Sue Grace has spent the last 18 years working and advocating for Arizona’s behavioral health system. From 1991 to 1996 she served in the Arizona House of Representatives and served as a State Senator from 1997 to 2000. She focused much of her attention on improving the level of behavioral health care for Arizona’s citizens and spearheaded funding for construction of the new Civil Unit at the Arizona State Hospital, and, in her last year, successfully sponsored funding for Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams across Arizona. Sue served for several years as a board member and President of MIKID (Mentally Ill Kids in Distress) and also was an Ex-Officio Member of the AZ State Hospital Advisory Board.
Sue worked from 2005 to 2007 as Family Involvement Specialist for ValueOptions, where she provided technical support to family mentors, served as primary trainer for Family Essentials Trainings, researched and developed recommendations for family support programs, analyzed demographic trends and developed reports that helped identify service recipient and family member needs in our service system.
Currently, Sue works as the Peer Specialist Training and Evaluation Coordinator for Magellan Health Services, where she partners with community members and providers and other department members to develop peer specialist programs aimed at promoting recovery and resiliency.
Sue earned a BA in Journalism from Marquette University and a Masters in Public Administration from ASU. She has lived in Arizona since 1983, and has been married to Vic for 28 years. She has 2 daughters, Elizabeth and Irene. Sue’s first grandchild, Valencia Grace Bergeron, was born in May.
Monday, July 21, 2008
About Mind & Soul…
Elaine Yoshikawa received her B.A. in Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley and later received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University. Her area of specialization is Ethics, specifically Virtue Ethics and moral psychology. While a graduate student she was the Editorial Assistant for the journal Philosophical Studies as well as the Undergraduate Academic Advisor for the Philosophy Department in Tempe. She is currently a Lecturer in Philosophy at ASU’s Polytechnic Campus. She has been teaching philosophy for 12 years and over the past five years has given presentations and talks in the community on various topics such as: Virtue Ethics, Happiness, and Business Ethics. She is presently writing a book entitled: Virtue, Happiness, and Self-Transformation and is developing a new university course on happiness. In addition she has been a computer programmer, a piano performance major at the Eastman School of Music, and a doctoral student in spiritual psychology. She also has a keen interest in Christian Ethics, Buddhist Ethics and Eastern Philosophy.
About Finance & Business
Cindy Wilson has been married to the same man for 35 years and has 4 children and 1 adorable granddaughter. She and her husband John are credentialed licensed ministers with Foursquare Church International and are currently planning a church in the east Mesa area. Cindy is also a certified Pathway to Purpose Life Purpose Coach, Facilitator and Instructor for women, couples and young adults. As a coach she helps her clients determine their individual purpose and personal goals. As a business woman she has owned and operated a number of businesses including Agape Graduations and Alphagraphics Print shop franchises. For the last 6 years Cindy has been a Franchise Consultant with Franchoice where she had the opportunity to profile individuals and guide them in successfully selecting franchise businesses. Cindy’s passion for seeing women realize their God-given design has been the driving force behind her involvement in women’s ministries, tiaraladies.com, and small group development.
About Travel
Marcela Marenco graduated from Arizona State University with a BS in Psychology in 2005. She has traveled extensively, and has lived in South America, Asia, the United States, and Europe. This multi-cultural exposure gives her an understanding of people from different ethnicities and backgrounds. She thrives on assisting others, and working to bring about meaningful and lasting changes. Marcela is married and has three children. She is also fluent in Spanish and English, with intermediate knowledge of Japanese, Dutch, and French.
About Politics & Society
Jocelyn Fong is an Arizona native and recent graduate of Goshen College with a Bachelor’s degree in Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies. While in school, Jocie worked as a student researcher, assisted an international relations course, and studied and volunteered abroad in both Costa Rica and Guatemala. After graduation, she served a 10-month Americorps term as a Public Ally in Phoenix. Placed at Anytown Arizona, a local nonprofit dedicated to prejudice reduction education for youth, Jocie supported the organization in many capacities, including program coordination, web design, curriculum development, proposal writing, and large group facilitation. She plans to pursue a graduate degree in Public Policy and spend her career researching, writing and learning.
About the editor...
Shavawn M. Berry received her Master of Professional Writing (MPW) degree specializing in Creative Nonfiction and Memoir at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1998. She currently teaches writing fulltime at Arizona State University including composition, business writing, and creative writing courses and workshops. She specializes in spiritual and healing writing as well as writing aimed at changing/creating discourse. Ms. Berry’s prose, essays, articles, and poetry have been published in Poet Lore, California Quarterly, Westview - A Journal of Western Oklahoma, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Concho River Review, North Atlantic Review, Synapse, Blue Mountain Arts/SPS, Living Buddhism, addictionsolutions.com, and buddhajones.com, among others. She is currently working on a spiritual memoir, a collection of poetry, a novel, and a collection of essays.
You can read samples of her work or peruse her blog by visiting her website at http://www.shavawnmberry.com
You can read samples of her work or peruse her blog by visiting her website at http://www.shavawnmberry.com
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Whole Life Living...
Lifestyle: Whole Life Living
Lifestyle encompasses a way of life and the characteristic include a wide variety of behavioral choices—a manner of living combining life and style within our society. If we are fortunate, the yield produced offers certain gifts of love, delight, tranquility, fortitude, and charity. Often times ‘choice’ is key in defining the type of life and style of life we live.
Daily talks show, media, peers and culture tend to suggest trends; concepts and ideas as ‘how to live just like the rich and famous’ to entice our human senses toward the ‘glamorous life’. However, the goal is seeking to attain a healthy, fit and well balanced life enjoying and participating in the fruits of the spirit. Everyone desire the components of the secret of youth and antidotal remedies that are proven to work in order to effectively for a quick nip and tuck here and there, or to lose weight, take a little pill to have more energy, purchase a cream to get rid of those unwanted wrinkles. In fact, many do pay whatever the costs to attain the fool proof prescription for certain imagine of life.
The good news is that there is hope for those not willing to ‘buy’ whole life living. Here’s an exclusive, from a personal interview conducted with a friend that we all love and admire that quotes: “Lifestyle for a complete and whole life living experience begins with; love tender affection for somebody such as a close relative or friend, or for something such as a place, an ideal, or even a pet or animal. Secondly, seed joy; feelings of great happiness or pleasure, especially of an elevated or spiritual kind, to delight in something you enjoy. Thirdly, hunt for peace; tranquility a calm and quiet state, free from disturbances or noise, mental calm, a state of mental calm and serenity, with no anxiety, it bring harmony to life.
Fourthly, patience; the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset, or to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties, its sure to relieve tension and stress. Fifth, kindness: the ability to behave kindly, the practice of being or the tendency to be sympathetic and compassionate. Remember to throw in a couple of compassionate acts of showing consideration and caring—the rewards of fabulous.
Sixth, is goodness; a quality of good, virtuousness, the nutrition or other benefit to be derived from something, this is more difficulty but produces strength when needed. Seventh is faithfulness; unwavering in belief, believing firmly in something or somebody, especially God or a sound theological doctrine—and consistently loyal, trustworthy and loyal, especially to a person, promise, or duty. Here’s an additional tip, fellowship with trustworthy friends to build you up as well.
Eight is gentleness; kindness, being moderate in force or degree so that the effects are not severe but mild, using little force. Take is easy on yourself remember to forgive you and others, that’s really was essential in my case. Ninth is self-control: restraint with the ability to control your own behavior, especially in terms of reactions and impulses”.
Lifestyle encompasses a way of life and the characteristic include a wide variety of behavioral choices—a manner of living combining life and style within our society. If we are fortunate, the yield produced offers certain gifts of love, delight, tranquility, fortitude, and charity. Often times ‘choice’ is key in defining the type of life and style of life we live.
Daily talks show, media, peers and culture tend to suggest trends; concepts and ideas as ‘how to live just like the rich and famous’ to entice our human senses toward the ‘glamorous life’. However, the goal is seeking to attain a healthy, fit and well balanced life enjoying and participating in the fruits of the spirit. Everyone desire the components of the secret of youth and antidotal remedies that are proven to work in order to effectively for a quick nip and tuck here and there, or to lose weight, take a little pill to have more energy, purchase a cream to get rid of those unwanted wrinkles. In fact, many do pay whatever the costs to attain the fool proof prescription for certain imagine of life.
The good news is that there is hope for those not willing to ‘buy’ whole life living. Here’s an exclusive, from a personal interview conducted with a friend that we all love and admire that quotes: “Lifestyle for a complete and whole life living experience begins with; love tender affection for somebody such as a close relative or friend, or for something such as a place, an ideal, or even a pet or animal. Secondly, seed joy; feelings of great happiness or pleasure, especially of an elevated or spiritual kind, to delight in something you enjoy. Thirdly, hunt for peace; tranquility a calm and quiet state, free from disturbances or noise, mental calm, a state of mental calm and serenity, with no anxiety, it bring harmony to life.
Fourthly, patience; the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset, or to persevere calmly when faced with difficulties, its sure to relieve tension and stress. Fifth, kindness: the ability to behave kindly, the practice of being or the tendency to be sympathetic and compassionate. Remember to throw in a couple of compassionate acts of showing consideration and caring—the rewards of fabulous.
Sixth, is goodness; a quality of good, virtuousness, the nutrition or other benefit to be derived from something, this is more difficulty but produces strength when needed. Seventh is faithfulness; unwavering in belief, believing firmly in something or somebody, especially God or a sound theological doctrine—and consistently loyal, trustworthy and loyal, especially to a person, promise, or duty. Here’s an additional tip, fellowship with trustworthy friends to build you up as well.
Eight is gentleness; kindness, being moderate in force or degree so that the effects are not severe but mild, using little force. Take is easy on yourself remember to forgive you and others, that’s really was essential in my case. Ninth is self-control: restraint with the ability to control your own behavior, especially in terms of reactions and impulses”.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)