Lorraine Giordano – In September of 2008 my gynecologist told me I needed to have my uterus removed due to the threat of cancer and uterine hyperplasia.

Not willing to give up my uterus, Operation Save Uterus was born. 

I saved my uterus and learned to connect to my mind, body and spirit with the help of various alternative and complementary treatments.

In ancient Egypt and Greece, people thought that the uterus wandered around a woman’s body in search of peace. In 2016 there still remains a lot of mystery and taboo surrounding the uterus and its related organs- ovaries, thyroid, pituitary glands and breasts. Slowly the tide is changing, but there’s still an opportunity for more awareness!

My uterus was my starting point on my journey to mind-body-spirit health, but I learned that our organs do not work in isolation from each other.

Just as our organs don’t work in isolation from each other, we don’t work apart from each other- we’re all in this together. The more information a woman has, the better she is equipped to make the best health choice for herself.  The inspired intention of this site is to share information.

With my uterus intact, feeling healthier than I have in the past twenty years, I now help women (and men) to be inspired to connect to their own health and healing ability using different alternative energy modalities. I put down my pen working as a business analyst on software projects in the financial industry and picked up my energy wand to create positive health shifts working with people in my healing practice and writing blogs and my memoir.

I’m an Usui Reiki Master and certified in Quantum Energy Transformation, Integrated Energy Therapy and Quantum Touch.

In my free time, I like to play the piano, doodle and enjoy improv classes in NYC. Long walks with my dog, traveling and hanging out with friends always makes me smile.

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Cameo appearance by Lorraine’s dog ‘Louie’ who speaks up about the importance of today’s conversation.

Award-Winning and Best-Selling Author of Grandma’s Secret Blessings, a Memoir with a Twist. As a second-generation Greek-American, Author JohnEgreek, is born into a broken family to a father who is English-German and a mother who was First Generation Greek-America. His father, from the very first day he is born, lives up to a sworn contract to hate him his entire  life. At ninety-three years of age today, he still follows that unbroken agreement. His mother, on the other-hand did everything possible to shower him with love, but unfortunately passes away when he is only thirty-one years old, forcing him to grow on his own.

Alone, divorced two times, he discovers along the way that a powerful childhood promise that he made to his grandparents, his Yiayia and Papou, becomes the avenue that opens his heart and awakens his soul. Grandma, who leaves the physical world when he is in his teens, enlightens him while she is alive and never stops enlightening him when she goes beyond, as she continues to shower him with her many “Secret Blessings.”

After losing most everyone whoever loved him, all he wants more than anything is to hear their messages from beyond. He has an interesting way to show you how you too can unleash and hear messages from beyond. Loved ones are reaching out to you in ways you never imagine. Is your heart and mind open to hear them? Do you have the key that unlocks the door? People spend thousands of dollars using numerous ways to get the answers they long to hear. What if the answers were right there in the palm of your hand? What if you have the key that opens the door? Well, just maybe you do? Why aren’t you seeing the signs or hearing the messages?

The author recognizes that he is no one special, just a retired senior citizen, with a strained relationship with his adult children and a grandchild that he has never met and may never get to meet. He has a unique and interesting way to tell the emotional story about his life that will take you on a roller-coaster ride that will emit feelings of anger, guilt, fear, sorrow and pain. At times, it will be agonizing, but truthful story. The truth about life can often times be painful. His writing will take you on an unforgettable journey through the Old Countries of Greece and Albania. Along the way, you will find the hidden secret of this childhood promise that he made to his grandparents provides him the necessary elements to set himself free.

John is available as a speaker for your next event.

Find out more and contact him at the website.

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What book have you gifted the most? Why?

Warrior Teenager by Author Mary Lynne Fernandez. She has a great story and help for teenagers.

What is the one productivity tool you use every day? Why?

The productivity tool I use everyday includes Word 2016 and PDF Acrobat Pro. Who needs a publisher when you can do it all for yourself.

What word do you misspell most often?

I don’t misspell words because I use Grammarly when I’m writing. I often forget to put such words as “to” “the” and often times start sentences with “So,

What three things do you do to be a successful writer?

Promote, Promote, Promote

What are the titles of the last two books you have read?

“Grandma’s Secret Blessings, A Memoir with a Twist” and will be publishing the following two books during the month of August as shorts on Amazon: “Wisdom from the Wounded Healer” and “The Healing Story of the Suicidal Wounded Child”

What is your favorite word?

Divine

What do you use more often – a dictionary or a thesaurus?

How it all started…

Annelies George was born in Bussum, the Netherlands, the second daughter of Levie George and Greet van Weerdenburg. At the age of ten she was given a postcard collection of landscapes and city settings from countries all over the globe, tickling her imagination. Soon she found herself writing fiction stories together with her two year older sister, Marianne. During the school holidays she used postcards and other pictures she found in magazines as the source of inspiration.

After the gymnasium, she followed a one-year course as an international secretary in Amsterdam. Immediately afterward she started to work for a law firm, studying finance, management and law during the evening hours with the goal of becoming a lawyer.

Her career in the IT-world…

A move to a different town brought her into the fast IT world. She was employed by GE Capital, marking the start of a successful career in the international IT Finance world. Due to the intensity of the job and long working hours, she abandoned her plans for a law degree.

At the age of 30 she was appointed to Benelux managing director of a US based lease company. This was a rare phenomenon at the time, since few females were holding similar positions in the specific branch in the Netherlands. Thereafter she accepted a variety of EMEA and regional management and sales roles with Cisco, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

Then she resumed writing again…

Encouraged by two friends she resumed writing again at a later age, with the purpose of releasing a book detailing her personal adventures as a woman in a male-dominated business environment. Due to circumstances surrounding the events she described, she had to re-write the entire story. Frustrated, she stopped working on the book.

Soon thereafter she spoke to a psychic with an extraordinary life story, which inspired her to start writing again. Combined with the far from easy youth of her own parents – one separated from his family at the age of twelve and held captive during the Japanese occupation in Indonesia and the other living in Amsterdam during the German occupation with a brother killed due to his connection with the resistance – she realized that this specific generation had to endure a lot in their lives and should she ever write a book again, the tale needed to contain an underlying message, in line with the books of some of her own favorite authors.

Her life lately…

Annelies still lives in Bussum and works fulltime for a French IT Service and Finance Company. She loves, among other activities, to paint and design necklaces when she is not writing. “Loveable Light” is a private initiative she is pursuing, directly linked to the welfare of the Earth and closely connected to the Jessie Golden Series. On occasion she likes to travel to discover new places and understand the different ways of living around the globe. Her pets are Izzy and Bella, two Maine Coon Cats.

 

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Catherine M Walker was born in a small country town in Western Australia but now resides in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. Not being interested in sports she dived into reading and writing.  Determined to enter a short story competition while still in high school Catherine and her best friend started writing.  Six exercise books later they both realised that perhaps the short story was a little long.  Still, they shrugged off the competition and continued with what became the first book then launched into the second.  Being an Author and publishing was a ‘one-day’ dream that stretched back to that time in high school. Nothing ever came of that first book, life moved on and Catherine added travel and photography to those interests.

Now years later Catherine realised ‘one day’ never happens, life will pass you by if you let it. Determined to remedy that, Catherine looked through her files of stories already written yet put them all aside. Instead, she fired up Scrivener settled on writing a new series, one that would be finished and published. Shattering Dreams is Catherine’s debut book in The Being of Dreams epic fantasy series.

 

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A grammar nerd, Star Trek fan, and other things that chicks dig, Stephen Lomer is the author of the hugely popular novel Typo Squad, the short story collections Stargazer Lilies or Nothing at All and B.B. and Red, and the novellas Hell’s Nerds and Belle’s Christmas Carol. He’s also been a finalist in the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge numerous times, and has featured stories in the anthologies UnCommon Evil, Once Upon a Time in Gravity City, and My Peculiar Family II.Stephen is the creator, owner, and a regular contributor to the website Television Woodshed. He’s a hardcore fan of the Houston Texans, despite living in the Hub of the Universe his whole life, and believes Mark Twain was correct about pretty much everything.Stephen lives on Boston’s North Shore with his wife, Teresa.

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Joy Johnston is an experienced digital journalist who has covered everything from terrorist attacks and Kardashian scandals to the cat that’s Donald Trump’s doppelgänger. The Reluctant Caregiver, her collection of essays on caregiving, received a gold medal at the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards. She received the 2015 Rick Bragg Prize for Nonfiction from the Atlanta Writers Club. Her work has been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul and other anthologies. She writes about dementia and caregiving on her blog, The Memories Project.

Johnston lives in Atlanta with her humidity-loathing partner, a goofy pit bull rescue with ridiculous ears, and a pair of cats with dueling god complexes. In her free time, she works on perfecting her resting bitch face while riding the subway. She is currently working on a project called Respite Care Share, an online campaign designed to encourage family caregivers to take a well-deserved break.

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AMY WAESCHLE is an author, professional editor, and wilderness medicine instructor for the Wilderness Medicine Institute. She is the author of Going Over the Falls and Chasing Waves, A Surfer’s Tale of Obsessive Wandering. Her stories have appeared in publications such as The Seattle Times, Sierra, and International Living. Amy is a former National Outdoor Leadership School Field Instructor, graduated with a B.S. in Geology from the University of Washington, and has a Masters in Teaching from Seattle University. Her writing career began in 2002 when she wrote advertising copy for Patagonia, and she has worked as an acquisition editor, fine-tuning manuscripts for publication since 2003. Amy likes to surf, run mountain trails, travel, and spend time with her family. She and her husband live in Poulsbo, Washington with their two daughters.

 

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I’m a wife, mom, INFJ, IT professional, and newly published author – oh, and a coffee lover. Can’t forget that, my goodness, no. I call the Chicago suburbs my home. A few years ago, I got the itch to write. Not sure why, I wasn’t a huge reader, but I couldn’t shake being drawn to it, no matter how long I put it off. I started taking writing classes and that’s when I found ‘it’, you know, that thing you discover you were meant to do. I took several classes, but fell in love with fiction writing.

I’ve been a Christian since I was a kid and felt strongly drawn to write on that topic. If God gave me some talent, I wanted to use it for Him. So, from there came “The Armoire”. I plan to continue to write what I feel He leads me to, and I hope it will bring some light to someone who needs it.

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Connie Lafortune is a shift supervisor by day and an author at night. She loves spending time with her family and friends, taking walks along the beach, and listening to music. If she’s not in her office writing, you can bet she’s curled up on the couch with her nose buried in a book. Connie lives in Connecticut with her husband, Alan. She is a true believer in love conquering all… This being the reason why she loves writing romance novels. She wants to create a story based on strong, believable characters. One’s that will make you laugh, cry and feel every emotion under the sun. Connie wants to leave you breathless and begging for more!

 

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Pamela Horter-Moore – Author Compelled to write

I write because I have to. Ever since the age of six, I have been driven to write.

What do I write? I write everything! I just can’t fit into one category.

People might ask me: “If you’ve been writing all of your life, why haven’t I heard from you before?”

Well, the truth is you might have and didn’t know it.

Obsession with History

In 1983, I published a book Brief Candles, a historical novel about Edward V, the 12-year old king who disappeared in the Tower of London with his little brother Richard. I began this obsession with English history when very young, and, under an assumed name, have written about Yorkist England on the internet for over a decade.

Yes, you might say that I have an obsession with history, Yorkist history and the American presidency in particular. But no obsession predates the one I have for writing.

Historical works intrigue me. So do science fiction, fantasy, and futuristic novels, which give authors a chance to stretch their imaginations or to say something about contemporary events without naming names. I love a mystery, and memoirs that make me reach for a tissue. Who doesn’t love an adventure story, and who isn’t gripped by a tale that presents the world as it is, honestly and without adornment?

Short Stories

In the 1980s, I published a short story called “Lamont” in Alive, a young people’s Christian magazine. Set in Pittsburgh in the 1970s, it is worlds away from Yorkist England and from the ancient world of fantasy that I describe in my new novel. I hope to add “Lamont” to the list of short stories displayed on this website.

My short stories are often auto-biographical and focus on light and tender moments experienced along the way. I hope my loved ones don’t mind that they have been the source of so much humor and aggravation.

My Career

During my career, I might have reached an audience through newspaper features, articles, and advertising copy, and, maybe a more narrow readership in the IT industry, but I wrote at the behest of my employer and not for myself.

Work didn’t stop me from writing creatively in my spare time, dropping drafts in various stages of completion in a drawer where I forgot about them until my retirement freed me from the treadmill and gave me a chance to return to the writing of my soul.

Reviving Old Drafts

I reached into that drawer of drafts and found the manuscript that has now become LoveQuest. First written in the 1990s, it was the summation of my most romantic notions, as well as the most complete of all my drafts.

LoveQuest is a light-hearted and “fun” novel. At the same time, it is a serious work that describes my protagonists’ quest to find their heart’s desire and celebrates the redeeming power of love.

Reading and writing are like cars traveling in opposite directions on a highway of words. It’s a two-way street. I welcome a dialogue with my readers. My writing and my interest continue to evolve around the stories of people, real and fictional, who touch us with their humanity and excite our sympathy.

 

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What book have you gifted the most? Why?

The Song of the Pearl, by Ruth Nichols (https://www.amazon.com/Song-Pearl-Ruth-Nichols/dp/0553116622/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1527520284&sr=8-1)

This is the story of a 17-year old girl who dies of an asthma attack after being raped by her uncle. Her afterlife journey becomes another route to self-discovery,