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Ever Felt Like You Were Gong Against the Grain?

Have you had times when you felt that you were living your life against the grain?  Something for sure just not quite right?  Not quite topsy turvy, so to speak, but just enough so that you feel the stress, or maybe even a drain of  some much needed strength. I have, and I hope that this discussion on Going Against The Grain in Marta Merajver's post will be helpful and beneficial to you!!!

 http://martamerajver.blogspot.com/2013/06/going-against-grain.html?showComment=1372675946107#c9211501335255933855 

Please, leave a comment or two also.  Many Blessings to You!!!  

Louise Malbon-Reddix - CEO of Victory Road Wellness Center and is the Author of:
Stand In Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass!
Watch the Book Trailer & Where to buy the book
 Rev. Louise Malbon-Reddix; MPC, RN, CCRN-Stand In Your Anointment This Too Shall Pass
You can find more written by  me at:
http://www.amazon.com/author/louisempc
http://www.facebook.com/victoryroadwellnesscenter
http://www.victoryroadwellnesscenter.com
http://www.scoop.it/authoring
http://pinterest.com/lmreddix/
http://www.youravon.com/lmalbon-reddix
And you can Follow me on Twitter @LouiseReddixsee you there!!!

Romance Ramble and Book Babble: First Page - Stand in Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass

When my friend and Author Trish Jackson says something, she means it!!! I am impressed you can probably tell!  Take a look for yourself at her work.  And not only because she featured my book, but keep returning and please do like she says, "Saddle Up For A Wild Read!"

Romance Ramble and Book Babble: First Page - Stand in Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass

Louise Malbon-Reddix - CEO of Victory Road Wellness Center and is the Author of:

Stand In Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass!

Watch the Book Trailer & Where to buy the book

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfOUVQFaxU0

You can find more written by  me at:

http://www.amazon.com/author/louisempc

http://www.facebook.com/victoryroadwellnesscenter

http://www.victoryroadwellnesscenter.com

http://www.scoop.it/authoring

http://pinterest.com/lmreddix/

http://www.youravon.com/lmalbon-reddix

And you can Follow me on Twitter - @LouiseReddix - see you there!!!

When It Rains, It Pours!!! (1) Facebook

When you click this link, it will take you to the picture of my mother and my father.  A beautiful young couple then for sure!  Some say I look like my mom, some say they can see my dad! Let me know your thoughts about it if you would be so kind.  Just leave a comment, and let me know what you think!

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(1) Facebook

My mommy and my daddy!  May they both rest in peace! I know you don't want me to say it, but say it I must.  Before I lost Tony, I lost these and so many more!! Check out my book and you will see how you too can get through the sotrms of your life - Stand In Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass!!!  Get your copy to have on hand.  Sometimes, when it rains, it pours!!! Better to be prepared.  I was not and I am sure you can tell,as I have been crying for some time now!  Many a year. Sometimes songs help, here is one I listen to when I am really troubled - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNT1_0dowFE

But my book will help to guide you through too, and on your own terms at that!!!  You can take a look at the first couple of pages through this link -  http://www.amazon.com/author/louisempc


Louise Malbon-Reddix is the Author of:

Stand In Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass!

Watch the Book Trailer & Where to buy the book
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfOUVQFaxU0
You can find more written by  me at:
http://www.amazon.com/author/louisempc
http://www.facebook.com/victoryroadwellnesscenter
http://www.victoryroadwellnesscenter.com
http://www.scoop.it/authoring
http://pinterest.com/lmreddix/
http://www.youravon.com/lmalbon-reddix
And you can Follow me on Twitter - @LouiseReddix - see you there!!!

Lamenting Still? Yes and More!

Lamenting over the loss of the greatest love of my life still, yes I am! And before you tell me I need to go and find help for myself, let me explain just a little bit! This was my second marriage. The first ending in divorce for many reasons. 

A lot of people don't talk about things, this I know.  It is called airing out your dirty laundry in my little part of the world/culture.  But when you stop and look around at the statistics of marriage and divorce, perhaps someone besides me should be talking about this type of thing! You can find those statistics anywhere you look, so I won't be citing them here. My goal here is to, air some of that dirty laundry, not just to show it off or get it out, but hopefully to help someone get through.  And to do that successfully!!!

Sucessfully can mean many things to many people, this I know, too.  But can I say at least with sound mind and body, being a goal of the getting through. So many avenues could be picked too to go down in the discussion of this subject, for sure. So what I will do is start with myself and I invite you to contact me on or with the avenue that you wished I had gone down to speak about on this subject.  I am a listening for your contact too!

One of the worst things about the ending of my first marriage, is that when that marriage ended, so did my faith in men, marriage, life and so much more. I kept my religion though, sorely bruised, but it was working and it did keep me going through a hard time in my life.  I was left with 3 children to raise now on my own as a single parent, and to find a way to keep a household that was barely running on two incomes, now running on one. 

Yes, it is here that I had to make decisions (crying decisions, because, not to be able to pay your bills hurts, and then people are loosing faith in you too. Your credibility as a person in society is dwindling down slowly) such as which utility to pay and keep on.  Well, the electricity won out! I could keep the house warm, cook and keep food in the refrigerator. With my keorosene heater and with some electric heaters too,  I could keep the pipes in the house from freezing in the winter time.  I and the children slept in the den with the kerosene heater.  We did what we had to do to survive.

Were there other options? Sure I had other options. I could have picked up and moved myself and my children home to mama. Did I mention that I had done that before, and had to come back because I could not work due to the time it takes to gain reciprocity for your license in another state. Let's see, another option was to let the house go and to move into the cheaper apartments down the street.  The ones that had the drug dealers and the real to life shoot out wars right there!  I filed for welfare, but I made to much money and besides, Reagan and Bush had passed the Child support law, and you had to go and file for that, first before you could get Public Assitance. It took a few years for that to become a reality, because they couldn't find my ex-husband who literally lived down the street and around the corner from me. Oh, did I mention that instead of working a regular job, I now had to work the equvalent of  three to keep what means I had going? Hmmm! Did I break the law and leave my children home alone a lot? Yes, I had to do it.  But I talked to them regularly on the phone! 

The crock pot, I love that thing!!! It helped me to have home cooked and ready meals for my children every day!!! Put all of your ingredients in it and turn it on to slow cook and by the time the children get home, all they have to do is open the lid, and fix their plates and eat!!! I still turn it on from time to time for myself now, because cooking for one person is not a lot of fun!

Enough of that and let us fast forward now to my second marriage to Richard Reddix, Sr. in 2008! What a beautiful old soul y'all!!! Beautiful, and he sure did know how to treat a lady! Just think, sterotypes and so much more almost didn't allow this meeting.  So when I tell you it must have been destiny, believe me. You can read all about my story and my marriage to him in my book Stand In Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass, available on Amazon.com and Barnes and Nobles too and of course from the Publisher Xulon Press.  Here is a ready link to it on Amazon -  http://www.amazon.com/author/louisempc 

You will love the sory, I guarantee it, for in it you will see how this beautiful man restored my faith and confidence in men, marriage and so much more. He loved all that hell, right out of me! An example of that is the testing of our young marriage by haveing to pick another church to fellwship in, and that is in the book too! He, just took my hand and walked with me through this whole dilemna. Talk about chivalry, honey, it was not dead.  This man protected me, walked with me and did not let rain fall on my head! No joke, and no lie!  I still have that big umbrella with the black and white pattern all around it that he would come around to my side of the car and put up when it was raining!  Yes, if we were back in those times when the stage coach and horses were running, he  would have put his coat down in the mud to keep my shoes from getting mud on them.  

A very precious soul, can't you see, just from what I have said? Now isn't he someone to be lamenting over? I miss him! One of the things that was a very prominnt feature in his life was his love for children!  He was a foster parent in Montgomery County, Maryland for many years and rescued many children from many situations in that way! And did adopet one too!!! Can you see this precious soul?  

Well he left that and more with me!  Can I ask you to come along side of me and support me in my Summer Youth Activity?  Help me to keep the spark he left with me going and guide some children to along in their lives. All of the proceeds that I receive from my Avon business, which I started to make sure that it would be suitable for a strt up business, will go towards my Summer Youth Activity - here is the link for you to learn more about that too!!! https://www.facebook.com/events/166911093472171/

You can look, good, smell good and help out my youth at the same time! I thank you in advance, and I look forward to hearing from you!!!

Help a sister, a friend, a widow and most of all now, some youth!!! Here is the link to my Avon page too - http://www.youravon.com/lmalbon-reddix

See you there or somewhere on this great wide web!

Louise

Louise Malbon-Reddix is the Author of:

Stand In Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass!

Watch the Book Trailer & Where to buy the book

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfOUVQFaxU0

You can find more written by  me at:

http://www.amazon.com/author/louisempc

http://www.facebook.com/victoryroadwellnesscenter

http://www.victoryroadwellnesscenter.com

http://www.scoop.it/authoring

http://pinterest.com/lmreddix/

http://www.youravon.com/lmalbon-reddix

And you can Follow me on Twitter - @LouiseReddix - see you there!!!

Music, Song and Music Appreciation

A period piece can be an object, a piece of music, a play, etc., valued for its quality of evoking a particular historical period: often one regarded as of little except historical interest.

 In my Music Appreciation Class some years ago, we were given an assignment in which we listened to period pieces. And we really did have  to appreciate it! We had to listen for such things as the time signature and  the instruments in the piece, and more of course. Eventually beingable to listen to a piece and actually name the Era of time that it was from.Some of thed eras and styles included Medievil, renaissance, Baroque and Classical    Apreciate them, yes and it became easier with repeated practice to identify them.

Well, I wish it was so with grief!  We do not get time to practice the steps of grieving, and if we could, would we even want to?  Oh my no!!! It is an unpleasant experience and the less time in it, the better. 

And as unpleasant as it is, that time does come into each of our lives. And as circumstances and each person is so different, there is hardly any one way to get through grief.

I am a product of the 70's generation and the music of that time!! Oldies but Goodies for sure!!!  And this is something that we all have in common.  We embrace the music of our times!! Most reading this will remember The American Bandstand, and of course, Soul Train that brought the music of our times into our living rooms to us by television.

To show you the powerful effect of music on us, I would even venture out and say that the theme music for  American Bandstand and SoulTrain are being sung, or is playing out in your mind right now.  DDDDD< DDDDDDD< DDDDD>DDDDDDDDDDD.DnDn>Bandstand!!!!

While I was going through one of the hardest times of grieving in my life, I discovered that one of the songs of my era, actually had all of the steps of grieving; accidentally, I am sure included in it!  The five steps of grieving are: Denial and Isolation - Anger - Bargaining - Depression - Acceptance.

Now you can take a look at the first few pages of my book here -

http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Your-Anointment-This-Shall/dp/1622300246/ref=la_B009OU5ZR0_1_1_title_0_main?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1354770320&amp;sr=1-1

Now, listen to Hall and Oates as they sing She's Gone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OVLfzYkM6Lo , then look on page 59 in my book and you can read how this song actually goes through all of the stages of grief.  

It is my sincere desire to come along side as many as I can as they go through such a trying time in their lives.  I wrote this book espressly to be able to help you  navigate through the process of grief and loss and tht on your own terms!!! We are all very different and beautiful people!

Louise Malbon-Reddix is the Author of:

Stand In Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass!

Watch the Book Trailer & Where to buy the book

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfOUVQFaxU0

You can find more written by  me at:

http://www.amazon.com/author/louisempc

http://www.facebook.com/victoryroadwellnesscenter

http://www.victoryroadwellnesscenter.com

http://www.scoop.it/authoring

http://pinterest.com/lmreddix/

http://www.youravon.com/lmalbon-reddix

And you can Follow me on Twitter - @LouiseReddix - see you there!!!

Louise

(Posted here also, as I cannot share to all places)

Real Life, Real Talk

The other day a friend sent me an invitation to join TWOO. I get invitations all the time to join this or that. And as I was invited, for sure, I did not want to let me friend down, so I went and joined. I found out that it is a way to meet other people. That is good, and I appreciate the thought. 

My mother had a saying, and it certainly seems to apply here! "Read between the lines!" Yes that is what she said. And reading between the lines here, I get it! I have stuck a chord on someone's nerve!  Seems like they are tired of hearing about my loss of my late husband! And what a beautiful and nonconfrontational way to let me know. Ever so gently, and without saying a word.But therein lies a thought though, that it just might be time to move on!

But wait! Let me tell you a little bit about my Richard, aka Tony! You see he was just a little older than I and we didn't go on a honeymoon or anything. And after we were married, hard to talk about it. But ok, here goes. 

You see my Tony was a real gentleman and I could tell he was a little worried about things. So to make it easier and a little fun too, I took us on a little drive to Beltway Plaza. There is a store in there called Lovin' Times.

Everyone could probably tell we were newlyweds, because we were just a gigling and laughing and just a carrying on! And if you go to that store yourself, you will see why we were carrying on so. And that picture here at the top is one of the things we left out of the store with!! Things that make you go HMMMM!!!

I have to tell all again how much I miss my gentle giant of a man. And for more of our story together, you will just have to buy my book - Stand In Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass!  And the book is a great help to anyone going through the processes of Grief and Loss, and who better from than someone who knows the agony of loosing someone and almost throwing in the towel!  

Now it is not just about that oowey, gooey stuff!  There is factual information in it too! Information about growth and development. Yes,  how it all depends on where you are in your life as to how you will cope and deal when things are less than happy in your life.  It talks about relationships in a real way too!

 Now you will just have to get that book, won't you? Real Life, Real Talk!!! If only we could know how another person feels and thinks!  Watch below, and then get my book too which is all about Real Life and Real Talk!

Stand In Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass!!!

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Louise Malbon-Reddix is the Author of:

Stand In Your Anointment - This Too Shall Pass!

Watch the Book Trailer & Where to buy the book

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfOUVQFaxU0

You can find more written by  me at:

http://www.amazon.com/author/louisempc

http://www.facebook.com/victoryroadwellnesscenter

http://www.victoryroadwellnesscenter.com

http://www.scoop.it/authoring

http://pinterest.com/lmreddix/

And you can Follow me on Twitter - @LouiseReddix - see you there!!!