Self-Help

Ginny Sassaman
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Ginny Sassaman is a co-founder, immediate past president, and advisory board member of Gross National Happiness USA, an organization working to promote the use of well-being measures in the United States. She created the Happiness Paradigm as a platform for teaching, writing about, and advocating for greater personal happiness and creating systems change for maximum well-being for all. Since 2013, she has also served as a lay preacher at Unitarian Universalist churches in Vermont, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and South Carolina. She has given speeches and made presentations on the nexus between personal well-being and systems change in Seattle, WA; Burlington, VT; Princeton, NJ; Charlotte, NC; Santa Fe, NM; and New York City. Additionally, to promote greater well-being, Sassaman teaches secular meditation classes.

Originally from Central Pennsylvania, Ginny and her husband Bob spent many years living in Washington, DC, before settling near Montpelier, Vermont, in 2001.

Author Phone Number
8022725628
Author USPS Address - PO / Street - City / Town - State
PO Box 191
05648
Author Physical Address - Street - City / Town - State
Calais
Where my books are sold.
https://www.rootstockpublishing.com/ - Amazon.com, independent bookstores

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ISBN 9781578690268 - Preaching Happiness: Creating a Just and Joyful World - Creating thriving, peaceful, and content personal lives, while creating conditions for maximum well-being for all humans, animals, and the planet, requires soul-deep transformation. Through a series of secular sermons on a wide range of happiness skills, this book teaches and encourages that transformation.
Nadean Stone
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Nadean Stone was born in Blind River Ontario, Canada, graduated from Windsor University in 1973 with a BA and McMaster University in 1976 with an MBA.

She obtained her Certificate in Journalism in 2002 and her Certificate of Legal Management, CLM in 2011.

In 2004, Nadean helped launch a weekday one-hour talk show on NBC Miramar, FL as the show’s Booker and Celebrity Producer.

Nadean is a Legal Management Consultant and author. She works as an advocate for children and adoptees, with an interest in public policy and legislation. In July 2018 she filed a petition with the UN Commission on the Rights of the Child illuminating numerous Articles of the UN Convention that the Province of Ontario has violated in its treatment of illegally adopted children.

Nadean spent 44 years searching for her birth mother, challenging the current law in Ontario Canada regarding non-adoptee’s access to their birth records. To access Birth Search Resources in Ontario Canada, click here.

She is currently exploring the transformation of her memoir No Stone Unturned: A Remarkable Journey To Identity into a screenplay and is also working on a series of children’s stories about her adventures on her grandmother’s farm, as well as a story about her much-loved Aunt Roberta.

She and her husband Bill divide their time between their home in Florida and their cottage in Vermont.

Author Phone Number
9545923838
Author USPS Address - PO / Street - City / Town - State
Grand Isle VT
Where my books are sold.
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Phoenix Books

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ISBN: 9780578431642 - No Stone Unturned: A Remarkable Journey to Identity - My beautiful adoptive mother Rita died when I was two years old. When her mother, my grandmother shared that I was adopted, my birthday wish every year was to find my birth mother. No Stone Unturned is about the decades long search and so much more. As one reviewer states, “This book is a MUST READ. Never judge a book by its cover. Don’t let the beauty and softness of Nadean fool you. She is tough as stone. No Stone Unturned is a real-life story which contains all the elements for a great movie: Real life drama, pain, suspense, romance, royalty, politics, and more. You will cry, laugh, and get angry. Thank you Nadean for being transparent and opening up your soul to share such personal details.”

No Stone Unturned back cover - Click to enlarge.
No Stone Unturned back cover - Click to enlarge.