Lydia Aswolf

Well, typical Monday; by that I mean I really should have posted this, oh….last week.

I just happen to be doing a two hour guest appearance on Spooky Nights Radio TONIGHT at 11pmEST-1amEST, if you happen to be awake, gimme a call after heading here: http://t.co/gv8DFHc to find me!

I am so excited for Tuesday’s 11/16 show; Storyteller Cathryn Wellner, a friend I made on twitter and one of the most wonderful women my psychic antennae has had the fortune to pick up on, will be my very special guest!

After one decade as a school librarian and another as a professional storyteller, California-born Cathryn Wellner found herself on a ranch in the middle of British Columbia’s Cariboo region. Although an urbanite by inclination and preference, she lived 30 miles from the nearest town and 300 miles from any major urban center. She soon learned how to midwife sheep, buck hay bales, and cook for a hungry crew.

While all of that was good story material, it did not pay the bills. So Wellner re-invented herself as a community development consultant. At first she did not have a clue what that meant, but one contract led to another. By the second contract, she realized that community development was about stories. Communities and organizations with stories that limited their options needed new stories.

Wellner’s reputation as a facilitator, project leader, and trainer became inseparable from her reputation as a storyteller. She led many successful projects, including the award-winning HEAL (Healthy Eating and Active Living in Northern British Columbia), a diabetes prevention program that takes a population health approach.

After a brief and satisfying stint as Storytelling Director for Stagebridge, an Oakland-based senior theater company, she returned to British Columbia to accept a position as food and health project manager for the Interior Health Authority.

A self-professed foodie, Wellner used a narrative-based approach to promote a healthier food culture throughout the region. She also taught storytelling skills and practice to health professionals, community organizers, educators, and social services workers.

All of this about Cathryn? Just gravy to me; she really IS one of the most spectacular human beings I’ve had the privilege to meet; considering I told one wife her husband needed to sit and spin on a cactus on air during my last guest appearance; that’s saying something.

This Wednesday, 11/17, we will be devoting Psychically Correct to taking YOUR questions; if you haven’t noticed yet (and a few of you have emailed me about it) the reason I’m not making “normal” posts other than guest appearances and radio show guests is because I’ve become a featured contributor to VividLife Uk; will try and remember to post links when a new article comes out.

Oh, and I’m also working on a new book; 80 pages in five days, and counting, so hopefully I’ll have some good news on that; my first crack at fiction!

Can’t neglect mentioning you can, and SHOULD find Cathryn on Twitter: @StoryRoute, and check her out on her own site: http://www.cathrynwellner.com/

Where do I start?

Why, at the beginning, of course!

First, I’ll be welcoming Author of GREY DOGS Ian Sandusky on Lydia’s Literary Lowdown (links posted in blog post before last) from 2pmEST-3pmEST

At 9pmEST I’ll be appearing on Parawomen Scream Radio on BlogTalkRadio at 9pmEST-10pmEST! The closest link I could find to get to show was this:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/search/parawomen-scream-radio/

Wednesday (11/10) I’ll be doing Psychically Correct with Special Guest and Healer Mandy Peterson (links posted in blog post before last; I’m lazy, people!) from 12pmEST-1pmEST

Wednesday night I’ll be making a guest appearance on the fantastic PSI-FI Talk Radio from 8pmEST-9:30pmEST…can’t wait to join Donna and the gang again!

Please feel MORE than free to call into the Parawomen Scream, PSI-FI Talk Radio, and Psychically Correct shows to get your questions answered!

Also want to mention that I’ve become a featured contributor at VividLife Uk; will be posting my articles as they appear on that site; one was published today and you can find it here:

http://vividlife.me/ultimate/8198/being-cruel-to-roses/

I can only hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it…and reliving it!

I just had to post this when the amazingly talented Steven Curtis Lance posted this for yours truly; it’s profound, and I find it also to be incredibly true in these days and times we live in; without further ado:

for Lydia Aswolf

Have you seen the madmen walking

Men with something on their minds

Heard the angry sad men talking

Less aheads and more behinds?

Walking straight ahead into the past

Talking straight behind into the when of then

Having been but never meant to be again

Men for whom the endgame cannot come too fast

Ignorance in action rude reality

Closeted and goitered faked and baked and brewed

Laughing at us even as we help them be

Men for whom money is their favorite food

Have you heard the madmen talking

Less aheads and more behinds?

Seen the angry sad men walking

Men with nothing on their minds?

Straight ahead off the cliff after us behind

Blindly having bought and paid now for the blind

+Steven Curtis Lance

Copyright MMX

This is a man I MUST book for Lydia’s Literary Lowdown; we could all do with speaking to a poet, couldn’t we?

You can also find Steven’s Extraordinary book of poetry here: http://www.amazon.com/Steven-Curtis-Lance-Collected-Poems/dp/1411615301

You can also find Steven on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Curtis-Lance/712074781

Steven is also a great contributor here: http://www.authorsden.com/stevencurtislance

Lydia’s Literary Lowdown on November 9th at 2pmEST-3pmEST is going to be another fascinating show; we have the Incredible Ian Sandusky, who’s book, GREY DOGS was just released (you can find it here: http://amzn.to/cWwwJ9).

Ian Sandusky is an up and coming author, specializing in the dark and subversive, raised in Holland Landing, Ontario but currently residing in the Niagara Region.

Coming from a background as an Unarmed Combat Instructor teaching at the number one institution in North America for six years, he achieved two black belts in Kempo Karate before the age of seventeen. In his days teaching hand-to-hand techniques and defense, he instructed members of law enforcement, Canadian Forces and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Ian holds a diploma in Police Foundations from Niagara College, graduating in the class of 2009.

You can find Ian at his website: http://bit.ly/abWvgJ

Ian’s also on Twitter: @ISandusky, and facebook: http://on.fb.me/dgbU8g

The day after we have Ian on the show, November 10th, we will be welcoming Mandy Peterson to Psychically Correct!

Mandy has been sensitive and empathic since birth. While she calls herself “intuitive” and does healing work, she doesn’t like calling herself “psychic” or a “healer” and does not necessarily see herself so much as a “fortune teller” in the way other psychics might.

In 1989 and later in 1999 Mandy would go through two separate life transforming experiences which would psychically and spiritually awaken her in new ways she would never have previously imagined. She explains; “I seem to have to have experienced some sort of series of shamanic deaths and rebirths, losing or letting go of everything from health, family and relationships to identity and reputation in order to have to build myself back in new ways.  She continues; “Each series of losses brought tremendous spiritual growth and exploration into forms of healing, but it wasn’t till after a sort of near death experience that I seemed to be able to connect more easily to a certain type of wisdom and clairaudience.” Since this time, Mandy seems to have a greater ability to “know” or “channel” a higher type of wisdom from a spontaneous place where there existed no previous recollection. She explains; “I do not consider this fortune telling, but an ability to intuitively or spontaneously understand certain dynamics working within the spiritual world, it’s laws, relationships and life in general…”

Since this time, Mandy has worked on many sites as an intuitive and coach, eventually branching out into providing energy work and EFT.

You can find Mandy at her own site: http://bit.ly/aYnDzZ

Mandy is also on Twitter @AndelaVangelis, and on facebook: http://on.fb.me/95D8Gz

Tuesday and Wednesday are absolutely can’t-miss events; we want you to participate, so show up in interactive chat and ask your questions or give us your comments; they ARE appreciated…as are you!