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Children’s Book Shines Light on Anxiety in High-Achieving Kids

PHILADELPHIA, Penn., Oct. 7, 2025 — With youth anxiety rates climbing nationwide, an age-appropriate chapter book is helping kids ages 9-14 recognize the toll that stress takes on their bodies and friendships—and offers strategies to help them cope.

My Anxiety is Messing Things Up, by school counselor and award-winning author Jennifer Licate, follows Oscar, a hardworking student whose drive to succeed earns him praise in the classroom and on the field—but also leaves him wracked with anxiety. Unable to sleep and increasingly irritable, Oscar lashes out at his friends. When a teacher invites him to a school support group, Oscar must decide if he’s willing to seek help and try new strategies for relief.

Licate expertly combines a fast-paced, relatable story with guided questions and activities at the end of each chapter. These tools help young readers explore their own feelings, while giving parents, teachers and counselors a structured way to start meaningful conversations about anxiety.

“I wrote the book to help children understand anxiety,” said Licate. “Not all symptoms look the same, and not all strategies will work for everyone. My hope is that kids learn there are multiple tools they can try to feel more confident and less overwhelmed.”

The release comes at a time when educators are reporting increased stress levels among students. According to recent studies, more than one in three children experience anxiety symptoms, and sleep disruption is one of the most common side effects. Licate, who has worked as a school counselor for more than a decade, believes early intervention and open discussion can help prevent anxiety from becoming debilitating later in life.

“Children do not need to wait until anxiety is debilitating before using strategies to help their symptoms,” Licate added. “Using strategies to deal with anxiety can help children and anyone reduce their symptoms so they can live their best lives, work toward achieving their goals and feel confident.”

My Anxiety is Messing Things Up

Publisher: Boys Town Press

ISBN-13: ‎978-1944882891

Available from https://www.amazon.com/Anxiety-Messing-Things-Navigating-Friendship/dp/1944882898

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About the Author

Jennifer Licate’s award-winning books help teach children the strategies they need to navigate common challenges, from friendship struggles to anxiety to study skills. Some of her other notable titles include I Lost My BFF; Faking Happiness, Feeling Sadness; and He’s Not Just Teasing! Accompanying teacher and counselor activity guides are available for many of her books. Licate received her master’s degree in Elementary and Secondary School Counseling and has worked as a

Sober October Made Simple: Life Coach Shares 30-Day Roadmap to Alcohol-Free Living

EL PASO, Texas, Oct. 2, 2025 — Sober October is the perfect moment for people to pause and reevaluate their relationship with alcohol. Chris Najera, certified life coach and author of The Hard Truth! Stopping Alcohol, delivers a timely, practical guide to help readers take a 30-day break from drinking, blending personal experience with actionable strategies for lasting change.

Najera knows the challenge firsthand: He battled alcohol use disorder for over 30 years. In The Hard Truth!, he shares candid, lived experience alongside research-based advice, offering readers clarity, courage and a roadmap toward freedom from alcohol. Designed for anyone who drinks regularly — from casual to daily drinkers — the book empowers readers to break free from dependency and reclaim control over their lives.

“If you’re looking to stop, you’ve come to the right place,” Najera said. “This book gives you the tools to take that first month seriously, see real progress and start discovering the person you were meant to be before alcohol disrupted your life.”

So what happens on Day One of Najera’s 30-day plan? Simply deciding to stop.

“You have to want to stop,” Najera said. “You have to want it more than anything. You have to have a paradigm shift in your mind.”

While Najera’s narrative is hopeful and encouraging, he doesn’t shy away from pointing out the darker aspects of alcohol usage and the damage it does to the human body. He also shares phone numbers and websites for a range of organizations where individuals can find the help they need — and discover what works best for their personal journeys. Ultimately, Najera challenges readers to confront alcohol’s hold and make more informed choices.

“What makes this book unique is its honesty and practicality,” Najera said. “Whether you’re questioning your drinking habits, taking part in Sober October or seeking lasting sobriety, The Hard Truth! offers clarity, guidance and encouragement. This isn’t just a book — it’s a tool to empower individuals and educate communities about the risks of alcohol and the possibility of change.”

The Hard Truth! Stopping Alcohol

Publisher: Spines

Release Date: June 13, 2025

ISBN-13: ‎979-8896917939

The press release above may be published in part or entirety by any print, broadcast or internet/digital media outlet, or used by any means of social media sharing.

Reviews, photos, links to previous interviews and Q&As are available upon request.

About the Author

Christopher J. Najera is a certified life coach, public speaker and author who spent 35 years battling alcohol use disorder. Najera speaks from a place of raw honesty and lived truth. A weekend drinker who turned to daily drinking, alcohol consumed him, and he sought outpatient treatment. After seeing others suffering, he realized he didn’t want to end up on dialysis or a liver transplant list like his peers. It was in those moments that real change was the best outcome for his future.  

Driven by a mission to expose the truths alcohol companies never reveal, Najera brings together powerful facts, personal stories and practical tools to help audiences understand their relationship with alcohol and reclaim their lives. His work aligns with global health efforts, including the World Health Organization's campaign to reduce harmful alcohol use by 2030 at the local level.  

Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Najera balances his work as a life coach and author with mentoring others on the path to sobriety. He lives sober, advocates for healthier choices and proves that transformation is possible at any stage of life.

New Book Challenges America’s Mental Health Paradigm by Exploring ‘Spiritual Emergency’

NEW YORK, September 30, 2025 — What happens when a spiritual awakening doesn’t look like peace and enlightenment but instead like chaos, confusion and crisis?

In her profound, unflinchingly honest new book, An American Awakening: The Interdependent Relationship of Spirituality and Mental Health, Aymie Daniels offers a rare, courageous look into the misunderstood phenomenon of Spiritual Emergency—a term first coined by Stanislav and Christina Grof in the 1970s to describe a transformational crisis with profound psychological and spiritual implications. While respected in some therapeutic and indigenous traditions, it remains largely overlooked and often mishandled by modern American culture and the mental health system.

“In indigenous cultures, those who access metaphysical realms are revered as healers and shamans,” Daniels said. “In America, they’re often misunderstood, pathologized or dismissed.”

Part riveting personal journey, part guide, Daniels blends lived experience with practical frameworks for well-being, emotional regulation and integration of consciousness. She writes openly about her struggles with addiction, mental health and awakening—offering both raw honesty and practical tools for resilience, personal growth and healing.

At a time when conversations around mental health are expanding, An American Awakening adds a crucial voice. Honest, unflinching and ultimately redemptive, it challenges stigma and reframes crises not as pathology, but as possibility.

“I wrote this book to reach people who, like me, have faced deep challenges—and to remind them they’re not alone,” Daniels said. “At the same time, I wanted to build a bridge of understanding between the general public and those experiencing extreme psychological states, so we can begin to see each other with more compassion and clarity.”

Whether navigating personal challenges, moving through a spiritual emergency, or seeking personal growth and transformation, An American Awakening brings forward a perspective that has long been overlooked. It doesn’t just break the silence around stigma—it opens a new conversation and sparks hope where there has often been too little.

“Mental health is still evolving,” Daniels added. “And expanding the conversation gives voice and visibility to those too often silenced.”

An American Awakening: The Interdependent Relationship of Spirituality and Mental Health

Publisher: Prophet Source LLC

ISBN-13: ‎979-8313455679 (paperback)

Available from: https://www.amazon.com/American-Awakening-Interdependent-Relationship-Spirituality/dp/B0FHHYJQZC

About the Author 

Aymie Daniels is the Managing Director of Prophet Source, a personal development company devoted to healing, transformation and the power of looking within. Drawing on her background in holistic health, her career in corporate finance and the depth of her own lived experience, she bridges the gap between spiritual insight and practical growth, offering a unique voice in the wellness and transformation space.

Daniels holds a bachelor's degree in Holistic Health Sciences and is board-certified through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. At Prophet Source, her work centers on Mind Awareness & Development, a philosophy that redefines what it means to be “MAD” by empowering individuals to embrace their powerful minds, unlock their strengths and rise to their highest potential.

For more information, please visit www.prophetsource.com, or connect with the author on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/aymie-å-daniels-06b8a11bb), Instagram (prophet_source), Facebook (Prophet Source) and YouTube (@Prophet-Source).

New Book Challenges America’s Mental Health Paradigm by Exploring ‘Spiritual Emergency’

NEW YORK, September 29, 2025 — What happens when a spiritual awakening doesn’t look like peace and enlightenment but instead like chaos, confusion and crisis?

In her profound, unflinchingly honest new book, An American Awakening: The Interdependent Relationship of Spirituality and Mental Health, Aymie Daniels offers a rare, courageous look into the misunderstood phenomenon of Spiritual Emergency—a term first coined by Stanislav and Christina Grof in the 1970s to describe a transformational crisis with profound psychological and spiritual implications. While respected in some therapeutic and indigenous traditions, it remains largely overlooked and often mishandled by modern American culture and the mental health system.

“In indigenous cultures, those who access metaphysical realms are revered as healers and shamans,” Daniels said. “In America, they’re often misunderstood, pathologized or dismissed.”

Part riveting personal journey, part guide, Daniels blends lived experience with practical frameworks for well-being, emotional regulation and integration of consciousness. She writes openly about her struggles with addiction, mental health and awakening—offering both raw honesty and practical tools for resilience, personal growth and healing.

At a time when conversations around mental health are expanding, An American Awakening adds a crucial voice. Honest, unflinching and ultimately redemptive, it challenges stigma and reframes crises not as pathology, but as possibility.

“I wrote this book to reach people who, like me, have faced deep challenges—and to remind them they’re not alone,” Daniels said. “At the same time, I wanted to build a bridge of understanding between the general public and those experiencing extreme psychological states, so we can begin to see each other with more compassion and clarity.”

Whether navigating personal challenges, moving through a spiritual emergency, or seeking personal growth and transformation, An American Awakening brings forward a perspective that has long been overlooked. It doesn’t just break the silence around stigma—it opens a new conversation and sparks hope where there has often been too little.

“Mental health is still evolving,” Daniels added. “And expanding the conversation gives voice and visibility to those too often silenced.”

An American Awakening: The Interdependent Relationship of Spirituality and Mental Health

Publisher: Prophet Source LLC

ISBN-13: 979-8313455679 (paperback) Available from: https://www.amazon.com/American-Awakening-Interdependent-Relationship-Spirituality/dp/B0FHHYJQZC

About the Author

Aymie Daniels is the Managing Director of Prophet Source, a personal development company devoted to healing, transformation and the power of looking within. Drawing on her background in holistic health, her career in corporate finance and the depth of her own lived experience, she bridges the gap between spiritual insight and practical growth, offering a unique voice in the wellness and transformation space.

Daniels holds a bachelor's degree in Holistic Health Sciences and is board-certified through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. At Prophet Source, her work centers on Mind Awareness & Development, a philosophy that redefines what it means to be “MAD” by empowering individuals to embrace their powerful minds, unlock their strengths and rise to their highest potential.

For more information, please visit www.prophetsource.com, or connect with the author on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/aymie-å-daniels-06b8a11bb), Instagram (prophet_source), Facebook (Prophet Source) and YouTube (@Prophet-Source).

New Book Challenges America’s Mental Health Paradigm by Exploring ‘Spiritual Emergency’

NEW YORK, September 25, 2025 — What happens when a spiritual awakening doesn’t look like peace and enlightenment but instead like chaos, confusion and crisis?

In her profound, unflinchingly honest new book, An American Awakening: The Interdependent Relationship of Spirituality and Mental Health, Aymie Daniels offers a rare, courageous look into the misunderstood phenomenon of Spiritual Emergency—a term first coined by Stanislav and Christina Grof in the 1970s to describe a transformational crisis with profound psychological and spiritual implications. While respected in some therapeutic and indigenous traditions, it remains largely overlooked and often mishandled by modern American culture and the mental health system.

“In indigenous cultures, those who access metaphysical realms are revered as healers and shamans,” Daniels said. “In America, they’re often misunderstood, pathologized or dismissed.”

Part riveting personal journey, part guide, Daniels blends lived experience with practical frameworks for well-being, emotional regulation and integration of consciousness. She writes openly about her struggles with addiction, mental health and awakening—offering both raw honesty and practical tools for resilience, personal growth and healing.

At a time when conversations around mental health are expanding, An American Awakening adds a crucial voice. Honest, unflinching and ultimately redemptive, it challenges stigma and reframes crises not as pathology, but as possibility.

“I wrote this book to reach people who, like me, have faced deep challenges—and to remind them they’re not alone,” Daniels said. “At the same time, I wanted to build a bridge of understanding between the general public and those experiencing extreme psychological states, so we can begin to see each other with more compassion and clarity.”

Whether navigating personal challenges, moving through a spiritual emergency, or seeking personal growth and transformation, An American Awakening brings forward a perspective that has long been overlooked. It doesn’t just break the silence around stigma—it opens a new conversation and sparks hope where there has often been too little.

“Mental health is still evolving,” Daniels added. “And expanding the conversation gives voice and visibility to those too often silenced.”

An American Awakening: The Interdependent Relationship of Spirituality and Mental Health

Publisher: Prophet Source LLC

ISBN-13: 979-8313455679 (paperback) Available from: https://www.amazon.com/American-Awakening-Interdependent-Relationship-Spirituality/dp/B0FHHYJQZC


About the Author

Aymie Daniels is the Managing Director of Prophet Source, a personal development company devoted to healing, transformation and the power of looking within. Drawing on her background in holistic health, her career in corporate finance and the depth of her own lived experience, she bridges the gap between spiritual insight and practical growth, offering a unique voice in the wellness and transformation space.

Daniels holds a bachelor's degree in Holistic Health Sciences and is board-certified through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. At Prophet Source, her work centers on Mind Awareness & Development, a philosophy that redefines what it means to be “MAD” by empowering individuals to embrace their powerful minds, unlock their strengths and rise to their highest potential.

National Recovery Month: Life Coach Uses His Journey to Inspire Others, Shares 30-Day Roadmap to Sobriety

EL PASO, Texas, Sept. 24, 2025 — An estimated 400 million people worldwide live with alcohol use disorders, according to the World Health Organization. Chris Najera is a certified life coach who also battled alcohol use disorder, and he delivers a timely guide for change in his new book, The Hard Truth! Stopping Alcohol.

Blending raw honesty, personal experience and practical strategies, Najera gives readers the tools to take back control. His 30-day roadmap to taking an alcohol break also provides readers with a pathway toward clarity, purpose and long-term sobriety.

“If you’re looking to stop, you’ve come to the right place,” Najera writes in the book’s introduction. “What I learned in sobriety is when you stop, you find a new person — you’re someone completely new … the person you were supposed to be in the first place, before the alcohol disrupted your life.”

Najera doesn’t just share his personal story of struggle and triumph, he equips readers with an action-oriented guide designed for anyone who drinks alcohol regularly and may question their relationship with alcohol — from mild drinkers and weekend drinkers to daily users. Through lived experience and researched wisdom, Najera challenges readers to dismantle the illusions of alcohol, break free from dependency and reclaim their lives.

“What makes this book unique is its mix of unfiltered honesty, practical strategies, and powerful insights that speak directly to moderate and heavy drinkers who are tired of the cycle,” Najera said. “Whether you’re questioning your relationship with alcohol, taking a break for Sober October or searching for hope after repeated struggles, The Hard Truth! offers both clarity and courage. This isn’t just a book. It’s about educating communities and providing a tool to fight back against something that destroys so many lives.”

The Hard Truth! Stopping Alcohol

Publisher: Spines

Release Date: June 13, 2025

ISBN-13: 979-8896917939 Available from: https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Truth-Stopping-Alcohol/dp/B0FD5DSTGM



About the Author

Christopher J. Najera is a college graduate, certified life coach, public speaker and author of The Hard Truth! Stopping Alcohol. With 35 years of personal experience battling alcohol use disorder, Najera speaks from a place of raw honesty and lived truth. A weekend drinker who turned to daily drinking, his transformation began because of what most ignore as “normal,” but affects everyone around them. In the end, alcohol consumed him, and he sought outpatient treatment. After seeing others suffering, he realized he didn’t want to end up on dialysis or a liver transplant list like his peers. It was in those moments where real change was the best outcome for his future.

Driven by a mission to expose the truths alcohol companies never reveal, Najera brings together powerful facts, personal stories and practical tools to help audiences understand their relationship with alcohol and reclaim their lives. His work aligns with global health efforts, including the World Health Organization's campaign to reduce harmful alcohol use by 2030 at the local level.

Najera was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. When he's not writing or speaking, he’s mentoring others on the path to sobriety and helping them discover that it’s never too late to make a change. He also works as a roofing contractor in El Paso while living his best life sober.

We are waking up to the reality

that we live on a water planet

and it changes everything

Europe and Asia are leading the world with the introduction of

a “Blue Economy” to accompany the “Green Economy,”

and now the United States needs to catch up

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Jeremy Rifkin’s new book Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe will be published simultaneously in all the principal world languages in September 2024.

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What would happen if we suddenly realized that the planet we live on appeared eerily alien, as if we’d been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect is now. Our planetary hydrosphere, which animates all life on Earth, is rebelling in the wake of a global warming climate, unleashing blockbuster winter snows, biblical spring floods, devastating summer droughts, heatwaves and wildfires and deadly autumn hurricanes, wreaking havoc on ecosystems, infrastructure, and society. While fossil fuels lit the fuse, it’s the hydrosphere that’s ringing the death knell.

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In Planet Aqua, Jeremy Rifkin argues that we have misjudged the very nature of our existence and to what we owe our lifeline. We have long believed that we live on a land planet when in reality we live on a water planet, and now the Earth’s hydrosphere is taking us into a mass extinction as it searches for a new normal.

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Rifkin asks us to imagine the incredible hubris of believing that our species could sequester, pacify, propertize, commodify, and hold dominion over all the waters of the planet for our exclusive utilitarian uses. Yet, that’s exactly what we set out to do six thousand years ago with the rise of urban hydraulic civilizations around the world. And now we find ourselves trapped in a massive commercial juggernaut of hydropower superdams, artificial lakes, reservoirs, and ubiquitous water infrastructure that’s collapsing in the throes of a rewilding hydrosphere.

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The great reset, says Rifkin, is rethinking the waters as a “life source” rather than a “resource” and learning how to adapt to the hydrosphere rather than adapting the hydrosphere to us.

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Rifkin takes us into a new future where we will need to reassess every aspect of the way we live – how we engage nature, pursue science, govern society, conceptualize economic life, educate our children, and even orient ourselves in time and space on our water planet. The next stage in the human saga is to ‘rebrand’ our home Planet Aqua and usher in a Blue Economy to accompany the Green Economy.

The big conversation taking place in Europe over the past 6 months is the call for a 'Blue Deal' to accompany the 'Green Deal' as the next leap forward in the European Union (see enclosed articles). The 'Blue Economy' agenda is also emerging in China and Korea as a centerpiece for rethinking life on Planet Aqua and is going to migrate to North America, the UK, and other nations around the world as well in the coming months.

The European Economic and Social Committee, the European Committee of the Regions, critical industries, trade associations, the farming community, government, academia, and civil society are all coalescing around a storyline and game plan to address a dramatic change in the climate brought on by a rewilding hydrosphere that's killing off our fellow creatures and endangering our own species on a scale unprecedented in history - and everywhere, humanity is frightened and looking for answers.

The call for a massive 'Blue Deal' to go hand-in-hand with the current 'Green Deal' will be the centerpiece of the new expanded agenda of the European Union. The conversation is focusing on a number of critical themes including demolishing outmoded superdams and artificial reservoirs, the construction of new resilient water infrastructure, the introduction of omnipresent distributed water internets and water microgrids, portable desalination devices and water purification systems, sponge cities, ephemeral pop-up 3D printed communities, water calendars and safe climate corridors, alongside extending legal rights to rivers to run free, deploying green hydrogen infrastructure, stewarding lakes, rivers, and streams as shared commons, addressing the dire threat of groundwater depletion, repurposing the water-energy-food nexus, pursuing paradigmic shifts in science and technology on a water planet, and developing new approaches to pedagogy, curricula, clinical learning, and incubator projects at the universities and secondary school level.

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This fundamental turning point in the way the human family relates to water on Planet Aqua will underwrite a rethink in the deployment of policies and practices going forward, putting the 'Blue Economy’ alongside the ‘Green Economy’ at the top of the agenda for nations around the world. Planet Aqua provides the narrative and worldview for rethinking life on our water planet as well as a robust agenda across every aspect of society in making this transformation in our species' future.

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Underpinned by robust research, this major new work by one of the world’s leading public intellectuals aims to redefine the very core of our existence on Planet Aqua.

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We are coming to grips with the reality that we live on a water planet 

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Jeremy Rifkin is the best-selling author of twenty-three books translated into thirty-five languages. He is a principal architect of the European Union’s and China’s economic plans for transitioning into a Third Industrial Revolution to address climate change and he served as an advisor to Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer on the U.S. infrastructure plan. He is listed among the top ten most influential economic thinkers in The Huffington Post’s global survey of “The World’s Most Influential Voices.”

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Part One The Imminent Collapse of Hydraulic Civilization

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1) First There Was the Waters

Déjà vu and the Second Deluge

Our Aquatic Self: How Humans Emerged from the Deep

2) The Earth Be Dammed: The Dawn of Hydraulic Civilization

The Making of a Social Organism

The Invention of Economics

Drowning in Progress

3) Gender Wars: The Struggle Between Terra Firma and Planet Aqua

Picking Sides: The War of Goddesses and Gods

Women: The Carriers of the Water

4) The Paradigmatic Transformation from Capitalism to Hydroism

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus

Leaving Capitalism Behind

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Part Two The Canary in the Mine: How the Mediterranean Eco-Region Became Day Zero on a Warming Earth and a Bellwether of the Second Coming of Life

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5) The Near Death and Rebirth of the Mediterranean

Day Zero: When Nations Run Dry

Renewables to the Rescue and a Second Life for the Mediterranean Ecosystem

Water, Water, Everywhere, But Not Any Drop to Drink...Until Now

6) Location, Location, Location: The Eurasian Pangaea

The Bridge to Europe and Asia

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Part Three We Live on Planet Aqua and That Changes Everything

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7) Freeing the Waters

Opening the Floodgates

Harvesting the Hydrosphere

8) The Great Migration and the Rise of Ephemeral Society

The Renaissance of the Ephemeral Arts and the Reset of Time and Space

How Plato Took Our Species Down the Wrong Path

9) Rethinking Attachment to Place: Where We’ve Come from and Where We’re Heading

Stepping Into Neo-Nomadism

Ephemeral Cities and Ephemeral Waters

A New Business Model: Additive Manufacturing and Provider-User Networks

10) Bringing High-Tech Agriculture Indoors

Vertical Farming

11) The Eclipse of Sovereign Nation States and the Gestation of Bioregional Governance

Mass Migration and the Issuing of Climate Passports

Military Defense Gives Way to Climate Resilience

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Part Four Sublime Waters and a New Ontology of Life on Earth

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12) Two Ways to Listen to the Waters

Vanquishing the Waters or Riding the Waves

Reorienting Ourselves in Time and Space in a Liquid Milieu

13) Swallowed by the Metaverse or Buoyed by the Aquaverse

An Ecological Vision or Dystopian Nightmare: Two Paths to the Future

Planet Aqua: Rebranding Our Home

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Powerful Story Shares One Woman's Struggle To Overcome Abandonment And Abuse

Raleigh, NC, August 21, 2018 ― Deja' was dealt a losing hand, and no one would have blamed her for simply accepting her fate. Her father died before she was born, and her mother chose drug addiction over her daughter. With loneliness consuming her, Deja' could have folded. Should have folded. But instead, she learned how to recycle her pain, and she began drawing from every source of positive influence that entered her life: a God-loving grandmother, a supportive godmother and a street-savvy godfather who taught her how to redirect her pain and survive in this world.

But the challenges just kept coming, and Deja' encountered countless betrayals and abuses along the way, which lead to an unhealthy marriage, and ultimately, a pattern of unhealthy relationships with men that lasted for several years. Aware that she is repeating a family cycle of poor choices, Deja' needs to rally what's left of her strength and determination to break that cycle. Will her fortitude be enough? Or will this final test break her spirit once and for all?

Overcoming the Hand You Were Dealt is the powerful new book from Kisha Taylor. Cultivated from her personal experience with abandonment, Overcoming weaves an authentic and captivating story of struggle, pain, hope and faith that culminates in a heartwarming climax of healing and restoration.

In addition to the book, Taylor's website, lifeunlimited1.com, enables her to continue her passion for women's emotional health, with courses that tap into the warrior in every woman, that cover abandonment issues and that help survivors understand why they act and feel the way they do. The website also houses inspirational items like T-shirts and mugs with messages of empowerment, and a blog with videos and messages of encouragement.

Author Kisha Taylor was born in Brooklyn, NY, and from a young age, she learned how to navigate the real world of hard knocks. She attended Binghamton University and Baruch College, where she studied accounting and psychology. She became counsel to many, sharing principles on surviving abuse, overcoming life's challenges, healthy ways of handling personal mistakes and how to not surrender to self-defeat.

She is most proud of the lives her journey has impacted, as well as the happiness, confidence and emotional health she now has, which enables her to be a testament of, "You can, if you just don't give up.”

To read more from Taylor, or to view her motivational videos, please visit www.lifeunlimited1.com.

Overcoming the Hand You Were Dealt
Pendium publishing
Release date: February 5, 2018
ISBN-10: 1944348409
ISBN-13: 978-1944348403
Available at www.lifeunlimited1.com, Amazon.com, and all other online outlets.

Excerpts from Reviews:

"… Every woman can relate to the situations in this book.”

"… Anyone that reads it would benefit from it. … It's definitely a self-help book.”

The world's leading researcher of ovulatory cycles offers insight into the intelligence of hormones. HORMONAL (on-sale 2/13)

“The perfect Valentine’s Day read for…any woman who’s ever been pissed off by a guy calling her ‘hormonal.’” -- Bookpage

“Essentially, HORMONAL covers everything anyone could ever want to know about the hormonal cycles of women, from birth through puberty and the childbearing years and into menopause. ‘Every girl and woman benefits from understanding the scope of hormonal cycles, the hows, whens, and whys,’ writes the author. ‘We should become familiar with the potential nudges that affect our behavior. And we should know that choosing to act on those behaviors is an individual choice, dependent upon our own preferences and goals. Being naïve to our hormonal natures will not help us. Being hormonally intelligent, on the other hand, will.’ Haselton provides a useful tool for women in that quest to become better informed about a significant aspect of their lives.” -- Kirkus

Martie Haselton, PhD, is the world's leading researcher on how ovulatory cycles influence women's sexuality. She is a professor of Psychology at UCLA and the Institute for Society and Genetics and directs UCLA’s Evolutionary Psychology Lab. In her forthcoming book, HORMONAL: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones -- How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser (Little Brown and Company/February 13, 2018/$28.00 hardcover) Dr. Haselton explains the hidden intelligence of the hormonal cycle and its role in empowering women to succeed sexually, reproductively, and socially.

Hormones don't make women irrational; they do help women choose mates, compete with female rivals, produce healthy offspring, and conquer other biological challenges. With fresh insight, Martie Haselton explains that behind the "fickle" differences in what women find sexy about men, or what they like to wear, there's a hidden adaptive intelligence that has evolved over eons. The research is provocative but extremely compelling, and it comes with fascinating practical takeaways on how women can use their hormonal cycles to their advantage, helping them achieve success in their relationships, careers, and lives. Groundbreaking and counterintuitive, HORMONAL will empower women everywhere to embrace their biology.

Martie Haselton, PhD is the world’s leading researcher on sexuality and the ovulation cycle. In HORMONAL: The Hidden Intelligence of Hormones — How They Drive Desire, Shape Relationships, Influence Our Choices, and Make Us Wiser (Little Brown and Company/February 13, 2018/$28.00 hardcover) Haselton takes a deep, revealing look at the biological processes that so profoundly influence our behavior, and sets forth a radical new view of women’s bodies, minds, and sexual relationships that embraces hormonal cycles as adaptive solutions to the genuine biological challenges that women have faced throughout history.

At the core of Haselton’s new Darwinian Feminism is her remarkable discovery that humans, like our animal cousins, possess a special phase of sexuality, called estrus, which comes with a host of physiological and behavioral changes. Combining the scientific rigor of a leading researcher with the wit and candor of a best friend, Haselton explains how hormonal intelligence works — both its strengths and its weaknesses — and how women can track and understand their desires, fears, perceptions, and fantasies across the 28-day cycle and over the course of their lives.

Rigorously researched, entertaining, and empowering, HORMONAL offers women deep new insights into their bodies, brains, relationships, and affairs, allowing them to make better-informed choices about sex, marriage, friendship, contraception, and more. Above all, HORMONAL is a clarion call to appreciate and embrace the genius of female biology!

Did you know…

• A woman’s attractiveness peaks just prior to ovulation because her “mate search effort” is turned on.
• PMS may have evolved to get rid of boyfriends with unfit sperm.
• Lap dancers on the Pill make about $20,000 less per year than lap dancers who are ovulating normally.
• A woman may find an otherwise obnoxious male unusually appealing during certain points in her cycle.
• Ovulating women tend to prefer more stylish and provocative clothing, and to spend more money on fashion and beauty — not so much to attract men, but to intimidate female rivals.
• Women walk more, eat less, socialize more, meet more men, dance more, and flirt more when they’re ovulating.
• Unlike nearly any other creature on earth, humans evolved to have sex—for fun, not babies--outside of the fertile window.
• New mothers are formidable. They will behave more aggressively toward someone who is threatening, but their blood pressure stays low – they are cool as a cucumber and badass at the same time.
• Menopause is not a sign that something has gone wrong in a woman’s body – it has a deep evolutionary history vital to our species’ success.