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Thursday, 18 February 2010

Finding Angela Shelton

Angela Shelton’s first memoir, Finding Angela Shelton, is a groundbreaking, heartbreaking, joyous and sad, miraculous and a one-of-a-kind read.

Ellen Bass, author of Courage to Heal, says, “Though she takes on serious issues, Angela Shelton is joyous, irreverent, funny, and feisty.”

Finding Angela Shelton cleverly moves through the filmmaker’s life story, her dreams, her fears and her journals as her search of women in America leads her to finding herself.

Finding Angela Shelton is in stores nationwide and is mandatory reading in many Women’s Studies programs around the US.

Click here to visit AngelaShelton.

Monday, 1 February 2010

Addressing PTSD

Great film about PTSD

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/view/

and interviews too

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/view/special.html

Thursday, 28 January 2010

Positive Ideas

So, an update. I'm hoping to publish at least one of my 8 books that I have embarked on, this year; possibly two. You can read an excerpt of my fictional book exploring Post Traumatic Stress Disorder here at my Wordpress blog progressing my publishing journey. One is a handbook for increasing our adaptive capacity to climate change and humanitarian disasters, and the other is a fictional book focused on recovery from trauma. They are interrelated these books, not just with each other but apparently with my own life too.

I also planning to take a degree in the US, and undertaking the rehabilitation and ecological restoration of a refugee camp, or similar community and I am exploring this in my book. I am hoping to be able to film that particular project.

So, these are my hopes and thoughts at the New Year. All the best to everyone out there on reaching your goals and enjoying the present moment.

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The Survivor Warrior Workbook

This powerful workbook is used as a teaching tool with therapists, support groups and community education programs. It was inspired by Angela's Removing the Sword of Trauma events. It is for survivors, warriors, advocates, loved ones and supporters ready to move past pain and suffering and reclaim joy and happiness. You can use the workbook in a group, on your own or with your therapist.

This workbook is 117 pages long and is a DOWNLOAD. Thank you for your commitment to healing BUY NOW $9.99

'Prepare to be Raw' by Matthew Warner

Click here to view more details

Please check out and have an amazing life. Thanks.

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Positive Action against Uganda's Anti-homosexuality bill

Uganda's Parliament is considering an anti-homosexuality bill that would result in a sentence of death or life in prison for Ugandan LGBT people, and seven years for anyone offering them protection or assistance. The proposed bill is one of the most severe pieces of anti-homosexuality legislation in Africa; if passed, its impact could reverberate not only throughout the continent but globally, placing LGBT people throughout the world at greater risk and dealing a severe blow to human rights.

To find out more visit Amnesty International's Page on the Bill

or take action here

http://bit.ly/7b7AF3

Taking Root:The Vision of Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai answers questions with Amnesty

http://www.amnesty.org.uk/podcasts/Wangari.mp3

For more information on Wangari Maathai and The Green Belt Movement

Monday, 4 January 2010

A New Year's Resolution ?

Someone asked for inspiration about New Year's Resolutions and I wrote this, maybe you might like it too?

Any dreams left undone?
Something you find difficult - a fear to face and overcome.
Do something for friends/family or strangers that is unexpected and kind and helpful - with the emphasis on unexpected.
Consider what your full potential might be?
Consider how it may feel to have your best health and well being?
Take steps to improve your neighbourhood in some way.
Sponsor a poor child, family, monk, nun or student from around the world.
Plant a tree(s) for the next generation to look at.
Do something creative; creative cookery, creative craft, creative dance class, creative online...
Give presents to the homeless; if possible give them a home.
Find the most downtrodden, forgotten, despairing person you can and make them smile, not only make them smile, make them laugh; make their eyes light up.
Travel somewhere else, somewhere not your own town or country even, somewhere unfamiliar, somewhere you are completely out of your element and open to surprises.
Immerse yourself in nature more often; connect with it, follow it, be inquisitive and spontaneous as you were as a child.
Jump in puddles.
Recite poetry in supermarkets.
Give things away for free.
Do things you are scared of in human terms as well; visit the dying and bring them flowers, communicate with those you stopped talking to, remember you are strong.
Think about the loved ones you have lost and the strangers who have come into your life and gone again and try and remember them regularly with some small kindly action done in their name.
Count your blessings; sit down write a list; count all the blessings that are in your life now, count the ones that have ever entered your life; think about what blessings you would like in the future, and what blessing you - yourself, are to others. Are you a blessing in disguise?

© 2009

Monday, 7 December 2009

UMF Manuka Honey

Unique Manuka Factor or UMF Manuka Honey is the quantity of the antibacterial property in this incredible medicine. It has tremendous healing properties the higher the UMF Factor and is said to be effective with MRSA among other chronic conditions.