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The Eby Way: Challenge, Release, Heal Your Painful Past

The Eby Way (to be released by SterlingHouse Publiser in early 2009) is all about pain, suffering, despair, and illness being overcome by hope, change, recovery, and healing. Agree to review my book and receive in return a substantial discount.

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Welcome. I hope that you enjoyed your journey in finding me. Now, we'll see if I have what it takes. Remember, I'm a work in progress. If you find yourself here by divine will; then, I will definitely instill some passion in your bones. Hold on to th...

Promoting "The Meadow" -- a 600-page novel co-authored and took two and a half years to write. A great love story.

This is all about "The Meadow". I will be describing how it came to be written. This is a painting which was commissioned to celebrate the completion of the novel. Now it awaits for that right opportunity where it can bring its message to the world...

Flight into Chaos

A French Canadian woman finds herself the victim while trying to help survivors of a devastating hurricane. Feel free to enjoy it and leave any comments you have about my writing style, what you liked, what you didn't like. I appreciate all construct...

Barefoot Books

At Barefoot Books, we celebrate art and story that opens the hearts and minds of children from all walks of life, inspiring them to read deeper, search further, and explore their own creative gifts. Taking our inspiration from many different cultures...

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Lily Owens is the daughter of a brutal father and a mysteriously deceased mother. Her only solace is the black woman, Rosaleen who acts as her mother stand in. Rosaleen was hired by Lily's father after her mother's death. The story takes place in Mo...

Cliff Fazzolari

Cliff Fazzolari is a professional writer and prolific author. He is on the Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo PICU Parent Advisory Council. He currently resides in Blasdell, New York. Cliff is a regular columnist for WritersNewsWeekly.com.

Conscious Change; for the Journey to Happiness

Refresh your spirit with inspiring articles, images, videos, and resources. This lens exists to uplift and encourage all who visit. Discover ways to create joy, love, and peace in your life. Find videos of Wayne Dyer, Neale Donald Walsch, Deepak C...

Carlotta G. Holton

Carlotta G. Holton's first book, Getting Out of Limbo, won a best nonfiction award from the New Jersey Press Women's Association. She is a celebrated journalist and the recipient of many related awards. She is also the author of two works of horror f...

Charles Pero, The Master of Murder

The Charles Pero most people know and see often is not quite the same person as the man who writes suspense novels about the world's most brutal, prolific and reprehensible killers. When those who know "Charles Pero, businessman" find out t...

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Inspirational Poetry that will touch your heart and soul forever

•I'm a writer; so, I must write. •I seek to provide motivation and wisdom through entertainment. •My writing conveys my witty personality. I like to think of my writing as being both; prolific and profound. •I try to write in...

The Peacock and the Phoenix

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Adam Blade

Visit Children Learn More My 7-year-old son has become quite the Adam Blade fan. After finishing up the Harry Potter series, we looked around for a new series and selected Blade's Beast Quest series. We read a couple chapters every night and it alw...

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The Eby Way: Challenging, Releasing, Healing Your Painful Past

On July of 2007, I was reading The Secret, by Rhonda Burns. She makes the wonderful point about the "Law of Attraction" that what we project out from our minds into the universe, we will surely receive: send out the positive and receive the positive; embrace negativity and remain imprisoned by the negative.

The thought came to me (as I pondered her formula of asking, believing, and receiving), that I had a manuscript collecting 20 years of dust on our closet shelf. What was holding me back from sending that baby out to the universe?

I experienced an unpleasant twinge in my stomach: I was afraid that what I wrote wasn't good enough; that inexplicably hurt. In a sudden splash of insight, honesty, and openness, I said to myself: "Gary why don't you use the skills and principles that help your clients overcome despair, mental illness, addictions, homelessness, poverty, and incarceration? Just finish what you started so long ago." Yet the inner dark side replied, " Because you are a social worker not a writer."

However, I took a deep breath for three seconds, and I slowly let the air out of my lower lungs for six or more. I went through my yoga, tai-chi, and meditation routine. I used the "ask, believe, and receive" process. And I added my own prayer of going into the Light within: "Thank you God for all that I have and for all that I receive."

I completed my book about hope, self-help, and healing in August of 2007.

We are born with the innate ability to overcome any human hardship whether it be social, emotional, mental, physical, or financial. The key has to be discovered on our own personal journey.

Year after year books are published promising happiness, joy, prosperity, love, and health. They just don't tell us how to do it. Oh, yes, they tell us to think positive or forget about the past. They offer us chants and "powers" and even "secrets".

Here is the real secret: As long as your heart or mind or body holds on to that negative incident from the past, your ability to change will not be at hand.

Unlike these other books, I will show you how to stop the negative so you can truly gather the positive.

Gary Eby, author and therapist
http://www.self-help-eby.com/

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