Authors
InspireABook Authors & Their Books
A sample of InspireABook Alumni who have followed the InspireABook system and benefited from private coaching.
Re-Write Your Life
A Transformational Guide to Writing and Healing the Stories of Our Lives
Re-Write Your Life is a unique guided writing experience that empowers you to let go of old resentments, hurts and regrets and make peace with your past so you can rejoice in your life today. It is based on June Swadron’s hugely successful workshops where she assists participants to see the true meaning and value in every story they have lived. From this perspective there are no victims.
June teaches this process not only through brilliant writing techniques but also through sharing her own personal, evocative and poignant life stories – including her battle with bi-polar illness. Also woven throughout these pages are the stories of 33 other contributing writers that will inspire, and delight you. Re-Write Your Life guides you to pick up your pen and start writing your own transformational stories.
“June Swadron is both a guide and a muse. Her book is a bright lantern, illuminating the often dark and tricky terrain of the soul. Grounded in personal experience, her techniques catalyze the deep authenticity possible to us all.”
Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
“Touching and potentially life altering…invites the reader into a rich tapestry of personal soul writings…. Human struggles and joys are interwoven with practical tools that catalyze a writing journey into healing. This is a book to savour, cherish and recommend without reservation.”
Carol Douglas, MD, FRCPC Psychiatry
“If you want to be the best you can be, Re-Write Your Life is the perfect guide to getting clear about what’s true today and what’s a story of the past that deprives you of happiness.”
T. Harv Eker, author of NY Times bestseller Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
June Swadron has spent the last twenty years guiding thousands of students in writing and sharing their life stories through a deep and powerful process that completely transformed how they experienced their life journey.
June is also a speaker, playwright, certified Life Skills Coach and Psychotherapist. She received her clinical designation with the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists in 1996 and currently lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
More information at www.juneswadron.com
Peace of Mind:Care of the Caregiver
Care of the Caregiver is an easy-to-follow and practical working guide to help families and friends navigate the vital details of everyday life while caring for a loved one at home during a chronic or debilitating illness.
When Lynn Longmuir’s husband Niall was diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis in 1996, Lynn gradually found herself in a full time care-giving role with limited resources and no way of knowing how to deal with her own grief and pain.
Taking care of someone you love is difficult and taking care of yourself in the process, without help, is practically impossible. After discovering how difficult to access and few resources existed for caregivers, she dedicated herself to ensuring that others in her situation have both the practical and emotional tools to be strong for themselves and their loved ones. Lynn is able to bring a voice of experience and compassion to this important topic.
The Art of Self Care – A Day timer for NURSES and WOMEN
Lynda McLeod RN BScN MALT
Lynda is a nursing educator, an artist and a creativity coach. Since the beginning of her nursing practice she always used art as a reflective process to help her make sense of the experiences she encounters as a nurse. In fact, she attributes the process of art as the only reason she is still involved in nursing. Being a highly sensitive, artistic, creative, person, she found some of her nursing experiences, mainly bearing witness, difficult to unravel.
As an effort to maintain balance and meaning Lynda connects with nature and her family by going on long canoe and kayaking trips along the west coast of BC. The meditative act of painting these moments became her vehicle to transcend the sorrow when called to witness the rawness of life, suffering, and death and arrive at another plane of understanding.
Art continues to allow Lynda to return again and again to her work, replenished, energized, and ready for the next lesson. She believes self-care is integral to maintaining balance in our busy lives as nurses and/or women.
This unique day-timer gives you an opportunity to care for yourself first before juggling family, work and other tasks. Every day you will be gently reminded to schedule time for self-care in the first column before you address commitments you need to make for work, family and/or business.
The best part is, you can start right away. Sit down, light a candle, pour yourself a glass of wine and creatively fill in the calendar a week at a time, or for the whole year. Use markers, paints or gel pens to colour in your days and weeks, while celebrating the art of self-care.
The artwork displayed each month is part of the Art of Nursing Leadership Series. Lynda used the meditative act of painting to uncover her leadership philosophy. She offers her paintings to you as a launching point only. The quotes are meant to ignite your fire so you can discover a way to pause and create time for yourself in order to lead.
*A percentage of sales of the day-timer will be deposited into the Art by Nurses Art Fund. This fund was developed to assist in sustaining nurses’ health. For more information about the vision and mission check out artbynurses.com.
Testimonial
“Yes!!I have been using mine—so far the “work” part is heavily written on and the “self-care” is a little light! But at least it reminds me to
put my self first!
And the pictures are lovely, quotes, etc.
Thank you Lynda – useful and inspiring”
Ann McIntosh
Dr. Scott’s
Verbal Self Defense in The Workplace
Proven Psychological Secrets to Help You Beat the Office Bully
This book will guide the reader through a detailed process of learning and practicing all the skills necessary to verbally defend themselves effectively in a professional manner.
The exercises will include learning how to properly consider other people’s perceptions while still respecting and adhering to their own personal morals and principles, all within the structure and expectations of the company.
Dr. Scott’s Verbal Self Defense in The Workplace is written primarily for general office workers and service industry staff; anyone who deals with individuals that become angry or confrontational with an organization’s employees and volunteers.
Keeping Good Employees Onboard
Employee Retention: Strategies to Navigate Through the Economic Storm
Whether you’re an owner, a manager or a supervisor in a small to medium sized business, you can learn the ropes of proven employee retention tactics. Through case study examples, the author’s research on why employees leave (you’ll be surprised), and development of a practical action plan you will begin to transform your workplace.
Start tomorrow…
Increase Employee Engagement – which increases productivity and Reduces Staff Turnover – which increases your bottom line. Written in a practical and memorable framework using the metaphor of sailing ships, this guide will have you steering your company ship with more confidence and with a focus on that one resource that we all say are so valuable – our employees.
The author,Dawn McCooey has over 20 years experience in her employment and business consulting practice. She obtained a Master of Arts degree at Royal Roads University where she is an Associate Faculty. Dawn managed her company of up to 32 employees and was voted “ Best Boss In Victoria” by the Vancouver Island Business Examiner.
Her extensive local and offshore sailing background and experience helped her to create this unique nautical theme for an important business subject.Take the helm, keep your good employees onboard, and have some fun on this journey. Bon Voyage.
All of the Authors have donated a copy of their books for the “Victoria Bridge for Peace in Cambodia” Victoria registered LICADHO CANADA is the sister organization to LICADHO – the Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights; the leading human rights watch dog in Cambodia. Together we work on the front lines, providing critical services to individuals and communities under threat of violence and eviction from their land.
Details at www.licadhocanada.com
