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What if we could resolve childhood trauma early, rather than late? We are understanding more and more about how early traumatic experiences affect long-term mental and physical health:

* Physical impacts are stored in muscles and posture
* Threats of harm are stored as tension
* Overwhelming emotion is held inside
* Negative emotional patterns become habit
* Coping and defense mechanism become inflexible

What if we could resolve childhood trauma before years go by and these
effects solidify in body and mind?

In a perfect world, we’d like to be able to shield children from hurt
and harm. In the real world, children, even relatively fortunate ones,
may experience accidents, injury, illness, and loss of loved ones.
Children unfortunate enough to live in unsafe environments live through
abuse, neglect, and threats to their well-being and even their life.

What if we could resolve childhood trauma fully, gently, and
completely while the child is still young?

We Can. Read “Children and Traumatic Incident Reduction” and find out
how!

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Synopsis: The 42nd Street Repertory Theater was an abandoned burlesque house where the homeless lived-until Lee and her staff scrub it out. The third floor makes Lee uneasy with its scattering of feathers and bones. Still, having the theater is a dream come true. If her husband hadn’t died six month earlier, she’d be on cloud nine.

It doesn’t matter, she tells herself, that the theater sits on the seedy fringes of Times Square, that it’s under-budgeted and understaffed and that she (as Administrative Director) will play only one role this first season. It’s an Equity theater, offering five plays in repertory. Times Square redevelopment makes the property desirable.

With her husband recently dead and her daughter away at college, Lee falls into a passionate affair with a younger man. Bizarre, seemingly unrelated events-beginning with a homeless person found dead on the third floor of the theater-escalate to ritual murder.

Playful improvisation becomes a deadly game. Qualities that make her a good actress-imagination, empathy-pull her through the looking glass into a nightmare world, to the brink of death. Over all hovers a Mexican mask, stolen from the tomb at Monte Alban, its eyes glittering with secrets of the ancient Aztecs and sacrifice.

The characters are based on the authors’ extensive experience in theater and film. Alan Dunbar, Lee’s Artistic Director, has troubling gaps in his resume; Ernst Kromer, her other director, is rigid and uncooperative. Other major characters are: Michael Day, Lee’s sexy and mysterious assistant; wraithlike Fleur Mahoney, whose first role is a dead girl-and she almost is; Barry Blackwell, talented actor, compulsive practical joker; Harry O’Brien, company stage manager, who’d kill for a role. Characters from the “real” world include Alan’s lover, Walter Kaplan, eccentric psychiatrist and medical anthropologist; Heather, Lee’s 18-year-old daughter, who has a surprising secret life; pock-marked, cynical NYPD Detective Mordecai Green, who moonlights as an actor.
 

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Synopsis: “Journey From Head to Heart” is…

*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, recovery, 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.

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Synopsis: “Shadow Living… Paintings of Grief” is the enthralling sequel to “I Feel Okay,” the author’s debut bestseller. In “Shadow Living…Paintings of Grief,” the author shares an intimate story of survival during the first year after husband s death.

The reader is weaved into a personal world of anguish, torment, and loneliness as the author languishes through endless days and nights of grieving the loss of her husband to the silent killer, primary amyloidosis. With brilliance and candor, the author chronicles the stages of the grieving process and skillfully walks the reader through personal episodes of pain, depression, and unnerving despair. Grief is personalized as a disturbing entity that disrupted the Slappey family life forever. With God as her refuge and strength, the author emerges from the shadows of grief to live again and to become a beacon of inspiration to others, coupled with an unwavering commitment to help others find their passageway through the murky depths of grief to a place of healing and peace.

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“Twin Voices” by Janice Flood Nichols, provides a unique and timely glimpse into polio, a virus that killed and maimed millions of children and adults during the twentieth century.

In 1953, polio struck DeWitt, NY (an eastern suburb of Syracuse) with a vengeance. In a first grade class of twenty-four students, eight children contracted the disease – one child, Frank Flood Jr., died sixty-one hours after admission to City Hospital; another first grader and her older sister died several years later of complications. Frankie’s twin sister, Janice, was admitted to the hospital on the evening of his burial. Diagnosed with paralytic polio, Janice recovered. She participated in the 1954 Salk vaccine trial, as one of nearly two million “Polio Pioneers.” Today, she remains dedicated to the goal of worldwide polio eradication. Twin Voices tells the story of polio, the disease, and the story of one family’s bout with the killer, in multiple “voices.”

Beverly Magid
iUniverse (2007)
ISBN 9780595455867
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (12/07)

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iUniverse (2007)
ISBN 9780595451913
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (12/07)

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Synopsis: In the kingdom of Branchwater, the humans have peacefully lived alongside their guardians, the mantliks, for the last seven hundred years. But that changes one morning when they wake up to find a foreign army encamped outside the castle town.

What follows is a gripping story of several young friends human and mantlik and how they come together to survive. Facing an onslaught like no one imagined, the two races must stand side-by-side on the walls of Branchwater, bracing themselves for the future. As the siege commences with lifted shields and drawn bows, the children hide deep inside the castle. It is the young Desirae who wanders through the inner halls and down into the basement. What she stumbles on below the castle could mean either salvation for Branchwater or its destructive end.

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ISBN 9781434330543
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Synopsis: After questioning his bizarre dreams and unexplained sudden knowledge of ancient Greek, Jerry Fletcher is regressed to his past lives. Under his regression Jerry finally becomes aware that during Alexander the Great’s military campaigns he was Aias, the historically unwritten hero. Aias was not only Alexander’s untold mentor and great true friend but was also notable for being a true maverick and an inspiring military hero. Aias may have been mysteriously removed from Alexander’s Journal, but now the truth is finally revealed.

From the bloody and gruesome military campaigns to the erotic rendezvous’ affairs- Aias utilizing his unique style with his very mysterious sword was a compelling warrior on the battlefield, and along with his other unique skills he was quite infamous in the bedroom.

Alexander the Great often compared Aias to both Illiad’s Hector and Achilles but in one. Alexander the Great and Ptlomey simply thought that Aias was perhaps a God reincarnate from Olympus.

Alexander simply called him an Aries incarnate.

His enemies simply called him, “Aias the Decapitator.”

And Aristotle simply called him THE HERETIC.

The women of Greece called him… Well… You’ll simply have to read the book to find out…

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Modern History Press, an imprint of Loving Healing Press (2006)
ISBN 1932690220
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (5/06)

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Synopsis: David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the US Marines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would be able to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he never thought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Even less that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of Da Nang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell.

David’s journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteran shows us all how fragile our humanity really is. In addition to killing the enemy on the field of battle, he was witness to countless cruelties including murder both cold-blooded and casual, cowardice under fire, and a callous disregard for life beyond most people’s imagination. With each new insult, he lost a little bit of his soul, clinging to his Bible as his only solace while equally certain of his own demise.

Upon returning to civilian life after a two year enlistment, he found himself with nightmares during sleep, intrusive thoughts while awake, a hypervigilant stance combined with an exaggerated startle reaction, and a seeming inability to control basic emotions like anger and sadness. The price he paid for what would only be diagnosed decades later as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder was broken marriages and relationships, inability to hold down jobs leading to bankruptcy, alcohol abuse, and having to hide the service he willingly gave to his own country.

In 1989, David eventually recovered through a simple but powerful technique known as Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and is now symptom-free. Not just for veterans, TIR has since been successfully applied to crime and motor vehicle accident victims, domestic violence survivors, and even children. His story shows what is possible for anyone who has suffered traumatic stress and that hope, healing, and recovery can be theirs too.

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ISBN 9781932690460
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Synopsis: ” Gifts From the Child Within” brings a refreshing approach to guiding its reader to understanding the initial or underlying basis to their emotional suffering due to past childhood trauma. This recovery book is geared toward both professional and layperson.

Its pages are filled with offerings from psychological, physiological, and spiritual perspectives which takes the reader on a journey into the soul. It is written with sensitivity and clarity inviting the reader to search within for healing. As the author shares her own journey of childhood abuse, the reader is asked to address issues surrounding physical, mental, spiritual, and sexual abuse. Instructions are captured to guide one toward reaching for their own child within; releasing negative emotions; re-creating outdated childhood beliefs; and, to recognize the gifts the inner child has for us.

The process of Re-Creation Therapy(tm) is introduced by the author allowing the reader who follows its guidance to reap the effects of gradual changes in self-awareness which lead to a greater understanding of the psychodynamics the child within plays in the adult life. Included are a series of healing visualizations and autohypnosis suggestions; blank journal pages; and sample affirmations following each chapter.

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