Featured Author: M.B. Antevasin

Keeping secrets makes us sick.
But what if you have never been allowed to speak your truth?

As she gives birth for the first time, her plans for a well-prepared natural birth are pushed aside. To make sense of this traumatic birth, she is forced to reexamine her entire life and the circumstances that brought her to this point. In the stories that we keep secret, we hear the betrayals of trust that keep victims frozen in their wounds. In a clear voice, M.B. Antevasin asks the difficult questions that we all wish to hear answered.

Breaking the silence holds the key to healing.
But what if sharing your story is what terrifies you the most?

There is nothing like becoming a mother to make a woman find her courage and push through her fears. This is a recipe for true transformation. As a mother she demands more; from herself, from the world on behalf of her children, and on behalf of all women.

M.B. Antevasin takes us on a healing journey through the exquisitely powerful lens of birth and motherhood. From Cesarean birth to VBAC, to an empowering home birth, this insightful narrative verbalizes her transformation from a victim into a woman with her own power and her own voice. Throughout The Birth of Magdalena, M.B. Antevasin provides resources, tools, and inspiration for other mothers and survivors to create a new story for themselves and for their children.

About Michelle:

Michelle has been studying the science of Health and Wellness for over twenty years. She has a Bachelor?s degree in Biology and a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology and is a Certified Science Teacher. While raising her 4 children she became an accredited La Leche League Leader and a Professionally Trained Birth Doula and recently completed a 3-year Energy Healing training and is a Certified Family Trauma Professional. She currently runs her own health consultation business and is a Professor of Business, Health and Science. She volunteers with Children and Families in her community and she works to end patterns of abuse and trauma by sharing her own healing journey through her writing and she brings to her classes and workshops her experience as a teacher, a mother, a survivor and a healer. Michelle also holds support groups monthly and is available for private healing sessions.

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Featured Author: Athea Davis

Today’s Gonna Be Awesomesauce!

Available Wherever Books are Sold, September 2017

Today?s Gonna Be Awesomesauce?is a daily mindfulness meditation book for youth, parents, and families (and educators too!) filled with practical wisdom, quirky wit, and edgy savviness created with an educator?s lens, a yogi mom?s heart, and a superhero love for humanity.?

It?s also a book about turning grief (including our daily roadblocks) into rainbows. There are a lot of plans, strategies, checklists, and classes out there that help us try to cope with the stresses of life. Yet, if we don?t know how to practice focus and sustained concentration; identify and self-regulate our emotions; commit time to self-inquiry to gain better awareness about ourselves, how we relate to others and our environment; and learn tools that spark our creative power, then all those plans, strategies, and checklists are nothing more than what appears on the surface. My book takes readers below the surface to tap into a limitless reservoir of the special sauce,?Awesomesauce, which feeds all that stuff on the outside to bring authentic transformation to how we relate in and to life.?

Also included in the book are?365 mindful breathing mantras. If you are short on time and can?t read the day?s entry, take note of the mindful breathing mantra. The book isn?t meant to be analyzed; it?s meant to be?felt?and?practiced?and, to be read with a contemplative lens. Let the words clear your mind and dance in your heart space.?

The book has something for everyone in the family and it?s great for educators too. Whether you read an entry a day or read a few, mindfully breath in the mindful breathing mantras in solitude, with your family, or your class, you will notice a shift in your heart and mind space. In that shift you will feel deep inside that?Today?s Gonna Be Awesomesauce?!

Athea’s Story:

My story in conceiving and writing my first book,?Today?s Gonna Be Awesomesauce: Daily Meditations for Youth, Parents, and Families?began over two years ago when my life, as I then knew it, completely changed from the inside out. I had to dig deep inside for something beyond myself that gave me vision and purpose.?

The words you will find in?Today?s Gonna Be Awesomesauce?infused my life with the breath of new meaning and I trust they will infuse your life with new meaning, too.?

My former spouse and father to my son unexpectedly died in a tragic accident in the spring of 2015. My son was 9 years old at the time (he is now 11). There are seemingly no words that can describe the tailspin of unfathomable pain that this event ignited in my life. But, paradoxically, it was through words ? both written and spoken ? that healed a deeply seeded wound in my body, mind, and spirit.?

So, I tuned into my own?Awesomesauce?and spread it in the pages of my book. As an educator, youth mentor for youth in the juvenile justice system, and mom I use all the tools and techniques that I write about in this book. I live and breathe the Awesomesauce every day and I?ve experienced and see the transformative impact that they?ve had in my life, my son?s life, my students? lives, and the lives of our youth serving time in our state?s prison system.

About Athea:

Athea Davis, CP, E-RYT, RYT 500, RCYT, is a health and wellness educator, youth mentor, and owner of Sol Sense Yoga. She writes, lectures, and consults youth, families, educators, and businesses on topics such as mindfulness, meditation, health and wellness, classroom management, family/conscious parenting, and a variety of social and emotional learning topics. Athea has a multi-faceted background of corporate and public law experience with health and wellness education. She brings an innovative and unique approach to the education/health and wellness sectors. She is committed to increasing social and emotional performance for youth, parents, and educators. In her spare time, Athea takes adventures of all kinds, relishing her most favorite adventures with her son. Together they love to create and spread the awesomesauce in each breath, step, and light and love dab along the way.

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Featured Author: Suzanne Brown

Mompowerment: Making Work-Life Balance Easier

After working part-time for a year once her older son was born, Suzanne Brown began her entrepreneurial journey as a strategic marketing and business consultant. Several years ago, Suzanne discovered a passion for helping moms define their own version of success and work-life balance.

When moms consider their career options, they traditionally think only of working full time or staying at home. What about the huge area in between? How can you be the mom you want to be without walking away from your career and all you?ve worked so hard for? What if you could work part-time, continuing down your professional path, and actually spend quality time with family?

Suzanne Brown shares her expertise combined with detailed research and advice from other part-time working moms. In her book, Mompowerment: Insights from Successful Professional Part-time Working Moms Who Balance Career and Family, she recounts stories, advice, and insights from her own experience and more than 110 other professional part-time working moms to:
? empower you to think differently about career and work-life balance
? provide a how-to for transitioning your career model

By the end of this book, you?ll be able to see if the professional part-time option is right for you, think through mindset shifts, make changes at home and at work, and set yourself up for success in your new career approach.

More About Suzanne:

Suzanne Brown is a part-time strategic marketing and business consultant, TEDx speaker, author, and avid international traveler. For more than 12 years, Suzanne worked at various large marketing agencies in Austin, New York, Miami, Chicago, and San Antonio, managing integrated marketing campaigns for large international corporate clients. While still at a large marketing agency, her part-time work story started, after the birth of her older son. Suzanne started her entrepreneurial venture after having a consulting side business for 7 years while still in the corporate world. As a consultant with her own clients, she had more flexibility and control over her schedule. A year into being an entrepreneur, Suzanne realized that there were limited resources for career moms interested in transitioning to a professional part-time role. And the idea for her book was born. Suzanne received her MBA, Bachelor of Business Administration, and Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from The University of Texas Austin. Suzanne and her husband live in Austin, Texas. You can often find them during non-work time trying to keep up with their two active young boys, whether on a local hike or a far-off adventure. Read more from Suzanne about topics related to being a busy, working mom and find more resources and templates to help you on your own professional part-time journey on her website.