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What people say about
A Mother's Final Gift:
“This book is moving, uplifting, and ennobling. While the topic is a daunting one, it’s handled with such sensitivity and insight – and, yes, love – that you are forced to reexamine your fears about death and dying… and dispense with them.”
– John Gray, Executive Producer, Creator, Director: CBS-TV "The Ghost Whisperer"
"A rare and touching account! If you would like to deepen your connection with your family, especially during the time of a passing of a loved one, this book will give you courage, inspiration, and a higher vision that will soothe your soul and help you navigate transition. It's a magnificent testament to love and the power of family to navigate transition."
– Alan Cohen, author of Linden’s Last Life.
“The Vissell family has written a beautiful and moving account of their mother’s (and grandmother’s) death. Despite her challenges, Louise Wollenberg lived her dying as a celebration of life. Her open and courageous heart became a portal to the other side, and her presence became a place of healing. This book will comfort and inspire.”
–Michael Kearney, MD, FRCPI, Medical Director of the Palliative Care Service at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and Associate Medical Director at Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care.
“This is a goose bump book, a 10 hankie page-turner and a real primer for a loving, dying experience. Anyone who is caring for a loved one in the last stages of life or wanting to better understand conscious dying will gain comfort and insight from its pages.”
– Caroline Sutherland, author of The Body Knows
10% of the profits from this book go to support Hospice. |
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Our New Book!!
A Mother’s Final Gift:
How One Woman’s Courageous Dying Transformed Her Family
(#108) ISBN-13: 978-0-9612720-3-6, 216
pages, $14.95
Every human being on our planet shares two momentous occasions: birth and death. In preparing for birth, there are great festivities, gifts are given, baby showers are planned and carried out, baptisms, brisos, and other religious rites are festively marked, nurseries are painted, cribs are built, booties are knitted, and the whole process is generally celebrated for nine months.
But death! Death is often another story. Most of us do not want to think about it – either about our own deaths, or the deaths of our loved ones. Death is the penultimate experience that will happen to all of us, and to everybody we know, but many of us become ostriches with our heads in the sand when faced with thinking about it. We often just ignore dealing with it.
This beautiful, touching book changed all of that for me. I had actually put off reading it because my own mother is ninety years old and not well. So at first, I was loath to read what I knew would be an emotionally-charged chronicle of another mother’s death. But I did read it, and I feel exceedingly enriched and enlightened by having done so.
A Mother’s Final Gift is the story of one courageous woman – Louise Viola Swanson Wollenberg – and of her tremendous love of life and family, and her faith and resolve. But it is also the story of her equally courageous family who, in the process of rising to the occasion and carrying out Louise’s long-held final wishes, not only overcame so many stigmas about the process of death but, at the same time, rediscovered what it means to celebrate life itself.
This book not only touches the heart in a very powerful, poignant, and joyful way, but reading it was life-changing for me. In writing this book, Joyce and Barry Vissell, and their children, mentor us through an experience that many of us were afraid to even think about it. Louise looked at death as her greatest adventure. So should we all. The title of this book is indeed A Mother’s Final Gift but, in truth, this story is an exceptional gift to every person who will read it.
George Daugherty
Emmy Award-winning producer,
director, and conductor
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Book
To read
excerpts from Meant to Be, click
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If you're ready for a collection of true
love stories unlike any other, you're in
for a real treat. These are likely to be
the most amazing true stories you will ever
see.
- Alan Cohen,
author of The Dragon Doesnt Live Here
Anymore
The true miracle of these stories is that
they open your heart to your own miracle.
For the miracle of love is within you, too,
and your story can be as magical as these.
That is healing message of Meant To Be;
that is its wonder.
- Neale
Donald Walsch, author of Conversations With
God
Chicken Soup stories are delightful
appetizers, but many of the stories in
Meant to Be are a main course. You will be
digesting these for a long time.
- Connection
Magazine |
(#107) ISBN
1-57324-161-X,
Redwheel-Weiser-Conari
$14.95
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(new edition of Light in the
Mirror)
by: Joyce &
Barry Vissell
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The Vissell's most comprehensive manual for
growing spiritually through the process of
relationship.
"The Heart's Wisdom is an expression of
deep love and vulnerability."
- John Gray,
PhD |
(#106) ISBN
1-57324-155-5, Redwheel-Weiser-Conari, 252
pages
$14.95
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by: Joyce &
Barry Vissell
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"The Shared Heart is full of beauty and
compassion, richness and clarity. Barry and
Joyce plough through the hard and soft spaces
of the journey with great inner strength and
deep respect for reflective inner
tuning."
- Ram
Dass |
(#101) ISBN
0-9612720-0-7, 186
pages
$9.95
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by: Joyce &
Barry Vissell
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Recommended by John
Bradshaw. "What society needs most is a
connection between spirituality and
parenthood. Bravo to the Vissells for helping
us find the way."- Marianne
Williamson. |
(#102) ISBN
0-9612720-1-5, 320
pages
$12.95
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by: Joyce &
Barry Vissell
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"In this book, Joyce
& Barry offer the priceless gift of their
own experience with relationship, commitment,
vulnerability, and loss, along with the
profound guide to healing that comes from the
core of their being and blesses us with
gentle wisdom."
- Gayle & Hugh Prather |
(#104) ISBN
0-9612720-2-3, 192
pages
$9.95
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"We have been taught
for a long time that the entrance to God's
presence is through the eyes of a child. Rami
flings wide that delicious door of
perception."
- Rev. Stan Hampson, Past President,
Association of Unity Churches |
(#103) ISBN
0-9612720-4-X
hardcover, 56 pages, full-color
illustrated
$13.95
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by: Joyce &
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If you had but
one book to choose to renew your
relationship, this should be the
one.
- Small Press Magazine
Light in the
Mirror is a must for anyone who yearns for
better connection and more joy in their
intimate relationships.
- NAPRA Review
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DVD |
Here's a DVD workshop packed with inspiring
tools to reconnect you with your heart and
with those you love. The contents are given
via talks and experiential practices during a
5-day retreat. This full-length DVD will have
you crying, laughing, singing and learning. |
(#161) DVD 120
minutes $39.95
SALE PRICE: $19.95
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DVD |
Topics include: The true soulmate; the
higher-lower game (spiritual equality); the
way to intimacy (in to me see); the power
of vulnerability; getting beyond blame and
victimhood (taking responsibility); honoring
anothers differences; expressing love
freely; and the magic of true
appreciation.Filmed at the 2006 International
Conference on Sacred Sexuality in Santa Fe,
NM, this one hour DVD of the Vissells
keynote address will both inspire, educate,
and entertain you. |
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The sexual connection between two persons can
be a profound spiritual experience, a union
of two bodies, two hearts, two minds, two
souls. Through prayer, eye contact,
communication, honoring and respect, the
sexual experience joins our hearts together
in ecstatic oneness and brings us into
contact with the source of our being. |
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Card
Set |
Here's a great gift idea and a powerful tool
for bringing more light to your
relationships. We have chosen the most
meaningful quotes from our books, and made
them into a deck of cards. |
(#151) 54
different cards
$9.95
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Cassette
Tape |
By popular demand,
we've recorded four of the most important
guided visualizations Joyce leads in our
workshops. "Help in Time of Need,"
"Forgiveness," Knowing Your Beauty," &
"Living Your Purpose." Each 10-minute
visualization ends with a John Astin
song. |
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by: Barry and
Joyce Vissell
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Cassette
Tape |
This is a tape of inspiration and guided
visualizations for individuals and couples
interested in deepening all their
relationships. |
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This tape is a
journey to the inner experience of
fatherhood. Includes conscious fathering
practices.
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by: Barry and
Joyce Vissell
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Cassette
Tape |
This cassette offers inspiration and help in
the journey from couplehood to parenthood. |
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Cassette
Tape |
This cassette is a guided journey into the
bonding experience -- the heart-to-heart
connection between mother and baby. |
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