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A Dispensary of Writing Remedies for Emotional Well-Being
by Linda Jones, the Writing Doula
This 48-page eBook and resource guide includes a collection of writing prompts inspired by research that supports the effectiveness of expressive and creative writing in easing the impact of stress, anxiety and other mood challenges. It also includes an emotions glossary and a worksheet to help you tailor a writing practice to support your unique emotional needs.
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Ebook Price: $16
Retire Your Cape: Black Women's Guide to Counteract Stress & Self-Neglect
This empowering, downloadable guide provides a 6-point wellness blueprint to help you manage stressful situations immediately and learn strategies that will help you protect your emotional health and well-being.
It also includes a 'Stress Release' wellness advisory for women in media—especially those covering the highly stressful and often confrontational world of major politics. The advisory offers proactive self-care tips and practical strategies to help stay centered during tension-filled moments and recover quickly following harassing or combative encounters.
This guide was created especially to support Black women who are disproportionately affected by chronic stress, overwork, and self-neglect. Still,ut the practices are valuable for anyone seeking tools to counteract emotional setbacks and embrace self-care.
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Retire Your Cape: $10
Legacy
Family Scribes: Writing Memories for your Family Tree!
Family Scribes is a multi-generational game where relatives and close friends play a part in remembering stories and capturing them in writing! Family Scribes is not a game of competition; it’s a memory-stimulating series of timed-writing activities that culminate in storytelling. Everyone who participates wins!
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Family Scribes Paperback: $15
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ADVISORY: Do NOT purchase the Kindle version on Amazon. Their conversion layout is of very poor quality! Best option is to purchase the paperback or my pdf version.
Final Story Obituary Planner
The Final Story Obituary Planner is a handy guide to help you prepare your obituary in draft form and ease the burden on your loved ones later! The planner also offers tips on how to write a Final Story personal essay.
Once the planner is completed with information about your life, experiences and achievements, it becomes a useful reference for creating a fitting eulogy or memorial tribute and a resourceful document for family history and genealogical use.
The planner contents are: ~Step-by-step instructions for writing a high-quality obituary draft. ~ Formatted guide sheets to help organize the writing.
Final Story: $15
Hair Culture
Nappyisms: Affirmations for nappy-headed people & Wannabes!
"Linda gets to the root of the situation and she won't rest 'till you stop relaxing!" -- Erykah Badu
Nappyisms is a naturally-rooted potpourri of affirmations, advice, humor, essays and anecdotes about natural hair issues and African inspired hairstyles! Written by journalist Linda Jones, founder of A Nappy Hair Affair, you will learn how to govern yourselves in the presence of nappy-headed people (nappy headiquette), aspirational sayings (napfirmations) witty retorts for nappy hair haters (snapbacks) and you will even learn how to speak nappy lingo from the Naptionary in the back of the book!
$20 (price covers shipping/handling)
Snap Backs! Verbal Ammunition for those
who 'dis your 'do!
Those with or without naturally kinky hair textures and wear African-inspired styles, will enjoy this arsenal of witty little retorts that you can use whenever someone makes ignorant comments about their hairstyle choice. Neutralize verbal attacks with a clever snap back!
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Only 99 cents!
