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Valentine's Day CONTEST Oh, You Like Me! #Free #IAmReading #author #history #series

CONTEST!!!

Today's contest entry is going to be a bit different. Instead of writing a response all you have to do is go the links posted below, like my Facebook pages and then place a comment below that you have done so. Everyone who comments will be automatically entered into the drawing to win of my books. Winners are announced on Valentine's Day.
Here are the pages:
http://on.fb.me/1ko0Q5r
http://on.fb.me/1iGiVrC
https://www.facebook.com/SecretHeritage
http://on.fb.me/1d5vvR1
GOOD LUCK!

#VALENTINE'S DAY CONTEST: Win a #free book.

VALENTINE'S DAY CONTEST
Do you want to win a free copy of Calico, Elsa or Reflections? All you have to do is read the post and comment below to be automatically entered. Each day I will post a new story or a question. Just add to the story or answer the question in the comment section. Come back each day to see what is new. The contest will run until Feb. 13. Winners are announced on Valentine's Day. Good Luck!

If you could go anywhere and in any time to meet the man or woman of your dreams where would you go?
Who would you date and what would the two of you do?

A Romantic Snow In #contest #IAmWriting #Valentines

VALENTINE'S DAY CONTEST

It's been a horrible winter this year. 
If you were snowed in with your loved one what would you do to make it more romantic?

Win a #Free #book. Valentine's Day Contest.

CONTEST!!!Want to win a copy of Calico, Elsa or Reflections? Just read the blog and answer the writing prompt in the comments below to be automatically entered in the drawing. Winners will be announced on Valentine's Day. 

Reflections: Poems and Essays was a very personal writing experience for me. It includes historical essays but also poems that came from deep within my heart. 
Today's prompt: What's the most romantic experience you have ever had?
The waters of time never lie. Wisdom drifts down through the ages for all who dare to listen. History teaches us through honesty. Are you bold enough to hear the truth? Reflections: Poems and Essays wraps you in the untold stories of the past. Sit next to the waters of time and listen to the wisdom of the past. What if John Wilkes Booth hadn't been killed at Garret's barn? Who are the Shawnee? Why did the Cherokee accuse Sequoyah of witchcraft? These stories and more await you within this inspiring book. http://amzn.to/1lYik4M

#IWSG: Don't Let The Shame Monster Steal Your #Writing Thunder. @J_CameronLive

DON'T LET THE SHAME MONSTER STEAL YOUR WRITING THUNDER!


Shame. It's something every artist has. You've probably felt it when you were trying to create something. It's that little voice in your head that tells you not to pour your heart out in your writing because your work might hurt someone. So after you write something you just delete it. I'm infamous for stuff like that. It's hard for me to push through certain topics in my writing because I have an automatic writer's block that yells "Stop! Don't write that!" And what do I do? I stop writing. I don't go any deeper because I don't want to hurt someone. 
I've been working "The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity" by Julia Cameron every morning and came across this passage yesterday that really spoke to me.
"Many blocked people are actually very powerful creative personalities who have been made to feel guilty about their own strengths and gifts. Without being acknowledged, they are often used as batteries by their families and friends, who feel free to use their creative energies and disparage them. With these blocked artists strive to break free of their dysfunctional systems, they are often urged to be sensible when such advice is not appropriate for them. Made to feel guilty for their talents, they often hide their own light under a bushel for fear of hurting others. Instead, they hurt themselves."
I know what it means for someone to steal your creative energies. My mom always stole mine only to replace it with negatives. It took me a very long time to accept that I am a talented creative artist and that's ok. I broke away from my mom and others who were sucking my creative energies and surrounded myself with those who appreciated my abilities. I've thrived but I still have to face with the inner shame that I created out of the negative surroundings that I was raised in.  
It's hard to pour my heart and soul into a character who mirrors my own life or has to deal with issue  have. I've learned to push past the shame that lies inside me and when I do I find there is a cathartic release for me. A way of working through my personal issues. I still have moments when the inner shame is so large that it hinders my writing. There's are a few stories I have been holding onto that I want to write but am ashamed to even try. I won't throw them away because I know they need to be written. I plan to start working on them for a 2015 release. As a creative artists I can't allow shame to stop me from being the best writer I can be. I just need to push onward and have faith that I can write the story the way it needs to be written. 
Don't let others steal your creative energy. Don't let your personal shame stop you. JUST KEEP WRITING. Your inner artist will thank you for it. 

CONTEST!!! #summer #love.

CONTEST!!!!

Savannah always hated summer because it was that time of the year where she was expected to help her grandparents on the farm. But this year was different. This year she meet Chandler. Chandler made everyday on the farm a joy. Last night, the farm hand asked her out on a date. 
The door bell rang and Savannah raced down the stairs in her new sundress. 
Now it's your turn................

#Love is in the air: The weird date

CONTEST!!!!Win a copy of one of my books. All you have to do is read this prompt then continue the story in the comments below. If you're not the first person to post be sure to read the comments and build your story off of the last comment. 

Amanda sat across from her date with a strange feeling the man before her wasn't from around here. She poked at her food, looked up at the handsome man then asked.................
Now it's your turn.

#Valentine's Day Contest - Love Poem

CONTEST!!!!
Welcome back! You can enter the contest today by helping me to create a love poem. Anyone who participates is automatically entered in the drawing. You could win either a copy of Elsa, Calico or Reflections. 

Roses are red, Violets are blue........
Your turn.

Love in Early 20th Century Marion, #Ohio. #CONTEST Valentine'sDay #kindle #author

VALENTINE'S DAY CONTEST!!!!!
Today's the first day of my Valentine's Day contest. The contest is simple enough and runs through February 13th. I'll announce the winners on the 14th. You could win a copy of Elsa, Calico or Reflections. Each day I will start a story and the first person who comments will continue the story. The next person reads the story and the comment then adds to the story in the comments section. Participants are automatically entered into the drawing for one of the books. You have 13 chances to enter the contest because you can participate each day. Sounds fun?
Our first story romantic couple are Franklin and Elsa. Here's a brief synopsis of the book. 
All Elsa Garrett wants in life is to be Franklin’s wife. He’s asked her father for her hand and knows he has permission to ask her. Yet when and how would her boyfriend with Aspergers Syndrome ask the question? 
When Franklin has a diabetic seizure all hope seems lost once Elsa learns Franklin can no longer marry her due to an obscure law in Ohio relating to his seizure. With the help of Franklin’s parents, Elsa has a plan. But will it work? 
Lost in a society that doesn’t understand Franklin or why she would ever choose to be with him, Elsa comes face to face with death, destruction, and misfortune as she tries to clear her boyfriend’s name. With each step towards progress Elsa falls two steps behind. One simple task shifts her entire life towards a direction she could have never imagined. Alone, pregnant, and without her Franklin, is despair all she has to look forward to in her new life, or will fate finally bring them together? http://amzn.to/GADXKE 
Have fun and don't worry about how weird the story becomes. Be creative! I can't wait to see what you come up with. 
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The big day had finally arrived. Elsa twirled in her new yellow dress. She pressed the folds of her skirt, peered into the full length mirror, grabbed her locket and made sure everything was perfect. Her body was the perfect S figure. Her hair was neatly pinned back in a bun and she had the new earrings that Franklin had bought her yesterday at the store. Everything was perfect. She walked to their upstairs bedroom door, opened it and....................



Now it's your turn. 

@DeepakChopra Revolutionizes the World with His New Online Program #aging #healing #medicine

Open your eyes! He's Changing the World AGAIN!
     I was recently asked by siminars.com to give a review on their latest program written by Deepak Chopra. I was very honored to be selected to preview the program and give a review. I was even invited to meet Deepak Chopra in an online webinar just for the reviewers of his program. My husband and I have followed this genius healer for sometime now. I had so many great things to say about his new program I couldn't place it just one blog. I tried to highlight the parts that spoke to me the most. I would highly encourage you to check out his new program.

     
      Deepak Chopra has been inspiring and educating people worldwide with his alternative approach to overall wellbeing for over twenty years. His latest online program, Timeless You: The Biology of Youth & Wisdom of Experience challenges the participant to view aging from a different viewpoint in a way he has never done before.  Chopra’s program is an interactive online educational journey that you can progress through at your own pace. It includes videos, audio clips and more.  The program is simply to use and includes handouts you can print to remind you of key lessons you have learned.
Deepak Chopra opens his program with the argument we have been conditioned to believe aging means that will have a progressive decline. He further explains that this belief is a learned response to the conditioning that we first received as children. As an educator, with a background in cultural anthropology, the message Deepak Chopra teaches makes sense. Cultural groups throughout the world condition their population to believe and act in a way that identifies them as one of their own. Education is after all just a system a cultural group utilizes so their children will learn how their society wants then to conduct their daily lives and what to believe. Whenever someone goes against the established system that society will often consider him or her to be an outcast. That outcast gathers more supporters and eventually the outcast’s group changes the “normal” perception of how their society views a certain topic. Chopra introduces participates to the concept of Ayurveda which states what you see is what you become. Our perceptions of age, time and body must change if we are to reverse our aging process.
The participant is lead through a series of steps that help him or her to change the way they perceive aging and time. I enjoyed the activities in these sections and it really made me think about how I perceive my own life. I especially was drawn to the part of how we perceive our age.  My husband is thirteen years old than I am. For much of my marriage I tended to think like someone his age instead of my own because we normally associated with people around his age. So although I am only in my thirties most of the time I felt like I was in my late forties/early fifties. My body responded with those thoughts with a decline in health that would have normally been seen in a woman around that age not someone in her thirties! I have only recently begun to change my thinking back to my own chronological age and I have seen a dramatic difference.
I was also drawn to the section on how we perceive our overall body’s health affects the aging process. Chopra taught if we perceive our body decaying, as we grow older then it would. I have had many health problems in my life and continue to struggle on a daily basis with a variety of health concerns. I have found when I am so focused on how bad I feel my body feels worse. A few years ago I learned a new affirmation that I try to repeat whenever I feel negative thoughts or things go wrong. I tell myself I am healthy, wealthy and wise. Once I believed the words I was saying my thoughts become more positive and my overall health increases.
The mind and the body are connected. Our bodies are constantly changing throughout our lives. You don’t have to be defined by a hereditary condition. You can change your life for the better by changing the way you think and feel. I thoroughly enjoyed the section on how emotions affect the aging process. I have felt the affects of negative thinking habits on my body. When I began to change my thinking habits into a more positives ones my health become better. Negative thoughts have no place in your mind if you want to live a long, healthy life.
I highly recommend Deepak Chopra’s Timeless You: The Biology of Youth & Wisdom of Experience for anyone who wants to age gracefully. You don’t want to miss this online program on siminars.com. There is so many wonderful things to say about this online program I could write an entire book about it! Deepak Chopra’s online program will be available on siminars.com starting January 31, 2014.