semi-finalist of the Laurel Hemingway contest ’97, Ami Blackwelder.

Ami’s writing style is a mixture of Sci-fi/Historical and Sci-fi/Paranormal with a tasteful twist of forbidden romance. These books are not chronological but circular in time. Begin with The Shifters of 2040 which is the book three (3) in a series of six (6) books and chose whether to read the past or the future.

Shifters Evolutions Saga

• Book 1 – The Invasion 2020 – The Invasion Begins
• Book 2 – The SCM 2030 – Military Strategies
• Book 3 – The Shifters 2040 – Struggling to Survive
• Book 4 – The Hybrids 2050 – Divided Loyalties
• Book 5 – The Hunted 2060 – The Twin’s Revenge
• Book 6 – The Revolution 2060 – Dimensions of Acceptance

About the Author

Ami Blackwelder spent her early years in California and moved to Florida where she spent her teenage life. Her creativity in writing started during her third grade. At a very young age, her vivid imagination inevitably impressed his Language Arts teacher by reading her stories aloud in front of the class.

During her college years at University of Central Florida (UCF) where she acquired her BA in English and teaching credentials, her fiction “From Joy We Come, Unto Joy We Return” (The Blair Witch Project University) won the Best Fiction Award in 1997. This was published in the campus literary magazine “Cypress Dome”, which can still be found in libraries across the USA.

In her twenties, she wrote several short stories and poetry. She also joined the military and ended in about a year with an honorable mutual discharge. She then traveled overseas to teach in Thailand, China, Korea Nepal and Tibet. In her thirties while still in Thailand, she began her spiritual re-assessment and was inspired to write three religious/spiritual books.

With her love on writing historical, paranormal and Sci-fi romance genres, she hopes to write four novels a year because she believe that her life’s purpose is to write stories of voices that can be heard and write stories that need to be told.

According to her, “If she dies plentiful supply of novels on her shelf that she had written, whether self-published or not, whether be on the best seller lists or not….she’ll die happy”.

The Book:   

Authors….  Having trouble selling more books?

Need some book marketing ideas?

Come join me as I work through the top 25 book promotion tasks each author can do to help promote themselves, their books and get the word out.  My calls are always intimate, and you’ve got lots of time to ask questions before and during the calls.  I review the questions and follow up to make sure that you are understanding the ideas I’ve given.

My strengths are aligning your energy with the right marketing concept for you and your book.

In this series just a few of the topics I’ll be touching upon include:

I’m not going to write a huge sales letter, hype you or pressure you into joining this series of calls.  Hundreds of authors have worked with me and I’ve been teaching on and offline for more than 20 years – so if you feel an energetic alignment with me, then sign up, or email me for more information.

The calls are  series of four tele-classes Tuesday June 7th at 11 AM ET/8 PT and following the next 3 Tuesdays, June 14, 21, 28 at 11AM ET /8 AM PT

The calls are all recorded so if you need to miss any of them you can listen later and still ask questions!

The total for this series of classes is only $77.00

If you want to join our calls, then  please sign up, reserve your space, and come join me as I teach and mentor you to sell more copies of your book and reach more people.

After you sign up, then a confirmation email will be sent asking you to join the email list specifically designed for this call series.  All the details will be sent via email.

Communicate With Your Unconscious Mind

 
Four (4) ingredients how to change your thinking

About the Author

Joanna Cameron known as Trance Lady has a Doctorate degree in Clinical Hypnotherapy.  She is a certified instructor of Hypnosis, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Time Line Therapy (TM) for ten (10) years.
 
She works with the Innovators Group as a keynote speaker. As the Trance Lady she performs as a comedy hypnotist for high schools, colleges, and corporations. 

She’s a member of the American Board of Hypnotherapy and the Time Line Therapy (Tm) Association. She maintains a private hypnotherapy practice in McLean, VA.

“Her mission is to assist you to expand your consciousness using hypnosis. You know much more than you think you do.  You can have new ways of looking at old problems.”

Book here:

Press Release from The Trance Lady:

New book rejects all diets, shows readers how to “trance-end” overeating
“Forget Diets, Plant Tomatoes: A Metaphoric, Hypnotic Journey to Stop Emotional Eating” by Joanna Cameron shows readers how to fulfill emotional needs by addressing the cause, rather than the result
McLean, Va. – With countless weight-loss books promising results through pie-in-the-sky diets, Joanna Cameron introduces readers to a bold, off-beat new book that deals with the root cause of emotional eating in “Forget Diets, Plant Tomatoes: A Metaphoric, Hypnotic Journey to Stop Emotional Eating” (ISBN 1453722688).
“Diets don’t work over the long-term,” Cameron says. “Diets teach people to obsess about food and feel deprived. As a hypnotherapist, I witness the emotional pain and struggle my clients have with weight issues. I designed a simple seven-step program to stop emotional eating. The weight falls off and stays off.”
With her British accent, Cameron addresses readers’ unconscious minds with free downloadable MP3’s, self-hypnosis, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), poetry and vivid imagery. By mixing the elements of chakras and balance with an emphasis on living a happy existence, Cameron seeks to reconnect the unconscious to the body-mindful state.
“Let’s face it,” Cameron says, “if you could have lost the weight consciously then you would have already done it. When you stop eating to your heart’s content, you can achieve your heart’s desire. I wrote this book because I have seen the joy and increased self-esteem my clients have when they let go of the weight for good.”
“Forget Diets, Plant Tomatoes: A Metaphoric, Hypnotic Journey to Stop Emotional Eating” is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.
About the Author:
Joanna Cameron, a member of the American Board of Hypnotherapy, holds a doctorate in clinical hypnotherapy and is certified to teach hypnosis, the Time Line Therapy™ technique and NLP. Cameron is featured alongside Deepak Chopra, Denis Waitely and Jack Canfield in the book “Stepping Stones to Success.” She also entertains internationally as “The Trance Lady,” a comedic hypnotist, and speaks to audiences on weight loss and overcoming anxiety.