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The Unshakeable Road to Love Virtual Book Tour

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(VALUE-CENTERED RELATIONSHIPS)

 

Spiritual, Self Help, Relationships / Zen

Date Published: October 15, 2022

Build your relationships upon an Unshakeable Foundation, based upon Eternal
Principles of Real Love.

Based upon the teachings of All World Scriptures, including Zen, the book
explores the difference between Real and Counterfeit Love. As we do, it is
easy to see that all suffering in relationships is due to being caught in
the trap of Counterfeit Love.

This is a Book of Practice, which provides many insights, exercises,
turning points and interventions, so we can apply the powerful principles in
all our relationships.

As we do, pain, upset and conflict dissolve on the spot.

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EXCERPT 

EMBARKING ON THE JOURNEY

“The Whole World Is Medicine.

What Is the Illness?”   

We are all treasure hunters, looking for the secret to fulfilling relationships. Usually, we believe the secret lies in finding the right person, acquiring the best relationship skills and learning to communicate our needs more clearly. Our relationships are usually dedicated to finding happiness, getting our needs met, being powerful or in charge. Basically, we are using our relationships to feel good about ourselves. 

However, despite all our efforts, relationships often become a source of pain and suffering. Conflict, anger, disappointment and loneliness arise endlessly. And many times, when a partner stops supplying our needs, what felt like love one day turns to rejection the next.

When our thoughts are primarily absorbed with what we are needing and receiving, or how to build ourselves up, we live in a prison without bars. It becomes impossible to truly see the person we are with, or what is going on in front of our eyes. Any slight, real or imagined, can become the cause of distress, causing us to withdraw. Any perceived failure or rejection invites underlying feelings of worthlessness to emerge, producing additional depression and stress. The harder we try to make things right, the more complicated they can become. How can we ever find fulfillment in this manner?

About the Author

Dr. Brenda Shoshanna

Brenda is a psychologist, author, speaker, playwright and long term
practitioner of Zen.

Her work focuses upon integrating the practices and principles of East and
West and making them real in our everyday lives.

Brenda offers on going Zen talks for the Morningstar Zen community, founded
by Fr. Robert Kennedy, Roshi. She has spent many years involved in
Interfaith work and dialogue. She also offered talks on Zen and Psychology
at the New York Zendo for eight years.

For the past four years Brenda has presented a weekly podcast, Zen Wisdom
For Your Everyday Life. Over the years she has provided many talks ad
workshops dealing with personal and spiritual development and living an
authentic, meaningful life.

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Bod Behavior Virtual Book Tour

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Personal Transformation, Self Help, Body Image

Date Published: 06-21-2022

 

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A book where readers delight in both an “infectious storyline”
and simultaneously a unique venture into their own personal
development… including handfuls of interviews and excerpts featuring
significantly impactful teachers, mentors and healing, therapeutic
guides.

 

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EXCERPT

 

Chocolate, I know you sound clichéd. For years you’ve been associated with making up for love lost, poetically punctuating rom-com breakup scenes or presented as a prop in illicit affairs: a declarative symbol of substitution. Forgive me, my beloved, where words might fail me; I’ve picked up a drugstore satiny-red box of liquor-filled chocolate for you.  Chocolate has a history through the ages, long before Hershey’s confectionary affair gained speed at the end of the 1800s. 

Anthropologists deem we’ve associated the chocolate bean with love for more than five thousand years, which means that chocolate might be, to speak in broad sweeps, our longest romanticized relationship. 

Our chocolate devotion, however, is definitely not just fluff; it certainly stands scientifically solid, whether in the formation of a solid dark or a solid milk flavor. Ancient cultures prescribed raw chocolate medicinally as a means to activate powerful heart-opening energy, and today, the latest laboratory research reveals that the ingredients in chocolate possess properties that support heart health. 

Of course, I would never dismiss any elements considered divine in sacred ceremonies, and I will absolutely agree that chocolate, in its purest form, is a potent substance. But what I’m investigating here when it comes to craving  is surely not about gorging on bags of raw, unsweetened, hard, whole cacao beans from the Theobroma tree of the flowering Malvaceae plant family. I’m talking about teeth-sinkable, caramel-centered, sugar-laden, chewy, melt-in-your-mouth, candy-corporate chocolate—the kind that is first and foremostly a globbity-glunk of vegetable fat and high-fructose corn syrup, factory designed to dissolve within two to five seconds of making contact with your tongue. I’m talking about the kind of chocolate you can rake up in your top teeth, scraping the northmost side of a covered brick of vanilla wafer, which dissolves just moments after the chocolate-like topping evaporates into that savory-sweet pocket of the mouth just near the back molars. What I’m describing is the type of chocolate bar you can accidentally pack into your oversized purse, wrapped in bright packaging, which comes conveniently in countable squares; one square, two, five, ten—all fractional justifications of one wholly complete serving. Finger-licking chocolate, shirt-collar, car-seat, luggage-staining chocolate; the kind of chocolate that, just like it fills every commercial, can fill in all the gaps in our regularly programmed schedules. 

Wake up, get to work, chocolate, meeting, chocolate, drive home, chocolate, dinner, After Eight chocolate. And, most of all, my favorite kind of chocolate: chocolate that makes us forget what we might have started to long for. Nostalgic peanut-butter cups, fudge- flavored toffee, the sticky sweetness of candies kept from my sticky fingers with just one thin wax paper: oh, how I’ve known you. Mint- thin chocolate layers to support my own tendency to hide out in layers, in a cool refuge away from the hot, grilling mess of intensity that is the rest of the racket-filled world: how you momentarily silence mayhem. 

And while I, too, have romanticized you, chocolate, leaving scandalous trails of wrappers from freezer to carpet-covered basement staircase, I have no clue why the heck I’ve gone through such war fighting against you while simultaneously keeping the intensity of your ammunition alive. Twinkle, twinkle little bar (of chocolate), how I wonder what you are (or what you stand for). Up above my fridge, so high, (to ignore that cupboard how I’ll try—yet, next at market, again I buy).  Yes, it’s a nursery rhyme for the girl who’s lived a life lassoed again and again by foods that trap her in a self-deserting scene, forever deploying dessert as distraction from despair. Oh, chocolate, what do you mean to me? 

Here’s the truth: while I’d explored a multitude of modalities in the past to heal my affliction—my damaged relationship to my body and self-nourishment—when it came to developing a healthier relationship to eating, I’d actually never sought the most obvious type of specialist: a certified and registered dietician. I wasn’t sure exactly why I’d avoided someone who might make me stare in a cognizant fashion right down at the nose of my fork. Why would I be turned off by someone like a dietician, who might expect that I actually put in the time, make the conscious effort during my living daylight hours to positively review and shift my eating habits—to be truly self- accountable? 

When it came to dietary choices, I’d lived under a spell that supposed I was a victim of compulsive eating, like an innocent Giana character going about my day when I was suddenly seized by a tumultuous weather pattern, teleported to the eye of a tornado, for example. I felt that this storm pattern rendered me incapable of any option other than heading, frayed and frenzied, into a food-consumptive hell that, really, I had nothing to do with. I believed I was bullied by an energy, and I’d share this condition with any genre of specialist except those who would mandate that I take the role as my own healer. I chose to go through hypnotisms, rebirths, clearings, cleansings, ceremonies, and cosmic voyages, rather than decide I had the power to sort my patterns out. I’d prefer to have crystals, energetic hands or tarot cards read my energy, but that was my history—and I didn’t have to repeat it. I could believe in myself to liberate my fortune and fate. 

I’d been ready for the last months, and was even more ready now, to look at my relationship to nourishment head-on. I wasn’t just craving chocolate, in fact, when I reached for something that felt opulent and alluring; I was reaching to recognize qualities about myself that possessed such prowess. 

Perhaps I was ready to seek a well-schooled yet holistically informed nutritionist specializing in complex, disorganized or disordered eating styles. After all, these were the experts specifically geared up to help people gain clarity about nourishment itself. I’d seek the wisdom to help me reach within to access inner wealth, rather than reach deeper into a decadent box of Pepperidge Farm chocolate-chunk cookies. 

I determined that, to get to the crux of how behaviors are changed around something as substantial, universal, and essential as eating, I’d go into hard-core research mode. I’d put on more than a thinking cap, darn it—I’d put on a hard hat, because I had to be willing to go deep underground to find how behavioral transformation can successfully take place. I hoped I’d discover some epiphanies in my research, not only for myself but for all the people I encounter who, like me, have struggled with the behavioral ABCs of eating. 

I’d read the stats: the US diet and weight-loss industry was worth 71 billion dollars, with the alternative-therapies industry coming in at around the same and the addiction-behavior therapy industry raking in 40 billion. Obviously, I wasn’t alone: all this rigmarole constituted a whole culture crying out for ways to get a grip on its food behaviors. I wanted to understand, from the leaders who’d been able to impactfully support healing in this area, what the process of remediating self- sabotaging behaviors might look like, and what someone who is truly ready for transformation in this capacity can expect. 

 

About the Author

Isabel Chiara

Isabel Chiara, creator of “The Life Actualization Process,” has
been a guide, mentor, and leader throughout her entire life. Over the last
thirty years, she has honed her expertise in extensive studies and practices
of transformational energy modalities. As a professional intuitive guide,
Isabel activates unlimited potential for her clients, helping them to ignite
their most liberated, passionate and empowered life path, full of
prosperity, miracles, and magic. For more information about Isabel’s
“Life Actualization” processes, as well as her previous
top-selling book, Eat Your Words, visit her website below!

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The Unshakeable Road to Love Blitz

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Spiritual, Self Help, Relationships / Zen

Date Published: October 15, 2022

Build your relationships upon an Unshakeable Foundation, based upon Eternal
Principles of Real Love.

Based upon the teachings of All World Scriptures, including Zen, the book
explores the difference between Real and Counterfeit Love. As we do, it is
easy to see that all suffering in relationships is due to being caught in
the trap of Counterfeit Love.

This is a Book of Practice, which provides many insights, exercises,
turning points and interventions, so we can apply the powerful principles in
all our relationships.

As we do, pain, upset and conflict dissolve on the spot.

About the Author

Brenda Shoshanna

Brenda is a psychologist, author, speaker, playwright and long term
practitioner of Zen.

Her work focuses upon integrating the practices and principles of East and
West and making them real in our everyday lives.

Brenda offers on going Zen talks for the Morningstar Zen community, founded
by Fr. Robert Kennedy, Roshi. She has spent many years involved in
Interfaith work and dialogue. She also offered talks on Zen and Psychology
at the New York Zendo for eight years.

For the past four years Brenda has presented a weekly podcast, Zen Wisdom
For Your Everyday Life. Over the years she has provided many talks ad
workshops dealing with personal and spiritual development and living an
authentic, meaningful life.

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A Woman’s Self-Love Blitz

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Self-Help

Date Published: August 18, 2022

 

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How to develop Self-Love in five easy steps, even if you failed at every
other self-help strategy.

Self-love is essential to feel joy, happiness, and fulfillment.

The biggest roadblock in our journey to loving ourselves is self-criticism.
Negative self-talk can damage us if left unchecked, such as feeding into
depression and anxiety, lowering self-esteem, and increasing stress, guilt,
and shame.

 

In A Woman’s Self Love, you will discover:

* The most common mistake people make when practicing self-love

* The three most essential components to loving yourself

* How to detect your inner critic’s main job in your life

* How to redirect your self-talk so it’s working for you, not against
you

* The one thing that will improve your relationships massively and the way
you view the world around you

* Five easy practices that will make you fall in love with yourself

* The single most powerful tactic you can use to switch your inner
conversations from self-criticism to self-love

 

Applying A Woman’s Self Love principles will help you boost happiness,
enhance self-worth, increase motivation, foster resilience, and much more.
Studies have proven that practicing self-love dramatically affects longevity
and your quality of life. You can start living a joyful, fulfilled life,
even if you are currently dealing with the darkest thoughts.

 

 About the Author 

Victoria Burshtein

Victoria Burshtein was born and raised in East Europe, where she learned
the importance of hard work and determination. Since moving to New York City
in her early 20s, she has worked as a Financial Advisor, Real Estate
Associate Broker, and Marketing Manager. Victoria is an MBA graduate with a
specialization in marketing and management. Her professional experience has
given her a strong business and marketing principles foundation. However, it
is Victoria’s personal mission to help women build a strong mindset and aid
them in achieving their best selves. She hopes to encourage women to have
each other’s back and be each other’s support system when they need it the
most. She wants nothing more than to see her fellow women live happy,
prosperous lives wherein they are their number one supporters. Throughout
her books, she addresses the challenges she overcame as a woman and the
solutions that helped her achieve personal success.

Victoria is married and is a proud parent of two children – a boy and a
girl – as well as an adorable Pomeranian dog.

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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.

Start reading The Self-Compassion Project on your Kindle in under a
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