Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Dealing with the season of giving after the loss of a loved one:

Nationally-Known Grief Expert Carole Brody Fleet on Handling the Holidays After the Loss of a Loved One

Carole Brody Fleet, author of Happily Even After (Viva Editions 2012) is featured on Huffington Post for her insights into managing grief and sadness during the holidays.

Happily Even After: Getting Through (and Beyond) The Grief of Widowhood

Carole Brody Fleet has fresh things to say about the intricacies of intimacy, returning to the workplace, the grief of children, and remarriage. This book is recommended for its authentic depiction of the widow's experience. – Spirituality & Practice

(PRWEB) December 10, 2013

Carole Brody Fleet, author of Happily Even After: A Guide to Getting Through (and Beyond) the Grief of Widowhood, offers eight tips for enjoying the seasonwhen holidays are not-so-happy. For people suffering from depression, or dealing with a breakup, divorce, or loss of a loved one, the holidays can be incredibly difficult. Brody Fleet advises that "if you are coping with any kind of a loss situation, it will be human nature for those closest to you to try and 'jolly' you out of what may be a place of pain or loneliness. Don't feel obligated to be jolly."

Brody Fleet also advocates giving of oneself to others as a way of getting through these difficult times. "We always feel better when we are in service to others." Carole suggests perhaps adopting a soldier for the holidays, or volunteering for an assisted living home, rather than dwelling on personal grief.

What People are Saying about Happily Even After (available in audio)

"Carole Brody Fleet has fresh things to say about the intricacies of intimacy, returning to the workplace, the grief of children, and remarriage. This book is recommended for its authentic depiction of the widow's experience."
—Spirituality & Practice

"Yes, even after the loss of a beloved, when all seems bleak and hopeless, it is possible to find your way out of despair. Filled with compassionate understanding, practical guidance and honest reassurance that a meaningful life awaits, "Happily Even After" is a worthy companion for your journey."
—Judy Ford, author of Every Day Love: The Delicate Art of Caring for Each Other

"Who am I? What do I do now?" Even as these are the two most immediate questions faced by widow/ers, Carole Brody Fleet knows as well as anyone who has faced the abrupt change from couple to single person, those questions multiply exponentially as time goes on. In Happily Even After: A Guide to Getting Through (and Beyond) the Grief of Widowhood, Brody Fleet addresses the most commonly asked questions by widows and those who surround them.

Carole Brody Fleet is a popular motivational speaker who appears before general audiences, corporations, and organizations. A regular guest on local, regional, national, and international media, she lives in Los Angeles.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Teach your children well:

Jump-Starting Boys Helps Guide Real Parents in the Special Process of Raising Boys

Jump-Starting Boys, a guidebook to getting boys to succeed in school and life, has been met with a glowing response from real parents of boys.

Jump-Starting Boys: Help Your Reluctant Learner Find Success in School and Life by Pam Withers and Cynthia Gill

"Absolutely and utterly intriguing […] it has given me some terrific skills that i want to use with my own son."—Pat Thurston, KGO-AM/San Francisco

(PRWEB) November 05, 2013

Jump-Starting Boys: Help Your Reluctant Learner Find Success in School and Life (Viva Editions 2013), by Pam Withers and Cynthia Gill, has been featured as an indispensable guide for the parents of boys.Savings for Sanity, a parenting blog, said, "This book makes things like school and life seem much easier for a parent and a teen to conquer," and that she was surprised by the number of questions this one book had answered.

Another popular mothering blog, Griffin's Honey, praised the book effusively: "I will be able to use this book over and over as a reference point for advice. I recommend this to all parents of boys, especially moms."

Jump-Starting Boys is also available as an audiobook.

Positive Solutions To Get Your Son Back on Track

It is no secret boys are falling behind in education, with fewer young men graduating from high school and enrolling in college every year. Filled with reassurance and support, Jump-Starting Boys has heart-warming true stories, take-action checklists and over 200 helpful tips. Educators and mothers themselves, authors Pam Withers and Cynthia Gill, MA, LMFT, turn fear and guilt into can-do confidence through easy techniques and achievable solutions. Finally—a book that truly targets concerned parents and helps you work with sons to make sure they beat the odds and become lifelong learners!

During her 30-year career as a high school teacher, Cynthia Gill worked on innovative curricula development and served as an academic dean while winning acclaim for her work in the classroom. She lives in Minneapolis. Pam Withers is the best-selling, award-nominated author of more than a dozen adventure novels. She lives in Vancouver.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Are you at 50/50?

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

How to Have a Happier Marriage: Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober Argue that 50/50 Parenting Is the Solution

In their new book Getting to 50/50, Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober make the case that dividing household chores and parenting equally leads to couples having fewer fights.

Getting to 50/50, by Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober

"Don’t believe the myths about women and work—this advice will benefit you now and in the future."—Sheryl Sandberg, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Lean In

(PRWEB) October 09, 2013

Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober's new book Getting to 50/50: How Working Parents Can Have It All (Viva Editions 2013) has begun a conversation around women and the workplace and the division of labor at home.

Meers and Strober argue that a 50/50 marriage, in which the day-to-day duties of parenting and household upkeep are divided equally between both parents, leads to reduced marital fights. This intriguing theory is featured in the Chicago Tribune in an articlethat explores the advantages of Getting to 50/50. According to one study cited by Meers and Strober, 80 percent of arguments that women initiate are about housework. It's clearly an important issue, and one that can be addressed with an open dialogue between spouses about the division of labor. As the article suggests, "Genuine, lasting progress is going to require change from both genders."

Meers and Strober provide more tips on 50/50 parenting at their newly launched website, which features important facts about equality in the workplace, exclusive excerpts from the book, and a "50/50 roadmap."

Meet Sharon and Joanna in person at these upcoming Bay Area events:

10/25/13 7pm, Books Inc Alameda, Alameda, CA
10/27/13 4pm, Book Passage Marin, Corte Madera, CA
10/30/13 7:30pm, Kepler's Bookstore, Menlo Park, CA
1/17/14 The Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA

What people are saying about Getting to 50/50 (also available as an audio book)

"Don't believe the myths about women and work - this advice will benefit you now and in the future."
—Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In and COO of Facebook

"Offers advice on how to get husbands to pull their weight around the house."
—"Woman's Hour," BBC 4

Sharon Meers leads global business development and sales for X.commerce, the open commerce platform of eBay, helping merchants grow with better technology. Formerly, Meers was a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where she worked for 16 years and was co-chair of the Women's Network in the Investment Management Division. She and her husband founded the Partners for Parity at Stanford Business School and the Dual-Career Initiative at Harvard.

Joanna Strober is Managing Director of a fund investing in private partnerships at Sterling Stamos, an investment firm in Silicon Valley and the founder of the "working stiffs" mom's group. As one of the few females in private equity in Silicon Valley, Strober has been featured in the front page of the Wall Street Journal for launching several well known companies.

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

The most optimistic man in America

David Mezzapelle will share inspiring from his new book Contagious Optimism with a broad tour of California.

David Mezzapelle, author of Contagious Optimism

Reading Contagious Optimism will allow you to appreciate and understand the principles that people of all races, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds live by and have exhibited during their life's adventures.

—Daniel P. Tully

(PRWEB) September 11, 2013

David Mezzapelle will tour the Bay Area and Los Angeles from September 19th to 25th, sharing inspirational stories from his newly-released bookContagious Optimism: Uplifting Stories and Motivational Advice for Positive Forward Thinking, which is newly available on Audible.

Contagious Optimism is a collection of personal success stories and advice that discusses the power of positive thinking. Mezzapelle urges readers to find the silver lining in every cloud despite trials such as personal hardship, economic downturns, and political uncertainties. Developed by the same team that wrote the bestselling Random Acts of Kindness, Contagious Optimism is written to lift hearts, open minds, and create a movement of pass-it-on hope and happiness.

Jupiter Life featured an article on David and Contagious Optimism, exploring the inspiration behind the book and giving tidbits from the inspirational stories of contributors like Mona Tippins.

Join David on his tour at these events in Northern and Southern California:

9/19 7pm, Books Inc., Alameda, CA
9/21 1-3pm, Agape Quiet Mind Bookstore, Culver City, CA
9/25 7am, The Inside Edge, Irvine, CA
9/25 4-5:30pm, Mystic Journey Bookstore, Venice, CA
9/25 7pm, Barnes and Noble 3rd St. Promenade, Santa Monica, CA

What people are saying about Contagious Optimism:

"Contagious Optimism is an inspiring invitation to change your life through a change of perspective. Mezzapelle's collection of stories and various viewpoints spurs our imagination of what's possible to create a happy and successful life. A highly persuasive book I full-heartedly recommend."
—Andrea F. Polard, PsyD

"Learn how you can experience true happiness and fulfillment despite life's greatest challenges as you read the stories of those who have chosen to see that glass half -full."
—Chloe JonPaul, author of This Business of Children