You are the first to know!  My new book has been printed and is ready for YOU to read.  I hope you will.  I’m very excited and had to tell you even though it is 11:02PM here in New Jersey.  Please take a minute to read excerpts from it at my site, www.enchantedself.com I’ll be […]

I was about ten or eleven and my magic journey was a bus that took me downtown Bridgeport.  In my new book, THE TRUTH, I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything! the girl knows exactly what I am trying to recapture in the following vinette.  Can you recognize yourself in it?  Also, did you […]

Dear Friends,    I want to announce my new book to all of you,The Truth, I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I know Everything!  I should have copies in hand by next week.  I’m very excited.  This is my fourth book and each time has been an adventure-not only in writing the book but in getting […]

My mother, Bernice Becker, www.storiestofeelgood.com  once wrote a story entitled, I Did-and You Can Too. She talks about how "In truth I was somewhat like the heroine of a soap opera."  She shares how to went from being a bored housewife to getting a master’s degree in education.  It all started by taking one art […]

Tonight I was talking to a dear friend of the family.  She was remembering memories of both my mother and my father and sharing them with me.  Betty and my mother were best friends since girlhood.  In fact, in my mother, Bernice Becker’s book, FEEL GOOD STORIES, there are eight illustrations.  These were all done […]

Walking back to happiness How can young people’s low spirits be improved? The children’s commissioner has a few good ideas. Anna Bawden reports Tuesday March 20, 2007The Guardian The children’s commissioner for England, Al Aynsley-Green. Photograph: David Levene Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green likes teachers. A lot. The children’s commissioner for England, always an outspoken defender […]

Marriage Affects Women’s Happiness Most   Marriage affects Chinese women’s happiness most, and women in their first marriage feel the happiest, according to the recently published 2006 Chinese Women’s Life Survey. The survey points out that 45.6 percent of respondents think their marriage is happy; about 20 percent show mutual respect with their husbands in […]

Today I was going through some old papers I have collected around THE ENCHANTED SELF which is now about 14 years old.  My intitial positive memory work and the resultant shift for the treatment room actually happened perhaps 15 or 16 years ago.  Time flies!  In fact, I wrote the rought draft of THE ENCHANTED […]