Host: Sheryl Glick R.M.T.
Special Guest: Dianne Bischoff James (http://www.liveyoureverything.com/)
In today’s episode of Healing From Within, your host Sheryl Glick, author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love, a book that offers a view of Universal Energy, it’s healing influences and how to align to this force to empower and encourage personal growth and to manifest a healthy successful life experience, welcomes Dianne Bischoff James author of The Real Brass Ring (http://www.amazon.com/Real-Brass-Ring-Change-Course/dp/1618520555/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1451831225&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Real+Brass+Ring). Dianne received an international 2014 “Bronze Living Now Book Award” and is an inspiration which passionately reveals how anyone can re-invent themselves, and reclaim their authentic self.
Dianne will share her personal story of how at the age of thirty eight, a marketing professional and mother of three appeared to have the perfect life, an impressive educational background, accomplished career, busy family life and social status. It seemed she had grabbed the brass ring and hung on but as for many people reality was starkly different. Dianne decided to do something about it and her book full of motivational ideas and techniques may help you make your own transition and find the joy in rediscovering what really thrills and brings meaning to your life.
Dianne wrote, “My childhood was quite distressing. In active pursuit of my father’s financial career our family moved from state to state as he climbed the corporate ladder. I changed schools every 3 years and found it nearly impossible to develop long term attachments to friends teachers or schoolmates… My family dynamics were also less than ideal. My mother was passive and fearful and my father was an aggressive driven intellectual man who ruled with an iron fist-there was no tolerance for complaints or openness to personal expression: (ex Stop crying or I’ll give you something to cry about) These behaviors and issues and feelings of abandonment and lack of self-worth ballooned out of control and Dianne kept moving faster and faster toward societies valued goals: own a business, make lots of money, get married raise a family in suburbia, sign up kids for a million activities and always be the perfect mom with a peppermint colored lipstick smile.
Dianne also mentions despite an active Catholic background Catholicism was not for her as she became interested in metaphysics and intent on understanding what we are supposed to achieve as spiritual beings having a physical life. Dianne continued her pursuit with an undergraduate degree in both psychology and philosophy learning more about human behavior and historical ideologies. She practiced Transcendental Meditation and studied A Course in Miracles
Dianne mentions that in 2000 on her 38th birthday, she received the gift of a reading with renowned psychic Sonia Choquette, confirming what Dianne had always felt in her heart to be true… Sonia Choquette gave Dianne a message…. “You live with depression because nothing about your life is your own….Fix your ways or it will be too late.” While Dianne wasn’t one to make changes in her life based on the words of a psychic she decided to act and radically transform her life. Today she has added author and working actress to her resume and explored dreams of her own along with a fulfilling love life and her fun-loving blended family on the North Shore of Chicago. She hardly recognizes the person she once was. This book is the story of the remarkable midlife reboot and is the perfect inspiration for any one feeling stuck, unhappy and ready to reboot so they can move forward on the life path they originally set out to create.
Sheryl says to Dianne “I often have coincidences or connections to my guests and today I will tell you in relation to my own awakening process and how Sonia Choquette played a major role in my beginning understanding of Spirit,
