Introductions

[Nataša]

Hi :)

I am Natasa Pantovic Nuit the Author of the Alchemy of Love Mindfulness Training Books:

Mindful Being
Mindful Eating: Exercises with Delicious Raw Vegan Recipes
Chanting Mantras with Best Chords
A Guide to Mindful Eating
Conscious Parenting: Mindful Living Course for Parents
Art of 4 Elements

The books are a journey into mindfulness, exploring self-development, the alchemy of soul and the alchemy of humanity.

It is an honor to be within this group.

Nuit

[Rian]

Welcome, Brenda, Rita, Michael, and Nuit (Natasa)! I look forward to learning more of what Nuit brings up, mindfulness, and the alchemy of the soul...

[Wendy]

Hi, I'm Wendy from Australia. I love the concept of this group. I enjoy reading an eclectic range of genres but particularly love books that are inspiring, uplifting and enriching.
As well as being an avid reader I am also a writer and have recently published "Grabbing the Muse by the Throat" It is a book of creative inspiration.
I look forward to interacting with others in the group.

[Joe]

Hello all, my name is Joe Bagnato and I am 44 years old, married for nearly 21 years and a father of 2 girls one of which is now an angel in heaven. I am a first time author, a memoir that takes us through the cancer journey that ultimately took my daughters life at 15 years of age. You can see how beautiful she was just by gazing at the cover of my book that was published through Electio publishing on the 3rd of this month. Feel free to ask me questions at anytime as I unfortunately have great knowledge when it comes to hardship and out of order grief. This is an inspiring and unique story that will captivate you.

Family Inspires Great Hope Together!F.I.G.H.T. - Family Inspires Great Hope Together: How We Fight

[Katja]

Hi everyone,

my name is Katja Vartiainen , and I'm newbie on Goodreads, more an illustrator/artist than author.I've done a book with my husband:Kitchenelves Revolution

and myself: Full Circle: From doodles to discovery- 101 drawings to finish

I alsos have keen interest for non-duality and spirituality, value questions etc etc.

Good to be here!

[LaShonda]

Hi I am an experienced Good Reads user. I am now trying to reach out to groups that have my interests as heart. I am one of those love people. One that thinks love fixes everything. I am also an author who write about love in hopes that it will motivate people to have a healthy conversation about what "real love is". I look forward to great discussions. Love and Other Thoughts-Love Journal

[LaShonda]

Hi! I am a newly published author as well. I have found suggesting books to my friends as well as sharing on social media as a great tool to get information out there. Good Luck!Love and Other Thoughts-Love JournalLaShonda C. Henderson

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Wendy wrote: "Hi, I'm Wendy from Australia. I love the concept of this group. I enjoy reading an eclectic range of genres but particularly love books that are inspiring, uplifting and enriching.
As well as being..."

Hi Wendy, I'm also from Australia (currently living in Canada) :)

[Daphne]

Hi LaShonda,
I am a new Author I just launched my first book/novel October 24th. I am inspired to write to the broken hearted to inspire hope after a devastating heart break. My book is doing well. I've gotten some great reviews. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done. But I did it! I would love to read some of your pieces.

[Joe]

Hello all, my name is Joe Bagnato and I am 44 years old, married for nearly 21 years and a father of 2 girls one of which is now an angel in heaven. I am also a first time author, a memoir that takes us through the cancer journey that ultimately took my daughters life at 15 years of age. You can see how beautiful she was just by gazing at the cover of my book that was published through Electio publishing on the 3rd of this month. This is actually the first book in a series of 3 books under the same title. Feel free to ask me questions at anytime as I unfortunately have great knowledge when it comes to hardship.

Family Inspires Great Hope Together F.I.G.H.T. - Family Inspires Great Hope Together: How We Fight

[Wendy]

Joy wrote: "Wendy wrote: "Hi, I'm Wendy from Australia. I love the concept of this group. I enjoy reading an eclectic range of genres but particularly love books that are inspiring, uplifting and enriching.
As..."

Hi Joy,I hope you are enjoying Canada! I'd love to visit there some day!

[Lisa]

Hello Everyone, I'm a retired social worker who has worked in the Chicago area for over 25 years with the disabled, families, and people with low incomes. I just published a book "Breaking the Fall" and it's available through Amazon as a paperback and as a Kindle. It's also available as a Nook. My book is fiction but I've drawn from my experiences to tell the stories of those people whose lives remain hidden in plain sight. Their stories cry to be told and I hope that you'll enjoy reading it. You can visit my blog at http://listeningtomytravels.blogspot.com.

[Rita]

Welcome Lisa. Good luck with Breaking the Fall. I can imagine you would have many stories to tell after twenty-five years.

[Naveen]

Hi, I am Naveen from India . I am not an avid reader but I would like to learn a lot more about the world around me through books .I hope to make some useful contributions to some of the discussions in the group

[SerialReader]

Hi everyone,
my name's Scila and I joined this group just today.
I'm a CJ student and a lot of topics you guys are discussing here are definitely interesting!
Have a beautiful day everyone! :)

[Colette]

I'm a new member and looking forward to making connections with Goodreaders. I have a new novel coming out in January and would love to meet those of you who'd like to read and review my book. Let me know if you're interested and I'll send you the free ebook. Colette Obrien

[Chikamso]

Hello Everyone,
I am Chika and I joined goodreads a couple of days ago and I am just trying to get a hang of things here. I must say this site is addictive. I am an author of an inspirational fiction novel titled Twisted in a Positive Way which can be found on amazon UK here http://amzn.to/1LYYXoP and US here http:http://amzn.to/1O7dDU6. I am here to meet as many like-minded people as possible and also to learn and interact with people. In addition to this, I would like anyone who would be up for reading and reviewing my novel.

**Update: Twisted in a Positive Way is now available on Kindle Unlimited for anyone who wishes to review it

Love,
Chika

[Lisa]

Rita wrote: "Welcome Lisa. Good luck with Breaking the Fall. I can imagine you would have many stories to tell after twenty-five years."

Yes, I do have many stories. Being technologically challenged, I just learned that the link to "Breaking the Fall" is http://www.amazon.com/dp/151720755x

[Stacy]

Hi Everyone!

I'm excited and thankful to be a member of such an great and important group! I recently published my first book and am learning how to navigate the world of self-publishing. You can find me on my website http://stacysflutterings.com/ and on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/author/show.... I look forward to meeting new authors and readers and hope that you will check out my new book too.

All the best,

Stacy

[Lisa]

Hi Stacy, Nice to meet you. My book "Breaking the Fall" is fictional but it is also about the mental health field. You can see my blog at http://listeningtomytravels.blogspot.com.

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Hi everybody,
I am Theodoor. I am Dutch, but have spent the last 8 years of my life in Taiwan, where I entered Buddhist studies. I feel blessed to have been able to spend much time seeking the truth of happiness. As many of you, I have just published my first book, titled 'My Power to Change'. It is about my life going through the process of change. I made it to Goodreads recently and I have started a blog on my author's page here, so please join me if you wish.

[Wendy]

Congratulations on writing your book Theodoor! I enjoyed reading your blog post - what an interesting life you have led.

[[deleted user]]

Thank you, Wendy! I am happy you enjoyed my blog. I guess it's been quite a ride so far. Yet I have the feeling I am only just starting! :-)

[Darcy]

I'm Darcy Leech, author of From My Mother releasing with eLectio Publishing in April 2016. I'm a first time author currently reading Goodreads for Authors and trying to live it!

You can check out my author page at http://darcyleech.com, or https://www.facebook.com/darcyleechau...

A non-fiction memoir in the narrative medicine genre, From My Mother may be of interest to you! Blurb:
Riveting, soulful, and courageously told, From My Mother is a meditation on grief, family, genetic disease and also a deeply personal account of the narrator’s coming-of-age amid medical crisis and tragedy to carry on the lessons from her mother to raise her young son. A story of loss, From My Mother is full of life, a story of beginnings as much as endings, a moving book that transforms suffering into art and inspiration. Darcy Leech was born to Jo Lyn Bartz, a mother who carried myotonic muscular dystrophy, a disease 1 in 8500 suffer from. Jo Lyn’s son, Dustin Ryan Bartz, was born with congenital muscular dystrophy with a high enough frequency of protein repeat mutations that of his 13 years of life, every day defied prior medical knowledge. Leech narrates a moving meditation of the enduring mysteries of what dormant harbingers of genetic disease may lurk within, the surprising possibilities in loss, and the deep resilience of the human spirit as the body weakens.

The narrative highlights the relationship between diseased mother and healthy daughter, revealing Jo Lyn as a woman of strength, a caretaker who quietly marched toward her own degenerative weakness, someone grappling for identity while ostracized by an invisible disease, and a resilient spirit who endured holding the child who inherited her genetic misfortune as he took his last breath. From My Mother is the honest story of finding joy through loss, living fully within limitations, and the universal struggle of grappling for identity against the device of innate genetic code through invested love and personal choice. From My Mother leaves the reader pondering the value of genetic testing, the beauty in a disease easy to accept as genetic fault, and the heart wrenching question of when life should be sustained by machine or ended by choice.

[Nancy]

Hello Everyone! I'm Nancy.. Hi!... I have to be honest, I hesitated before joining this group because I really had to think if my book fit in. My book is a practice in self love--through nutrition. It is a practice of social change through eating and, also a practice of health, through nature. The book is an lesson in empowerment which is why it is entitled EAT! which stands for Empower, Adjust. Triumph! The link is here: http://www.amazon.com/EAT-Empower-Adj...

I believe that how we care for ourselves and how we chose to live expresses either self-compassion and self love or self-loathing. There is always a positive shift in perception through feeling good and better health.

[Wendy]

Nancy wrote: "Hello Everyone! I'm Nancy.. Hi!... I have to be honest, I hesitated before joining this group because I really had to think if my book fit in. My book is a practice in self love--through nutrition...."

Hi Nancy, I share your philosophy, just wish I was living it right now - too many Christmas chocolates!
Wishing you all the best with your book, it sounds great.

[Janie]

Hey everyone!
My name is Janie and I am new here I'm a writer, yes a writer I love saying it! I write romance but full of CULTURA and RAZA. I write what I know, and love is very real. I know because I put them to bed at 9pm sharp every night so they can be ready for school and I wake up to him for the last 16years. Glad to be here!

[B.C.]

Hi, I like to be thought of as a Spiritual Grandma B.
My primary message is God is our Mother as well as Father!

Jesus revealed God in his spoken Aramaic language as "ABBA"
meaning our "Heavenly Parent" and includes the Mother as well
as the Father!
The oneness of God is reflected by the alike, yet uniqueness
between us, and all our stages in between, that we see in the
life of nature, as well as within ourselves.
We are more alike than different, and when we do not have equal
rights or equal opportunities, our culture, beliefs, treatment of each
other, become enslaving, unbalancing forces, we all suffer from!
Confirmation of our equality can also can be found in the Universal
Golden Rule, within the hearts of those of goodwill!
www.Amazon.com/dp/151148148x
"Equal Rights From God" by BCDudney



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I spent over 20 years writing my book "Equal Rights From God", by B. C. Dudney

[Lisa]

Hi,

I am from Syracuse, the snowiest city in America. I read to combat cabin fever in winter. Any suggestions are welcome. I love history, genealogy, autobiographies and inspirational books !!

[B.C.]

Dear Lisa,
Hope you will consider my book "Equal Rights From God" now at
www.Amazon.com151148148x
God is our Mother as well as Father!
Took me over 20 years to write!
Tells how our patriarchal kind of language keeps us in idolatry or
a false male only image of God!

[Dr. Darnell]

Hello, I am Nay!

[B.C.]

"EQUAL RIGHTS FROM GOD"

God is our Mother as well as Father!
What is a Father without a Mother?
How our patriarchal language keeps us in the sin of idolatry,
a false male only image of God that adds to inequality, poverty,
and hurts all!
Only $1 E-book "Equal Rights From God" and paperback,

or "The Equalitarian Age" now at
www.Amazon.com151148148x
Betty C. Dudney

[Bayan]

Hello everybody ... I am Bayan ...I've recently published my new book << A Wanderer's Wonder >> The book where we wandered together along the road of no constraints

Wanders are humans who are able to fly in their own world , they are the eye of this wonderful world , world of supernatural nature, scenes and sights. They live on the edge of Earth and reality , they are living in their own land . The land of no defintie destination . The land of freedom and imagination without any constraints ... They are the followers of the running pulses of emotions , feelings and states.... Followers which are moving on the road of love and peace on Earth ... That's what I can really tell from reading this small book... I hope you really enjoy it and share what you have about it , and what your thoughts tried to look up in you while reading it .. :)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5e6ljc8k07e...

waiting for your reviews >> and happy to join this group >> BEST WISHES

[Nihar]

Hello everyone! My name is Nihar Suthar. I recently graduated from university with a degree in economics, but surprisingly, I'm a very avid writer of inspirational and non-fiction stories :)

-Nihar Suthar
www.niharsuthar.com

[Lisa]

Lisa wrote: "Hi,

I am from Syracuse, the snowiest city in America. I read to combat cabin fever in winter. Any suggestions are welcome. I love history, genealogy, autobiographies and inspirational books !!"

Hi Lisa, I've lived in the Chicago area most of my adult life but I grew up in New York and attended SUNY Binghamton. I hate snow. Anyway, let me suggest my book "Breaking the Fall." It's the story of Sherry a therapist with secrets of her own and the stories of her clients, people who live in our midst but whose stories remain invisible. How they impact each other is the issue. It's available on Amazon as a paperback and as a Kindle.

[Robin]

@Reza--You might provide our group with the book or first couple of chapters & ask for feedback.

[Randy]

Hi Everyone,

Hi Betty, post 136. Your post was interesting about a femine and masculine God. I wrote an essay about how our Heavenly Mother assisted our Heavenly Father in creating this earth--and that is why mother earth is so beautiful. I try to post it here. I also wrote a book, "Divine Intervention" a best seller in its genre. (Amazon & Barnes and Noble). Here goes:
Actually I do not know how to attach a two-page script?

[Robin]

The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman

Dear Bright Souls,

This looks like a wonderful group, and I'm happy to be a part of it. I'm a recently published novelist and, like most of you, much prefer to read literature with substance--works that encompass the spiritual levels of being, fiction and non-fiction, visionary works that ask questions and allow the reader to find their own answers.

My debut novel, "The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman," is the story of a gifted, disabled boy in search of family. It won the int'l 2015 Gelett Burgess Children's Book award, and is a finalist in the UK's Wishing Shelf Book Award (adult category).

If the group would like to read and discuss it, I'd be happy to provide free ebooks.

Wishing you much inspiration and endless joy!

Warm blessings,
Robin

[Amy]

I'm excited to start exploring many of your pieces/blogs/books! They sound wonderful!

I'm Amy, I'm a social activist around the oppression of women (mainly sexual violence). I do a lot of public speaking and have released my debut novel Disillusioned Love a modern romance take "with a rock-n-roll twist", but with some distinct social commentary by the book's protagonist.

Be on the lookout for my next piece: The Destruction of Lilacs which is my creative non-fiction memoir of enduring and healing form multiple experiences with sexual violence. Hoping to get that released as early as this summer.

[Robin]

Amy wrote: "I'm excited to start exploring many of your pieces/blogs/books! They sound wonderful!

I'm Amy, I'm a social activist around the oppression of women (mainly sexual violence). I do a lot of public ..."

Hi Amy,

You sound inspired! I'll check out your DISILLUSIONED LOVE
and watch for your new book!

Warmly,
Robin

[Rebe]

Hi everyone, Glad to be onboard with you!
I too am a recently published author with a message of love and how we have strayed from it and our true purpose in this world.

"The Greatest Story Ever Told - Take Two: The Beginning" is the first installment of an inspirational allegorical romance series which blends the ancient history of Egypt and Palestine with more recent revelations in archeology, theology and astronomy. Philosophy and rationalism are interwoven into the tale to communicate an uplifting message of hope and purpose, and to introduce the truth about our past. Looking forward to being a part of this thread.
The Greatest Story Ever Told - Take Two

[Robin]

Rebe wrote: "Hi everyone, Glad to be onboard with you!
I too am a recently published author with a message of love and how we have strayed from it and our true purpose in this world.

"The Greatest Story Ever T..."

Sounds fabulous, Rebe! Congratulations!

[Rebe]

Robin wrote: "The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman

Dear Bright Souls,

This looks like a wonderful group, and I'm happy to be a part of it. I'm a recently published novelist and, like most..."

Thanks Robin. I just put your book "The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman" on my to Read list. Looks inspiring. Congrats on your placement on the UK's Wishing Shelf Book Award!

[Robin]

Rebe wrote: "Robin wrote: "The Improbable Wonders of Moojie Littleman

Dear Bright Souls,

This looks like a wonderful group, and I'm happy to be a part of it. I'm a recently published novelist ..."

Thank you so much, Rebe! If you'd like an ebook in exchange for an honest review, please email me with your preference. I hope the book fluffs your wings and lightens your heart!
Warm blessings,
Robin
robin@MadMysticalJourney.com

[Gulliver]

Two books you might be interested in:
Love--the You, the Me, the Us written by a professor who is a family counsellor. Not light reading, but if you really want to understand the dynamics of loving, it is essential.
Finding Yourself in the Town of Geniuses--Climbing the Road to Self Realization is an incredible book on the stories of geniuses with more than 30 videos to illustrate the essence of each genius, like:Churchill's "We Are the Masters of our Fate" speech to the US Congress, Pavarotti singing an aria from Puccini's La Boheme, the Bolshoi ballet in Swan Lake and even a Charlie Chaplin film. There is also a self help thread to stimulate the reader to creativity. Definitely a classic. Suggest the ebook for $2.99 (with traditional,, not Kindle,rather than the print book.

[Steve]

hi all, i just joined purely frm the sound of groups name. and hopefully i can add a little to the group

[Paula]

What a great-sounding book, Jennifer. And from having (not recently, though) worked as a kids' librarian, I know it's a book that's needed. Don't ignore the possibility of traditional publishing, especially if you do more of these.

[Robin]

Jennifer wrote: "Hello!

My name is Jennifer Norman. I am a new author of a self published children's book, The Adventures of SuperCaptainBraveMan.

My book is about a boy named Kyle who has a rare condition that..."

I love the sound of this, Jennifer. Congratulations! I'll take a look. Warm blessings.

[Awad]

Jennifer wrote: "Hello!

My name is Jennifer Norman. I am a new author of a self published children's book, The Adventures of SuperCaptainBraveMan.
It sounds Great, Jennifer. Congrats. I'll take a look, and can't refrain any help you may request.

[Awad]

Hello,
My name's Awad sharar. I'm happy to be a part of this wonderful group. I've recently published an e-book titled: She Promised The Moon. If you like to read about faked elections, real love and sex, the seemingly personalities but real smugglers and all-illegal stuff traffickers, please take a look. Your reviews and questions are welcome.