Posts tagged diabetes
May 29, 2011 · Filed under Personal · Tagged abuse, alcoholism, career, dancing, diabetes, father, fearless, happiness, healing, inspiration, Marisa Russo, mother, pedophilia, rape, therapy
For years, I hid it, never spoke about it. Until finally, it pushed up out of me like a beach ball you press down in the water – it pops out. Has to.
And, one day, the gift of that childhood trauma becomes apparent.
First, the damage and danger twists synapses, neural pathways, belief systems, trust, whom you love and who you run from. What does a four-and-a-half year old girl learn from being raped by her mother’s new husband? Handsome guy, her mother head over heels in love with him, her cutting the little girl’s real father out of every photo, changing the girl’s name, and silencing her when she tries to speak it. Mother, an alcoholic, suicidal, schizophrenic. Real father, gone, after the little girl reaches age six, because the stepfather beat him up and told him to never come back. She never saw her dad again.
Little girl escapes Read the rest of this entry »
October 3, 2010 · Filed under Author Interviews, Book Reviews, Open Book · Tagged career, diabetes, goals, healing, inspiration, manifest, optimism, passion, physical health, positive thinking, self awareness, therapy
The Secret Language of Your Body
By Inna Segal
Published August 31, 2010 (Paperback) Atria/Beyond Words
The oddest thing happened during intermission at the Michael Beckwith/Bob Thurman event a few weeks ago. A petite brown-haired woman walked down the aisle toward my seat, and I rose, as if beckoned, to speak with her. We didn’t know each other. We had never met before. But it seemed like we were supposed to speak. So, we did. We parted a few moments later, a bit puzzled. Later in the evening, I was chatting with an event organizer from Beyond Words, and mentioned that I’d be interviewing one of their authors soon – Inna Segal. The co-founder of the publishing company pointed a few rows away, and said, “There’s Inna.” Inna was the very same petite brown-haired woman. After our interview a few days ago, we still have that sense of something more – yet to be discovered.
One thing for certain, Inna Segal has come a long way – as she mentions briefly in her book The Secret Language of Your Body, and, at length, on my show – Open Book with Diana Page Jordan – which will air tomorrow at 1:30p Pacific on www.pdx.fm. Inna – pronounced EE-nah – was barely out of her teens when her body felt ravaged with pain, particularly her back. She visited doctors and chiropractors, none able to diagnose and heal her. Finally, nearly bent in pain, she visited a chiropractor who frankly told her to go home. She was shocked and angry. He simply told her that her body was stuck, and there was nothing he could do to help her. Inna said she was so furious, she hardly felt the pain as she returned home. But it stirred her to action. Read the rest of this entry »
June 15, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged baking, birthday cakes, diabetes, happiness, healthy diet, magic wish, optimism, positive thinking, wish, wishing
Kids’ Cakes from the Whimsical Bakehouse
By Liv Hansen & Kaye Hansen
Published June 1, 2010 (Hardcover) Clarkson Potter
Kids’ Cakes from the Whimsical Bakehouse sparked a grin from ear to ear. I suddenly realized how hard I was smiling, looking at the brilliantly colored photos in the book, and that made me laugh.
That was a sweet part of childhood. Baking birthday cakes Read the rest of this entry »
May 28, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged depression, diabetes, diabetes type 2, diet, goals, healing, healthy diet, inspiration, optimism, physical health, self awareness, storytelling, sugar, type a, writing
Beat Sugar Addiction Now! The Cutting-Edge Program That Cures Your Type of sugar Addiction and Puts You On the Road to Feeling Great – and Losing Weight!
By Jacob Teitelbaum, MD
Published March 1, 2010 (Paperback) Fair Winds Press
Nice. I’ve got this sweet little square of Ghirardelli dark chocolate with liquid caramel oozing out of the prissy little bite I’ve made to make it last longer…and I’m opening the mail. I take another bite, savoring the dark sweetness, and you know what slid out of that padded yellow envelope – Beat Sugar Addiction Now! Ah, crap! No fair!
So I swallow the last little bit, savoring that elegant sweetness, and open the book. Another teacher arriving on cue. This week I spent Read the rest of this entry »
May 21, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews, Events · Tagged confidence, diabetes, fearless, inspiration, Keep It Sustainable, KISS, manifest, meditation, relationships, self awareness, sister, therapy
The Meditation Experience: Your Complete Meditation Workshop in a Book
By Madonna Gauding
Published May 3, 2010 (Paperback with CD) Godsfield Press Ltd.
A lovely, chunky book, The Meditation Experience boasts a CD, which I slide into the laptop. I’m well aware that it is heading to 2am, and I will be waking up early in a bed not my own.
The woman’s voice keeps repeating, “Feel your buttocks,” Read the rest of this entry »
May 13, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged abuse, dancing, diabetes, diet, divorce, EMDR, father, fearless, feelings, happiness, healing, healthy diet, love, marriage, physical health, rape, self awareness, stepfather, therapy, trauma, women food and god, writing
Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
By Geneen Roth
Published March 2, 2010 (Hardcover) Scribner
There have been only two sizes of clothes in my closet for the past twenty years – fours and smalls. You may conclude that I do not need to read a book like Women Food and God. But I do.
Because inside my wicker hamper – that I bought in New York City when I was 21 and working for a fashion and beauty boutique PR agency – I have Read the rest of this entry »
February 11, 2010 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged diabetes, diet, fearless, fiber, goals, happiness, healing, healthy diet, inspiration, manifest, motivation, optimism, physical health, positive thinking, self awareness
Positive Mind, Healthy Heart! Take Charge of Your Cardiac Health, One Day at a Time
By Joseph C Piscatella
Published January 28, 2010 (Paperback) Workman Publishing Company
Smart that Workman published Positive Mind, Healthy Heart! the beginning of the year, at a time when most of us are open to making big changes in our life. Okay, so you laugh about New Year’s Resolutions, and how long they last. But, here’s the truth – if you make tiny changes and stick with them, the reptilian part of your brain that freaks out won’t be in charge.
That’s where Joe’s book comes in. Joseph Piscatella – I didn’t know until I read the foreword of his book – was only 32-years old when he had coronary bypass surgery. 32!!! And, this was in 1977. Guess who wrote the foreword? Read the rest of this entry »
January 15, 2010 · Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged Ann Louise Gittleman, diabetes, diet, Eat This, fearless, Food Network, Good Deal, healing, healthy diet, inspiration, physical health, recipes, Sylvia Browne
The 10 Things You Need To Eat
By Dave Lieberman and Anahad O’Connor
Published January 1, 2010 (Paperback) William Morrow Cookbooks
Maybe I’m torturing myself. I’m midway through the five-day Hot Metabolism Booster diet because I’ll be interviewing Fat Flush for Life author Ann Louise Gittleman on Monday, and I chose my book of the day – The 10 Things You Need to Eat. I suppose I’m prepping myself for what comes next since I can’t go back to my Diet Coke, dark chocolate and sugarless gum. Not according to Ann Louise.
My after-dinner “snack” is the red-hot metabolism tomato drink. It is so freaking good – spicy, nutritious, filling. And, tomato is the first of the ten foods that we need to eat – that’s what Dave Lieberman and Anahad O’Connor say. Read the rest of this entry »
December 11, 2009 · Filed under Book Reviews · Tagged Brad Meltzer, Chelsea Cain, cookbook, cooking, diabetes, diet, Elizabeth Berg, feast, fiction, healthy diet, inspiration, Jennie Shortridge, John J Nance, John Saul, Katherine Neville, literary, writing
Literary Feast: The Famous Authors Cookbook
By King County Library System Foundation with Foreword by Greg Atkinson
Published January 2009 (Paperback) Classic Day Publishing
I’ve consumed their words over the years, why not their recipes as well? Literary Feast includes the culinary delights of nearly one-hundred authors, benefiting the King County Library System Foundation.
I have a favorite recipe from the book. I actually made it tonight, and I will reveal it in a moment. Don’t peak. Read the rest of this entry »
November 24, 2009 · Filed under Author Interviews, Book Reviews · Tagged cooking, diabetes, diet, happiness, healing, healthy diet, physical health, recipes, storytelling
Taste of Home Cookbook: Cooks Who Care Edition
Edited by Catherine M. Cassidy and Diane Werner
Published September 8th, 2009 (Hardcover) Reader’s Digest
The top of my refrigerator is bedecked with dozens of unthumbed cookbooks, but there’s something about The Taste of Home Cookbook: Cooks Who Care Edition that makes me feel — well, home. I interviewed one of the editors today, Catherine Cassidy. She says the cookbook is for novice cooks all the way up to the experts. There are more than 1,400 affordable recipes — all from readers, and then tested in the Taste of Home kitchens.
What I love is Read the rest of this entry »
