The Book of Awesome

Pierrette Raymond — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:36:01 +0000

Sometimes it’s easy to forget the things that make us smile. With a 24/7 news cycle reporting that the polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes are swirling in the seas, wars are heating up around the world, and the job market is in a deep freeze, it’s tempting to feel that the world is falling apart. But awesome things are all around us – sometimes we just need someone to point them out.

Based on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000awesomethings.com this book is a must read! Here are just a couple of examples you’ll find in the book:

Finding out your birthday is on a Friday or Saturday next year
When there’s still time left in the parking meter when you pull up
When your suitcase tumbles down the luggage chute first after a long flight
Coming home after a long day to the smell of someone cooking dinner
When you know all the buttons to speed through the automated telephone system

The Book of Awesome: Snow Days, Bakery Air, Finding Money in Your Pocket, and Other Simple, Brilliant Things

Filed under: Suggested Reading

Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Pierrette Raymond — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:27:32 +0000

Don’t let the title of this book fool you. It’s an incredible journey to the heart of what really matters. High praise for Women Food and God.

Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

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Make-A-Wish Foundation

Pierrette Raymond — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:54:40 +0000

For parents who have a child with a life-threatening or terminal illness, there are countless challenges to overcome and hurdles to get over. Nothing is ‘normal’ for them.

Through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, these families have an opportunity to experience hope, joy, love, and happiness at a time filled with doctors’ appointments, consultations with specialist, endless treatments, and sleepless nights.

To find a chapter near you and to support a child who’s wish means the world to him or her, visit Make-A-Wish U.S.A, Make-A-Wish Canada, Make-A-Wish Worldwide.

Filed under: Organizations I Strongly Support

Notes Left Behind

Pierrette Raymond — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:38:34 +0000

I was so moved by Elana and her family’s journey that I MUST share this book with you. A heartwarming and heart-wrenching story of a beautiful girl whose life ended far too soon. BUT through her journey, she has touched – and continues to touch the lives of so many.

Notes Left Behind

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I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye

Pierrette Raymond — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:26:11 +0000

Each year about eight million Americans suffer the death of someone close to them. Now for those who face the challenges of sudden death, there is a hand to hold, written by two women who have experienced sudden loss. In a book that will touch, comfort, uplift and console, authors Brook Noel and Pamela D. Blair, PhD, explore sudden death and offer a hand to hold for those who are grieving the sudden death of a loved one.

I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One

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Life After Loss

Pierrette Raymond — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:23:38 +0000

Life After Loss is the go-to resource for anyone who has suffered a major loss. Loss can be overwhelming, and recovery often seems daunting, if not impossible. With great compassion and insight, Bob Deits provides practical exercises for navigating the uncertain terrain of loss and grief, helping readers find positive ways to put together a life that is necessarily different, but equally meaningful.

Life After Loss: A Practical Guide to Renewing Your Life After Experiencing Major Loss

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Nourishment Journal: Take Time to Reflect

Pierrette Raymond — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:10:13 +0000

There comes a time when we feel the need to sit and reflect on our lives. The “Nourishment Journal: Take Time to Reflect” is a thought-provoking book that asks you specific questions in eleven areas of life whereby you reflect and answer.

This journal provides you a place to record things about yourself that you want to keep and look back upon in the future. It’s also an opportunity for you to discover more of yourself and appreciate who you really are.

Chapter One: Nourishing Your Present
Chapter Two: Nourishing Your Body
Chapter Three: Nourishing Your Mind
Chapter Four: Nourishing Your Soul
Chapter Five: Nourishing Your Roots
Chapter Six: Nourishing Your Free Spirit
Chapter Seven: Nourishing Humanity
Chapter Eight: Nourishing Your Relationships
Chapter Nine: Nourishing Your Womanhood
Chapter Ten: Nourishing Your Faith
Chapter Eleven: Nourishing Your Future
Chapter Twelve: Special Dates. Special People.

Special note: All artwork in the journal was created by Pierrette’s mother, Lucille Beauchamp-Saudino. Pierrette and her mother worked together on this project while her mother battled lung cancer. Sadly, Pierrette’s mother passed away on June 18th, 2007.

How Ordinary Women Create Extraordinary Change

Pierrette Raymond — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:58:13 +0000

A step-by-step guide to motivating and exciting change!

Through thought-provoking and inspiring stories, “How Ordinary Women Create Extraordinary Change” reveals how a group of ordinary women have created extraordinary change in a very short period of time.

As you journey through the book, you will learn:

How to reconnect with your self and learn to listen and pay attention to what your inner spirit is really telling you
How to get clear on what is truly important to you
How to take control of your life so that it is more empowering and fulfilling
How to acknowledge and utilize the support systems already present in you and in your life
How to create everlasting results that will continually inspire you to move forward using the 90-Day Action Plan workbook included

Pierrette Raymond, author and founder of Women Moving Forward, has been actively helping women for the past 13 years as a teacher, recruiter, trainer and mentor. When she founded Women Moving Forward in October 2002, her goal was to offer an opportunity to women to find balance in their lives. What she didn’t expect was the extraordinary change the women were creating in their own lives simply by following the principles that are shared with you in this book.

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