Authors Airwaves

Diana M. Raab on Creative Community

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Diana M. Raab author of Writers on the Edge: 22 Writers Speak about Addiction and Dependency appears with David Starkey on Creative Community Show.

Diana Raab on Creative Community from David Starkey on Vimeo.

Writers On the Edge – Reading at Book Soup, LA

admin — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:10:13 +0000

Writers On the Edge – Reading at Book Soup, LA

Poet Patricia-Wellingham Jones

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:15:28 +0000

Patricia Wellingham-Jones from Richard Anderson on Vimeo.

Video interview with our own Patricia Wellingham-Jones!

Jay S. Levy on Helping the Homeless

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:54:45 +0000

Jay S. Levy is the author of Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways: From Words to Housing.

Jewel Kats – Cinderella’s Magical Wheelchair

admin — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:38:23 +0000

Irene Watson interviews Jewel Kats, author of Cinderella’s Magical Wheelchairabout her transformative book and how it empowers both children with and without disabilities to live their dreams. In a Kingdom far, far away lives Cinderella. As expected, she slaves away for her cranky sisters and step-mother. She would dearly love to attend the Royal costume ball and meet the Prince, but her family is totally dead set against it. In fact, they have gone so far as to trash her wheelchair! An unexpected magical endowment to her wheelchair begins a truly enchanted evening and a dance with the Prince. Can true love be far behind?Listen to the interview

Jewel Kats

This fairy tale demonstrates people with disabilities can overcome abuse
Children with disabilities finally have a Cinderella story they can identify with
In this version, Cinderella uses her own abilities to build a new future for herself
The connection Cinderella and the Prince share illustrates love surges past
mutual attraction

Acclaim for Cinderella’s Magical Wheelchair

“An inspiring and exciting read for children of all ages and abilities. Finally here is a book which shows that wheelchair-mobile children can achieve anything. A clever, modern twist on this traditional and much loved story.”
–Joanne Smith, TV Producer, Terry Fox Hall of Fame inductee, Gemini Award winner

“This strength-based present day Cinderella story reminds readers that everyone, including someone with a physical challenge, can have the experiences and relationships they hope to have. This Cinderella found that ‘success was of her own making’. A must have for every school library and therapy office.”
–Theresa Fraser, M.A., Child Psychotherapist and Play Therapist, author of: Billy Had To Move

Cinderella's Magical Wheelchair

Christine Stark – NICKELS: A Tale of Dissociation

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:56:51 +0000

Authors Airwaves captured author Christine Stark’s performance live at Patrick’s Cabaret in Minneapolis, MN on September 9th and 10th 2011. Christine read chapters from her new book NICKELS: A Tale of Dissociation.Nickels follows a biracial girl named “Little Miss So and So”, from age 4-1/2 into adulthood. Told in a series of prose poems, Nickels’ lyrical and inventive language conveys the dissociative states born of a world formed by persistent and brutal incest and homophobia. The dissociative states enable the child’s survival and, ultimately, the adult’s healing. The story is both heartbreaking and triumphant. Nickels is the groundbreaking debut of Minneapolis-area author
and artist Christine Stark.

Listen to Nickels (Age 5)
Listen to Nickels (Age 15)

Christine Stark

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“Christine Stark has crafted a language and a diction commensurate with the shredding of consciousness that is a consequence of childhood sexual abuse. She brings us a wholly original voice in a riveting novel of desperation and love. Every sentence vibrates with a terrible beauty. Every sentence brings the news.”–Patricia Weaver Francisco, author of Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery“To be taken into the mind of a child can be an enchanting
adventure, but to be taken into the mind of a child who is
abused, confused, and taken for granted is a lingering, livid
journey. I applaud her fortitude to bring an olden–too long ignored–truth out of the darkness with blazing, innovative light.”–MariJo Moore, author of The Diamond Doorknob

“In Nickels, Christine Stark, powerfully portrays the story of abuse and its impact on our lives. When this beautifully written and compelling story leaves, you are left wanting more. It’s riveting; a book that will capture you from the beginning and carry you through the end. Everyone should read this book.”

–Olga Trujillo, author of The Sum of My Parts

Nickels: A Tale of Dissociation

Dr. Albert Garoli on the Mind, Brain, and Body Show

admin — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:30:39 +0000

We welcome Albert Garoli, Author of The Evolutionary Glitch: Rise Above the Root of Your Problems. Has modern medicine deviated from its wholesome roots and dedicated its course to the unwise practice of addressing only symptoms rather than the root cause of diseases? Is our government system organized to take advantage of us rather than have our best interests at heart? Are our educational systems inherently flawed to perpetuate the fatal errors of ego-development and self-sabotage? The only way of obtaining true happiness, prosperity, success and enlightenment is to let go of our ingrained cultural norms, beliefs, and values by returning to a more simplistic means absent of ego. The American dream is but an imposed delusion. The Evolutionary Glitch is based on more than 10 years of research in neurobiology, quantum physics, and psychology and draws on ancient medicines and philosophies as well as the latest discoveries about how our brains work.

Listen to the podcast

Host Dr. Michael Kell

Mark Elswick – Humorist and…. TBI Survivor!

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Immediately after a 1992 automobile accident, doctors told Mark Elswick‘s parents that he wouldn’t make it through the day. A week later, Mr. and Mrs. Elswick were told he would live life as a vegetable IF he ever regained consciousness. Since that time, he graduated from the University of Michigan-Flint with a B.A. in English and double minor in Writing and British Literature. Then, he earned his M.A. from Central Michigan University. In addition to his student status, Mark has been a sportswriter, sports editor, substitute teacher, a Jr. Hi. teacher, a college professor, and an university coordinator. Nearly two decades later, he amazingly shows virtually no signs, outside of a slight speech impediment, of the accident that left him on life-support for over a week and in a month-long coma.

Listen to the podcast

Mark Elswick

Synopsis: In this collection of short essays based on personal experiences, Mark Elswick offers humorous episodes about being a man and father. Whether it’s his daughter sending him to the store to buy those…well, things that transforms him into “Padman”; his realization that at forty-two, he is slowly turning into an old man; or his reaction to his middle school aged daughter dating a “man” two years older than her, readers—male and female alike—will find themselves cracking smiles when they aren’t busy laughing out loud.Elswick also has a serious side to him. Interspersed with the comical tales are heartfelt looks into the lives of people who experience a Traumatic Brain Incident (TBI) injury, including his own story of being in a life-threatening car accident that left doctors predicting he would be a vegetable for the rest of his life. With compassion and insight, while retaining his sense of humor, Elswick writes to raise awareness about TBI; a portion of Padman: A Dad’s Guide to Buying…Those, and Other Tales’ proceeds will go to TBI research.

Readers will laugh out loud at the comical real-life humor
Women will marvel in amusement at male misperceptions
Men will shyly smile putting theirself in these predicaments
You will understand the capabilities of a Traumatic Brain Injury
Indirectly donate to the Brain Injury Association of America

Padman: A Dad’s Guide to Buying...Those and Other Tales

David W. Powell – Remembering a Peaceful Warrior

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David W. Powell (1941 - 2011)

David Powell was one of the first Viet Nam veterans diagnosed with PTDS to benefit from Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR). Out of this experience came his book, My Tour in Hell, A Marine’s Battle with Combat Trauma, published in 2006. David was a tireless advocate for veterans and for Traumatic Incident Reduction, giving live talks and interviews as well as appearing on radio and TV programs. An excerpt from David’s book, “An Office in Hell”, appeared in the anthology More Than A Memory: Reflections of Viet Nam published by Modern History Press.

In recent years he trained as a TIR facilitator, wrote a workbook for people dealing with post traumatic stress disorder, and was planning on attending and presenting at the 2011 annual Technical Symposium in Ann Arbor. To our great sorrow, we lost David this year to a sudden illness, shortly before the publication of Reboot! Confronting PTSD on Your Own Terms (Forward by John Durkin, PhD). He will be missed by all who knew him.

Ragnhild Malnati writes:

“David Powell did the TIR workshop with me as his Trainer about 2 years ago. In the workshop the other students loved hearing David’s stories about how TIR had helped him with horrendous war experiences. After the Vietnam war, David suffered from PTSD and after trying all kinds of other helping methods in the VA to no avail, he came across TIR and he was cured of PTSD. What was most remarkable about David was his compassion and genuine interest in others. We deeply mourn him and wish his family the best.”

On Sunday morning of this year’s Symposium in Ann Arbor, MI on October 2nd, 2011 at 9:00am there will be a brief memorial service for David for all who wish to attend.

REBOOT! Confronting PTSD on Your Terms: A Workbook

David’s final work, Reboot! Confronting PTSD on Your Own Terms (Loving Healing Press) a 38-page workbook is available through www.TIRbook.com and other fine online retailers.

Liliane Desjardins – The Imprint Journey!

admin — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:42:16 +0000

Watch Liliane Desjardins recorded live at the Unity Church of the Hills, Austin Texas on May 15th 2011 as she explains the principles of The Imprint Journey: Why do we keep repeating the same patterns in our life that lead us to unhappiness and how can we change it forever?