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Joan Medlicott is best known for her series of novels taking place in Western North Carolina…the first being The Ladies of Covington Send Their Love. Her latest novel, A Blue and Grey Christmas, is in bookstores now. This is a heartwarming story about three generations of women who find their way past old hurts and losses to understanding, forgiveness and love. One reviewer called the novel “superb”. “It is high drama,” she writes, “as it tells the story of these women’s lives.” joanmedlicott.com |
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Celia Miles, Appalachian by birth and by choice, has published in a variety of genres (even in the true confessions market) and since retiring as a college English instructor, has written and/or edited nine books:sweet romances set locally and based on herbs and grist mills; Appalachian/historical fiction dealing with a childhood in the 1940s and a woman surviving the chaos of the mid-1800s; collections of short stories set in the south and abroad; anthologies (co-editor: poet Nancy Dillingham) of Western North Carolina women writing about Christmas and clothes. Her latest novel, set primarily in Orkney, shows a woman’s journey to learn about her husband’s past on the Scottish island where she learns less about him than about herself–Journey to Stenness. celiamiles.com |
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Lavinia Plonka
Asheville Movement Center Where Healing, Learning and Movement Meet Director Lavinia Plonka is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais® Practitioner, a nationally renowned somatic educator and author of What Are You Afraid Of? A Body/Mind Guide to Courageous Living. Her 35 years of experience in the movement arts informs the curriculum at Asheville Movement Center, where classes in Yoga, Pilates, Feldenkrais, Nia, as well as special workshops in related subjects are continuously offered. Lavinia also helps people in private sessions, addressing a range of challenges from stroke recovery and MS to artists wanting to improve creativity and performance. Visit ashevillemovementcenter.com or call 828-275-4838 |
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Kristine Madera Certified Clinical Hypnotist & Hypno-Coach Are you getting in the way of your own success? MindWise Clinical Hypnosis and Hypno-Coaching helps you get out of your own way so you can live your life by design—rather than default. Whether your goal is to lose weight, release anxiety/negative thinking, gain support for health issues/surgery preparation, or craft the next stage of your life, the subconscious mind controls the patterns that block or facilitate positive change. Reshaping your subconscious mindset can speed you toward the life you desire. I specialize in teaching you how your subconscious mind works so you can break through resistance and transform all areas of your life–not just what you come to see me for. Clinical hypnosis is a safe, proven method of rapid change and my clients are fully awake and aware throughout. If there are patterns or habits in your life that have you stuck, then this may be the best option for you. Hypno-Coaching combines the best of motivational coaching for personal and professional excellence with the dynamic, subconscious transformation of hypnosis. If you want to build a new life or lifestyle, manage a transition like divorce or retirement, pursue a personal/business vision or find the purpose of your life, then Hypno-Coaching may be the best option for you. Unsure? Call me at 828-699-3356 to talk about how we can combine the two styles in a customized plan for you. Why wait? See the Seven Questions for Transformation at www.MindWiseHypnosis.com to start designing your life today! Call 828-699-3356 or email mindwisehypno@gmail.com. To see current specials and sign up for our free newsletter, visit www.MindWiseHypnosis.com
Damaris Drewry, Ph.D. believes in working herself out of a job! Rather than creating client dependency, she helps clients get results in one to four sessions. Beyond Talk Therapy is a combination of integrative body, mind, and spirit modalities that she uses to find even the most difficult or long-standing issues. The good news is that you can get innovative, empowering help with a huge range of issues like repeating relationship patterns, childhood abuse, and sleep apnea (see website for complete list). Damaris understands the body believes every word we say; that we can become stuck in forgotten sacred contracts; and, during traumatic events we make unconscious decisions that create disease-causing programs running in the background of the body’s biocomputer hard-drive. Clearing those decisions makes true transformation possible in a very short time. With as many men and women clients, her approach is solution-focused, warm, compassionate, and non-judgmental.
Introduced to Hopi Elders as a Medicine Woman in 1985, Damaris built the first Vibrational Healing rooms in the USA at Canyon Ranch, and she has taught over 3000 hours of workshops on a wide variety of alternative health topics. She has spoken for ISSSEEM (Subtle Energy Medicine), ACEP (Energy Psychology Assoc.), IONS (Noetic Sciences), Hospice conferences and the American Society of Dowsers. She has a variety of classes in fall/winter 2012/2013. For details see www.BeyondTalkTherapy.com or call 520-320-6366. Damaris works over the phone worldwide or in person in Hendersonville, N.C. Call for a free 15-minute consultation.
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Peggy Millin
Want to dive into the creative well? Peggy Tabor Millin, MA |
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Boyd is principle and founder of Phillips Financial Group, a firm specializing in retirement funding, life insurance planning and estate conservation. Boyd’s specialties include problems faced by families and businesses transferring assets from one generation to the next. Prior to forming Phillips Financial Group in 2002, he was a manager for a local tree farm. Boyd is a member of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. He currently serves as a Board Member of the Endowment Fund for the McDowell County Public Schools. He is a qualifying member of the Million Dollar Round Table. MDRT is the Premier Association of Financial Professionals, an international, independent association of more than 35,000 members, or less than 1 percent, of the world’s most successful life insurance and financial services professionals from 476 companies in 76 nations and territories. MDRT members demonstrate exceptional professional knowledge, strict ethical conduct and outstanding client service. Boyd was elected in 2006 to the Agents Advisory Council of New York Life, where he served a two year term, holds the Life Underwriting Training Council Fellow designation, and he is a Presidents Council agent with New York Life Insurance Company. Territory: Licensed in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana, and New York. Job Description: Retirement Funding, Estate Conservation, Business Succession Planning and Wealth Transfer Planning Tasks:
Personal background: Boyd grew up in the North Cove community of McDowell County. He graduated from McDowell High School in 1989. He went on to Forsyth Community College, and then North Carolina State University. Boyd enjoys skiing, golf, and camping with his family. He married the love of his life in 1992, and they have four children. Their home is in North Cove. Phillips Financial Group is not owned or operated by New York Life Insurance Company or its affiliates. |
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Are you curious about your love life,
Lorri Gifford has been reading Tarot Cards since 1986. At age twenty she was the youngest member invited into the Psychic Center of Rochester N.Y. In 2000, she moved to the West Coast to continue her studies and become a Nationally Certified Holistic Health Practitioner. For over four years she worked at The Chopra Center for Well-being and served as their Spa Director and one of their Lead Educators. In 2009 she was guided to move to Asheville, NC. The logical side of her wanted to argue but her intuitive side urged her to “trust”. She took a deep breath, left California and feels completely at home here in the mountains. Along with reading Tarot cards, Lorri teaches meditation and workshops for developing and deepening one’s intuition. She believes that continuing to work on her own path is essential to being a Spiritual Advisor and Certified Life Coach. Visit intuitcoach.com or call 619-602-8981. |
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SANDY MCCALL
My decision to become a real estate broker came from a dream… what could be better than to match people with their idea of the perfect property? I enjoy being with people and helping them make their dreams come true. I am the owner and creator of Southern Life Realty and I look forward to working with folks wanting to buy or sell homes, land, farms and commercial real estate. Feel free to call me or email me . 828-273-9755 cell |
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Handwoven Webs
Julie Parker is one of the two founders of WNC WOMAN. The magazine is an outgrowth of her web design business, Handwoven Webs, and her love of working with words and pictures. Her websites, known for their ‘elegant simplicity’, are created with the hand of a writer, the eye of an artist, and the soul of a poet… handwovenwebs.com |
Celia Miles
