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Becoming a Bedside Advocate Virtual Book Tour

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Nonfiction / Nursing Homes

Date Published: January 3, 2022

Publisher: MindStir Media

 

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At some point in our lives, we are all likely to serve as bedside advocate
for a hospitalized loved one. And, just as likely to be woefully unprepared
when that happens.

The ordinary person has no idea how to navigate hospital chaos and engage
with medical professionals on behalf of their family member or friend.

There is very often no support system, guidebook or coaching available to
us. Yet the better prepared we are to work harmoniously with medical care
teams, the more everyone involved will benefit.

This book aims to humanize the role of bedside advocate by sharing the
author’s lessons learned along with valuable information and insight
provided by medical care professionals.

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Smartphones Don’t Give Hugs Virtual Book Tour

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A Guide Out of Loneliness

 

Nonfiction

Date Published: 04-22-2022

 

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Do you have a thousand Facebook friends and yet you feel alone?

In a world saturated by instant gratification, we have forgotten how to
foster lasting human connections. Although technology allows us to keep in
touch with people who live on the other side of the world, loneliness is at
an all-time high. Why is that? Well, for one thing, smartphones do not give
hugs.

Dr. H. David Burstein takes an in-depth look at loneliness, its modern
causes, and how it may be alleviated. He has found that loneliness is
inextricably woven into the fabric of our human condition. Our need for
connection highlights the biological fact that we are, first and foremost,
social creatures. Feelings of loneliness act as a light on an emotional fuel
gauge, alerting us to our need for accessing personal or social
energy.

This thorough investigation into our yearning for social connection offers
many solutions that will empower us to show up more powerfully in order to
fulfill this basic human need. And these solutions begin with an
introspective excavation of ourselves, our emotions, and our search for
purpose and meaning.

Compelling, insightful, and thought-provoking, this is a go-to guide for a
more fulfilled life.

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The Self-Compassion Project Virtual Book Tour

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How to become emotionally stronger, more effective, and happier by giving
yourself a break

 

Nonfiction / Self-Help / Self Esteem

Date Published: May 16, 2019

Publisher: Becoming Awake LLC

 

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Finding happiness can be like finding the matching sock your dryer ate
long, long ago; you’re sure it’s there, but you just don’t know where to
look.

The Self-Compassion Project is the antidote to endless hours of berating
yourself for not finding inner peace. You’ve tried meditation, self-help
groups, singing bowl therapy and all that other stuff and nothing really
“clicks”. Instead of searching for inner peace, why not simply
uncover it?

In this down-to-earth, practical and witty self-help guide, Rita
Desnoyers-Garcia
offers six simple steps to get to the gooey center of your
soul, where you can finally relax and enjoy life. Rita’s sound advice is
based on years of using her techniques for herself and teaching clients how
to use them. The advice Rita gives will help you:

– Become aware of when you are not being your own best friend (who else is
going to love you more than you?)

– Notice what’s underneath all those “negative” emotions like
anger, fear, sadness, and anxiety- and understand what those emotions are
telling you (it maynot be all bad!)

– Create a new outlook on life that is more positive, peaceful, and leaves
you feeling more at ease with any circumstance what will come your way
(Superwoman, scooch over!)

By the end of the book you’ll understand why self-compassion is the key to
finding your true self. It’s the trick to feeling more in-tune with your
HIgher Self and more aligned with the important people in your life (all
7.53 billion of them!)

Become emotionally stronger, more effective, and happier by giving yourself
a break ( and reading this book)!

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About the Author

Rita Desnoyers-Garcia has been helping people reach their true potential
for over 20 years. After a long career as a social worker in NYC, and while
raising her family, she had a spiritual transformation. She is now a
spiritual teacher, speaker, life coach, comedian, and author. She lives with
her husband and three children in New Jersey.

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Are We Really Biochemical Robots? Virtual Book Tour

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Sam Harris’ Crusade Against Free Will

Nonfiction

Date Published: March 19, 2022

Publisher: Biochemical Press

 

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It’s the 10th anniversary of Sam Harris’ Free Will, one of the most popular
books of the past decade written on the free will debate. Harris’
well-deserved reputation as an author, intellectual, and social commentator
has afforded Free Will exposure that books on the subject rarely enjoy. The
10th anniversary of its publication makes the timing right for a
no-holds-barred critique of determinism and Free Will’s take on determinist
doctrine. The moral implications of the free will debate have gained renewed
urgency from scientific findings that the belief in determinism leads to
cheating, aggression, and other immoral conduct. Are We Really Biochemical
Robots? delivers an unsparing blow to determinism and its circular premises,
reliance on selective evidence, and moral equivalency.

Topics include:

Why science findings claiming to support determinism do nothing of the
kind.

Why determinism’s number one premise, causation, is conceptually and
scientifically unsound.

Why relativity theory and quantum mechanics laid determinism to rest
decades ago.

Why moral and personal responsibility can’t exist in a causal
universe.

Why determinism renders our criminal justice system useless.

 

In perhaps its most unique contribution, Biochemical Robots reaches beyond
the confines of Free Will’s discussion to expose the fundamental flaw at the
heart of determinist doctrine – the self-contradictory nature of
determinist truth claims. Determinism receives its final coup de grâce
in Biochemical Robots’ closing pages. The reign of causation is given a
eulogy that’s long overdue.

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What would having free will require? Free Will maintains we would need to “completely control” everything that determines us. Everything means everything – our genetics, neurophysiology, birth circumstances, personal attributes, cultural identity, etc. Add to these our parents, upbringing, and character. Why would we need to control such a comprehensive array of elements to have free will? The idea that free will would need such extensive controls to operate is far afield of the conventional notion. Is such an absolutist conception of free will justified? Why isn’t free will just what common sense suggests – the limited ability to influence reality, subject to conditions, circumstances, and constraints not of its making?

 

 

 

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The Power of Wellbeing Virtual Book Tour

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A blueprint for rebuilding the social fabric and reimagining an inclusive
society

Nonfiction

Date Published: November 15, 2021

Publisher:
Cogent Publishing

 

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A timely reminder of our shared humanity and the fragile social contract
that binds us together.

This book is also about taking a deep breath and reassessing our
institutions, systems, and values and re-purposing them in an uncertain
post-pandemic world. It is about engineering positive change to achieve a
better world—“for the people”—where most of the
population can thrive and prosper, while building and maintaining the core
values of equality, trust, and empathy. I hope to show how a shift in
perspective that has blossomed in our small island nation might be the
catalyst for far more sweeping change in bigger countries like the United
States and the United Kingdom. I hope that it will help awaken the world to
the fragility of our shared humanity at what may well prove to be a unique
time in history.

 

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About the Author

 I am a lawyer (barrister – Queens Counsel) and a past president of the New Zealand Bar Association. I have a long-standing interest in social justice and the environment. I am a TEDx speaker, author and painter.
Raised in apartheid South Africa, I immigrated to New Zealand over 40 years ago. I recently felt compelled by the pressing issues of our time: inequality, polarization, extremism, global warming, and the disruption caused by Covid 19, to make sense of what is happening around the world today. In my book debut “The Power of Wellbeing”, I challenge readers to join me on a journey and to ignore the naysayers and noise and imagine a better, fairer and more sustainable society – and to create an environment where most people can genuinely flourish and thrive.

 

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