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THE POWER OF STORIES TO HEAL

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

New Dimensions Media

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I’m pleased to let you know that “New Dimensions” radio is featuring The Spirit of a Woman on their worldwide radio broadcast on Wednesday, December 29 – February 4, 2011 “The Power of Stories to Heal with Terry László-Gopadze.” Hosted by Justine Willis Toms. Program #3378

It will be airing the week, December 29 – January 4, 2011 (broadcast week begins on Wednesdays) on stations throughout the U.S. and Australia. You can also hear it streaming for free on the New Dimensions website for two weeks, beginning December 29th or you can download it for a small fee at any time after December 1st. Go to “Listen” on their website menu for a list of stations and carry “New Dimensions.” http://www.newdimensions.org

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Podcast Excerpt with Justine Toms of New Dimensions Café on The Power of Hearing a Good Story with Terry

Monday, December 27th, 2010

Terry will have another interview on New Dimensions Media on December the 29th. Listen to an excerpt from her previous visit with Justine Toms below.

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Book Review by Denien Robbins for Author Exposure

Monday, December 27th, 2010

Author ExposureThe title of this book says it all! It’s true that stories passed down from generation to generation can empower and inspire, teaching us many valuable lessons. As author Gladys Taylor McGarey said of The Spirit of a Woman, “This book, by telling stories of individual women, helps all of us to see past the circumstances in our lives which seem to be roadblocks. We find, as we relate to each other, resilience within our own spirit which adds life and color to our lives.”

Read the rest of the review at: AuthorExposure.com

The Blesseders by Nichola Moss

Monday, December 20th, 2010
We are so happy to have Nichola Moss as the artist for “The Spirit of a Woman”!
She has a new blog at www.Nicholart.com.  Visit her and be inspired and blessed.
Happy Holidays!
Terry

Suni Paz dedicates a song to “The Spirit of a Woman”!

Friday, December 17th, 2010

Enjoy!

Suni PazMUJER/WOMAN

Click Here>> Mujer (Woman)

“MUJER!
Daughter of light and darkness,
Of seaweed and stars
Consider for a moment
The kingdoms awaiting you
Dream every dream
Spring forth from the earth
And in search of futures
Fertilize a new song
And crown the palm trees
MUJER!

Custodian of the grape vines,
Water the calendars,
Break the strongest wills
Move people’s hearts
Until they tremble!
Taste the unusual
Modify the legendary ways
Dress yourself with the dawn
Fear nothing!
¡NO TEMAS!

© Suni Paz, Spanish Lyrics and Music
(P)Smithsonian-Folkways in Spanish
© 2010, Suni Paz, Adaptation into English

http://www.delsolbooks.com/sunipaz.htm
http://www.SuniPaz.com

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Suni Paz is a writer, singer and songwriter known to audiences worldwide.  In The Spirit of a Woman she tells a poignant story of her early years as a wife and mother struggling to survive with her family in a remote area in the northeast of Argentina, where she was blessed by the miraculous generosity of a distant neighbor. Read her bio here >

Ride with Larry – An Inspirational Parkinson’s Documentary

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

Larry“If you love life, and have a life that you love, you’ll fight for it.”

-Betty Smith

Parkinson’s disease affects over 1.5 milion people in the United States.  Those who are afflicted carry the burden of a hidden disease, one that saddles each diagnosis with a story of eventual decline and the prognosis of a wheelchair.  Depression and shame can quickly follow.  However, there is another way.  For some people there can exist a great empowerment after their acceptance of Parkinson’s, a chance to prove one’s worth to the world and show that the value of a life is not defined by any diagnosis but by the way in which one confronts and surmounts these obstacles.

One such example is the powerful story of Larry Smith, a retired police captain, now a beloved small town baker in South Dakota, who has had Parkinson’s disease for the last 20 years. His remarkable spirit is uplifting and, despite his condition, has had a remarkable impact on his town of Vermillion, and beyond.

Although there is no cure for Parkinson’s yet, Larry doesn’t give up. He fights every day to live the best life he can and enriches the lives of everyone he touches.  It’s his courage and tenacity that allow him battle Parkinson’s in the best possible way: keeping his body active and mind positive.   Larry proves that the sometimes the best cure is living life to its fullest.

Larry’s daily bike rides have had such an incredible impact on both his mind and body that he has decided it’s time to spread the message. Together with his family and community, Larry will ride across South Dakota in the spring of 2011, pushing his limits and expanding the boundary of possibilities for those with Parkinson’s disease.

Each leg of Larry’s journey will be filmed for a documentary, Ride with Larry. Weaved amongst this narrative will be an intimate portrait of the everyday battle against Parkinson’s, the voice therapy, exercise routine, medications, treatments, and the community love that makes it all possible and worthwhile.

This documentary is being made because, as filmmakers, we want to make a difference in the lives of those with Parkinson’s disease, family members, and caretakers. Each one of the filmmakers involved also has a personal story of Parkinson’s in their family.  Beyond Parkinson’s disease, anyone facing a life altering illness can find inspiration in Ride with Larry.

We’d like to invite you to be a part of this important cause which will help improve the lives of many people.

To learn more about Ride with Larry and how you can help make this powerful project a reality, please click on the link below and help spread the message.

Kickstarter Campaign: http://kck.st/faTC3H
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ridewithlarry
Twitter: @ridewithlarry

A Time To Give

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

I love the holidays.  It is a time to show appreciation, gratitude and support for others.  With great joy I want to share what my friend Andrew Rubin is doing for Parkinson’s awareness and to improve the lives of many. Andrew’s own father has Parkinson’s and I was greatly touched and inspired by this trailer. The love and connection that people have with Larry is incredible.  This is a story to remember and to share with those you treasure.

Blessings,

Terry

Read about it here: https://womens-spirit.com/?p=955

Engaging Your Spirit

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

by Sherri Dunnington

“From the unreal lead me to the real.
From darkness lead me to the light.

From death lead me to immortality.”
-The Upanishads

I have often thought of courage and spirit as synchronized – when we are called on to be courageous, our spirit engages to guide us. At no time was this more evident in my own life than during a recent lesson on life’s fragility.

On New Year’s Eve I received “the call”: the one where the phone receiver becomes heavy from the weight of the news on the other end and words escape you. The call where your heart does a flip-flop and your life comes to a halt and a panic simultaneously. Then weightlessness and hopelessness rush in.

The automatic, cold steel doors swooshed open. A gust of sterile, stuffy air that is hot and cold at the same time brushed by. Footsteps echoed off the bare halls and bare floors. It seemed senseless that Teresa Loretta Hendren – mother, wife, sister, and friend – was dying. Our mother, whom we had honored and embraced only days earlier with a surprise sixtieth birthday party, was being taken from us. Her death sent anger and pain, forcing those left behind to search for answers. To search for the strength to carry on. And carry on we did.

Two months later my husband, Troy, and I joined Dad in Kona, Hawaii for a dive vacation that had been planned with Mom and Dad. We were apprehensive, but Dad insisted Mom would have wanted us to go and that a vacation would do us good. We began our journey with Dad’s favorite – a motorcycle tour of the island. We walked barefoot on the beach, boutique shopped for our loved ones back home and recuperated with afternoon siestas. A true vacation mood was settling in and we were just beginning to unwind when the sea stirred up a storm to reckon with. It was the first dive of the morning. The ocean was restless but inviting. Dad was excited to complete his final dive for certification. We embraced and flipped over the boat’s edge into the world of peace and harmony beneath the water’s surface. We were intently enjoying the ballet of marine life below, but a restless surge in the ocean summoned the two of us back to the world of air.

As my husband and I broke the surface, our world of peace was shattered into painful pieces. Two men were pounding on Dad’s chest, attempting to revive him. I peered into Dad’s baby blue eyes with that familiar feeling of weightlessness and hopelessness. Again, we were left behind to search for the answers. To search for the strength to carry on. And carry on we did.

A week later, we buried our Dad, sorted through what remained of Mom and Dad’s personal belongings, and prepared their house of many memories for sale. Devastated, we returned home to the comfort of our warm furry companions, Randi and Ladi. We have not been blessed with children, but consider our two cocker spaniels the next best thing. Ten short days later Ladi, our nine-year-old female cocker spaniel, was lethargic, feverish, and coughing. I rushed her to the veterinary clinic and waited impatiently for the news. Time stood still as the doctor displayed the X-ray spotted with cancer. Every ounce of my being fought the inevitable. As I gazed into Ladi’s beautiful, angelic eyes and whispered, “I love you,” she took her final breath. It felt like I was taking my final breath. I was suffocating. I had to get out, get away. Gasping for air, staring blankly, I hurried toward the parking lot. My knees buckled and I collapsed to the unforgiving ground. My husband and guardian angel lifted my limp body and cradled me like a child. A pain-stricken wailing rose from the pit of my soul.

My beloved husband fought against his own grief in search of something to engage my spirit. He raced from pet store to pet store in search of a new furry companion to ease my pain. At long last the search ended when he handed me a beautiful baby girl. She was perfect, and the bond was instant. She was a golden blonde cocker with a white halo tuft over her brow. Her wet puppy tongue licked away my tears. I held her at a distance and gazed into the windows of her soul. Her name would be Angel, after the three precious angels who had passed.

I knew at that moment I couldn’t take another step, but a voice inside of me said, “I will carry you.” Each day I prayed that the Lord would lift the veil from my eyes and reveal the blessings through it all. Each time I engaged my spirit – by taking the focus off myself and placing it on the needs of others – I would be blessed. The more I engaged my spirit, the stronger I became. Until one day the Lord gently set me back down and said, “It is the character that is most strong that I give the greatest challenges to.”

This year marked our first Christmas with our angels up in heaven. Christmas has always been a time of tremendous celebration for our family. But this year we were apprehensive as the holidays approached. We weren’t looking forward to another reminder of our losses. As we engaged our spirits and turned our focus toward honoring our angels up in heaven, the Lord lifted the veil from our eyes and revealed the blessings. Joy filled our hearts as we trimmed the tree with mom’s priceless decorations. Peace was restored as we hugged each other and exchanged our heartfelt gifts. Warmth and comfort embraced us as we shared this poem from our angels up in heaven:

We see the countless Christmas trees

around the world below,

With tiny lights, like heaven’s stars,

reflecting on the snow.

 

The sight is so spectacular.

Please wipe away your tears,

for we are spending Christmas

with Jesus Christ this year!

 

We hear your beautiful songs of faith

what joy the voices bring,

but it is beyond description

to hear the angel’s sing!

 

We know how much you miss us,

We see the pain inside your hearts

but we are not so far away,

We really aren’t apart

 

We send you each a special gift

from our heavenly home above

We send you each a memory of our undying

and everlasting love

 

So, have a joyous Christmas

and wipe away your tears;

remember we’re spending Christmas with each other

and Jesus Christ up here.

 

We lit candles, prayed for closure and stepped out in faith, celebrating our spirit and gaining the strength to carry on. And carry on, we do.


Sherri Dunningtonleft her home in Flathead Valley, Montana twenty-five years ago for San Diego, California in pursuit of an education and career in design and business management. She combined her creativity, business sense and entrepreneurial skills to develop her design/build venture in San Diego, specializing in interior design, lighting, automation and theatre. Seeking balance and staying grounded, she has dabbled in poetry and writing most of her life and has kept a journal for the past seventeen years with the eventual goal of writing a book. In 2008 she and her two cocker spaniels, Charlie and Angel returned to the custom home she designed and built on Flathead Lake, Montana to create space and begin her most important work…empowering women and honoring her ideal life. Sherri returned to school and received the training she needed to empower women to make lasting changes. As a certified coach, she provides individuals with tools to move past their personal roadblocks and accomplish goals that they have been avoiding or putting off. She listens, provides accountability and support, brainstorms to co-create a plan for results and asks powerful questions from an objective point of view. Through seminars and workshops clients are empowered to maximize their effectiveness in areas which include: communication, collaboration, transitioning, problem-solving, leadership, time management, goal setting and achievement, and facilitation. Her clients value the lasting effects of the new habits and behaviors that have transformed their businesses and their lives.

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