Detox your Soul Book Review and Tour (Sage Publications)

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I read Detox Your Soul Renovate Your Mind, Body, and Spirit, in exchange for honest review from Sage Publications. The book was written by Tamar House. The book's genre is Christian-based self help.

About the Book: from media kit

Freeing your soul from all the negative stuff in your life is an exhilarating experience. It’s amazing what a positive mindset can do! God has forgiven us for our sins, and now it’s time that you start forgiving yourself. It’s time to change your thought process and learn how to enjoy the destiny God has created for you. 

In your life journey, challenges and mistakes are going to happen, but you need to realize how these issues are simply the stepping stones to the “good life”. This book will not only teach you how to overcome obstacles, but to renovate your soul.

When you are finished, you will have the tools to give your mind, body, and spirit a complete overhaul. It’s time to make better choices. It’s time to live that wonderful life you dream of. It’s time you focus on the YOU that God intended you to be. It’s time to DETOX YOUR SOUL!!!

Author Biography

Tamar House grew up on the other side of the tracks. She was born in Lancaster, California and spent her early life in the slumlords. Straight from the school of hard knocks, she has been through it all.

Abandoned by her biological father, lived in a drug-infested neighborhood, molested as a child, raped as an adolescent, ran with the gangs as a teenager, and divorced in her early twenties, she felt that God was out to punish her. She was broken and abused and she struggled as a single mom. She met her current husband, Ryan, in 2010 and he brought her back to the Christian church.

She accepted the Lord back into her life weeks after they met and she began focusing on all of the wonderful blessings she has in her life. She decided to rid her soul of all the negativity that encompassed every ounce of her being, and started on her journey to true happiness.

 She began encouraging her friends and co-workers to live life focused on being caring and loving, instead of anger and resentment. People started to notice this change in Tamar, and saw that by changing your attitude, it could change your life. She has created a following on social media and now her friends all look up to the motivational posts she has to offer. She wants everyone to have the wonderful life God intended for us all.

She is now happily married with four beautiful children, is a successful Realtor, owns a property management company, sells body alkalizing and balancing products, and spent two years writing this book “Detox Your Soul”. She hopes you enjoy it as much as she did writing it. This book will renovate your mind, body and spirit.

My Review

As I write this review,  I am sitting in a room at Texas Children's waiting for Kalen to complete an echo (ultrasound of his heart). Sitting in waiting rooms can allow time for reflection and even a little detox. You definitely think about God healing your son of his heart problem and other issues.

In the book, the author discusses having a fulfilling life. I don't think I have a fulfilling life. I feel stressed, worried, depressed, lonely, but not fulfilled. I spend my days cleaning or trying to keep my kids from killing each other. Not to mention, those days, where I spend all day in the hospital clinic (s) for Kalen's various issues.

I don't feel fulfilled. I feel drained. Some days, I feel I can't handle anything. I just want a moment of peace each day to write, to clean, and just breathe.

To be fulfilled, you have to develop healthier habits. You also need to find balance in your life, which is not easy for me. You need to detox from social media. You need to get rid of negative influences in your life. The author also encourages journaling, which I do from time to time. Just write down your feelings, with no filter and no editing in a journal or diary or even google docs. The author gives some starter questions to reflect on and answer in your journal.

The author also suggests a vision board. Next, the author suggests setting boundaries in your life. You may need to ask for help at times, which I struggle with. You may have to say no to something because you don't have the time, energy, or resources to deal with it.

The book is a good read. You can purchase it, using the link above. You also can download the app on Google Play and the App Store

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Millionaire Within Us Author Interview (Sage Publications)

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On January 22, 2014, I posted the spotlight for The Millionaire Within Us
by Chris Carley. This post will focus on the author interview.

Author Interview

1) Did you ever pay your father back?

Great question. Of course I paid him back, he made me sign a contract. Yet the moment that sticks out for me quite distinctly is when I drove him and my mom to my home in malibu. He was looking around and he asked "Is this all yours?"

He walked the grounds and asked if I was saving my money, he didn't understand that the residual income came in every month.

2) What are your best and worst recommendations for network marketing companies?

I don't focus on companies I focus on the marketer. Every marketer has to have a strategy to become successful. They have to give samples, they have to market and talk to their people, and they have to really be out there and market themselves.


3) What are your goals for the future?
I wrote the book "The Millionaire Within Us" to really start helping network marketers the control back. I have been so successful that I promised God I would give back when I could. Now it's time, in fact it's long over due. I really want to share how I became successful . It's a blessing that I don't ever take for granted.

4) Do you still make financial mistakes? if so, name one and what did you learn from it

In the early days I bought fancy cars, joined Donald Trump private clubs. I don't think they are financial mistakes, but I have appreciated my charity work more. Giving is really far better than receiving. When I was in India I saw such abject poverty, that it hurt my heart. I knew it wasn't right and I realized that this is happening all over the world. I went from a $10.75/HR factory worker to a multimillionaire and the worse part about it is that I wish I had more of my friends and family right here with me.


5) What tips can you give to someone just starting out?
My whole book is one giant tip. Lol. I really believe in the concepts of giving away samples and guerilla marketing. Use the words free, guarantee, and let people use the product. Never sell anything you don't use our don't believe in.

6) What are a few ways to grow money versus losing money?
The best way to grow your money is to work hard. Don't ever do anything you don't believe in.

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The Millionaire Within Us Book Spotlight (Sage Publications)

The Millionaire Within Us

By Chris Carley

Genre: Business Memoir

Synopsis

A down and out, fired factory worker, Chris imagined a better life for herself. With a small $79 loan from her father, she took her people skills and her hard-earned marketing skills to levels no one could imagine. Starting with handmade flyers, in just 3 years she became a millionaire in network marketing. Since then she has gone on to make over millions in an industry that few fully understand.

Author Bio

Chris Carley has earned over $20 million dollars working from home and has a life style that has allowed her to golf and hang out with Donald Trump and meet people like Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Former President Bill Clinton and President Ford and so many more. Movie stars have filmed or been photographed in her home. George Clooney, Cameron Diaz, Lucy Lui, Drew Barrymore, Arnold Swartznegger, Bruce Willis.

Yet it wasn't always this way. She started off as an uneducated, overweight, depressed, in a bad abusive marriage, fired airplane factory worker that had to borrow $79 from her father to get started.

With hard work, perseverance and a vision of what she wanted in life she turned it all around and has taught thousands of others around the world to do the same.

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Motherhood Smotherhood Book Review and Blog Tour (Sage Publications)

I received this book in exchange for honest review. All opinions are my own. No other compensation was provided.

About the Book: (From Media Kit)

Author: JJ Keith

Genre: Non Fiction/Parenting

What's the first thing a woman does when she thinks she might be pregnant? 

She Googles. And it goes downhill from there. While the internet is full of calming and cheerily supportive articles, it's also littered with hyper-judgmental message boards and heaps of contradictory and scolding information. 

Motherhood Smotherhood takes parents through the trenches of new parenting, warning readers of the pleasures and perils of mommy blogs, new parent groups, self-described "lactivists," sleep fascists, incessant trend pieces on working versus non-working mothers, and the place where free time and self-esteem goes to die: Pinterest (back away from the hand-made flower headbands for baby!)

JJ Keith interweaves discussions of what "it takes a village" really means (hint: a lot of unwanted advice from elderly strangers who may have grown up in actual villages) and a take-down of the rising "make your own baby food" movement (just mush a banana with a fork!) with laugh-out-loud observations about the many mistakes she made as a frantic new mother with too much access to high speed nternet and a lot of questions. 

Keith cuts to the truth--whether it's about "perfect" births, parenting gurus, the growing tide of vaccine rejecters, the joy of blanketing Facebook with baby pics, or germophobia--to move conversations about parenting away from experts espousing blanket truths to amateurs relishing in what a big, messy pile of delight and trauma having a baby is. 

Author Bio (from media kit)

JJ Keith has written about being a crappy attachment parent for Salon, explored the disturbing undertones of Thomas the Tank Engine for TheRumpus.net, come out as pro-vaccine for The Huffington Post, interviewed Samantha Irby for Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, differentiated being judgmental and having an

opinion for Role/Reboot, admitted to a bare knuckled brawl with a dude for The Nervous Breakdown, examined the phenomenon of "don't touch the bump" t-shirts for Babble, and explained what new moms have in common with teenage boys for The Hairpin.

Her writing has been syndicated in the Sydney Morning Herald, iVillage Australia, Mamamia, and Alternet, and she's taken her work to the stage with The Moth,
Happy Hour Story Experiment, Write Club, and Expressing Motherhood and spoken about parenting issues with APM's Marketplace, HuffPost Live, and on a panel at the 2013 LA Times Festival of Books.

Her micro-memoir won a $2,500 prize from Reader's Digest and was anthologized in The Best Life Stories: 150 Real-life Tales of Resilience, Joy, and Hope-All 150 Words or Less!


She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and her two children.

Book Excerpt (from media kit)

The vast majority of chatter surrounding parenthood is junk. All of these seemingly divisive decisions—like pain meds in labor, newborn sleep arrangements, and scheduling—are often phrased as moral imperatives from both sides. 

Screw that.

Take care of your kid. Do what works. Babies are more durable than we give them credit for. As a parent, I can be wrong as long as I realize it and change. That means it’s okay to make educated guesses and then sort out the consequences. 

And it means I have to play this parenting gig by ear, which is disquieting for people with controlling tendencies like me. But I must control my tendency to be controlling or else I will imprison myself. Infants cannot be micro- managed, nor can toddlers, children, teenagers, spouses, or nannies.

Parents who want to be perfect can knock themselves out, but I’d rather they not blame the institution of parenthood (or worse, their babies) when they go two years without finishing a sentence, sleeping through the night, or having sex.

My Review

I remember years ago posting about spanking my kids but it wasn't effective and got heat because whipping Autistic children is wrong, even if you just tapped my boys on the leg. Or the relative or two, who felt like my oldest should be institutionalized for life. Or the relative, who didn't like I breastfed Kalen past the age of one. 

Motherhood, full of unwanted advice to an introvert, who could care less most of the time. I have to find the best methods for my brats. What works and what doesn't work may not be reflective of society's standards. 

I loved the concept of the book. You are not only competing with yourself, but with others. It is hard enough being a mom. It is hard getting phone calls from school, wondering if this is the call, which puts your child out of school because he had a level 5 full blown meltdown. Can you come get him, when you have no licence or car? 

Some Most days, I feel inadequate, like I am not good enough based on my failures, instead of my successes. My kids go the doctor. They are caught up on shots. They take their medications, but yet not good enough. 

The book is about fighting the idiots,who question our parenting, making us feel more inadequate, when we struggle to do the best we can. I can be wrong at times. I am allowed to make mistakes. I don't have to be perfect, even though I want to be.

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The Olympus Cloud Book Review and Tour (Sage Publications)

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I read The Olympus Cloud: Adventures of a Dreamer, in exchange for honest review from Sage Publications.

About the Book: (From Media Kit)

Do you ever wonder what your dog is dreaming about when its paws twitch? You might be surprised….

Some dogs can spend up to sixteen hours a day sleeping. For Max, a pugnacious French bulldog from Texas, this provides plenty of time for him to explore the world through his vivid imagination. His dreams are a doorway to excitement and adventure. Whether he’s solving mysteries, rescuing other animals, or just plain saving the day, Max’s heroic exploits carry him around the block, around the country, and even around the planet. From the plains of Africa to the battlefields of France and into outer space, Max matches wits with everything from a zombie accountant to rodent gangsters and a myriad of mythical creatures. And in the end, the fearless and faithful little dog always makes it home in time for dinner.

About the Author: (From Media Kit)

Stephen Randel was born in Houston, Texas. He is a graduate of Texas Christian University. Steve now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife and their rescue dog. He is the author of The Chupacabra: A Borderline Crazy Tale of Coyotes, Cash & Cartels and Trail of the Chupacabra: An Avery Bartholomew Pendleton Misadventure.

My Review:

The book is about Max, an explorer, an adventurer, a doggie. The book started out with Max having a nice, vivid dream, then moved into a cattle ride.  

The book was a good read. I enjoyed Max's adventures. He reminded me of another curious primate :-). The author did a good job writing the book. The details are vivid. 

On the edge book review and tour

I read On The Edge, in exchange for review from Sage Publications. The book is written by Dick Hannah. 

Book Description: (copied from the media kit)

After Joe Malone was run out of the Marines due to debilitating agoraphobia brought on by a fire fight Iraq he was forced to turn to his former Marine father for help. Having made some strides back to normalcy, Joe’s rocky relationship with his father is destroyed when he fires Joe after one their clients is found brutally murdered during a class at their military style fitness boot camp. Things only get worse when a second client is murdered right in front of Joe three days later. Joe is forced to decide what he wants more, the safety and security of staying at home working as a model builder for his old friend Kathy or the chance to reclaim his father’s respect and potentially own the boot camp business by tracking down the killer. Determined not to let anymore of his friends get hurt, and desperate to return to his father’s good graces, Joe agrees to accompany a group of their clients on a trip to West Texas for a three day adventure race. The challenges Joe expected to face are magnified during the train trip across Texas when he finds that his boss, Kathy, is along for the ride. The dangers continue to escalate the farther west they go, with Joe no longer sure of who to trust, with Kathy having to join a team on the race, and with his brother and father shadowing him across the state. Add to this that Joe’s own personal nemesis, Horne, shows up with his own team of adventure racers and is overtly trying to endanger Joe. Joe is forced to find the motivation to continue the trip, the personal dedication to overcome his fear of crowds and of open, even when his past and the associated memories keep rising to the surface and threaten all the gains he’s made since returning from the war. The adventure race is the least of Joe’s concerns. The rafting, climbing, rappelling, biking, running and other obstacles are nothing compared to the personal challenges Joe is forced to confront. The race comes to an abrupt end when Horne is killed during the rappelling portion of the race. With his death, however, Joe is able to see the connection between all the murders and understands that it is two of his own clients who are the murderers. With Kathy and his father, Joe confronts the two murderers and is able keep them from escaping. The novel ends with Joe working full time for Kathy, eschewing his father’s business in an effort to break away from the manipulations of his family so he can focus on building a life of his own.

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• https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/235892
• www.puborperish.blogspot.com
• http://www.amazon.com/On-Edge-Dick-Hannah/dp/1301821411

My Review:

The book starts out with Joe leading exercise boot camp. Joe eventually realizes 10 recruits are missing. He broke a rule: never split the force, but Joe still went looking for his students.  Chapter 1 was a good intro into the book. Start of a great mystery. In Chapter 2, 9 of the recruits was finally found, which means one was still missing. The mystery continues. What happened to that 1 student? Chapter 2 started with a question: What happened to that one student and ended with a bang. Very intense. 

The book was a great read. 

About the Author:

Imagine Dick Francis listing toward adventure races instead of horse racing. Or Diane Mott Davidson writing about triathlons inlieu of catering. With a background in adventure races including competing in the Army Best Ranger Competition Dick Hannah provides a fresh voice and real world glimpse into the world of adventure racing and fitness in his thriller novels. Prior to starting his writing career he spent four years as a Ranger team leader and continues to stay sharp by working as a fitness consultant at a fitness bootcamp. When not racing or writing, Dick works full-time as technical writer, business analyst and trainer. Dick followed up Toe the Line, his first full-length novel, in 2013 with On the Edge. He has already started on his third thriller, Vapor Trail, which he plans to release in 2014. He can be contacted through his blog at Puborperish