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Kids Are Worth It!

I really like this Kids Are Worth It parenting book (and audio)  by Barbara Coloroso because it is full of such sound common sense. One of the hardest things to do in parenting is being consistent - and Barbara agrees. Start practicing your 'parenting skills' while you're children are a as young as possible - a rebellious teenager is much tougher to deal with.

Barbara's philosophy fits perfectly with the psychosocial development that you will find in Imago-style therapy and goes hand in hand with NVC and leads to confident contented kids. Together they can transform a dysfunctional home into a calm one - your whole family will thank you for creating a satisfying family life.

NVC alone offers great insight into your child's behavior - however, I like the no-nonsense approach of Kids Are Worth It and more often than not, the whole family benefits from Barbara Coloroso. If you read the book and want ideas on how to start applying what you've read to your own family, please feel welcome to email me.

Good luck!

Julie

Imago Relationship Therapy

Imago therapy is said to be nearly 80% successful - whereas regular marriage counselling is just over a measly 25% successful. A big difference...

My favorite Imago book is by Wade Luquet - until my own is written! I really like the clear way that he explains how he uses the work. I believe that if the brain/mind can really understand what's happening then the changes we want will start to happen. And this is a great way to explain.

Wade's book starts with an ancient Greek story and touches on some of the most cutting edge mind/body theories of the day. This is an excellent way - along with NVC - to start to heal you relationships and build the strongest family you could dream of.

NVC Compassionate Communication Book

I wish this book were required reading in our schools. NVC is the perfect example of the beauty of the KISS principle - it's also one of the hardest things to do. Similar to the NVC CD but in book form, this manual forms the foundation of what I do. There is also a matching NVC workbook which is ideal for those not working with a 'live' counsellor. A month of emails plus the workbook will transform your life.

NVC aka A Language of Life is the language we are all born speaking, whether we're from Tibet or Tanzania. Schools, churches, governments and parent all conspire to teach us a language of confrontation, separation and fear. Albeit in Tibetan or Tanzanian!

As I read/listened to Marshall talking about NVC, my eyes were tearful with sadness, regret and a recognition of what I knew to be true in the deepest part of me. I was going to try and talk about the actual components of NVC here but it just doesn't seem possible to do them justice?

This is without doubt the kindest, most compassionate language anywhere - and it brings success and peace whether you're alone (self-empathy is one of the most important parts of NVC I think), a couple, a family, a school, a corporation or a country. Some of Marshall's latest - and successful - work has been in countries torn apart by civil war and hatred, such as Rwanda and the Middle East.

Invite NVC into your life - based on separating thoughts, feelings and needs, enriched by self knowledge and served up with kindness and respect. Life is too precious for anything less.

NVC – Compassionate Communication CD

Have to choose something to read/listen to while you're shipwrecked on a desert island for the next 5 years?  I would take 'Non Violent Communication' by Marshall Rosenberg. Learn to be compassionate to yourself - that's a novel idea!

NVC aka A Language of Life is the language we are all born speaking, whether we're from Tibet or Tanzania. Schools, churches, governments and parent all conspire to teach us a language of confrontation, separation and fear.  Albeit in Tibetan or Tanzanian!

As I read/listened to Marshall talking about NVC, tears flowed down my face with sadness, regret and a recognition of what I knew to be true in the deepest part of me. I was going to try and talk about the actual components of NVC here but it just doesn't seem possible to do them justice?

This is without doubt the kindest, most compassionate language anywhere - and it brings success and peace whether you're alone (self-empathy is one of the most important parts of NVC I think), a couple, a family, a school, a corporation or a country. Some of Marshall's latest - and successful - work has been in countries torn apart by civil war and hatred, such as Rwanda and the Middle East.

Invite NVC into your life - based on separating thoughts, feelings and needs, enriched by self knowledge and served up with kindness and respect. Life is too precious for anything less.

What I Mean Is…

Adult Speech Therapy Book

At Last! Unique Adult Speech Therapy Books - use it with your own therapists, nurse or caregiver.

I can't say enough good things about this series of wonderful speech therapy books for adults who are higher functioning (but still need help) after their brain injury.

"What I Mean Is..." has been written by a qualified and innovative speech pathologist who sees patients every day that need this kind of help: help that until now wasn't available. Hilary, along with her colleague Anita Kess, has successfully created and designed exercises that help put our language 'back together' again. All the pieces of our language are there, waiting... Waiting for this!

There are 2 books in the series for mild to moderate level language challenges - sometimes known as BRAIN FOG. And one book for more seriously affected asphasic patients. All of these books can be used by you - together with your local speech therapist. Your visitors, partner and the nurses in your own rehabilitation program can also use this book with you. Using "What I Mean Is..." results in a significantly higher level of satisfaction and reduced level of frustration in your daily use of language and in your own ReBuilding process.

1. "What I Mean Is..." - A Structured Program to Improve Mild to Moderate Word Retrieval/Fluency Problems (3rd edition) by Hilary J Dibben BSc MSc S-LP(C) and Anita Kess BA MA Dip App Ling

This practical workbook includes hundreds of exercises and increases language flexibility and improves word retrieval for higher functioning clients, using a variety of approaches including categorizing words, synonyms, homonyms, analogies and so much more.

"What I Mean Is..." is now available in the ReBuildingYou MarketPlace. Click on any of the LuLu links and just a couple of days later your book will arrive - as shown here by my grandson Cobe! It was well packaged - almost undamageable - and so quick. Great service!

The technical name for those the book was written for (and I am part of this group) is the "higher functioning speech impaired" and we fall through the cracks when it comes to our need for speech therapy. Yes we can form words and ask for our basic needs. But we can't fully express all the thoughts in our minds. We're always 'losing' words and having trouble remembering exactly how to say what we want. We also say things we can't believe we said! Hence the title of this great new book!

With help we can get better (I have and so have other friends I know who were clients of Hilary's) and there is hope that we can express ourselves as fully as we did before. However... We need help to re-file the thousands of bits of information that have been exploded everywhere by our brain injuries.

As Hilary once said "Imagine a large bookcase, full of neatly filed papers... Then knock it over.  There are papers all over the place - and those papers are pieces of your language. What I'm going to do is help you pick them up and refile them." And whilst that help has never been available before, it is now. If your hospital or neuro-rehab program doesn't have help available for higher-functioning patients, they too can use this book and we would be delighted to talk to them, should they wish.

Hilary Dibben wrote "What I Mean Is" because there was nothing else available - no other text book or workbook (other than for young kids) out there to help the thousands of us who can speak... But who are unable to express themselves in a way that is satisfying and meaningful to them. This book is the answer we've been waiting for.

"What I Mean Is..." started out as a collection of worksheets and gradually grew from there. The development of this book was completely in step with:

* the needs of the client and
* what worked.
Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.Simple but brilliant. The perfect work-book for me, the client - and it works.

This book can be used directly by clients with some help from either their own speech therapist, an occupational therapist or other rehabilitation therapist, a nurse or loved one/caregiver. If you have suffered a stroke, chemobrain or any another sort of brain injury and need help expressing yourself fully and with ease, this book is for you. This book works best when there is a non-injured person working with the client - although I admit that I worked on parts of this book in the waiting room with the other brain injured patients in my group! That was great fun - we would catch each other out making mistakes!

I love this book! It's the one - or the contents are similar anyway - to the one I used myself in neuro-rehab at my local hospital.

I had no idea that I needed language therapy. In fact I was horrified at first when it was suggested! I knew secretly that I had difficulties but I thought they didn't show. And I was happy to ignore them. Everyone else seemed to think I was 'fine'. Before this recent round of rehab, no-one had even suggested that I seek speech therapy. I had spent nearly 20 years silently having trouble - struggling. Praying that no-one would notice. However speech therapy was part of this neuro-rehab package and not wanting to miss any potential improvements - I went to my first session. I took a simple test, to give Hilary an idea of my abilities - which I thought I would ace! I was shocked. I had no idea of the extent of my problem and it was my brain. Here was a woman who knew what was going on inside my head when even I didn't! I was speechless. As I realized how much difference this therapy made, I couldn't get ahead quickly enough.

The exercises here in "What I Mean Is..." seem simple. In reality they are very powerful. I've always been able to write my thoughts down - now I can speak my thoughts too. And I can now see clearly what my difficulties are - which is the first step to healing and real improvement. Now I know what it is I need to re-learn. And how to do it.

Here is a picture of Hilary (far right), Anita (blonde), me Julie (white blouse) and our publishing editor Marilyn at a restaurant celebrating the completion of the project.

Words and language are such a vital and important part of 'me' - being able to express myself fully was such an important part of my recovery. Thank you Hilary, from the bottom of my heart.

I wanted to check out the company - www.Lulu.com - that's fulfilling the orders for the book and make sure they are 100% reliable and that your credit card details will be safe. It gives me great pleasure to tell you that I have been blown away by their integrity and professionalism. Ordering the book was easy and quick and just over a week later (they sent me 2 emails meantime to let me know where they were in the fulfillment process) I received my book. As you can see from the pictures on this page the book arrived in a cardboard package, firmly sealed inside in a protective bubble. Quick, easy, safe, very professional.

I will happily publish and factor in the ratings of every reviewer of these powerful speech therapy books for adults, as soon as I get that feedback. ORDER! your books now. And please let me know how you find them.

2. "Are You Listening" (not yet available, except by written request - come on Hilary! Shall we do an audio version?)

To hone listening, verbal working memory, and speed of auditory processing skills this book uses practical auditory exercises like verbal reasoning, oral directions, shapes and numbers, directed drawings, riddles, analogies and maps.
by Hilary Dibben BSc MSc S-LP(C)

This book will be coming later in  2010 (we hope). Become a subscriber to ReBuildingYou and read in the VillageCrier newsletter (first issue coming out soon) the moment these books are available.

3. This book for those with more difficult speech and language problems, "The Barrier Book" by Hilary Dibben BSc MSc L-LP(C), is a series of thought provoking exercises to encourage and enable the aphasic to communicate more clearly with those around him.

whatimeaniscoverThe very thing higher functioning clients are unable to do is to express clearly what they need - which is kind of obvious? Someone else has to point out what they can't do. (No-one could easily see it in themselves.) Honesty - not criticism though! - is needed please - and maybe that comes best from a therapist? Help is at hand. As more patients are helped we must make a loud chorus of appreciation - and a demand for the help we now know we need. Only then will the Health Authorities and Medical Insurance Companies understand and provide for this need.
These excellent speech therapy books for adults are unique and hot off the press and are available only through ReBuildingYou.
Reaching clients through other therapists proved just too difficult. But with the help of the internet, I'm hoping that this will change! We need you to forward this information on to your friends who might benefit from these books. If you are a therapist, please order a copy or two for your clinic. Librarians please make this book available in your public libraries. Family doctors please know that this book is available - and if you even suspect that speech difficulties might be experienced by your patient, recommend this book (and ask libraries to carry it...)

Clients and caregivers can now learn about these books on the internet and ask their speech therapists about them. And no-one would be happier than the professionals in the rehabilitation field to be able to help higher functioning patients with language needs to reach their potential - once they realise that this is a need. We have to ask for what we need - I didn't and no-one said to me that they noticed that there was a change in my language and that maybe I could check it out. Friends please be our friends...

I would also like to invite you to send in your experiences which will help us know better what works and how to modify the treatment that's available. This whole subject is very new and we need feedback in order to improve and progress. Your thoughts - however unimportant they may seem to you - are really important to us. (Let Hilary, Anita and I know. If I can I would like to publish your feedback - and if you would prefer to remain anonymous, that's fine too.)

Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.We look forward to hearing from you!

Warmly, Julie

SOTA Blood Purifier

SOTA Blood Purifier, Silver Pulser Zapper

How can you rise above all the issues facing you right now if you are constantly sick? I can face colds, flu and infections with confidence with my SOTA zapper. The technology is simple and I would love for it to help you to keep healthy too - it's so much easier to deal with life when you are feeling well.

For 21 months it kept me completely sota-silver-pulserwell even when I am with friends and clients who are unwell. And I discover that many other people who use these silver pulsers have similar experiences. They really work! Read more about how it makes a difference to real lives. Once you are part of the Sota Community you can read many similar stories to this one.

For several years I've worked with a sweetheart of a man - Humphrey - who wears one of these devices at work several times a week for an hour. I thought this was just one of his quirkinesses! In fact I didn't really believe such a simple thing could really make a difference and I scoffed at it! I was so wrong.

Survivors of major physical trauma suffer with exhaustion at the drop of a hat - almost without exception. One day, when I had been exhausted for what seemed like forever and I kept getting colds and infections and had to go to the doctor repeatedly, Humphrey mentioned that he hadn't been sick for years. Luckily I heard him and I finally asked him about his 'gadget' and started to find out about electronic blood purification. Many supplements, vitamins and exercise help but none more so than the zapper. If I had to choose just one thing to use from now on, I would choose one of these devices. If you decide to join me, you are welcome to use the ReBuildingYou code: CA50333 and get a 10% discount!

This little gadget is one of the most effective things I've had the good luck to come across. I can't believe that I didn't listen to Humphrey earlier. I guess there are so many demands on our attention and we become burned out. However, if you can spare me a few moments of your time, I would like to share the news so that you can benefit too. By sharing what we discover, we can help each other to ReBuild our lives much more quickly and successfully than we could ever hope to do alone. ReBuildingYou clients get 10% off when using this code at SOTA: CA50333 or CLICK HERE to order.

Here's the story behind my using the SOTA - you can also see how it has affected the lives of other people by clicking here...

First of all, some background so that this story makes sense. Every human body has quite a bit of 'gunk' circulating in the blood at any one time. By gunk I mean viruses, bacteria, fungi and other parasites. A healthy body and immune system can easily manage this extra load and keep it under control. Most of the time. Until we get run down...

However, ReBuilding your life from any kind of trauma is already asking your body and immune system to work at maximum output. After all, only a maximum effort will let you slowly pull yourself back up to a life that is satisfying to you. Exhausting. Something any ReBuilder can testify to. Any extra load is just too much and the result is exhaustion, candida (aka yeast or thrush), colds and sore throats, minor cuts that won't heal, more serious infections. This is similar to the general 'unwellness' and the being 'run down' which follows most illnesses.

The body and mind can perform miracles - without a doubt. If we let them. They can move you far beyond what traditional medicine can do. My doctors told me I would never walk again, let alone be able to work. Thankfully they were wrong. Mind over matter will triumph almost every time. With support... Although our own body is the most amazing healer it needs every bit of help it can get to try and level the playing field when it's working full-tilt. That's where this little gadget comes in.

silver-pulser-diagram

Every ten minutes or so, most of your blood makes a complete circuit of the body: it passes by every pulse point once in 10 minutes. The zapper (SOTA silver pulser) affixes over one of your pairs of pulse points - say the radial and ular arteries of your right wrist - and zaps your blood as it courses through your veins underneath the skin. This electrical current is completely harmless - except to the microscopic organisms enjoying a free ride and often wreaking havoc in our blood. In fact stimulation with certain electricity and magnetic fields has been shown to energize and increase health, regardless of the effect on the freeloaders.

Ordinarily our immune systems seek out and attack/control viruses, bacteria, yeasts, parasites and any other invaders in the body. That's a major part of their job. However when we've been sick and/or stressed for any length of time, the immune system becomes sluggish and exhausted.

silver-pulser-kitI love the fact that the SOTA blood purifier is totally non invasive. There is no medication. No nasty side effects. This gadget is completely side-effect-free! We only need to wear this gadget for about an hour at a time. Actually I use it every 2 - 5 days when I'm feeling well and if I sense a cold coming (or other 'bug') I use it more often. There are various 'protocols' recommended for various serious conditions like cancer and AIDS - ranging from 20 minutes a day. In fact the improvement to the health of AIDS patients is comparable and even better than with some of the most up to date and expensive drugs. Rather than worry about which protocol is best, I think it's important to 'just use it'. Over time you will adjust your use to what is most effective for you - many of the exact protocols are very similar. When I feel my neck glands starting to ache and swell, I make sure and use the SOTA for at least an hour and when I wake up next morning, I'm well. Preferably you would do it every couple of days and avoid any symtptoms at all (I'm afraid I sometimes forget!).

There have been reports of Herzheimers effect (caused by the dying off of a large amount of toxins) making you feel flu-like after the first few uses - and this may be true depending on your individual state of health and disease. If you do experience a Herzheimer effect, it will disappear after a few days, when the sudden increase in toxins leaving the body has regularized again. Personally I didn't have a problem and I felt slightly better after the very first use - I expect your reaction will vary.

After 17 months (in March 2010), I got overconfident and reduced the time I used it to once or twice a week for an hour. I had also started to doubt that it was the zapper that was keeping me well: I thought I was just healtheir. There was a particularly nasty bug around and many of my friends caught it. They were sick for days and missed work, some for as long as a week or more. For the first time in nearly a year and a half, I also caught this bug. The zapper seems very efficient at keeping bugs at bay but when you are full of bugs, it's difficult to get rid of them all. However, using my zapper for 2 or 3 hours every day for a few days kept me only mildly sick and I didn't lose a single day of work. So it can also make viruses and infections much less severe. In the morning I would wake up feeling sinussy and achy but after an hour of zapping each morning, I felt OK. Not brilliant. But OK. At bedtime I would use my SOTA again for an hour or two. Four days later I was fine again. I will use my zapper regularly from now on.

How To Use the Silver Pulser Blood Purifier

The SOTA consists of two little silver bars/electrodes that you slip into white cotton sleeves and put them over your pulse points in your wrist. These electrodes are moistened with salty water - the concentration of salt is not too important and the cotton should be just moist and not dripping wet. There is a black neoprene wrist strap that you then fasten over the electrodes with velcro. If the band itself gets wet, the electrodes can sting and so I blot the electrodes before I affix them. Following these instructions is important: you must use the cotton sleeves and to avoid tingling/stinging skin you have to moisten the cotton with salt water but not wet the skin or the neoprene band between the electrodes. It's also important to get the electrodes in exactly the right place by adjusting them as necessary while they're in place. Zapping should never sting although you can feel the electricity pulsing under the neoprene band.

The next step is simple... You turn on the small handset, attached to the electrodes by wires, and turn up the dial until you can feel the pulsing current. If the electrodes sting at all, turn down the current and move the electrodes until they are comfortable. When they are in the right spot, the electrodes do not hurt or sting and it's important to find 'the right spot' - however your fingers might twitch! This does not hurt at all when done properly, although it is common for the wrist to be a little red immediately after use (this goes away and you can use aloe gel to soothe and moisturize the skin if you wish).

Once the device is turned on, I put the handset into a pocket and carry on with whatever activity I'm doing. If I'm typing sometimes I have to turn down the dial because my fingers twitch and keep typing the wrong letters!

Before I used the SOTA, I caught every bug around and was sick at the drop of a hat. I also felt exhausted on a daily basis. Since using this gadget I have not had a single cold or sore throat - and I'm talking nearly 17 months here and despite sitting in a car with the windows closed (it was raining and cold) with my son who had a terrible cold. My best friend and her family had the H1N1 virus and I spent time with them but stayed well. According to my doctor and to my blood tests, I am also particularly vulnerable to illness. However... My doctor is amazed - and I am delighted - that I stay so well!

With the SOTA Silver Pulser my body is free to concentrate its resources and precious energy on healing, ReBuilding and staying fit.

I was only able to find a limited amount of good information about gadgets similar to this - Dr Bob Beck had done a lot of work on it and had nothing but positive things to say. One study was with AIDS patients who remained well and symptom free without expensive drugs. It's also used for cancer patients and to restore health. There were also some interesting studies of a much larger - and successful - German machine but it seem these studies must have been done before the internet. Dr Hulda Clark also has a zapper - it looks less user friendly. And this is important because to be effective, you need to be able to use this with ease regularly. It also looks more complicated and I have learned that the technical details with zappers are very much less important - luckily so, because its simplicity is one of the reasons its so user friendly. However, I will try out one of these zappers as soon as possible and report on it here.

Continuing with traditional medicine is a 'must' (only your doctor can tell you when you can reduce treatment) and concurrent physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, acupuncture – and several other therapies and devices - are also strongly recommended.

The following books are about new technology and health (including the silver pulser). The Oxygen Revolution: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: The books are 'When Technology Fails; The Natural Way to Heal and 60 Ways To Create Superior Health; The Oxygen Revolution: Groundbreaking New Treatment for Stroke, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Arthritis, Autism, Learning Disabilities and More by Paul Harch and may well be of interest to complement your interest in silver pulser technology and health: