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Graham Price Profile
Graham W Price is author of What Is, Is! The Power of Positive Acceptance. He is a chartered psychologist, psychotherapist, personal and executive coach, stress management consultant, relationship counsellor and personal development trainer. He is based in Central London and Surrey. Graham is the CEO of Abicord, a psychological services company he established a number of years ago. All his services are available through that company's website www.abicord.comAs a psychotherapist he specialises in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), now the leading and most acclaimed therapy in the world today, supported by Acceptance-Action Therapy (AAT) which he developed, hypnotherapy and a number of other approaches.
He is also a Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) master practitioner and trainer, a method he sometimes uses in his coaching along with AAT-based approaches. Graham is an accredited member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and the Health Professions Council (HPC)
Graham also runs 'personal effectiveness and achievement' trainings called 'The Power to Choose' in Central London and in-house for organisations. Acceptance-Action Training has become widely recognised as a highly effective approach to personal development.
His book What Is, Is! The Power of Positive Acceptance is based on these trainings. Graham believes "everyone has the potential to be successful in whatever they do and lead an extraordinary life". His therapy, coaching, stress management consulting, relationship counselling, personal development seminars and now his book, are designed to help us all achieve that potential.
In the book, Graham develops a radical new way of thinking about life, work, challenges and relationships. His unique approach transforms lives, generating significant and lasting improvements in:
- stress resilience
- well-being
- motivation
- achievement
- relationships
- dealing positively with change
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Pennie Munslow Profile
I have always cherished the freedom of the outdoors, the land and the sea. I have also always loved buildings especially churches, castles and big old houses. I think having a father as an architect and a granddad as a chartered surveyor helped fuel this. I therefore chose to train and qualify as a chartered surveyor which in those days was a very male dominated profession and we females were few and far between. As I have a very inquisitive nature it was a perfect job as I was able to look around all types of properties, residential, commercial and industrial at the invitation of the owner and satisfy my curiosity. It also meant that I was out and about a lot travelling all around the country.During my trips I was aware of the different atmospheres in the properties and on the land I visited, the different types of energy that seemed to affect everything. Gradually I realised that I wanted to work with these energies in a healing capacity and so whilst I was living in New Zealand I qualified as an Elhoim energy healer. This has enabled me to work with people, animals, buildings and land healing and balancing their energies where necessary.
I feel that this energy work is hugely important to Mother Earth as she needs all the rebalancing, retuning and energy healing that she can get. Whenever we are inspired, I and others make regular pilgrimages to places where there are buildings, monuments and land. There we reconnect energetically to the Earth's grid and re-energise her and all that is connected to her.
I found that in my work my masculine energy was very strong and for a time I forgot about the creative side of me that loved music, art, poetry and literature. When I finally remembered it, my feminine energy, I embraced it and had to learn how to balance the two.
As part of this I started looking at my relationships, especially the one with myself, in a completely different way. In certain circumstances I had considered myself a victim and this new way of thinking stopped me from feeling like that. I realised that I was responsible for everything that happened to me, which led me to recognise that I was in control of my life - something I found very empowering.
During my time in New Zealand I decided that I wanted to share this enlightenment with others so that they too could empower themselves, as so many people I knew, clients and friends, were having emotional relationship issues. I determined I would write about it and allow the words, like energy, to flow across the page. The Circle of Life is the end result . . .
I believe that my mission in life is to open the gates to people's hearts to enable them to love themselves and to be the gatekeeper that lets the energy run.
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LADAN SOLTANI PROFILE
In her early twenties, Ladan's life was extremely difficult and she was faced with a choice; to give up, or continue. She had a firm belief that everything in life happens for a reason, and this was the key to her transformation. Day by day, she began to understand at a deep level that embracing positive thinking and training the mind was the only way a person can evolve and grow strong physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Ladan followed her inner voyage of discovery with a physical voyage around the globe to the Himalayas and San Francisco where she immersed herself in, and studied, a number of yoga disciplines including Sivananda and Ashtanga Mysore style. So transformed by her experiences, she heeded the inner call to return to the UK and support others to rediscover their own inner and outer magnificence.
''I love and live this lifestyle, so what an amazing opportunity to teach and share my knowledge and experience by helping other health conscious, likeminded people to transform their lives positively. A healthy mind and body is the best gift you can give yourself and that is a fantastic investment in your life!" says Ladan, who turned 40 herself last December.
An expert in her field for almost 20 years, Ladan is now a regular on Sky's Fitness TV, and has produced a DVD to accompany her book which is a TV series on Sky's Body In Balance well-being channel. She is also qualified in NLP, life coaching and holistic nutritional therapy.
Ladan affirms that any lifestyle change, no matter how small, does involve time and effort. For this reason she divides her book into easy-to-follow segments including - positive thinking, yoga, exercise, meditation and nutritional advice.
Fabulous Fitness at 40 is a must-read guide to complete holistic health, and is intended to be a supportive companion for every woman who wants to look and feel fabulous at 40. Ladan is certainly living proof of her teachings!Pick up your copy of Fabulous Fitness at 40 from:
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Peter Baker Profile
Peter Baker travelled the world for two years, and on his return home to England he began to write his book, The Jolly Pilgrim. Part adventure story, part reflection on the state of our species, this profoundly uplifting, real-life odyssey ends with a call-to-arms for the human race to be more honest about itself.About Peter
Peter Baker grew up in East Anglia and read physics at Durham University. After graduating he moved to Asia, working as a science teacher in India and (briefly) as a club singer in Bangkok. On his return to the UK he became a writer for a global insurance consultancy in the West End, while exploring London's intellectual and cultural scene, pursuing interests in evolutionary psychology, economics and history, and beginning the development of his thesis regarding the shape and character of the human adventure. In 2005 he embarked upon the journey recorded in this book, during which his ideas concerning the context of contemporary civilisation became fully formed. Following his return home, he spent a year living in a one-room wooden cabin at the bottom of an apple orchard, while writing and caring for his dying mother. He then moved back to London, took a job in the City and spent two years polishing the manuscript.
The Jolly Pilgrim is his first book. Pick up a copy from: www.thehothive.com/products-page/?product=24
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MARY PEARSON PROFILE
Mary Pearson is a writer and meditation teacher. Mary began her career as a teacher in secondary schools in Liverpool and Greater Manchester. In the late 1990's she undertook extensive training in a variety of holistic disciplines with a view to leaving teaching and setting up her own business.In 2001 she took a big step and left teaching and moved from Manchester to Cheltenham. She set up her new business, Stress Solutions and began to see clients and run meditation classes. The business was very successful and included working with colleagues on a variety of projects.
Mary now focuses on teaching and writing about meditation. Mary is the meditation tutor at the Isbourne Holistic Centre and the Cheltenham Holistic Health Centre.
Her first book, 'Meditation, the Stress Solution' was published in January 2011.Pick up your copy of Meditation: the Stress Solution from: www.thehothive.com/products-page/?product=55
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TOM LUCAS PROFILE
Tom Lucas is a sports psychologist and motivational speaker who has coached many top sporting professionals and business leaders, including professional footballers, rugby players, golfers and Olympic athletes. Just Help Yourself is his first book.
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