‘No Means No!’ is a children’s picture book about an empowered little girl who has a very strong and clear voice in all issues, especially those relating to her body and personal boundaries. This book can be read to children from 3 to 9 years. It is a springboard for discussions regarding children’s choices and their rights. The ‘Note to the Reader’ at the beginning of the book and the ‘Discussion Questions’ on the final pages, guide and enhance this essential discussion. It is crucial that our children, from a very young age, are taught to have a clear, strong voice in regards to their rights — especially about their bodies. In this way, they will have the confidence to speak up when they are unhappy or feel uncomfortable in any situation. A strong, confident voice as a young child converts to a strong, confident pre-teen, teenager and adult. With the prevalence today of online and offline bullying and various forms of abuse, such as physical, emotional and sexual abuse; our young people need to learn (from a young age) to always speak up when their rights are not being respected. The aim of this book is to empower young children and to give them a voice so they can grow up into empowered adults. When a child, teenager or adult says, ‘No!’ to any form of coercion, this should be immediately respected. A world where ‘No!’ does actually mean ‘No!’ can be a world with far less violence and increased respect for humankind. By educating our children to have true respect for one another, this world can be a much safer and more positive place. Body Safety Education (aka sexual abuse prevention education) empowers girls and boys through knowledge, and teaches them they have the right to say, ‘No’ and to respect other’s personal boundaries. Both girls and boys need to learn to ask for consent and this can be taught from a very young age. Some of the scenarios in this book are typical of approaches used by sexual abusers (sexual predators/molesters/pedophiles) when grooming children for sexual abuse. Their aim is to desensitize the child to having their personal space violated and desensitize them to touch. For more information on Body Safety Education and how to teach it to your child go to www.secrets.info
Category: Empowerment
365 Days of Self Worth Praise: I Survived (Volume 1)
As women we long for love from that special someone. We hunger for a man to caress us after a trying day at work and we anticipate the warmth of his big, bold hands. But what happens when the love goes south? How do we break free from a man that has held our love for years? How do we let go of pain from the death of a loved one so intense it shatters our world? 365 Days of Self Worth Praise is a 7 part series of poems written to build confidence in women, raise self-esteem, and bring awareness to issues women face in today’s society. The poems in this book are so heart riveting they touch the very core of a woman’s soul causing her to unleash the power that lies within. They illustrate the power of the confessions of a woman. They are diverse, startling, and breath taking to say the least. These poems ignite the soul of a woman, uncover the hurt of an aching heart, and empower women to live again. This collection is a must read for every woman that loves a man. A must read for every woman that felt the sting of death from the loss of a loved one. A must read for every woman broken from the words of a love gone wrong. 365 Days of Self Worth Praise teaches the worth of women, reaches the heart, and most of all empowers the soul of a woman.
Motivation From Within: Self Empowerment For Companies and Individuals
13 Daily Habits to Success: Self-help, Inspiration, Motivation Empowerment
No one, much less me, would have predicted that I would become an entrepreneur, a business owner, and now a motivational speaker. I have developed a system of thirteen daily habits that will help everyone become successful if they follow them day-to-day. This system can not only help you personally but it can definitely help in becoming successful with your everyday job and/or business. This proven system is a sequential process comprised of ways to help better yourself and the success you are trying to accomplish. This is the same process that was originally used by me to facilitate a quantum leap in my life.
Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love Through Your Darkest Times
    Growing up in a tranquil wilderness, Teal Swan had a childhood that was anything but serene. Horrors lurked behind the façade of the perfect houses and pious community of the surrounding towns, and Teal attracted undue attention because of her unusually powerful extrasensory abilities. At the hands of a local cult member, she barely survived 13 years of horrendous abuse—and even after her escape, she was left powerless, lost, hurting, and with no way to cope. Gradually, and incredibly, Teal forged her way from shadowy moments of despair to a sliver of light . . . and eventually emerged from the darkness into the full dawn of self-love. Here, she shows how you, too, can achieve the feelings of worthiness that may be long missing from your life.
    Now a recognized spiritual luminary, Teal documents how she dug herself out of self-hate into self-love, and details the remarkable trail for others to get to the same place. Shadows Before Dawn encompasses both Teal’s compelling story, told with raw intensity, and her resolute, no-nonsense how-to guide to healing from even the deepest levels of suffering. Offering a comprehensive self-love tool kit, this book includes powerful exercises, insights, and perspective from a captivating new teacher in spirituality, and lets you pick and choose which techniques are right for you.
    Teal’s resonating words will sit with your soul long after you put this book down and will serve as guideposts on the way to complete self-love, no matter who you are or where you are in life.
From No Self-Esteem to Total Self-Empowerment!: How to Feel Good and Improve Your Life
No matter where you are in life and what has happened to you, you can feel good and improve your life beyond anything you have ever imagined.
I wrote From No Self-Esteem to Total Self-Empowerment! How to Feel Good and Improve Your Life to share my personal journey of transformation. All the difficulties I had been through left me feeling powerless and unworthy of living, but I found a way to improve my thinking and as a result my entire life improved in all aspects.
You will learn that you are the one holding the key to why things happen the way they do. You will learn how to improve your self-esteem, your body, your health, your relationships, your financial situation, your career, and anything else you desire to improve.
Anything you desire is possible, and you have the power within to achieve it.
Woman, Put Down That Halo and Thrive!: Forging a New Path to Economic Empowerment and Self-Actualization in 2015
Freedom Economics..An intrinsic relationship exists between freedom and economics. The great struggles of humanity rose in demand for improvement of economic conditions, for access to economic wellbeing. Those epic moments in history, such as the signing of the Magna Carta, captured the new spirit of an era of progress. What does this mean for women, who have over the centuries been denied direct access to the economy, who have had to go through men to gain even the smallest level of economic security, who only now join the negotiation? A book that takes economics to the heart of the matter?the heart of women.
Finding My Alpha: My Struggle to Self empowerment
Finding my alpha expresses the conviction of one woman as she explicitly expresses the emotional turmoil, the sacrifices, and the love she shared with one man for twelve years of marriage. Thea Reed is a first-time author who critically looks at the choices she made as an empowered woman before marriage and the shift in scales to a submissive beta wolf who did whatever she could to make her marriage work. The book openly explores the belief systems of being an Indian female and the mental barriers faced in a journey to finding inner strength and the will to stand tall-the alpha wolf. Real-life events and incidents allow the reader to connect with her pain and identify with the number of boundaries Thea allowed to be crossed. She gives insight into to the tools and support structures she put in place to build her mental and physical strength and bravely reflects on her shadow self. Understanding the meaning of not giving in easily and fighting with every bit of your soul, this book brings a refreshing view of unconditional love and finding peace when all roads have been exhausted.
The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path
A lively exploration of contemporary Buddhism from one of its most admired teachers
Do you feel at home right now? Or do you sense a hovering anxiety or uncertainty, an underlying unease that makes you feel just a bit uncomfortable, a bit distracted and disconnected from those around you?
In The Road Home, Ethan Nichtern, a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, investigates the journey each of us takes to find where we belong. Drawing from contemporary research on meditation and mindfulness and his experience as a Buddhist teacher and practitioner, Nichtern describes in fresh and deeply resonant terms the basic existential experience that gives rise to spiritual seeking–and also to its potentially dangerous counterpart, spiritual materialism. He reveals how our individual quests for self-awareness ripple forward into relationships, communities, and society at large. And he explains exactly how, by turning our awareness to what’s happening around us and inside us, we become able to enhance our sense of connection with others and, at the same time, change for the better our individual and collective patterns of greed, apathy, and inattention.
In this wise and witty invitation to Buddhist meditation, Nichtern shows how, in order to create a truly compassionate and enlightened society, we must start with ourselves. And this means beginning by working with our own minds–in whatever state we find them in.