Launching A) Radio Show/Blog and B) New Book of Resiliency Poetry and Shrink Rap ™: Fierce Longing…Fiery Loss

Hi,

It’s been a creative busy week:  Launching A) Radio Show/Blog and B) New Book of Resiliency Poetry and Shrink Rap ™:  Fierce Longing…Fiery Loss:  Relearning to Let Go, Laugh & Love

A)  Radio/Audio Blog

First, Emily Livelsberger, a Communications Strategist/Coach and I launched a radio show/audio blog this past week.  The inaugural program was on “Jumpstarting the New Year.”  We took a look at the “Dark side of resolutions: Procrastination.” The title of the radio show is "Partnerships that Drive Performance."

A pre-final edit show description:

Dueling yet collaborative mind-behavior-interaction strategy experts blur the lines of conventional wisdom in their quest to pull back the curtain on communication, creativity, and collaboration -- that is, on "Partnerships the Drive Performance."

Show #2 is tomorrow, Tues. night at 8:30; the topic is “Performance Anxiety – from the Boardroom to the Bedroom.”  (When Emily’s kids are snugly tucked in bed.  Her husband, Joel, is our studio engineer.)

Show link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ptdp

First Episode: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ptdp/2016/01/13/starting-fresh-jump-starting-your-new-year

In case you didn't catch us live, you can listen at your convenience:

FYI, the Stress Doc and the Communication Strategist have launched a radio show/audio blog.  Catch us tonight at 8:30 EST. Tune in and listen live, or check it out later at http://tobtr.com/s/8222797. Dial-ins welcome!  All feedback much appreciated.  Mark and Emily

Starting Fresh: Jump Starting Your New Year

B)  New Book

And here’s and Overview and Introduction to:

Fierce Longing…Fiery Loss:  Relearning to Let Go, Laugh & Love

Through Resiliency Poetry and Shrink Rap ™

[Right after Table of Contents, see “Overview Benefits and Features”]

Table of Contents

I.    Overview of Benefits and Features                                                        2-4

II.   Introduction:  Why & How                                                                  4-10

III.  Fierce Longing

• Singular Man                                                          © 1994                                   11-13
• Cool Moon Cat                                                       © 1992                                   13-15
• The Electrifying Lady                                           © 1992                                   15-17
• The Love Trade                                                      © 1992                                   17-19
• Kindred Eyes                                                          © 1992                                   19-22
• Welfare Momma Lion                                            © 1992                                  22-24
• A Charlotte Trio                                                                                                          

Where Is Charlotte                                              © 2014                                   24-25

Charlotte, Charlotte, Near or Far                      © 2014                                        25

Charlotte Is the Bumper Jumper                        © 2014                                   25-26

• Again…Again                                                         © 2014                                   26-28
• Goodbye Little Charlotte                                      © 2015                                   28-30

IV.  Fiery Loss

• Grief Ghosts                                                 © 2013                                    30-31
• Grief to Rebirth: Three Poetic Passages              [dates unknown]                   31-33
• Who KNOWS War                                                 © 1998                                    33-35
• Gravity’s Edge                                                        © 1992                                    35-37
• Who’s Coming through the Door Again?             © 2015                                   37-39
• Soul Mate Surgery                                                  © 2015                                   39-42
• The Search for Peace                                              © 2015                                   42-45
• A Question of “Ageless Passion”                           © 2015                                   45-46

V.   Relearning to Let Go, Laugh & Love

• On the Ode to “Letting Go”                                  © 2015                                   46-48
• Cowardice or Choice:  From Vice to Voice         © 2014                                   48-49
• WHY’s  UP:  20 Questions                                    [date unknown]                    49-50
• A Mistake Is but an Error                                     © 2014                                   50-53
• UNDERage:  A Father’s Volcano                         © 2015                                   54-56
• The Alchemy of Miss P                                          © 2002                                   56-59
• Double-Edged Depression                                     © 1994                                   59-60
• The Paradoxical Dream and/or Delusion            © 2014                                    60-61
• Mountain Vision                                                     © 1992                                   61-65
• Are You a Commitment-Phobe?                           © 2016                                   65-68

VI.  Addendum:  Grief Journaling

• Growing Pains Intersection of Passion & Purpose, Prose & Poetry                    68
• A Seven Year Old’s Eulogy                                  © 1994                                    68-70
• A Requiem for a “Last Angry Man”                   © 2011                                   70-73

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I. Overview of Benefits and Features

A.  AI³ Poetry & Self-Discovery Platform:  Benefits

Fierce Longing…Fiery Loss:  Relearning to Let Go, Laugh & Love is an AI³ Poetry & Self-Discovery Platform:  On this personal and shared mind, heart, and soul journey, interact with and discover AI³ Passion Power ™ through the collection’s:

Ø  Accessibility & Intensity

Ø  Analogy & Insight

Ø  Authenticity & Intimacy

In our TNT – Time-Numbers-Technology – Driven and Distracted Web-World, more than ever we need real time and space to transform pain and pressure into healing and hope, into learning and love; we need to embrace Fierce Longing…Fiery Loss:

• Bathe in luminous lyrics, and humorous “Shrink Raps” – from dysfunction and dependence to the “Resiliency Poetry” of mindful and “out of mind” transcendence

• Encounter vivid and visual ideas and images, insightful and inspiring analogies and strategies for once again “letting go, laughing, and loving”

• Enjoy the paradoxical and ironical, mirthful musings and mental meanderings of the one-of-a-kind Stress Doc ™, “Shrink Rapper” ™, and “Psychohumorist” ™

• Appreciate the Stress Doc’s “New KISS” technique:  Keep It Short & Smart!

• Yet also recognize a dangerous “3-D” Worldview:  Denial, Delusion, and Dysfunction

• Be purposefully and provocatively aroused:  grapple with and consciously mute demeaning inner voices; work through meaningful relationship anger

• Internalize the difference between “feeling sorry for yourself and feeling your sorrow”

• Discover the psychological power and passion as well as compassion in and even “mystical fashion” of grieving and “letting go”

• Be motivated to embark on your own self-inventory and voyage of self-discovery

• Engage with the distinctive three-part structure of Fierce Longing…Fiery Loss – Creative Context, Poetic Piece, and Discussion Questions

• Each poem, rap, and lyric is snugly sandwiched between: 1) a mostly concise contextual essay highlighting the genesis or personal slant or significance of the verse and 2) head-and heart-provoking “Discussion Questions” to deepen, expand, and focus your “R & R” – Reading & Reflection – experience

• Use Resiliency Poetry & Shrink Rap ™ as a learning-discussion tool in a variety of classroom/learning settings as well as psychoeducational support, study, and book groups

If a picture is worth a thousand words then, by Gorkinian psycho-meta-metrics, a thought-inspiring, heart-jolting, or side-splitting metaphor or poetic visual is worth at least one hundred psychological perceptions, deep-seated projections, and untamed associations!

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B.  Dynamic Dozen:  A Sample of Features

Absorbing yourself in Fierce Longing…Fiery Loss:  Relearning to Let Go, Laugh & Love is its own reward.  You will:

Ø  Savor the mind-provoking comparisons and compelling archetypal auras of powerful female-types (and some male projections) – as explored in Cool Moon Cats and Momma Lions, Kindred Eyes and The Electrifying Lady

Ø  Play hide-and-seek with a child while singing engaging words to the tune of “Frere Jacques” or serenade a child with a variation on “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

Ø  Experience the rollercoaster of emotions as family life slides from the joyful to the dark and dysfunctional…yet with an enduring, albeit small, voice and spark of hope!

Ø  Encounter a little Moon-Boy’s poignantly elusive and daring search for his burnt-out Father-Sun and their ultimate dynamic-cosmic connection and destiny

Ø  Reflect on the exquisite beauty of inner child love and the excruciating pain and sadness when it is abruptly terminated

Ø  Achieve “good enough” yet affirming peace when you cannot “forgive and forget”

Ø  Witness the poignant psychological impact of war on soldiers, family, and friends

Ø  Ponder an inspiring ode to “Cowardice or Choice” and an “in your head and heart” poetic questionnaire on creative sensibility

Ø  Laugh at the outrageously double-edged, creative sides of depression

Ø  Discover the adventurous and risk-taking parallels between climbing a mountain and building an intimate relationship

Ø  Assess whether one can rest on an ironical “single and singular” laurel or is this more a defensive ploy and, perhaps, a “commitment-phobe” omen?

Ø  Explore “Grief Journaling” – The Growing Pains Intersection of Passion & Purpose, Prose & Poetry – to work through pain, anger, and loss…and to keep the inner-eternal soul flame alive!

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