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Anti-Aging Tip: Omega 7 – Little-Known Supplement for Youthful Skin
Saturday, May 7th, 2011
This anti-aging tip is one your skin will love. It’s about a supplement you probably haven’t heard of yet: Omega 7.
The anti-aging benefits of Omega 7 are beginning to be touted by scientists for its ability to help control free radicals. But that’s not all! Omega 7 also contains dozens of phyto-nutrients that nourish the skin.
That’s why Omega 7 has become part of my anti-aging daily routine and is one nutrient you should consider if you want your skin to look and feel younger.
I’m sure you’ve heard of the health benefits of Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) Omega 3, 6 and 9, but have you heard of Omega 7? Most people haven’t but those on the leading edge of nutritional science and anti-aging therapies are re-discovering what was known in ancient times in Greek and Tibetan herbal medicine.
Your body cannot make EFAs so you need to get them from food or supplements. The best source for Omega 7 is oil from the Sea Buckthorn plant.
While the benefits of Sea Buckthorn on the body’s largest organ, the skin, have been widely documented in ancient texts, Sea Buckthorn oil also has an extensive history of traditional use to promote digestive and mucous membrane health. Another major anti-aging effect of Sea Buckthorn in ancient times was relief of menopausal vaginal dryness.
Today scientists are touting Omega 7 for its anti-aging benefits primarily since it helps control free radicals and contains dozens of skin-nourishing phyto-nutrients, including full spectrum Vitamin E, well known for healing and repairing skin tissue.
Besides the other vitamin/herbal supplements in my daily anti-aging regimen, I also take one or two Omega 7 capsules each day. Talk it over with your healthcare provider – perhaps it’s right for you too, but don’t take it if you’re pregnant (or planning to be) or nursing.
So, if you seriously want to have more youthful skin, you can! Consider taking an Omega 7 supplement each day and apply my castor oil home remedy morning and evening for healthy, young skin. Want a copy of my castor oil home remedy? Just write to me at ellen@best-anti-aging-tips.com
If you have an anti-aging tip, we’d love to hear from you. Please share it with our anti-aging community by clicking Comment below. Thanks!
Joy and Blessings,
Ellen – Your Grow Young Guide
Science Study Shows Anti-Aging Needs to Begin in Childhood
Monday, April 25th, 2011
Anti-aging is not just about taking action steps after your 30th birthday.
A 40-year scientific study released findings which show that the stereotypes teenagers and young adults have of older people – positive or negative – can actually predict their own aging. This is just one more research study that proves how powerful our thoughts and words are.
Most of us have had subjective experiences to support the fact that what we think will happen – what we strongly EXPECT to happen – will happen.
Well, now another scientific study is backing up what our instincts tell us. The truth of just how powerful our thoughts are in determining our future is illustrated in the results of a major study by the Yale School of Public Health. Researchers found that age stereotypes acquired in childhood and young adulthood were carried over into old age and had far-reaching effects.
The 40-year study, published in Psychological Science, found that younger people with strong negative stereotypes about the elderly are more likely to experience strokes, heart attacks and other heart problems when they grow older than those who had positive images of the elderly.
“Someday you’re going to be old,” we’ve admonished teenagers and youngsters who have ridiculed elderly people and expressed a lack of compassion for their seeming helplessness. And it warmed our hearts when we watched other young people share love with elders and delight in their company.
Little did we know that their stereotypes about old people would have an effect on young people’s own lives when they got older! Yet that’s what this major study has found.
Becca R. Levy, PhD, is the study’s lead author and associate professor of epidemiology and psychology at the Yale School of Public Health. “The findings suggest that efforts to reduce the negative age stereotypes of younger individuals could provide them with better health when they reach the age of those they had been previously targeting with these stereotypes,” Levy said in a news article written by Michael Greenwood.
This study is a good reminder that we can serve not only ourselves but our kids, grandkids and great-grandkids by engendering in them compassionate understanding of the limitations of others – young or old.
When grandpa visits and is grouchy, encourage those youngsters in the family to override that grouchiness with kindness and humor.
You know, emotions are catching – and instead of allowing grandpa’s grumpiness to spread to everyone in the family, create a stronger emotion – one of love, joy and understanding. Let grandpa catch this better-feeling emotion.
Demonstrate for those who’re younger how they can bring the emotional energy up instead of allowing grandpa’s emotional state to bring them down. Realizing they can make grandpa smile will make them feel good about themselves as well as empowered.
Another way we can serve those younger is to BE the example of adding years without sacrificing our vitality, curiosity and enthusiasm.
If we just step over those age labels like they’re not there, we can imprint a healthier image of what it looks like to be over 50 or 80 or heck, 100! We can prevent those detrimental stereotypes from forming, and pave the way for the generations coming behind us to add years without strokes and heart attacks.
Scientific studies continue to prove that thoughts, beliefs and expectations are extremely powerful influences on what takes shape in our lives. This is just one more reason to replace negative thought habits with thoughts that inspire, encourage and bring joy.
Share with us your experiences that proved your thoughts, beliefs and expectations affected your life. We can all learn from each other. Just Click to Comment. And thanks!
Love and Blessings,
Ellen – Your Grow Young Guide
Anti-Aging Research Asks, “Can Meditation Make You Younger?”
Sunday, April 10th, 2011
The major part of “Can Meditation Make You Younger?” which appeared in Lifestyle You, the online site of an Australian TV channel and magazine, focuses on studies by scientists and healthcare practitioners investigating the anti-aging benefits of meditation.
I’m honored to tell you I was interviewed for this article because meditation is part of my grow younger process, but the most fascinating part of the article is what these others have to say.
The author, Dana Mrkich of Sydney, discovered my website and spent several days in Taos NM interviewing me while she was on a trip to America’s southwest.
What a delightful gift it was to get to know Dana: she is a treasure! Dana is not only an author, radio host. teacher and counselor, she’s also a talented energy intuitive. Visit her website at www.danamrkich.com. And please comment below. I’d love to hear from you.
Can Meditation Make You Younger?
By Dana Mrkich, Sydney, Australia
Reprinted with permission from LifeStyle You, the online service of LifeStyle You Channel.
Move over expensive creams and painful surgeries. Did you know that regular meditation can make you look and feel 20 years younger, increase health and longevity and prevent brain-deterioration, dramatically changing what we previously thought were inevitable processes?
This natural – and free – practice is rapidly rising as a powerful alternative to the multi-billion dollar anti-aging industry, with experts and studies revealing that the effects go beyond feeling calm and peaceful for a few minutes.
Real life story
Author of The Secret Method for Growing Younger Ellen Wood looks nowhere near her biological age. “Even though I have more than 74 years under my belt, I have more energy, stamina, flexibility, and vitality than even 30 years ago. My body is stronger and my mind much clearer and sharper.”
Ellen credits daily meditation as being one of the key factors in her ‘growing younger’ program. “Growing younger starts with the mind. It doesn’t matter how many exercises you do, or how healthy your diet or the amount of restful sleep, growing younger won’t happen unless your mind can access that joyful place within that releases stress and promotes happy cells. Meditation as a daily habit takes me to that place.”
According to Professor and Doctor of Raphaology Medicine, Morning Spirit Wolf, also a practitioner of Herbal and Nutritional Medicine, meditation allows you to literally step out of time because it taps into the pineal gland of the brain. “Pineal function, a little known gland, produces hormones that regulate bio-rhythms, immunity, perception, and aging.”
The benefits of meditation
The impact of meditation on aging, particularly the aging brain, has been a topic of research for many years for Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa, the founding president and medical director of the Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation in Arizona.
“Our research reveals that meditation lowers the stress chemical in the blood called cortisol. Cortisol kills brain cells and leads to cognitive decline. Our research also shows that our simple 12 minute daily meditation called Kirtan Kriya enhances brain blood flow in critical areas of the brain and reverses memory loss.”
Dr Khalsa also explains how meditation can increase our longevity and decrease our overall aging process. “Meditation lowers blood pressure and other markers of aging including MVO2 or oxygen demand. It enhances psychological well-being, perhaps the most significant determinate of telomere length (telomeres are the end cap of our DNA), which is a very important marker of aging and longevity: longer telomeres = less illness and longer life.”
Building healthy cells
Occupational Therapy Practitioner and Host of television show Functional Fitness Suzanne Andrews uses meditation in her treatments with clients, saying that meditation is an important part of healthy cell function, and that our cells ultimately determine everything about the way we look and feel.
“Meditation when combined with diaphragmatic breathing increases oxygen intake which increases blood flow. There are 1 billion oxygen molecules in 1 red blood cell – very important because blood nourishes all of your body systems cells. Adults come with a total number of 100 trillion cells. Each of these cells is an important life form that depends on oxygen and blood to transport nutrients, gases, wastes, and hormones.
Meditation helps our cells work better as a system because a cell is a system of parts that help it to work. Like a watch, if one part breaks down, the whole watch stops keeping time. So too, our cells age when one part breaks down. Keeping our cells healthy slows down the aging process.”
Meditation and fertility
Essentially, meditation is a key way of taking charge of your own health, looks and longevity. Acupuncturist Janet Humphrey is the founder of New York’s Giving Nature Center, and uses acupuncture needles to induce a state of meditation.
“This state restores the body’s optimum functioning and harmonious nervous system function, benefiting our organs, skin and circulation. It helps issues including insomnia, anxiety, depression, ulcers, digestive disorders, menstrual and fertility issues. Cells are receiving the healthy nutrients that they need. When they are well nourished they can work at their best. Once people experience this through acupuncture, they want to maintain it – so I recommend meditation so they aren’t dependant.”
The brilliance of meditation is that it is simple to do, and accessible to everyone.
Anti-Aging Tip: Cut Way Down on This Stuff – It Causes Wrinkles
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
This anti-aging action step is one of the most profound ways to grow younger.
If you possibly can, please cut way down on this stuff because it can cause wrinkles, inflammation, depression and a whole host of bad effects on the cells of your body. My anti-aging physician, Terry Grossman M.D., told me to read labels and limit myself to 15 grams a day.
But remember, growing younger is about joy – so don’t go overboard.
Watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va2YQKeUP0Y and please comment under the YouTube video.
Joy and Blessings!
Ellen – Your Grow Young Guide
Anti-Aging Tip: Write or Say Affirmations to Grow Younger
Friday, March 18th, 2011
“I’m going to stop eating sugar-coated donuts. I’m going to stop eating sugar-coated donuts. I’m going to stop eating sugar-coated donuts.”
Ever repeat something like this to yourself? If you resolved to have a healthier body and mind by changing your diet, that’s great.
However, if you’ve been stating your intention in this way, you may get the opposite result and here’s why. In order to change our habits, we need to get both the conscious and subconscious mind on board — and the words we choose are powerful!
When setting intentions, saying affirmations or just repeating something to keep it in focus, be aware that your subconscious mind doesn’t hear the word “stop” or “not.”
So by saying “I’m going to stop eating sugar-coated donuts,” your subconscious mind absorbs “eating sugar-coated donuts” and sets up images of glorious goodies that taste delicious but often have empty calories or artery-clogging fat and too much sugar.
By phrasing your affirmation with a negative, you’re creating a conflict between what your conscious mind and subconscious mind are “seeing.” Since it’s the subconscious that runs the body, your result is likely to be extra pounds and a feeling of defeat when your intention was to eat healthy, look good and feel good.
Here’s what happens: your mind takes words and translates them into pictures. When you read a novel, you’re not just reading combinations of letters on a page; your mind actually makes mental pictures from the words. And when a comedian tells a story, the audience “gets it” by transforming ideas being told into humorous images that make them laugh.
To illustrate what I mean, let’s test your inner vision. Try NOT to think of an elephant balancing on one foot wearing a red dress with white polka dots.
Can’t do it, right? Your mind will automatically visualize that silly-dressed elephant even though you understood that you were NOT to visualize it.
To make your intentions powerful and to support healthy, youthful goals, write and say exactly what you are intending. “I eat healthy, nourishing food. My skin is smooth and firm. My body is strong and buff.” (Women can add, “with curves in all the right places.”)
Say it in the present tense with emotion as if it’s already so. Your subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between real and imagined and you can just fake it til you feel it.
It’s important to use the present tense in affirmations – not the future tense. If, for example, you focus on what you want with an affirmation such as “I am going to eat nourishing food and become healthy and strong,” you’re not creating that in the present; you’re creating a continuing state of “going to” that will always remain in the future.
Saying affirmations is one of the great aids in creating the life you want, and yes, you can even use affirmations to help you grow younger. They work for me — I AM growing younger and affirmations are part of my daily practices
Start with one small part of a younger, healthier you; for example, having a clear, sharp mind. Then compose a strong, short affirmation that expresses an aspect of a clear, sharp mind as if it’s already true, such as, “I have an excellent memory.”
Write that statement on index cards and put them in different rooms of your house and say the affirmation — out loud if that works for you — whenever you see it.
You’ll also want to catch yourself whenever old programming surfaces and you say things like, “I keep forgetting where I put my glasses,” but that’s another action step in the grow younger process we’ll explore in another article.
Two of my favorite affirmations for overall youthfulness are “Thank God I’m young and healthy,” and “It’s a good thing I’m young and healthy” and I have those on cards in my kitchen, bedroom, office and car. These are common expressions you can say with a little bit of attitude and a lift of your head – just like you might say, “It’s a good thing I’m here or we’d never get this show on the road.”
How about starting today to get your show on the road to youthfulness? Start with affirmations on cards and keep in mind the most important part: have FUN creating a new, happier, younger you.
Click to Comment to share your favorite affirmations for growing younger. I’d love to hear from you.
Joy and Blessings!
Ellen – Your Grow Young Guide
Anti-Aging Tip: Live and Leave Like Jack LaLanne
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
A remarkable man, Jack LaLanne, left the planet recently at age 96 in the way we’d all like to do – healthy and active right up to the end.
It reminded me of a central theme in Dr. Terry Grossman’s lectures. Terry Grossman is an MD specializing in longevity medicine and he’s my anti-aging physician. Dr. Grossman and futurist Ray Kurzweil co-authored the book, “Transcend,” a comprehensive guide to staying healthy and living life to the fullest.
Dr. Grossman says we can live a healthy, active, sexy life right up to the end and he calls it ‘squaring the curve.’
He’s referring to the downward curve on most health graphs that begins about age 30, when the average person begins to lose some degree of strength, stamina, flexibility and energy.
Most such graphs show a steady line that begins to curve down and continues that way for decades until death. But Dr. Grossman says we can work on squaring the curve and keep that line level until the time when we die and it makes a sudden turn downward.
That’s exactly what Jack LaLanne did. Known as the ‘Godfather of Fitness,’ LaLanne squared the curve just like we’d all like to do. He lived a healthy, active life and then died a month ago of pneumonia at the age of 96 after a brief illness.
LaLanne had said more than once, “People don’t die of old age. They die of inactivity.” And the wonderful thing about his legacy is that he lived true to his beliefs and convictions, and never stopped living a full and active life. He continued to exercise daily well into his 90s.
Some of us who are old enough remember his TV show that began in the ‘50s and aired until 1985.
We also remember his trademark tight-fitting jumpsuit and his enthusiasm for exercise and fitness. I can still picture him doing jumping jacks – on black and white TV.
His determination to become fit grew out of a desperate attempt to curtail his addiction to sugar and relieve the suffering from terrible headaches, mood swings and depression.
After hearing a lecture by Paul Bragg about the health benefits of exercise and eating unprocessed foods, the young LaLanne swore off white flour, sugar and most fat and began eating more fruits and vegetables. By age 15, he had built a backyard gym of climbing ropes, chin-up bars, sit-up machines and weights.
Even if you’ve never heard of LaLanne, his ground-breaking work in body-building and strength training for extended health, as well as his nutritional guidelines, influenced the entire health and wellness awareness of the past 60 years.
Jack was definitely a trail-blazer way ahead of his time in the area of health and fitness. We’ve all benefited from his commitment to helping others build positive habits and live long, healthy and happy lives.
Yes, Jack LaLanne squared the curve and you can too. Think about it! Why waste away when you can use body, mind and spirit action steps to stay vital, interested and active until it’s time to go?
I’ve spent the past 7 years discovering and practicing these steps and have completely turned my life around. I can honestly say at age 74 that I have the stamina, energy and enthusiasm I had in my 20s and 30s! A major part of my daily exercise routine is the Five Tibetan Rites. You can watch a demonstration on how to do them at http://www.howtogrowyounger.com/p/tror.html
I send a grateful salute to Jack LaLanne for paving the way to health consciousness since the 1930s – and want to honor him for showing us how to live with strength and vigor until it’s time to leave. Growing younger isn’t about living forever – it’s about living and leaving like Jack LaLanne.
Click to Comment at the bottom and tell us any memories you might have about this fitness legend who had a positive influence on several generations.
Joy and Blessings!
Ellen – Your Grow Young Guide
Dry Itchy Skin? – Relieve It With My Castor Oil Home Remedy
Sunday, February 27th, 2011
Here’s an anti-aging and anti-itching home remedy that makes your skin healthy and relieves the itchies in cold, dry weather. It’s part of my program for growing younger and it won’t cost an arm and a leg.
We’ve been experiencing Himalayan-type cold here in Taos, New Mexico, that makes you want to just curl up in bed with the covers over your head until spring.
But then it’s hard to sleep when the itching all over your body caused by dryness in cold weather feels like microscopic crawly things chomping on you.
Cold, dry weather can cause itching, increase wrinkles and damage your skin. The good news is, you can protect your skin with a low-cost home remedy I’ve been using for seven years that works wonders! It’s part of my program for growing younger and it’s amazing what it does for your skin – in any season!
Ellen Wood’s Castor Oil Home Remedy for Healthy, Young Skin
- Go to your local health food or herb store and buy an 8 oz. bottle of castor oil and a tiny bottle each of Frankincense and Lavender Essential Oil – all excellent for your skin. Make sure the castor oil bottle has a screw-on cap with a spout that lifts up to pour.
- Pour about 2 ounces of the castor oil into an extra bottle or jar to save for adding as needed.
- Add 2 ounces of water to the 6 ounces of castor oil. Add 2 to 4 drops each of Frankincense and Lavender.
- Shake, lift the spout and pour some into your hands and spread all over your face.
- Close the spout and shake again. Then begin spreading it all over your body. Shake frequently between pours. Add more water if it gets too thick or more castor oil if it’s too watery.
- As you rub this yummy oil all over, say ‘thank you’ to each part of your body – for carrying you around, allowing you to touch and hold things, for keepin’ on even when you don’t give it enough attention or rest.
- Can’t reach your back? Go to the hardware store and get a paint sponge on a stick. Gently pour the oil mixture on the sponge and spread it on your back. Then insert the sponge end into a plastic baggie for use the next day. Actually, I find it quicker to use the sponge to apply the oil everywhere except my face and feet, where I just use my hands.
Kids’ Faces Need Protection Too
When I was a little kid growing up in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, I remember being so excited about going outside to play in the snow.
There we were, my sister and brother and I, dressed in layers of long johns, leggings, sweaters, scarves – two pair of socks inside boots we called goulashes – then a hat covering our head, forehead and ears; hooded jacket; mittens and another scarf wrapped around our neck and chin.
“Stand still,” my mother would tell her three little mummies, who were wondering if they’d be able to bend over to make a snowball, while she anointed the only visible part of each of us with Vaseline – slathering it over little cheeks, noses and lips.
Vaseline seemed to work in those days – and I slathered it on my kids too – but today we’ve re-discovered the healthy benefits of castor oil for the skin, so go ahead and anoint your kids, too, with my castor oil home remedy.
Do you have a home remedy that’s good for your skin? Comment below and share it with all of us. We’d love to hear from you.
Joy and Blessings!
Ellen – Your Grow Young Guide
The Power of the Mind – and How Tapping Can Change Your Life
Monday, February 14th, 2011
My hero is going to be one of the presenters at the F.R.E.E. 2011 Tapping World Summit that begins Monday, February 21!
Dr. Bruce Lipton, world-renowned cell biologist and author of “Biology of Belief” is one of 20 presenters for the summit, which you can listen to at NO CHARGE.
If you haven’t registered yet, watch this video of Dr. Lipton – available through March 15, or perhaps later –
http://www.thetappingsolution.com/cmd.php?Clk=4162025
and then sign up for some mind-blowing instructions on how you can release unconscious programming you received in childhood – or even post childhood – that’s affecting you today.
It is 100% f.r.e.e to attend and since it’s online you don’t need to book a hotel or drive anywhere.
Because it’s all streamed through the web, there’s not even an expensive phone bill.
You can listen to 2 presentations each day for 10 days and you don’t have to be online at the exact time for each because you have a 24-hour period to listen to each one.
The folks at The Tapping Solution are able to provide it f.r.e.e (even though they have to pay for the technology and lots of other expenses) because they offer an upgrade option for those who want to own the audio to the presentations, the transcripts, the workbook for the event and great bonuses – all at a very fair price.
I don’t know of any other event or product where you can sample the entire product – without laying out a dime – before deciding if you want to own it.
In this fascinating video Bruce will explain to you how your thoughts can make you sick, broke and unhappy; why regular “positive thinking” doesn’t work and how you can use EFT to reprogram your mind to get what you want in life.
You can check it out here:
http://www.thetappingsolution.com/cmd.php?Clk=4162025
Meridian tapping (or EFT) is one of my “Grow Younger” action steps that I’ve been using for a few years now. You too can unblock the flow of youthfulness by tapping away limiting beliefs about aging, and I’m currently preparing a program with instructions on how to do that.
I don’t know if any of the presenters in the 2011 Tapping World Summit will focus specifically on using tapping for growing younger, but it would be good for you to familiarize yourself with the process at this time.
By the way, when you watch the Bruce Lipton video, you’ll also have access to one with Jack Canfield on how your past traumas and negative emotions may be keeping you from attracting what you want in life.
Both videos are very powerful…
Joy and Blessings!
Ellen
Reversing Aging IS Possible – It Begins With Your Choices!
Monday, January 31st, 2011
Yes, Reversing ageing is possible!
But before you can begin growing young, you need to stop growing old.
Since stress is the number one aging factor, you need to have a method for releasing stress. In response to my article on stress relief through deep breathing, John Lewis of Sydney Australia commented with his thoughts and he’s the winner of the best blog post! Here’s what he has to say, followed by my comments (and followed by yours, I hope.)
Stress Relief – The Easy Way
By John Lewis, Sydney Australia
I call it the easy way but then I am a logical thinker and base all my decisions on logic. What may have been easy for me may not be easy for you but read below and think about it for a while before you make any hasty decisions.
I found after reading some impressive psychology books that suffering from stress, worry or anything in my life was only a “choice” that I had made in my mind and a choice that is no different from making a choice about what I will eat for breakfast, clothes I will wear today, will I choose to have that second donut or anything else. Life is making choices day in day out, even someone who says they can’t make a choice is still making a choice. (Think about it.)
Stress is no more than a “thought” that is carried in the mind, albeit a very dangerous one that if allowed to grow in your mind can do some very bad damage to your body.
Once you fully appreciate the fact that stress is nothing more than a thought in your mind, you have within you the power to remove it. After all it’s only a choice and if it got there by your choice then all you need to do is make a choice to remove it.
First you need to be “willing to learn” how to remove it and believe me it is a lot easier than you may think it is.
Ellen made a choice that she was not going to suffer with Alzheimer’s, as she grew in years, like her Mother did and I’m sure that if you read her book she will explain the ease involved in how she learnt to make that choice. (HINT! She had a reason, a goal, a purpose, etc.)
Your reason, goal, purpose is to alleviate the stress from your life but of course if you like living with stress well then that’s your choice and it’s a choice that only you can make.
Please think about this for a moment. Toxic drugs do not relieve stress – they only mask the symptoms of it and the “last” thing you need in your body when trying to deal with mind stress is more health stress caused by drugs.
Live Life without stress – You can do it!
From Ellen: My desk now has a little index card that says, “CHOOSE Your Thoughts” in a pinchie-thing holder. When I see that card, I immediately notice what’s going through my mind and I change it if it’s not an uplifting thought.
According to scientific studies, the average person talks to themselves 500 to 1000 words a minute and most often those thoughts are negative. Negative thoughts can damage the cells in your body so changing to positive thoughts will reprogram your cells and strengthen your immune system.
John’s words also affected me when I was stuck in the airport recently and waited many hours for delayed planes. “How I react is a choice,” I thought, and I started up a conversation with the person next to me. Then others joined in, each of us trying to say something wittier than the next. Soon our part of the airport was filled with infectious laughter. Believe it or not, I was still smiling in my heart when I arrived at my destination at 3:15 AM.
Let’s hear from you! What choices are you making to help yourself grow younger? Click to Comment below. Thanks.
Joy and Blessings!
Ellen
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FABULOUS News About My Author Daughter, Summer Wood!
Friday, January 14th, 2011
Oh, I’m a proud mama!
Summer’s second novel, “Wrecker” makes its debut on February 15 and the advance acclaims are pouring in.
Because Summer won the largest grant in the U.S. for a female artist, a top New York literary agent came to her and I still remember the day she told me Dan sold it to a publisher.
Me: Fantastic! Which publisher? (I knew some big ones were considering it.)
Summer: Bloomsbury.
Me: Uh… I never heard of them.
Summer: Ma, ever hear of “Harry Potter”?
Well, who hasn’t! Bloomsbury bought the U.S. rights (debuts in February) and the U.K. rights (debuts in August) so she has a New York editor and a London editor.
And Yippee! Book of the Month Club recently bought book club rights to “Wrecker.” Summer’s editor was especially delighted because BOMC rarely selects fiction anymore.
You can watch the trailer for her book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LGeBVWHH8c
One of the stars in it is Summer’s dog Bosco. I hope all this attention doesn’t go to his head and change his sweet disposition – he’s staying with me while Summer launches “Wrecker” starting in Santa Fe on February 18, then Taos on Feb. 19 and Albuquerque on Feb. 20. Then she’s off to northern California and the Pacific northwest – http://summerwoodwrites.com/Events
What was her inspiration for this novel? Read: http://summerwoodwrites.com/About-Me
You can preorder WRECKER here: Wrecker: A Novel
if you’d like your own copy, or encourage your local library to get one to share. Rope in your book club and Summer will be happy to dial in to chat with you.
Publishers Weekly calls it “an affecting novel… Wood succeeds with surefooted prose; a lush, earthy California backdrop; and a sensitive story of nurturing and family.”
Here’s a Book Browse advance review by Cheri W., Grand Rapids, MN, “This was a page-turner from the opening of the book until the ending… One of the most ‘happy’ books I have read in a long time. Highly recommend it to anyone who needs a burst of brightness in their day!”
Thank you for reading this and sharing my blissful time. I’m so grateful for all my kids and their talents and grateful to you for letting me share this good news with you. Please pass this along to everyone you know.
Joy and Blessings,
Ellen Wood – Your Grow Young Guide