Showing posts with label #Survival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Survival. Show all posts

Friday, November 10, 2023

Do You Know How to Overcome Fear or Challenges

When Melony Brown was two years old, she had a significant stroke. She did not choose an overcoming attitude as a child, but her parents instilled it in her. They did not allow her to use lack of coordination, left-sided weakness, or balance issues as an excuse. 

Melony is an author, speaker, and host of the Challenges Won't Stop Me podcast. Fighting to overcome life's challenges and thriving is the message she lives by and shares with her audience. 

Decades of neurological struggles and brain surgery tried to stop her, but she chose to fight to overcome them instead. Learning everything those challenges were meant to teach her and grow in her, Melony desires to encourage, inspire, and motivate women to fight to overcome the challenges intersecting their paths. 

With God guiding the way and a backpack filled with your essential gear, you are primed and ready to overcome any challenge that dares to cross your path. It is time to…..JOURNEY ON!

Melony shares several stories including an Auschwitz survivor and a young girl who was kidnapped and sex trafficked. After escaping, she had her tattoo removed which branded her as a 'slave'. She started a business helping other women remove these memory scars including tattoos from prison, gang membership, and abuse. You are going to enjoy Melony's interview:


On her podcast, she has interviewed over 135 courageous women who fought to overcome a wide range of challenges. 

Be sure to check out her Journey On Quiz. 

Click Here to discover your journey personality


Melony Brown


Are you prepared to survive when one of life's tough challenges rudely intersects your journey? This journey through life is tough, but you're tougher.

In Challenges Won't Stop Meauthor, podcaster, and speaker Melony Brown invites you to join her for an eight-mile journey in which you will create a personalized survival guide that will equip and prepare you to survive the rugged terrain that is sure to mark your path. Do not be afraid or discouraged as the master navigator, God, will be with you and fight for you.

As you engage and interact with the text, you will

  • color visual symbols, which remind us of each piece of your gear's purpose.
  • discover how Bible characters fought to overcome by consistently using their gear.
  • draw inspiration and encouragement from others who have fought to overcome.
  • reflect and answer questions related to your journey and what you're learning.

Melony not only survived several of life's tough challenges, but she also thrived while fighting to overcome those unexpected turns. In Challenges Won't Stop Me, she shares the strength, wisdom, and grit she's gained, as well as all the 135+ overcomers she's interviewed have gained. Their written stories and podcast interviews can be found at www.melonybrown.com.

Grab your backpack. Let's fill it with the essential gear you'll need to survive, overcome, and thrive!

It's time to JOURNEY ON!

Connect with Melony Here


Friday, November 25, 2022

What is the Best Way to Find Healing in Your Brokenness?

Marlena Fiol, PhD. is a globally recognized author, scholar, and speaker. She explores the depths of who we are and what is possible in our lives. Her significant body of publications on the topic, coupled with her own raw identity-changing experiences, makes her uniquely qualified to write about personal transformational change. She holds an MBA and a PhD. in Strategic Management and has taught on the faculties of New York University and the University of Colorado. 

Marlena's mission is to share true stories of survival against all odds to inspire us to become the most authentic versions of ourselves.

In her interview, she shares her journey from an abusive upbringing in Paraguay to love and loss in the United States and finally on to forgiveness and reconciliation. Marlena was physically abused as a child, sexually abused as a teenager, disowned by her father, and banned from participating in her Mennonite church -- all before her 18th birthday.

And that is only the beginning of her amazing story:


Marlena Fiol


After being publicly humiliated in front of her entire close-knit Mennonite community, Marlena Fiol did not know how she would recover. 

Discover a story of healing and personal transformation. Marlena's childhood was full of contradictions. Her father was both a heroic doctor for people with leprosy and an abusive parent. Her Mennonite missionary community was both a devoted tribe and a controlling society. And Marlena longed to be accepted in Paraguay and to escape to somewhere new. In Nothing Bad Between Us, follow Marlena's journey as she takes control of her life and learns to be her authentic self, scars, and imperfections included.

Uncover inner peace―and inner strength.  Nothing Bad Between Us is a story of brokenness and eventual redemption that taps into our collective yearning for healing and forgiveness. As you read Marlena's story, you will:

·         Learn how to forgive yourself and others without giving up your personal growth and self-confidence

·         Discover that transformation and redemption often exist even in the most broken parts of who you are

·         Find out how to stand in your power, knowing that vulnerability will not lead to your downfall, but to increase, courage, connection, and authenticity

 

Readers of memoirs about family, self-healing, and the strength of a woman like The Glass CastleLove Warrior, and Leaving the Witness will be captivated by Nothing Bad Between Us. 


Marlena Fiol, PhD. is a globally recognized author, scholar, and speaker. She explores the depths of who we are and what is possible in our lives.  Against the backdrop of World War 11, Nazi uprisings, political unrest in Argentina and Paraguay, and the scourge of leprosy left untreated, Dr. John and Clark Schmidt vow to live a life of service

But.....at what cost?

Based on true events that span six decades, CALLED is an epic tale of adventure and love that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit. 

Three Lives Inextricable Intertwined:

A handsome physician obsessed with caring for the underserved

A shy and devout Mennonite nurse

And an Argentine revolutionary

Marlena Fiol

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Saturday, July 3, 2021

How to Turn Hopelessness to Hope and Be Successful No Matter What

Lafiro Gomez is a hemiplegic who fulfilled his dream of becoming a full-time author no matter what happened.

As a young man, Lafiro suffered a major stroke which nearly killed him and left him paralyzed. He survived that only to nearly die again due to a large ulcer. Yet, he survived but had to have his right leg amputated.

How to Turn Hopelessness to Hope and Be Successful no matter what


You don't want to miss Lafiro Gomez's story of survival and never giving up - no matter what. Here is his story of hopelessness turned to hope and success:

Monday, March 1, 2021

Surviving Foster Care and Trauma Brought New Life and Hope

Danny Vann is a foster care survivor and a prime example of how to overcome life’s obstacles. He shares his journey from a broken home, to an orphanage, foster home, blended and broken family to an emancipated minor at 17 and then….independence – striving to become a premiere Elvis impersonator entertaining audiences internationally for 45 years.  You will love his story of NEVER EVER GIVING UP.


Danny Vann was a senior project manager for several multi-state, multi-million dollar computer projects in corporate America. Then a heart attack and open heart surgery changed his life and his career.

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

PTSD is NOT a life sentence. There is a Cure


Cherie Doyen
Cherie Doyen is an author and a lifelong researcher of suffering. She has helped hundreds of people around the world to completely heal from PTSD. The focus of her work is to help those who have struggled through trauma.

On the heels of years of violent childhood trauma including sexual violation, came doctor after doctor, years of therapists and medications. Cherie was dying and no one knew why.

Stress kills people every day. The words of her final psychiatrist were that he could not help her.

Cherie became vigilant to find out why in a tangible and fixable way.  And she did.

PTSD is NOT a life sentence. PTSD can be cured. There is freedom.