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Becky Sheetz-Runkle Saves the World!

"By leaving our comfort zones, we get knocked down and banged up, but it beats standing still." -- Becky Sheetz-Runkle, Women Will Save the World.



Becky Sheetz-Runkle is a strategic marketer, speaker, and martial artist and the author of "Sun Tzu for Women: The Art of War for Winning in Business," named a "must read" by Today's Chicago Woman. 



In the book, "Women Will Save the World," Becky Sheetz-Runkle shares her experiences as a martial artist. Her philosophies about her practice can be applied to all aspects of life, however. She applies these lessons to helping others in marketing, and also shares them in her book. Sometimes we must push ourselves to step away from our comfort zones, accept challenges, and meet those challenges with all we've got. Otherwise, we are just standing still. 



Get all the stories of the women who are saving the world -- get your copy of "Women Will Save the World" by Caroline A. Shearer -- just $2.99 on Kindle for a limited time!








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Celebrating Wise Women Everywhere!

This week on Raise Your Vibration Radio:

"Wise Woman" by Caroline Herring

March is Women's History Month and we are celebrating by honoring women everywhere! The seven feminine characteristics enabling women to save the world are collaboration, creativity, intuition, nurturing, strength, trailblazing, and wisdom! 

Women are inherently wise. (For historical profiles of wise women, along with selected quotes, check out our previous posts on Eleanor Roosevelt and Anne Frank.) This week we will be bringing you the updates on wise modern-day women Sue Lee and Jenny Craig. Stay tuned all month long for more inspirational articles!

For more information about "Women Will Save the World," including headshots and bios of contributors, please visit www.WomenWillSavetheWorld.com.

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Saint Teresa of Avila Saves the World!

"The soul is a castle made entirely out of a diamond or a very clear crystal, in which there are many rooms." -- Saint Teresa of Avila



St. Teresa of Avila, while incredibly active on an earthly level, remains most known for her inner spiritual journey and the cataloging of this journey through her many writings. -- "Women Will Save the World"



Saint Teresa (not to be confused with Mother Teresa who was also a saint) was a highly intuitive woman who used her words to save the world. She was a prominent Spanish mystic born in 1515. She feared marriage as she disliked how it confined women, and she entered a convent at age 20. She suffered a severe bout of malaria and was suspected dead -- to the point that her grave was dug before she recovered. 



Later, she saw and spoke with God, Jesus, and angels. She levitated during Mass and in the convent. She also experienced her heart being pierced by the "lance of an angel." She shared her journey for peace through her books. She was canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622.



To learn more about inspirational women - both past and present - order your copy of "Women Will Save the World" by Caroline A. Shearer! (Kindle copies on sale for just $2.99 for a limited time!) 








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ALP Spring Blog Tour!

We've been making our way around the world again! We are on a special tour this month in honor of Women's History, the publication of "Women Will Save the World," and the power of raising vibrations in all corners of the globe! Here are a few stops we've made so far:



-- "Raise Your Vibration: Tips and Tools for a High-Frequency Life" listed on a book recommendation page on Seeking Spirituality 



-- A beautiful review of "Women Will Save the World" on the Mommy Mystic blog



-- A flattering review of "Adventures of a Lightworker: Dead End Date" on the blog Angels in the Underworld



-- "The Art of Editing": a very special guest post by ALP editor Sarah Hackley featured on Where Writers Win



More to come!



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Michelle Hastie Saves the World One Healthy Body at a Time!

"Losing weight and living in our ideal body means embracing our femininity." -- Michelle Hastie, Women Will Save the World.



Michelle Hastie is a speaker, author, and coach who works with overworked, stressed-out entrepreneurs to reduce tension around food and exercise, remove weight naturally, and return to freedom in a body that truly expresses who they are. 



In the book "Women Will Save the World," Michelle shares her story of how she came to realize she was being too hard on and expecting too much from her body. It only took getting hit by five cars! While she was confined to recovering on a couch, she dropped her harsh regimen and actually lost weight!



Now, she helps other women to recognize their true femininity, to let it blossom, and to get healthy in the most natural of ways. For more about Michelle, you can visit her website, Total Body Health Solutions, or check out the update we featured with her last week in honor of Women's History Month.



Get all the stories of the women who are saving the world -- get your copy of "Women Will Save the World" by Caroline A. Shearer -- just $2.99 on Kindle for a limited time!








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Mother Teresa Saves the World!

"The woman is the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason of our existence to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world." -- Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, also known as the Angel of Mercy and the Saint of the Gutter, is an iconic figure famous for her compassionate and nurturing nature, which she demonstrated through her lifelong service to the poor. -- "Women Will Save the World" 
Many of us are probably more familiar with Mother Teresa's work, rather than her words. She was an inspiring lady all around, and she did A LOT to save the world! At just 18, she committed to a lifetime of service to God. She helped the poorest in India by living among them and caring intimately for them. She inspired 4,000 Charity Sisters to perform similar acts in 123 countries around the world! When she died in 1997, the Church moved quickly to canonize her as a saint. She was beatified before a crowd of several hundred thousand people, and the day she died is considered a public holiday in Albania. 
She was awarded the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, along with numerous awards and recognitions from all around the world. The world, in fact, is a much better place for having had her in it. 
To learn more about inspirational women - both past and present - order your copy of "Women Will Save the World" by Caroline A. Shearer! (For a limited time, Kindle copies are just $2.99!)

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Feminine Nurturing Will Save the World!

How Will Women Save the World?

Let us count the ways ...

* This blog is part of Absolute Love Publishing's ongoing series celebratingWomen's History Month and the book that honors women everywhere,"Women Will Save the World." 

Nurturing

Lorelei Shellist

“When
we ask a question to our higher selves, listen to the answer, and take our own
advice, a shift immediately takes place within our consciousness.”

 

Lorelei Shellist is a spiritual
psychologist, author, speaker, minister, and life coach. In her book, “RunwayRunAway: A Backstage Pass to Fashion, Romance, & Rock ‘N Roll,” she writes
candidly and boldly about life as a runway model and her struggles with her
fiancé, Steve Clark of Def Leppard, as she watched him drink himself to an
early death.

 

In the ALP compilation “WomenWill Save the World,” Lorelei shares her perspective on the importance of
nurturing ourselves. Women tend to take care of others, and put themselves
last. This is a great mistake. The better we care for ourselves, the more we
can give to saving the world around us.

 

Lorelei is currently en route to
India, but she took a few minutes before her plane took off to talk to us about
what inspires her the most!

 

Lorelei: “It is just the natural loving force that lives inside of me.
Love is who I am. It is who and what we are. When I tune into my heart's work,
all I want to do or be is loving, kind, and compassionate. As a human being
that can be tricky, as sometimes the ego mind gets in the way. At the
University of Santa Monica School of Spiritual Psychology there is a master’s
program called ‘Consciousness, Health, and Healing.’ From taking that class,
the most important quote I can remember is this: ‘Being of service is the
highest form of consciousness available to mankind.’ Notice the word man-‘kind.’
It is just a way of being that I choose to live in this life.”

 

In the last year, Lorelei has been working on saving the world
in numerous realms:

 

Education: She graduated from
the Consciousness, Health and Healing master’s program at USM in August.

 

Lorelei: “This course brought awareness to things I took for granted.
See, it's not just a coincidence that this, or that, happened…there is always a
deeper learning and reason that things occur, even the simplest ones!”

 

Speaking Engagements: In Fashion and Design Colleges helping art
students find that "secret something" they possess
inside themselves that brings unique and original ideas to their
work.

 

Fashion: Hosting ceremonies and events including the La Jolla
Fashion Film Festival, a three-day festival showcasing fashion
film directors from all over the world. It is like the Cannes Film Festival but
the film content has only to do with fashion and beauty.

 

Volunteering: There were three trips to the Valley State Prison
for Women in Chowchilla, and three community outreach workshops in Santa
Barbara County, as Lorelei is a part of a team of USM volunteers for the Freedom to Choose Foundation.
The team of 70 travels to these prisons and Veterans Halls to facilitate healing
workshops using the skills they learned from USM. The workshops are well
received as many of the women have said the volunteers visit them more often
than their own families.

 

Lorelei: “I cannot tell you how much this service
work helps me in my own life and deepens the compassion in my heart for others.” 

 

A new workshop: I
AM DREAMS WITH WINGS.

This
"elective" class is for At-Risk Teens in Continuation High Schools
where they earn class credits in order to graduate. Using many of her own
modalities, and those she learned from USM, Lorelei teaches critical life
skills, such as self-confidence, teen esteem, job interview skills, meditation,
poise, posture and personal inner dialogue. She also brings the modeling skills
to the class as they learn to stand straight, tall, and strong inside themselves

 

And she tells us more
about her trip to India!

 

Lorelei: “This sprint to India came up on its own. I
have always wanted to go there and for years I have been telling my friends,
designers Lecoanet Hemant, that
I would someday visit them in Delhi. I was their ‘muse’ when I modeled in Paris
for the couture designers back in the 80's. These guys were two of my favorite
clients. Think Dolce & Gabbana of haute couture. Didier Lecoanet and Hemant
Sagar will be my hosts in India.

 

“And yes, of course
the spiritual guru who lives inside me has planned a runaway retreat to the
Aurovalley Ashram, near Rishikesh by the Gange River at the base of the
Himalayas. This part is just for me... to go inside and give thanks for the
blessings I have, to meet my ‘source’ in a very diverse time and place in my
life too.

 

“I woke up on a Monday
morning ten days ago and received a message that the time was right to go to
India. Within four days I had frequent flyer mileage flights, invites for
places to stay, a visa, and a very light bag packed.

 

I'm on the runway again!”

 

For more essays and insights on feminine Nurturing
– and all of the other characteristics helping women to save the world – get
your copy of “Women Will Save the World” by Caroline A.
Shearer. And be sure to check in to the ALP blog, as we will be bringing you more
updates, profiles, and inspirational quotes in honor of Women's History
Month!

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Sarah Hackley Saves the World!

"Feminine strength, I've realized, isn't about shutting ourselves off -- it's about letting the world in." -- Sarah Hackley, Women Will Save the World. 



Sarah Hackley is the editor for Absolute Love Publishing and its imprint, Spirited Press. An author, ghostwriter, freelance writer, and poet, she is a passionate believer that the written word can change lives. 



In "Women Will Save the World," Sarah opens up about the painful trauma of losing her personal heroine, her mother. So long, her mode was to push through struggles and life's tough patches by clamping down and pretending everything is all right. To compartmentalize feelings and move on. She did this for so long that she ran out of places to put it all away. Partly through therapy, and partly through a personal awakening, Sarah learns there is a better way of dealing with adversity.



"Past traumas are like old scars on tissue that never quite healed properly - they occasionally must be cut open, re-examined, and sutured anew," she writes. Sarah's essay is a soulful lesson on feminine strength -- what it is, what it isn't, and how it saves us all. 



Learn more about Sarah -- and how you too can save the world! Get your copy of "Women Will Save the World" by Caroline A. Shearer today! 








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Feminine Strength Will Save the World!

How Will Women Save the World?

Let us count the ways ...

* This blog is part of Absolute Love Publishing's ongoing series celebrating Women's History Month and the book that honors women everywhere, "Women Will Save the World." 

Strength

Mary Ellen Ciganovich

“I knew I could do
anything I put my mind to doing.”

 

Mary Ellen
Ciganovich is an educator, author,
and inspirational speaker. As a child she was diagnosed with epilepsy and
later, as an adult, with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). All through her life, it
always seemed as though there was someone telling her what she could not do
because of her illnesses, first her mother and then the National MS Society.

 

In the book, “Women Will Save the World,” she shares the struggles
she dealt with trying to be “normal.” They proved to be lessons in taking
control of her life and they made her a stronger woman. She saves the world by
raising awareness through her words, both written and spoken. Last fall, we interviewed Mary Ellen about her essay in “Women Will Save the World,” and her own book,
“Healing Words, Life Lessons to Inspire.”

 

More recently, we caught up with her to see what she’s been doing
lately. It turns out she has been part of more than a few projects this year.

 

In the Chattanooga area, she has spoken to:

-- Church groups about “Awareness
of the Self”

-- Schools on “Attitude,”
and

-- Ladies Lunch groups on “Health
and Healing”

 

She was featured on radio shows such as:

-- Winning Life Through Pain with Coach Marla

-- Efit Family Radio

-- Conversations Live Radio with Cyrus Webb

-- Woman 4 Woman Radio

 

She wrote several articles for online websites and papers
including:

-- Double Diagnosis: How to Cope with Epilepsy and MS

-- How Awareness Creates Miracles

-- What's Right with our Schools, for the Chattanooga Times Free
Press

-- Interval Training Strengthens Your Heart

-- Healthy Wealthy and Wise: Creating and Keeping the Life You Desire

 

She was also selected to:

-- Write a portion of Roy Sheppard's new book, "Dear Daughter,
What I Wish I'd Known at Your Age" (expected publication July 7,
2013)

-- Be on the Advisory Board of the new online magazine, "The
Wellness Journey," scheduled to premiere in June. She will also be writing
the Spirituality column for the magazine based on her book, "Healing Words, Life Lessons to Inspire"

 

On top of all this, she works out every day to keep her epilepsy
and Multiple Sclerosis in balance. She also has clients she works with each
week who keep her especially busy.

 

ALP: Wow, Mary Ellen! You've been quite the busy lady! Your words are so inspiring to others. Where do you draw your inspiration from?

 

Mary Ellen: “When I taught middle school, I always taught my students that
they should do what they love to do and worry about the money secondary. I
tried to impress upon them the fact that they should leave this wonderful world
of ours just a little bit better than when they were born. I have to live what
I teach. I post a 'Truth of the Day' on Facebook every day and then I explain
the Truth. I cannot write these Truths, or teach them to clients or the
groups I speak to, if I do not live them myself. I do what I do to
make the world a little bit better, a little bit more peaceful, and a
little bit more beautiful for my having lived and given back.”

 

For more essays and insights on
feminine Strength – and all of the other characteristics helping women to save
the world – get your copy of “Women Will Save the World” by Caroline A.
Shearer. And be sure to check in to the ALP Blog as we continue to post more
updates, profiles, and inspirational quotes in honor of Women’s History Month!

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Celebrate Feminine Nurturing with The Pretenders!

This week on Raise Your Vibration Radio:

"I'll Stand By You" by The Pretenders

Feminine strength and nurturing have been guiding the world for centuries. (Check out our historical women profiles for more on that.) They are just two of the inherent feminine characteristics helping women to save the world! 

This song by The Pretenders describes one woman's devotion to her man, but as we know, a determined woman can accomplish anything! 

Join us in celebration as we bring you more special features on the ALP blog in honor of Women's History Month!

For more information about "Women Will Save the World," including headshots and bios of contributors, please visitwww.WomenWillSavetheWorld.com.

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