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Books Edited by Valerie

Valerie began editing books on a regular basis in March, 2020.  She has edited over 150 books and counting, and loves every minute of her work.  Contact Valerie if you are interested in her editing services.

Books

A sample of books edited by Valerie.

Seeing Creatively: How to Unlock Your Imagination

Are you contemplating making a change toward a more fulfilling and enriched life? Experiencing a mindful focus on dealing with stress and conflict or wanting to reach a higher potential, can be exhausting! Your solution, Bonnie Wilczynski’s Seeing Creatively: How to Unlock Your Imagination.
Revel in a transformative guidebook that invites readers on an engaging journey of self-discovery and empowerment through practicing creative visualization.

Drawing upon the image of a magical mission is a roadmap for navigating the inner landscape of the mind and connecting the power of imagination to express dreams and ambitions.

Each chapter acts as a stepping-stone along the path. Readers are guided through a myriad of insights, tools, and exercises designed to light the way forward by exploring the life-changing potential of creative visualization. This exploration reveals how it can reshape perceptions, beliefs, and even realities.

With a toolkit of techniques and practices at their disposal, readers learn how to navigate the challenges of self-doubt, resistance, and limiting beliefs, while emphasizing the importance of mindfulness, presence, and gratitude, celebrating the journey of self-empowerment and transformation.

This book is an ongoing adventure that invites readers to embark on a journey of unlocking their imagination where they can access their true potential and light up the path to fulfilling their dreams.

Soul Detective: How to Solve the Inner Mystery of You

You Can Solve the Greatest Mystery of All—Your Soul Purpose!

Are you ready to delve into the amazing depths of your soul and unveil its unique treasures? Do you yearn to discover your deepest wisdom and decipher your highest aspirations?

This book is your roadmap to empowering you to become your own Soul Detective, leading you towards a life overflowing with profound meaning and genuine contentment.

Packed with ideas, exercises, and examples of how to use your mind and soul as your power tool kit, you’ll discover how to:

Connect deeply with your soul’s wisdom.
Break free from limiting beliefs and emotional blockages.
Reshape your life with clarity and confidence.
Solve your own life’s puzzles with ease.
Cultivate inner peace, resilience, and joy.

Nancy Weber is a renowned psychic detective featured in documentaries worldwide, a spiritual guide, animal communicator, and medical intuitive. With her decades of experience, she is uniquely equipped to lead you through your inner exploration with clarity and compassion, helping you uncover your soul’s true purpose.

Youth Truth: Engaging in Conversations That Can Change Lives

Do you know what questions to ASK your kids, students, and the youth in your life to get them to talk with you? Wouldn’t it be great to have them actually respond and engage in conversation?

This gripping book delves into the raw, unfiltered world of today’s youth. Their lives are way more complex than most realize. It is a compelling and poignant exploration of the challenges faced by young souls, bringing to light the often overlooked and misunderstood battles they fight.

In Youth Truth, discover the essential guide to navigating the tough conversations that matter most to today’s youth. This compelling narrative empowers parents, educators, and mentors to approach sensitive topics with empathy and understanding, creating safe spaces where young voices feel valued and heard. From the haunting realities of suicide and bullying to the silent battles of eating disorders, this book unveils the raw struggles faced by a generation yearning for connection.

The Menopause Mindshift: How I Unleashed My Inner Queen, And You Can Too!

Unleash Your Inner Queen and Transform Your Menopause Experience!

Are you overwhelmed by hot flashes, memory loss, fatigue, and insomnia? It’s time to change your menopause mindset and reclaim your life!

Author Lisa R. Triggs is a woman who faced almost seven years of depression, insomnia, hot flashes, and memory issues. In 2023, Lisa discovered a new path and realized that the power to improve her symptoms was within her all along. By adopting a positive perspective on menopause and integrating tools like meditation, affirmations, and visualization, Lisa experienced a remarkable transformation.

In her inspiring book, Lisa shares her journey and offers practical guidance to help you:
-Learn how to control and reduce menopause symptoms through mindset changes
-Discover powerful methods to envision and achieve a healthier, more balanced life
-Calm the inner storm of hot flashes with soothing meditation practices
-Write and use impactful affirmations to reinforce positive changes
-Explore the healing power of solfeggio frequencies
-Embark on a journey of self-discovery with insightful tools and exercises
-Understand the crucial role of self-love during menopause

Beginning at the End: Finding Grace Through Faith After Divorce

Divorce is devastating, but when the feelings of betrayal, shame, guilt, and condemnation are added to the fear of getting divorced over the age of 50 you have a life of brokenness that seems impossible to repair.

The emotional upheaval that produced overwhelming feelings of inadequacy and a heart shattered into a million pieces gripped the life of Sharon Elaine as she struggled to understand how this tragedy came to be. There was nothing complicated about what she wanted for her life. Sharon wanted the family she never had. She struggled to find direction, balance, and self-worth.

After her divorce, Sharon took a critical look at the lifelong relationships that contributed to her thoughts of inadequacy despite her professional success. Specifically, Sharon developed her relationship with God. She began to understand how her beliefs, thoughts and actions contributed to her relationships and her divorce. This has given her victory through her faith in God, and the grace God provides for us.

Cultivating Justice: Empowering Youth

Advocate for your rights and participate in your freedoms! In no nonsense language, Cultivating Justice breaks down America’s Constitutional rights by telling unforgettable true stories of young people who grew our legal landscape. This book gives practical and legal significance to case examples, inviting people to continue to define justice.

Guided by Lady Justice, who cuts to the truth with her sword, is blindfolded against prejudices, and weighs the inequities in her scales, this book shows us that one voice can make a difference. It provides hope in American jurisprudence instead of despair, empathy instead of anger, and a course of action in place of apathy.

Reclaiming Me: Lessons from a First-Generation Mexican Daughter

Adriana Martínez, a first-generation daughter of Mexican immigrants, grew up in the housing projects, made it to Stanford University and beyond, and has spent a lifetime searching for and finding inner peace and happiness on her own terms.

This empowering book, always lyrical with sprinkles of humor and heartbreak, explores important issues like identity, biculturalism, mental health, self-esteem, personal loss, and spirituality. It is rich with insights and information for anyone searching for genuine fulfillment, especially first-generation and immigrant youth growing up in poverty.

Reclaiming Me: Lessons from a First-Generation Mexican Daughter is a deeply personal story that encourages readers to reflect, discover, and embrace who they truly are – not just once, but every single day. It provides valuable, practical advice with universal lessons of self-discovery, self-love and forgiveness.

Adriana's inspiring stories show us how having the courage to live with authenticity, transparency, and vulnerability can lead to a meaningful and rewarding life filled with gratitude, resilience, and joy.

Dishing It Up with Dad: How Food & Story-Telling Nourish Body & Soul

We all die. But, how we live, how long we live, and how we die are largely within our control. After receiving her father’s prognosis of ‘just three months to live,’ nutritionist Lisa Tremont Ota dished up delicious plant-based meals while her father revealed the depths of his remarkable life. This exchange nourished body and soul for them both, leading her father to live much longer and encounter death on his own terms.

Through food and storytelling, this book shows how you can:

Change the outcome of a prognosis
Experience the dying process as a sacred journey
Provide your family with plant-based meals that will support optimal health
Help reverse chronic health conditions like heart disease and cancer
Help someone die with dignity.

From bar room brawls to ships lost at sea, these page-turning stories will inspire you to be true to yourself, to be kind and helpful to others, and to believe in the importance of perseverance. Your awareness of what it means to consciously help a loved one transition to the other side will grow, both in terms of the patience and grace required. You will also gain insight into how to navigate the necessary details of the death process. And, perhaps best of all, the recipes will last a lifetime.

We May Not Be Crazy, But Sometimes I Wonder: Embracing Life's Journey With Humour, Wisdom and Adventure

Have you ever had a day straight from hell? The kids are driving you crazy, and everything that could possibly go wrong has. Welcome to everyday family life. How does one cope? Find out in this humorous and inspiring book.

Called a modern Erma Bombeck, Lynda Pilon recounts her experiences as a wife, mother, and grandmother—dealing with situations that will resonate with many readers. Through her creative methods, she demonstrates how to navigate the joys and challenges of daily life with a sense of humour, often transforming chaos into calm. She tells us don’t sweat the small stuff, even while you are dripping wet from the heat to give you a refreshing perspective on managing life’s ups and downs.

This book will:

Bring a smile to your face when you most need it
Reveal some unorthodox albeit successful ways to adapt to life’s challenges
Show you that living life to the fullest is the only way to travel
Remind you that laughter, especially at yourself, can be a sanity saver

BAD-ASS SOLUTIONS: For Today’s BIG-ASS Problems

BIG-ASS PROBLEMS REQUIRE BAD-ASS SOLUTIONS

Bad-Ass Solutions isn’t about solving problems like what to watch on Netflix tonight. It addresses the big-ass threats to us and even our civilization, such as global warming, homelessness, and mass killings. This refreshingly NONPARTISAN book is for all of us who are frightened, frustrated and pissed off about these critical issues that just aren’t being addressed.

Author Mitch Francis solved today’s big-ass problems in amazingly creative and doable ways. He included hilarious, relevant quotes from well-known people and employed his fun, tongue-in-cheek humor.

Mitch’s Bad-Ass Solutions will:

Destroy every assault rifle in thirty days.
House and treat the homeless, addicted and mentally ill—at a very low cost.
Pay off the entire US deficit and stop inflation.
Make public schools better than private schools to heal the rich/poor chasm.
Stop the oceans rising from melting polar ice caps. Really!
Resolve the abortion issue satisfactorily for all sides.
End gang and drug crime.
Resolve the problems of immigration, government size, taxes, healthcare, drugs, wars, elections, housing costs, Russia and China.

Can these nightmare problems really be resolved?
BIG-ASS YES!
BAD-ASS SOLUTIONS For Today’s BIG-ASS Problems

On Butterflies Wings: An Anthology of International Escapades

Did you ever wish you could have a front row seat to history? Tania Anderson did.

With an unquenchable thirst for exploration of diverse cultures and a quest to understand “the common denominator that binds humankind,” Tania, an international flight attendant, sets out on a worldwide discovery to understand her personal truth. Relentless curiosity has led her to a fulfilling life beyond her imagination. Yes, you can travel the world, meet celebs, presidents, and even a saint, all without leaving your home.

Fly alongside this international voyager and behold historical events up close:

Journey with Tania to Calcutta to meet Mother Teresa Enjoy a front row seat as Nelson Mandela receives the Congressional Gold Medal Watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis Meet the Dalai Lama in a New Delhi hotel corridor Be onboard as the US Army brings victorious soldiers home Witness Tania’s harrowing escape from Nigeria as she is mistaken for a CIA agent

As you travel the world with Tania, you will start to view other civilizations with new eyes.

You will reflect, become teary-eyed and experience how destitute people struggle while their elite and royals exist in a life of fantasy. Laugh at some zany shenanigans that arise thousands of miles from home.

But in the end, you will be inspired to begin your own exploration of the world while making unforgettable friends with heart-warming memories along the way.

Take Back Your Life: 5 Steps to Creating YOUR Quantum Leap!

There’s a groundbreaking way to achieve your dreams without feeling overwhelmed or stuck. Take Back Your Life! 5 Steps to Creating YOUR Quantum Leap is the guide you need to turn your life around, starting today.

This book isn’t just about setting goals. It’s about transforming your life, one step at a time. It’s about turning those ‘shoulds’ into ‘musts’ and finding your true ‘why’. It’s about creating a compelling future that excites you every single day.

Community Capital: Race, Equity, and the Credit Union Movement

No margin—no mission…

What does it take to bring financial justice to communities of color?

Cliff Rosenthal, shaped by the movements of the 1960s, fought for decades against government indifference and systemic bias—finally seeing change come after the death of George Floyd. Michael McCray, a renowned whistle-blower, led an unprecedented court challenge to the unjust federal termination of his fraternity’s Kappa Alpha Psi Federal Credit Union. Here for the first time you’ll find the inside story of the landmark KAPFCU v NCUA federal court case. These stories will inspire all those working to fulfill the promise of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the financial system.

Death Can Wait: How I Beat Stage IV Cancer Naturally

If you have been diagnosed with cancer, it is crucial to follow your doctor’s advice. However, there are other things you can do to improve your chances of recovery. The author shares his story of being diagnosed with cancer, undergoing surgery and immunotherapy, which was stopped due to an autoimmune response. Even after that, his doctors gave him a prognosis of eight to ten months to live.

This book explains the specific steps the author took to beat stage IV cancer, without needing chemotherapy. There is a common misconception that a cancer diagnosis is a death sentence, but this book demonstrates otherwise. It delivers valuable insights on extending your life and maintaining good health. The book discusses natural and affordable options you can take to speed up your recovery from cancer.

The author has been cancer-free for over six years thanks to the information he shares in this book. After six months of following the natural options and some key lifestyle choices, his CT scans were clear and have remained so ever since.
What you will find in this book:

Hope for a bright and healthy future.
Encouragement to move forward with simple steps to help you recover from cancer.
Confidence that you can do this!
Peace of mind, knowing that you are taking steps in the right direction for your life and your health.
A sense of belonging to a community of others who are on a similar journey.
Ideas on things you can do to bring yourself to optimal health.

Building Bridges in Toxic Political Times: A Road Map for Community Leaders

Fed up with how divided we are? Ready to find common ground? In Building Bridges in Toxic Political Times, longtime unifier Dick Batchelor offers proven strategies for reaching consensus—whether at home, around the boardroom table, or in the political arena. Through real-life examples, Batchelor will show you how to:
-Address difficult conversations
-Move toward meaningful compromise
-Achieve lasting solutions

Batchelor challenges us all to change the conversation and become bridge-builders ourselves.

New Teacher Confidential: What They Didn't Tell You About Being a Teacher

What Every New Teacher Really Needs to Know
Veteran teacher Shannon Hazel shares the lessons she learned from more than two decades in the classroom to help prepare new teachers for the realities of a career in education.

If you’re new to teaching and want to save yourself time, frustration, and sleep–then New Teacher: Confidential is for you.

In this book you’ll learn:
How to minimize undesirable behaviour and increase student success.
The ingredients for establishing a productive learning environment.
Easy-to-use strategies for stress-free communication with parents.
The dos and don’ts for fostering an effective working relationship with your administrator.
Ways to navigate the swinging pendulum in education and avoid burnout.
Steps for finding balance between home and school.
Shannon Hazel has been a respected teacher, special education specialist, and instructional coach over her twenty-five years in education. She is also the founder of teacherEDU, a learning community for teachers. Visit teacheredu.ca to learn more.

Still The Soul Survives: A Journey of Compassion, Memory and Self-Discovery

Pamela Goldstein's life was changed forever by a series of nurse/patient encounters with WW2 Holocaust survivors in 1973. These patients profoundly affected her and impacted her view on the world and how it treats Jews.

The survivors' fears of the future are real, even prophetic, but through their eyes, they teach Pam the enduring nature of souls uniting in forgiveness of a cruel, conflicted world. They teach her how love will always overcome evil.

This book made me cry when I realized the lif

How to Master Your Karma: A Practical Guide to Living a Prosperous Life

What is your karma? Wonder why you are here and where you are going? Want to live a prosperous life? This practical guide will reveal your karma and teach you how to Soul Walk. Soul Walking will present you with your karma, show you ways to correct it, and then teach you how to find the treasures of life so that you might use them to prosper and become successful. Follow the steps to bring wealth, pleasure, harmony, and soulfulness to your life.

What more could you want than a prosperous, successful life? Remember, Life becomes what life does…so work your karma and start walking the soulful path today!

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it. Let’s Soul Walk ~the path of prosperity awaits you ~ here and now.

Twisty and True Tails of a Shelter Dog Matchmaker

Dogs can teach you a thing or two about how to take a proper nap. They can also touch your heart with life-long lessons about love, loss, and loyalty.

Twisty and True Tails of a Shelter Dog Matchmaker is about displaced dogs that took the winding road instead of the straight path to happiness. It provides spiritual perspective and encouragement—plus it’s a fun and easy read.

Jean Alfieri finds hope and joy in both her work at the Humane Society in Colorado Springs and in the lives of her adopted vintage puppies. She offers this collection of twelve tales to support fellow fur-parents through the struggles, the delights, and the many blessings of this special kind of stewardship. As you travel through this book, you will meet a charming pack of transformational canine characters, along with a sprinkling of:

timeless quotes
inspiring scripture
paw-some thoughts

Come along on this dog lover's adventure.

Beat the Wealth Management Hustle: Invest Independently to Grow Savings Faster with Peace of Mind

Are you frightened whenever financial markets decline dramatically? Unsure of how to proceed with building your wealth? This book will teach you how to invest and grow your money with joy and peace of mind!

You can learn to invest fearlessly, whether you have a full-time advisor, invest independently, or engage a fixed-fee consultant to construct a customized strategy. Whatever approach you select, you must systematically develop a resilient strategy and maintain the resolve to execute it with discipline.

There is no reason to be intimidated by investing. Your first step is to arm yourself with the vital investment knowledge that this book provides. Since it is your hard-earned money, you should make confident decisions about how to invest it and, if you are working with an advisor or consultant, learn how they add value after their fees.

Legal Protection: Affordable Options for Individuals, Families, and Small Businesses

In "Legal Protection," author Léonie Rosenstiel provides a comprehensive guide to navigating the complex landscape of legal services. The book emerges as a beacon of hope for those daunted by the intricacies of the legal system, especially for individuals without a deep pocket.

Rosenstiel's work is meticulously researched and written with the layperson in mind. It demystifies legal jargon and processes, making the law more accessible to the average person. Each chapter delves into different l

Coping Courageously: A Heart-Centered Guide for Navigating a Loved One’s Illness Without Losing Yourself

Are you stressed and exhausted because someone you love is seriously ill? Do you wish you felt less overwhelmed and more certain about how to help? Coping Courageously will be your guide. You will learn:
• None The most important things to do, and not do, when a loved one is sick
• None Insider strategies for getting the best medical care
• None A simple and effective approach for managing your own stress


You will be touched and inspired by the stories of Dr. Chiaramonte’s patients. More impo
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