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April 18, 2008

Reach Out and Touch Someone…

In 1981 AT&T ripped at our heart strings with the slogan “Reach out and touch someone”.

Think back…

You’re away at college when you see this tear jerking long distance telephone commercial on TV. Now you know, without a shadow of a doubt, how much your momma misses you. Call her!

Your sweet old Grandma doesn’t have much time left on this earth; she wants to hear your voice. Won’t you at least talk to her today?

When I hear the first few notes of this gut wrenching jingle, I instantly yearn for the yummy smells of home. My eyes well-up, I need to talk to my daddy.

Oh for crying out loud, this is one powerful commercial, my father lives next door!

Now, fast forward twenty seven years to our current lifestyle.

I'm living a dream as I walk barefoot on sugar white sands. The warm emerald waters of the Gulf of Mexico gently tickle my perfectly painted toe nails.

However, my life in paradise does not keep me from popping in on my daughter, Keelyn, for a quick virtual chat. My computer’s web cam hooks up with my daughters Mac in Seattle, which is three thousand miles away. Yet, we instantly create a video/audio connection. How virtually cool is that?

This is how the ‘Baby Boomer’ parents and generation ‘X’ children communicate in 2008.

Today my seven month old grandbaby, Trista, is flapping her arms like a bird, wiggling on her momma’s lap, happily squawking showing me glimpses of her new front teeth.

I watch Charlie, my five year old grandson, bounce into the room looking straight at me on the computer screen. (The computer grandma’s virtual visit is old-hat to him.) Charlie’s big brown eyes twinkle as he smirks and says, “Gran-maw, can I have some candy?”

Thrilled to be noticed, I quickly answer, “Yes you can.” Charlie takes off on a dead run shouting back towards me, “Gran-maw you’re da best.”

My daughter instantly spews out an irritated “Mom!”

Somehow I’m not getting that warm fuzzy feeling of …‘Reach out and touch someone’.

This virtual reality ‘thang’ just got tricky. Oops, mybad!

Pam Vanden Bos, Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine Intern

March 04, 2007

Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Wisdom with Dr. Christiane Northrup

We have some great news to share! Our dear friend and colleague Dr. Christiane Northrup will launch her new cutting-edge Public Television special—Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Wisdom this weekend, March 3rd. This upbeat and eye-opening show—which covers everything from heart health, hormones, and having the best sex of your life—will air throughout the month of March on PBS. Thank you in advance for your support! Together we can encourage some of these 40 million midlife women (and the 20 million more to come) to embrace the second chapter of their life and refuel their soul!

Change Your Life and Your Misconceptions about Menopause!

“I’ve been to the mountaintop and I’ve come down the other side and I can tell you that the news about menopause is really, really good! The days of ‘one-size-fits-all-medicine’ and the Father Knows Best version of ‘Here, take this pill and you’ll feel fine, ma’am’ is obsolete. It’s over. It’s not about raging hormones meant to torture you. This is a time to reinvent yourself. It’s a time to fuel your life not by what others think, but by source energy. It’s a time to mend all the unhealed parts of you. That’s why I call it the ‘wisdom’ of menopause.  And this information is equally relevant for men.” — Dr. Christiane Northrup

Do you dread getting older?

Do you worry about unbearable hot flashes, sleep deprivation, and the end of your sex life?

Are you considering hormone replacement, but you aren’t too sure of what the controversy is all about?

There are 40 million American women who are 50 or older, and 20 million more who will reach menopause within the next decade. If you’re one of these women, New York Times best-selling author and today’s leading expert on women’s health issues Dr. Christiane Northrup wants to dispel some popular misconceptions and let you in on the good news: The second half of your life is designed to provide you with more pleasure, prosperity, and fulfillment than you have ever dreamed possible!

Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women, which begins airing in March, is based on Dr. Northrup’s long-anticipated revised edition of The Wisdom of Menopause—the book that women around the world have embraced, including Oprah Winfrey, who sought Dr. Northrup’s wise words when she turned 50 and faced “The Big M.”

In Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women, you can hear Dr. Northrup’s new perspective on menopause where she’ll refute the stereotypic definition as a frenzy of hot flashes and hormonal mood swings, and instead prove that it’s an illuminating chapter in a woman’s life—one with wonderful gifts and challenges to discover. Most important, she’ll provide you with a blueprint for making sure that your menopausal years are the happiest and most vibrantly healthy years of your life.

During Dr. Northrup’s all-new public television special—Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women, you’ll learn:

● Guaranteed ways to lose weight permanently and balance your hormones with diet

● Why you should heed the messages behind your mood swings and hot flashes

● How to experience the best sex of your life after menopause

● How to achieve vibrant cardiovascular health as well as what the real indicators of cardiovascular disease are

● Why an individualized approach to HRT, including bioidentical hormones and nutritional alternatives, works best

● How to lower your risk of all cancers, including breast cancer

● To cultivate midlife beauty better than any cosmetic product or surgery ever could

● Why stress of all kinds, including emotional, physical, or nutritional, can fuel hormonal imbalances…and provide an unparalleled opportunity for growth

● How changes in the midlife brain prepare us for living with more wisdom than ever before

And more!

With impeccable scientific and medical credentials and more than 25 years of clinical experience as an ob-gyn physician, Dr. Northrup has given millions of women uplifting messages of hope, health, and healing for the female body and spirit. Now Dr. Northrup can change your life and your misconceptions about menopause. See her in this groundbreaking new public television special—Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women!

It’s time to update your thinking and embrace menopause as an exciting time when you can change your life for the better. Dr. Northrup explains how.

See Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women when it airs throughout the month of March! Check your local public television station for airtimes and dates. For more details, visit Dr. Northrup’s new Website: www.drnorthrup.com