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April 13, 2017
Why I Use My Craft To Create Goodness … By Michelle Hastie
At Absolute Love Publishing, we believe in creating goodness in the world. This post is one of a series in which we’ve asked our authors to explain why they choose to align themselves with our publishing house and why they use their craft to create goodness…
Absolute Love Publishing Author Michelle Hastie
There are far too many people suffering in today’s too-busy, fast-moving society to ignore the calling to bring peace and goodness to as many people as possible. Spreading goodness, love, and compassion in the world is our purpose for living. Where I have seen the biggest need to fulfill this passion for myself is in the world of food, movement, body image, and weight.
People are struggling with eating disorders, obesity, excess weight, body image obsessions, and a laundry list of other related issues all stemming from the separation and obsessive “doing” nature that comes with living a life disconnected from our true selves and from each other. My calling is to teach mindfulness to all human “doings” who are so desperate to feel better.
In an attempt to bring understanding, connection, and ultimately goodness to all, I feel called to expose this false sense of human identity and bring more honesty to our everyday habits and our underlying programming. When the truth behind our authentic lives is exposed, we can begin to learn from each other. Marianne Williamson reminds us:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
In a world that often feels so disconnected, it is imperative that we remember the inter-connectedness of us all. Through this inter-connectedness we can remember to spread goodness, love, and compassion where judgment and separation attempt to exist. Partnering with others who feel this way, like Absolute Love Publishing, enables me to offer healing to those people living lives as human “doings” instead of our more natural state of “beings.”
When you decide to let your light shine, you unconsciously give permission to the next person to do the same. In other words, when you send goodness to your neighbors, your neighbors receive permission to be their best selves, and ultimately pass that permission onto their neighbors. To me, there is nothing more important than this.
March 27, 2017
Chakra Awareness
Have you been experiencing physical symptoms that you can’t explain easily? Are you feeling fatigued or drained? Are you in pain? It could be an issue with your chakras.
Chakras can become blocked. When the energy from our chakras is not able to flow freely, our bodies can manifest physical symptoms and dis-ease that we experience as pain, fatigue, and discomfort. Thankfully, the solutions can be as simple as applying specific yoga poses, nourishing each chakra through food, and listening closely to our bodies.
Michelle Hastie, author of The Chakra Secret: What Your Body Is Telling You min-e-book™ says, “Once you can separate yourself from the dis-ease, disorder and dysregulation, then you can say ‘This is not me. It is an experience I am having.’ Ask yourself what can potentially be the cause of these symptoms? These symptoms are your body’s way of communicating with you. When you are open to recognize the symptoms and not run from them, but welcome them in and try to understand them, you can reach a state of wholeness where all your chakra centers energies are free flowing and unblocked.”
Learn more about chakra awareness with Michelle Hastie on the Get Unstuck Speaker Series with Denise Barry.
March 20, 2017
We Are The Most Privileged Generation Of Women To Ever Walk The Earth
“The achievements, leadership, courage, strength and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well. As Dr. Gerda Lerner has noted, ‘Women’s History is Women’s Right. – It is an essential and indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long-range vision.’” – President Jimmy Carter, 1980
“The world will be saved by the Western woman.” – The Dalai Lama, 2009
The U.S. has celebrated Women’s History Month every March since 1988. In the Women’s Studies Bestseller “Women Will Save The World,” author Caroline A. Shearer draws on this tradition and the words of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to honor both today’s women and the women of the past.
Women are naturally blessed with the seven inherent qualities of collaboration, creativity, intuition, nurturing, strength, trailblazing, and wisdom. This inspiring collection of essays is organized around these feminine traits so the reader can explore its depths in a variety of ways – either as a seamless, cover-to-cover read or as a gentle guide to focus on a specific feminine quality that speaks to our daily lives.
Claire Zammit & Katherine Woodward Thomas, Co-creators/Co-leaders of the Feminine Power Transformative Teachings for Women, have said Shearer’s book is “a unique offering that provides inspiration and hope to light our way. Given that we are the most privileged generation of women to ever walk the face of the Earth, we recognize that ushering in the new world order is ours to do, and Caroline Shearer has gifted us with extraordinary role models to emulate as we collectively rise to the task at hand.”
Women Will Save The World is a timeless read that will resonate with every reader. Young women will be inspired and motivated for tomorrow’s journeys, and women of all ages will find their feminine strengths and passions reignited. This month, celebrate your feminine, and share this Women’s Studies Bestseller with the women in your life today!
March 14, 2017
Create What You Really Want Financially
Are you ready to make your financial dreams a reality? Join Caroline A. Shearer as she discusses why it is important to Raise Your Financial Vibration on the Get Unstuck Speaker Series with Denise Barry.
Shearer says, “No matter what we are doing on the physical practical level of earning, saving and spending there is always the other element at play where we have to get our thoughts and emotions in shape to help create what we really want versus what we have been providing for ourselves.”
For more, tune in here and start transforming your financial well being today!
March 6, 2017
Not Your Typical Diet Book
Michelle Hastie, author of “The Weight Loss Shift: Be More, Weigh Less,” wins over another reader and receives a five-star book review!
“The Weight Loss Shift is not your typical diet book: in fact, there are no recipes or food plans between its covers! Instead, think of this book as the game-changer that you need to get yourself in the headspace to tackle your eating issues once and for all.”
“Michelle doesn’t tackle basic topics that we already know, such as what to eat and not to eat (we all know that an apple is a healthier snack than a candy bar!) Instead, she focuses on helping us examine crucial topics such as how our subconscious mind impacts our perception of who we are and how we eat and the differences in how ideal and overweight people eat (even when both are eating emotionally).”
Read the full review here for more on how Michelle can help you change your thoughts and habits to inspire weight loss in a brand new way – one that stays off for good!
Purchase your copy of “The Weight Loss Shift: Be More, Weigh Less here.
March 1, 2017
Is Absolute Love Publishing the Publisher For You?
Have you been looking for that ideal publisher that fits both you and your work? Do you want:
A long-lasting partnership with a publishing team that builds and nurtures you as an author?
A publisher that holds true to its mission statement?
To inspire feelings of hope and positivity in your readers?
To make the world a better place collectively?
If so, Absolute Love Publishing might be the publisher you’ve been seeking!
Join Caroline A. Shearer, creator of Absolute Love Publishing, on Divas That Care with Candace Gish as she shares what makes ALP different and why she cares about promoting goodness through the books she publishes. Listen to the full interview here, then check out our expanding catalogue and our manuscript wishlist. We look forward to reading your work!
February 13, 2017
20 Kindness Ideas Big On Heart, Little On Cost
Random Acts Of Kindness Week is here! While we strive to live a kind life everyday, the designated week of February 12th through 18th is a great opportunity to saturate the world with extra love and kindness. May the 20 kindness ideas below inspire you to add an extra dollop of sweetness to the kind life you are already living:
Leave Post-It notes with positive and inspirational affirmations on mirrors in store changing rooms and gym dressing rooms to surprise, empower, and inspire others.
Offer to run an errand for someone who may be overwhelmed.
Call your city’s food bank and see when you can spend a day volunteering.
Smile and compliment the people you come across in your daily errands.
Borrow your child’s chalk (or pick up a box at the local bargain store) and write inspirational and sweet messages on your neighbor’s sidewalk.
Take your gently used books and magazines to the nearest senior center.
Buy the beverage for the person behind you in the drive thru line on your next coffee run.
Take any extra /old sheets and blankets to your local pet shelter.
Visit someone you know does not receive very many visitors.
Cook a meal or make a dessert for someone.
Write a handwritten note to someone you love.
Give thank you notes to your regular service providers.
Leave quarters in a laundry mat.
Donate used books to your local library.
Spend time showing the youngest little humans around you what kindness means through your actions and words.
If you sew or knit, get your craft on and create little hats with love for babies in a nearby hospital.
Pick up a $5.00 gift card and gift it to a person who looks like a little kindness will go a long way.
Surprise your office mates with small, lucky bamboo plants for their desks.
Send a batch of cookies to class with your child. (Tip: Be aware of any allergies in the classroom first.)
Give out “blessing bags” to the less fortunate you come across in your daily travels. (Blessing bag ideas: Large Ziploc bag with a pair of socks, chapstick, granola bar, trail mix, toothbrush, toothpaste, multi-purpose hand wipes, moisturizer, gum or mints)
Wishing you much love and kindness,
The Absolute Love Publishing Team
Absolute Love Publishing’s mission is to publish books that promote goodness in the world. To learn more, click here or submit your own wonderful writings here.
January 9, 2017
Your Body Is More Than Meets The Eye
Ever wander why you gain weight in a specific area? Do you experience symptoms that seem to have no cause? Can your body feel better than it currently does?
In the min-e-book™ “The Chakra Secret: What Your Body Is Telling You,” top-ranked author Michelle Hastie explains our chakras, the seven main energy centers of the body, and their impact on our health. She walks us step by step through each chakra, detailing the part of our body that is aligned with that specific energy center.
Learn to listen to your bodies wisdom and recognize the signs that can lead you to feeling better physically and emotionally. Inside this min-e-book™, you’ll find the tools to locate and heal energetic blockages, learn which foods nourish each chakra, and practice yoga poses that strengthen your body and chakra centers.
Additional bonuses include: Self Hypnosis and Meditation Affirmations!
Foreword by Sealed with Love Founder Elizabeth Harper
“Michelle Hastie’s min-e-book™ gives you the inside scoop on how to keep your energy system in balance, allowing you to enjoy good health, abundance, and infinite happiness.”
— Elizabeth Harper, Sealed with Love Founder
Chakra Recipes by Chef & Satiated Soul Coach Maria Schonder
“Michelle’s work is vitally important for anyone ready to make a deep, long-lasting change. She gracefully presents a path, tools, and practices to transform how we look at food, and ourselves. I highly recommend exploring her enlightened perspective!”
— Maria Schonder, Chef & Satiated Soul Coach
Begin your 2017 wellness journey now with the ”The Chakra Secret: What Your Body Is Telling You”.
January 6, 2017
Replace Old Thoughts With New Thoughts
Ready to feel body acceptance and release body image issues? Want to understand your body’s natural wisdom and reconfigure your subconscious weight programming for the “true you” in 2017? Discover a healthier inside that radiates to your outside with the “The Weight Loss Shift: Be More, Weigh Less.”
Your thoughts and beliefs are immensely powerful. They create who you are, what you do, and what you have. If you can begin to separate out the beliefs that no longer serve you, especially those that aren’t even your beliefs to begin with, you will become successful and achieve the things you want. In “The Weight Loss Shift: Be More, Weigh Less,” author Michelle Hastie shows you how.
You will easily let go of the ideas that are holding you back, and begin to choose beliefs that motivate you and bring you closer to your ideal self. You will begin substituting negative thoughts, such as ‘I’m not acceptable as I am” and “I must diet to lose weight and be loved,” with positive ones, such as “Accepting myself means being happy at any weight” and “Loving myself is a better way to achieve the results I desire.”
Not only will this make you feel better and hasten your weight loss journey, but it also will make you more powerful. By replacing your old thoughts with new thoughts that better serve you, you will bring your thoughts and beliefs into alignment with where you want to go, as opposed to where you were or have been.
Start the journey to the “true you” now with “The Weight Loss Shift: Be More, Weigh Less”.
December 23, 2016
Haunted Echo Receives Rave Reviews!
Readers are loving “Haunted Echo,” the first book in Janet McLaughlin’s
Young Adult series, the Soul Sight Mysteries! Described as “fun” and “well-crafted,” the book showcases McLaughlin’s love of mysteries and the mystical and easily entertains. Check out what others are saying about this ‘tween paranormal destination mystery:
“Haunted Echo is a fun exploration of the psychic & paranormal worlds that will have you hooked from the first chapter! Love, ghosts, an island …. who could want for more?”
Tiffany Johnson
Psychic-Medium, as seen on A&E’s Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal
“I loved this book. So you know how a book is wonderful? When you put it down, yet you wish you could read through it without breaking. I became attached to Zoey … what a great character. She experiences troubles most teens don’t with being psychic, but I love that she has this power. I can’t wait to read the next! Def recommend!”
Jodi Stone
Author and Illustrator of children’s books with Anchor Group
“It is a ‘Ghost Whisperer’ for teens with clean romance and a plot that will have you second-guessing where it is headed…”
Robin M. King
Author of Remembrandt
“Get psyched for this paranormal adventure with Zoey Christopher and friends! When she’s invited to go along with fellow cheerleader, Becca, to the Moretti family’s Caribbean Island cottage, Zoey’s psychic powers don’t go ‘on vacation.’ In fact, they are stronger than ever. ‘Tween readers will enjoy the mystery, suspense, action, adventure—and even romance—in this well-crafted story.”
Dianne Ochiltree
Author of Molly By Golly! The Legend of Molly Williams, America’s First Female Firefighter and other books for young readers
“A little intrigue, a little mischief, a little romance … and a whole lot to cheer about! Haunted Echo is a fun and fast-paced read!”
Marley Gibson
Author of Radiate
“I love a good ghost story, no matter what age it’s written for, and author Janet McLaughlin has created a great one with her new book, Haunted Echo. Zoey and Becca are funny and smart, the setting is spooky, and the plot keeps you guessing until the end. I couldn’t put it down!”
Penny Warner
Author of the award-winning Code Busters Club series
Get ready for more intrigue and mystery with Zoey Christopher and her BFF, Becca Moretti, in the next installment of the Soul Sight Mysteries coming in 2017! Purchase your copy of Haunted Echo today!
