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YOUR MONEY
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As I ponder in silence, I think about how strong we are as women. How we band
together in times of need and laugh together in times of joy. Life is anything but
perfect, but with the trust, respect and wisdom that lie in the hearts of authentic
women, we always stand in integrity.

As natural leaders, we lead from the core of our inner strength and follow the inner
principles of our being. We believe in ourselves and our ability to manifest our lives
in a way that contributes to the beautiful world that we create for ourselves.

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Colette Baron-Reid, an internationally acclaimed intuition
expert and visionary, a best-selling inspirational author
published in 27 languages, the star of the national hit
Canadian TV show “Messages From Spirit,” and oh,
did I mention her newly published book, Uncharted ~

The Journey Through Uncertainty To Infinite Possibility. A must read!

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OrAaclueV,thiosr,ionary.
UP CLOSE &
PERSONAL WITH
COLETTE
BARON-REID
by Maria Savoy

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Recently I had the pleasure of
talking with an amazing woman
that I have long admired and adore. As we
spoke, it didn’t take long to realize that
this spirited, sassy redhead was everything
I had imagined her to be, genuine, kind,
talented and humble. Within minutes, I felt
as though I had known her forever.

Colette Baron-Reid, an internationally
acclaimed intuition expert and visionary, a
best-selling inspirational author published
in 27 languages, the star of the national
hit Canadian TV show “Messages From
Spirit,” and oh, did I mention her newly
published book, Uncharted ~ The Journey
Through Uncertainty To Infinite Possibility.
A must read!

Known as the Oracle, Colette opens up
about her childhood, troubled teen years,
past struggles in search of finding her
truth, and the amazing life she has created
for herself.

AT A GLANCE
As our conversation began, Colette shared
a few intimate details of her life.

Colette’s parents were affluent European
immigrants that migrated to Canada in
the 50’s. Her father was a land developer,
philosopher, and inventor, and her mother,
20 years his junior, was a socialite and very
beautiful, a cross between Sophia Loren
and Ingrid Bergman.

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Growing up Anglican, Colette
loved going to church. One
of her fondest memories was
when her mother gave her a
beautiful jeweled Russian cross
necklace that she had gotten
from Germany, which she wore
proudly for many years.

Colette was unaware of her
intuitive abilities as a child. To know
things and receive information
about others seemed natural to
her, it’s all she knew and thought
others could do the same.

“ I saw the world as alive in a way
that I thought everyone did,” she
shares. “I saw Auras and halos
around people and thought
everyone saw that.”

It wasn’t until she began to have
a reoccurring dream and her
mother’s reaction to that dream
that made her question the
normalcy of her life.

“I had a reoccurring dream over
two years on a monthly basis of
people being burnt in ovens,
ashes coming down like snow
with horrible odors. There was a
skeletal-looking man whose skin
seemed to stretch over his face
standing by a table with piles of
teeth and bits of metal. What was
really uncanny about this was not
so much the dream itself, but my
mother’s reaction to it. Normally
she would allow me to come
into sleep with her, but when I
had this dream, she would tell
me to get back into my bed. So I
really associated that dream with
something being wrong.”

It wasn’t until shortly after her
father lost everything at the

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age of 75, that she realized first drink. Drinking made her observing it. As horrific as this
the impact of that dream. One feel “normal” in a way that she experience was, Colette was
evening she had a conversation wasn’t afraid of herself or her able to disassociate herself from
with her mother who had been experiences. Coping with what the pain and trauma that would
drinking. She remembers she was seeing and hearing and prove to help her later in life
wearing the cross necklace and keeping everything to herself, with her Intuitive abilities.
her mother abruptly telling her proved to be very difficult.
to take it off. “What I realize now is that I was
Despite her adversities, Colette able to leave my body, through
“I asked her why and she blurted was able to focus on her studies a psychotic break and went to
out because you’re Jewish.” and when she graduated, her a geographical location in the
Colette shares. She was stunned parents sent her on to school room, which is actually where
as her mother continued to with the aspirations that Colette I go now when I am doing
tell the story of her Parisian would become an attorney. readings,” Colette shares.
grandfather who was killed in
Dachau Concentration camp. In a brave moment, Colette A moment of surrender showed
shared that at the age of 19 up in Colette’s life at the age
That dream became an while attending college, she of 27. She remembers being
important storyline in Colette’s was gang raped, a horrendous in the basement of a drug
life. It confirmed that she had act that changed her life forever. dealer’s home strung out on
the gift of know things about cocaine, hadn’t bathed for a
others didn’t. That she had Colette remembers leaving her week, and her skin was yellow
access to images and pictures body, moving away from the from jaundice. As she unsteadily
in her head as though she was situation as though she was walked up the stairs and into
remembering the past or seeing
the future.

Colette admits, “I never wanted
to do this work, I had such a
chip on my shoulder, and my
parents were so against it that
we never really talked about
it. I found it a bit shocking that
after my parents died, a family
friend shared that my father also
had this gift. I was told that my
parents use to go to parties and
my father would go into a trance
and read things about people in
their Turkish coffee cups.”

DEFINING MOMENTS
Colette was overwhelmed
by the world for most of her
early life and needed to find
an escape and so she started
drinking and doing drugs at
the age of 15, believing now
that she was an alcoholic at her

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“The Light Within Me
Creates Miracles”

– Colette Baron-Reid

“My desire for my future vision was first love – but an aspiration that
stronger than the addiction that was living was waylaid by Spirit’s other
in my body.” plans for Colette. As she began
touching people through her
– Colette Baron-Reid aromatherapy, messages and
visions immediately appeared
the bathroom, she glanced into proved to be a defining moment causing her to relay information
a mirror and for the first time, with huge shifts in her spirituality. to her clients about their lives
she saw herself truly as she was that ultimately lead her in the
and what she had become. Although the journey was not direction of her intuitive gifts.
an easy one, it was a journey
“I held on to the side of the into the uncharted, which Showing a map of people’s
sink and said help me. It wasn’t actually is the title of her new pasts and helping to guide
like the “help me” from before, book. She was now walking them into the future is what
help me, help me, please into the unknown and had Colette does. She is very
help me and I’ll be a good to fully surrender to the new candid in revealing that this
girl. It was a complete and experiences that lie before her. was not her first choice in a
absolute surrender, I could not Colette is living proof that it is career path, however, she
do this anymore. I had felt so possible to not only change but now teaches that you should
useless, dirty, and worthless. to be the conscious Co-Creator embrace your gifts, honor
Then suddenly this translucent of your own life. yourself and be exactly who
bubble surrounded me, and I you are with no apologies.
heard this voice telling me “it’s MOE’S ON QUEEN STREET…
over.” I then remember leaving WHERE IT ALL BEGAN UNCHARTED ~
in a taxi and I just knew I never Shortly after getting clean and THE JOURNEY
had to go back there again.” sober in 1986, Colette certified THROUGH UNCERTAINTY
as an aromatherapist and TO INFINITE POSSIBILITY
Colette sought treatment for her continued to pursue a career Uncharted was written as a sequel
drug and alcohol addiction, which in music, which was always her to Colette’s book, The Map:

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“It is in the uncharted waters, during
uncertain times, when you feel most lost that
you actually have the greatest opportunity to
begin manifesting the life you desire.”

– Colette Baron-Reid

Finding The Magic and Meaning who give themselves the name always trust, to reveal itself as
In The Story Of Your Life. “Fred,” she smiles. I said to each new experience awakens
them “Fred!” really! A chorus of the miracle maker in you. And
As I ask her about the creation of her guides all singing and humming it’s a deliberate conscious
new book and how she came up messages in unison, she says partnership with Spirit that is at
with the theme, she made me laugh with her arms flying up in the the very core of co-creating. “
at the authenticity of her answer. air, and that’s the truth, it’s as
real as my coffee cup!” Something profound happened
“It’s a book created through a while Colette was writing this
collaboration with my guides She continues, “Stepping into book. The information inside
the unknown and releasing was meant to be of serve to
ourselves from the prison of our others and it works. If you follow
own making is the way forward the exercises, Colette shares,
for all of us, and what we need that you will have an epiphany.
to do. It’s about co-creating
your reality through a new To purchase her book go to
map of life, one that you can colettebaronreid.com

“I Am Divinely Protected
And Divinely Directed”

– Colette Baron-Reid

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ORACLE CARDS
Known as the Oracle, this is
Colette’s passion and obsession.

“Oracle cards are a reflective
tool for what you cannot see
with our own eyes. They give
you an understanding of how
you are being influenced by the
outer world. How you are being
influenced by your own thoughts,
feelings and beliefs, and how to
stay in alignment to your highest
good and understand the yearnings
and calling of your own soul.”

Colette has many decks to
choose from on her website at
colettebaronreid.com. As a gift,
you are able to select a card
from one of her decks for a daily
reading. Colette does this to
teach and empower people to
tune into their intuition and to
make it a daily practice.

Colette has a couple of new
decks coming in 2017; “The
Good Tarot”, “The Mystic
Shaman” created in partnership
with Alberto and Marcella
Villoldo, along with “Post Cards
From Spirit” giving you the ability
to connect with your guides and
loved ones who have passed.

“I love what I do, I feel like an
Oracle Elf sitting in the corner
at Hay House creating these
amazing cards,” Colette smiles.

For those of you who are unsure
of what Oracle cards are or
maybe you just want to learn
more about how to use them,
Colette offers an online class on
the basics of using her cards,
that you can find on her website.
www.colettebaronreid.com

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“Reality is an addiction. We are addicted
to seeing the world the way we perceive it
through stress and discomfort. We then tell
the universe; yes we want more of this.”

– Colette Baron-Reid

ADVICE FROM COLETTE In using just our 5 senses, it IN CONCLUSION
BARON-REID creates the illusion that we “We are at a time where people
What advice would you give are all separate. For us to are capable of manifesting so
parents who have a child live in this material universe, effortlessly right now, it’s crazy.
showing intuitive abilities? we have learned to see it But what they don’t realize is that
as a place of disconnection, when they are tied so closely to
Teach them how to meditate. separation, scarcity and their past, that’s why they are
Meditate, meditate, meditate. competition. We have also sometimes getting mixed results.
Mindfulness meditation is crucial. falsely understood that nature The way to truly live and choose
Allow your child to express what was based on the survival of your reality is to co-create –
they are seeing and hearing, the fittest but what Darwin’s surrendering the form of your
and don’t ever tell them to stop. Theory Of Evolution really desires to Spirit and keeping
I think the acceptance of this is said is that nature is based your focus on the essence of
really crucial for kids and finding on the survival of those who it. There is a delicate balance
someone really reputable for them fit best with one another. It’s between intention and surrender,
to talk to, is equally important. about connection. it is so easy to get caught in the
wanting of things but the desire
The key is not to suppress it in When we look at the has to be released. Then, of
a child. What we really need world from the connected course, we need to remember
to know and remember is that perspective, there is no we co-create our reality within
intuition and the access to other scarcity, abundance is the Matrix of possibility, and we
dimensions are our first sense, everywhere, and resources need to make room for whatever
our primary sense. It’s not are not scarce or limited. It our soul wants to experience,
our 6th sense; we were souls is our minds and our belief which might be different than
before we were human. We systems that are limited. That’s what our egos want. Everything
need to work with the GPS (our why I think people liked the is a miracle. Everything.”
navigation system) of the soul. book “The Secret” so much,
and why many of us are now “Gratitude is the abracadabra,
again talking about the laws the magic. Be grateful in advance
of attraction and other laws for whatever Spirit has in mind.
of manifestation. I think the Gratitude is the frequency of
book “The Secret” became receiving. Being grateful allows it
so popular because we felt it; to come to you.”
we knew it at some level to
be true. The problem is that To learn more about Colette
people want the familiar and Baron-Reid, experience her
certainty and so to re-condition Oracle cards or to purchase her
our minds to something new book, Uncharted ~ The
else can be a challenge. The Journey Through Uncertainty
uncharted can be scary but To Infinite Possibility, visit www.
once we get there, it’s like wow! colettebaronreid.com

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Authentic
Living



ASK THE LIFE COACHES

Our Sacred
Choice

by John Schalter and Carrie Hall Schalter

Dear Friends,

We felt compelled to change the format of my usual article to share a
teaching/learning experience from our own lives. We are all on a wonderful
journey on a road of life lessons. It is our belief that in the end, every teacher
(or life coach) must teach through example rather than words.

This past week John was diagnosed with cancer. Needless to say, this kind of
news gets your attention, even though we do not know yet what the stage is
or the progression of this condition. However, the stage of cancer does not
matter. In this moment, we have a Sacred Choice…a special opportunity. And
we choose love and light and to see this news as a blessing. This will become
clearer when you read John’s poem listed below. As a writer, John felt great
comfort in being able to express himself creatively and using this forum as an
opportunity to teach and share. We thank you for that.

The beginning of this journey has already been an incredible experience
of God’s love manifesting in so many different people, places, and things.
As John says… “In life, it does not matter what happens to you as much as
what you do with what happens to you. Our greatest power is in this Sacred
Choice and the discovery of God’s blessings.”

In the meantime, always remember
that “it all good” and

“we are all too blessed to be stressed.”

Peace and Prosperity,
John and Carrie

John and Carrie * are Life Coaches and available to
help you with almost any life challenge. You can listen
to their radio who called “The Butterfly Moment”
on the Empower Radio Show to listen to their shows
every Tuesday morning for archived on this website
(empowerradio.com) If you would like to discuss private
sessions call them at 248-568-7021. The first session is
always free and their gift to you. You can email questions
to [email protected], or go to Butterflylifecoach.com.

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The Answer For in God’s arms, we lie
Our gaze fixed towards the morning sky
By JJS Ever knowing…always showing
We finally see…
What if we saw cancer The wonderful truth for you and me
As a beginning rather than an end When we take the c from c ancer
And welcomed its entry in our life All that is left is God’s answer
Like a loving long lost friend “We always have a choice
A friend who is also a teacher Inside the fear to hear His voice
Who knows just what to do No matter what darkness we feel…
To show us how to live with joy Only the love and light is real”
And give strength to me and you
What if cancer was as an honored guest?
A hidden source of love
Sent to reveal our heart’s resolve
A gift given from above

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Whistle
WHILE YOU
WORK
by Sharon Carne

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We see more people than not these days music. It’s like a direct line from your ears to your
with white cords dangling from their feet or hands. Your muscles respond to rhythm and
ears like spaghetti. We love our music, don’t we? your mood responds to pitch and melody.
We dance to it. We sing along with it. We eat our
meals accompanied by it. We drive to work with it. That’s why it is always easier to do rhythmic
We study with it. We shop with it bombarding us. physical labor to a beat of a song. Work songs
We revel in it with our favorite TV show or movie. have been a part of human culture for thousands
We are distracted, calmed, angered, energized or of years. Productivity to a beat. There are over ten
relaxed by it. Music is everywhere. thousand documented work songs in Canada alone.
Hammering, spinning, digging, rowing, marching
Including where we work. Like the wonderful are more tolerable to a beat. Interestingly, humans
dwarves from Disney’s Snow White, advise – work are the only species that can synchronize to a beat.
is a lot easier when you can whistle or sing or
listen. The result is increased productivity. Or at Neuroscientists have also discovered that the
least it used to be. hormone oxytocin is released when people sing
or play music together. Oxytocin is the ‘feel good’
Singing while you work, especially at physical labor, bonding hormone.
does indeed make the job easier. This knowledge
goes back thousands of years when there was a special However, fast-forward to the 20th and 21st
place in a boat or ship for the drummer to keep the centuries and much of the work scene has
rowers in rhythm. Otherwise, you end up with a pile of changed. Many people are sitting in offices and
broken oars and your ship stranded at sea. using their brains more than their bodies. Music is
very much around, but it has a different role. And
Recently, neuroscientists have found that the it can either enhance or inhibit productivity.
auditory system connects directly to the part of the
brain responsible for movement. That’s why most Now we have Muzak and background music.
of us can’t sit still when listening to lively, rhythmic During World War II, some factories found that

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they could increase productivity by 3 to 4% with To view a
the appropriate background music. Inappropriate 5-minute video
music or sounds in a retail environment can lower on how sound
sales as much as 28%. Grocery stores with slower affects you
paced background music have shown an increase including how
in sales as much as 40%! sound affects
you at work,
Here is a real kicker for those who work in a noisy check out Julian
office – especially an office with a cubicle design. Treasure’s talk
Productivity in such an environment can be as at www.ted.
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That means that working in a quiet space can who want to
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Depending on the nature of the work, a noisy
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Below are some links that offer more information For those interested in or who find brainwave
and some specific help. entrainment music works well for them, Hemi-
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We live in a noisy and distracting world. There are,
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Dear Liberty

I’M MISERABLE IN MY MARRIAGE

by Liberty Forrest

Dear Liberty, Dear Miserable,

For a long time, I’ve been convinced that my Everything I am about to tell
husband is cheating on me. There have been you comes from an awful lot of
some suspicious emails with one particular both personal and professional
woman. He insists it’s just work stuff and experience. Trust it.
harmless flirting but I’m sure it’s a lot more
than that. Stop looking for proof. You’ve
got more than enough evidence
He is also very insulting and sometimes I’m that your marriage is toxic
afraid for my safety. He has hit me at times, and dysfunctional. At the very
but it’s not very often. least, your husband insults you
and hits you. This is abuse and
He’s been drinking a lot for a long time, too. He should not be tolerated. As long
gets nastier when he drinks. He tries to hide as you stay, he thinks it is okay
it from me but I find empty bottles hidden in to continue with this behavior.
the house. When I confront him, he makes up Your life could be in danger. I
excuses. I know he’s lying but he sounds so would highly recommend that
convincing I’m starting to doubt myself. you get somewhere safe or at
least talk to a women’s shelter
I keep looking for proof, some real evidence about your options.
that he’s having an affair or that he’s
drinking as much as I think he is. I keep As for the affair and the drinking,
going to psychics and many of them have you already know the truth. Your
said yes this is all true but I still feel like instincts will no doubt be correct
I need proof. I am very unhappy in my about both.
marriage of 30 years but do not seem to be
able to leave it! Alcoholics often attempt to
hide their drinking in order to
I left him for a few months and was very minimize the amount they’re
happy in my apartment. He was so nice to me consuming because they know
then, promised to go to counseling and talked it’s a huge problem. And both
me into going back home. But nothing has abusers and alcoholics (or
changed except to get worse. other addicts) are accomplished
liars and can convince you that
What should I do? they’re right and you’re wrong
- and then you start doubting
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“There are always two people in every picture:
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study conducted with hundreds components as very desirable. a professional photographer.
of single men. The researchers (Note: There are two kinds of However, if you don’t have the
photos for dating site profiles,

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funds for that, then ask a friend Once you’ve got a man’s attention • Did not have pets in the
to take 100 photos of you, both with your Primary Photo, he has photograph. Even though
in and out doors. You’re bound clicked on and opened your there are many pet-loving
to find a hand-full of photos dating profile, which means he men, they want the sense
that’ll be fantastic. now has access to your secondary that they (not the pet)
photos. These photographs would take priority in a
TIPS FOR A GREAT are great for showing your woman’s life.
PRIMARY PHOTO personality, hobbies, travels, etc.
These include both full-body and • Showed themselves doing
In the study mentioned headshot photos. something active, such
above, men mostly chose as, bicycle riding, hiking,
women who were: TIPS FOR GREAT traveling, walking, running,
• Wearing any shade of the SECONDARY gardening, socializing, etc.
(OR ALBUM) PHOTOS
color red. • Have at least one
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WHEN THE
COMMON
APP GOES LIVE
EVERY YEAR,
ANXIETY AMONG
THE NATION’S
PARENTS AND
FUTURE COLLEGE
STUDENTS KICKS
INTO HIGH GEAR.

by Sari Cicurel

Parents want to help Wow Writing Workshop’s Kim whose children are applying
their children get their Lifton and Susan Knoppow to college rather than pushing
best shot at admission to that just penned the first guide them away,” said Lifton,
dream school, the one that may for parents that gives Mom president and co-founder
not have been such a stretch and Dad permission to help of Wow, a national writing
when they went to college. their children write college company based in Royal Oak,
They don’t know how to help. application essays – and MI. “Parents tell us they are
And the mixed messages that instructions for doing so without tired of being told to step away
come from colleges, high writing it or taking it over! and back off. They want to help.
schools, books, TV and the There is a fine line between
Internet trigger confusion. “We embrace the parents assisting and writing the essay

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for a child. However, we believe parents a job that will help college essays with a rubric,
parents can play a critical role in their children write better, but they say the best college
the writing process.” more meaningful application essays answer the prompt and
essays. The essay is the show insight into a student’s
The Inside Scoop for Parents most daunting part of the character. At its core, the
clarifies the mixed messages application process for many college essay is all about
that confuse parents and students; when parents help reflection; that’s challenging
students and also defines the right way, the essays are for students because most
the college essay within the more effective. 17-year-olds have very little
holistic college admissions practice with this type of
process. The book gives Admissions teams don’t grade thinking and writing.

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HOW TO WRITE AN Debbie Logan, a professional “Even though I’ve been through
EFFECTIVE COLLEGE editor from Bloomfield Hills, this process already, I learned a
APPLICATION ESSAY MI. “I sanitized my daughter’s lot, and I found this guide easy
essays; I have no idea if that to understand and follow,” Gold
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short, easy to follow and gives help. I did not know how.” to do, it helped me understand
parents simple instructions to what my child needed to be
teach their children how to Rebecca Gold, of Word successful in this process and
reflect on their life experiences Gets Around Publishing, in what I could do to support him.
so their children are better Providence, Rhode Island, is The quotes from the college
prepared to write college essays about to put her third child – admissions people throughout
that get noticed. a rising senior - through the the guide made it quite engaging,
application process. She said and in fact, I read it cover to cover
“I wish I had this guide when the book was “very helpful and in one sitting, which is saying a lot
my oldest daughter was exceptionally well written.” for a reference book!”
applying to college,” said

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Lifton said “It’s a thinking task as much Wow works directly with
the book idea as it is a writing task,” Lifton students, and trains school
transpired after said. “It’s not as hard as it counselors, English teachers
Wow advised a appears, but it is not a simple and independent educational
super-involved task. That’s why parents can consultants who want to improve
parent to step support the process by helping their essay-coaching skills. Wow
away and let their children reflect at the also consults with business
the child write beginning. It is a critical role. and nonprofit professionals,
in private. The Who else would go to the moon managing their biggest writing
parent asked and back to help their child?” challenges, teaching them
what she could how to write, or taking on their
do to assist Wow’s guide gives clear projects themselves.
her child and instructions for assisting with
suggested the reflection exercise and Parents can purchase the guide,
she and her provides tips for knowing when How to Write an Effective
partner, Susan to step away and let the child College Application Essay –
Knoppow, Wow work independently or seek out The Inside Scoop for Parents,
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parents a job, a download the appropriate
little guide, so “Like the students, parents need Kindle App for the electronic
they don’t do short, easy to follow directions reading device of choice (any
the wrong thing and a lot of perspective,” smartphone, tablet or computer.)
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much bad minimizes the confusion and the [email protected].
information stress. When students come to
floating around us with the ability to reflect, they Award-winning
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that we wanted more meaningful essays that publicist with
to give parents show insight.” proven track
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useful,” Lifton Wow Writing Workshop, communications
said. “There was nothing on the launched in 2009, is the leading for creating local
market that spoke directly to national expert on the college and national news
parents and gave them something application essay. Wow speaks and feature stories, raising the visibility
useful to do to really guide their at schools, conferences and of my clients through the development
children. We’re parents and college fairs. In September, Lifton and execution of strategic media and
teachers; we understood the desire will moderate a panel featuring community relations programs and
to assist as teachers and as moms.” the college essay at the largest initiatives. Working with all media -
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counselors, and other well- Admissions Counseling’s annual media relations plans, fundraising
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few understand the college directors from Cornell, University and corporate marketing campaigns,
audience to teach them how to of Chicago, Amherst and the and web content.
write the essays. University of California – Berkeley.

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PICTURE A
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with their devices instead of crucial to healthy relationships conversations.
one another, she knew she and emotional well-being.”
had to do something. “We With that disengaged family in The simple act of face to face

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As we engage ever
more tightly with
electronic devices,
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Susan Pinker wrote recently of parenting, relationships, our devices, we are not only losing
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Live your
authentic life

Empowerment
through the

Camera the Lense
ENCHANTED

PHOTOGRAPHY
STUDIO

by Sari Cicurel

At a young age Marla own way and composing a story. In 2009, when Marla embarked
Michele Must, “My new camera was now my on adopting a little girl from the
a Birmingham Michigan, tool to capture what I found to south of China, during the trip,
photographer, received a camera be meaningful, expressed Marla. she chronicled the adoption of
as a gift and had the realization “I was able to capture unique, her youngest daughter through
that she had been walking precious, beautiful, enchanting, a blog and her camera lens
around composing photographs and see unusual momentous and hasn’t been able to put
in her mind, framing the details moments and to capture it on it down since. The beautiful
her world around her all in her film forever.” gift of adoption into our

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Enchanted Photography by Marla Michele Must
423 Frank Street, Birmingham, MI 48009
248.910.0555
enchantedbymarlamichele.com
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On Facebook: facebook.com/EnchantedByMarlaMichele
Or her Blog: MustLiveALifeLessOrdinary.com
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family brought with it another to photograph the bonding as a way to bring awareness to
unexpected gift: a reconnection process between her older causes close to her heart.
to a love of photography and children and their new, then-
the return of the gift of Marla’s 3-year-old sister, Sasha Jade. When you meet Marla it is not
lifelong passion. Ava Rose was 8 at the time, and by chance that her business is
Jake was 10. called, Enchanted Photography.
Shortly after returning to the She captures life’s moments by
United States in 2010, Marla “Those priceless moments telling a story in an enchanting
continued to use her camera between my children were way through her lens. She
so moving and beautiful to juggles it all, her passion, her
capture,” said Marla. Enchanted family, her life, and is in fact
Photography evolved from enchanting when you meet her.
that experience. In 2011
Marla opened Enchanted The success found through
Photography, her studio in her camera has given Marla
Birmingham, where she focuses the opportunity to connect
on families, siblings, newborns, to and bring awareness of
events, Empowered Portrait causes close to her heart,
Sessions, and Random Acts of such as adoptive parenting,
Enchantment. Using her lens anti-bullying and empowering

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children. As a child and young healing,” said Marla. “Did greatly helps Marla to capture
adult, Marla was the victim you know that over 3 million the true essence of her clients.
of familial scapegoating children are victims of bullying During this time, Marla seizes
and emotional abuse. every year?” Asks Marla “When the opportunity to empower
Subsequently, as an adult, she I heard that statistic it just her subject by instilling positive
chose abusive relationships broke my heart and knowing self-esteem and embracing
that impacted her negatively. that I knew I had to figure out a and highlighting the beauty of
Having overcome those way to step up and help. her subject. When the client
difficulties Marla now hopes returns to the studio for the
to share her story to reach Typically Marla is outdoors “reveal” Marla puts together a
and empower others. Being with her families when possible custom show, for her subject and
a mother of three she is no finding nature provides a their loved ones to enjoy. A life
stranger to seeing again the therapeutic environment for changing journey has begun.
peer pressure and bullying that those being photographed can An Enchanted portrait session
goes on. She is also well aware relax and open up to her in is focused on celebrating
of the toll these kinds of abuse ways they cannot with others. emotions and highlighting
can have on someone’s self- Just recently, Marla took the relationships. Families are
confidence and self-esteem. opportunity to put a call out brought together after the
She offers complimentary to families who have adopted session to Marla’s enchanting
Empowered Portrait Sessions in honor of National Adoption studio to a screening of their
to those who were victims Awareness Month (November), photo session to share the sacred
of bullying or trauma. “My of course, a cause near and moments that were beautifully
images illuminate both their dear to her. Marla is always captured.
inner and outer beauty, sure to connect with adoptive The resulting
allowing them to rediscover families and agencies that assist images are
themselves in a brand new those families. Being in nature uplifting and
light that is profoundly is an incredible connection and empowering.

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