Empowerment Sanctuary

Embracing Your Big Fat Ass

2008-08-29T15:54:00.004-04:00

Join us at Empowerment Library on Tuesday, September 2nd at 7 PM Eastern for a hilariously funny conversation with Janette Barber & Laura Banks, Authors of Embracing Your Big Fat Ass! You don’t want to miss this show!!

Embracing Your Big Fat Ass is not your typical self help book. It is the truly genius weaving together of real stories and anecdotes that artfully balance between the hysterically funny and deeply poignant struggles & experiences commonly faced by women everywhere.

This book encourages women toward self empowerment, self love, and self acceptance, all the while making you cry until you laugh and laugh until you cry.

Janette Barber, a former stand up comic, is a 6 time Emmy award winning TV producer (winning for The Rosie O’Donnell Show & The View). She is also a writer, having co-authored the USA Today Bestseller, “Breaking the Rules” with her writing partner Laura Banks.

Janette is a former TV Food Network Host and executive producer. She has been a spokesperson for Molly McButter where she created original low fat recipes and healthy eating tips for their website and ad campaigns. Janette wrote a year-long recipe column in the famed cook book section of First for Women Magazine, “Winning at Slimming with Janette.”

Currently she creates healthy recipes for her blog, www.janettesblog.com and is now in development with ElmLife on creating a web-based, interactive, artificially intelligent software guide. An animated version of Janette, herself, will host the guide and interact with users to help them develop better, healthier eating habits.

Janette has lost over 100 pounds and has maintained that loss for over twenty years largely by learning new ways to make favorite recipes so that they tasted fattening but were actually healthy. This was the concept behind her TVFN show, “Lighten Up! with Janette and Christina,” which she co-hosted with Martha Stewart producer, Christina Deyo.

Laura Banks has toured the country as a stand up comic and improvisational player originally working with Whoopi Goldberg in the troupe Spontaneous Combustion in San Diego. Next came starring roles in three indie films for Roger Corman, followed by the Manhattan Dating Project in 2002, which Laura wrote, produced, and starred in.

Laura has hosted the TV talk show Inside Space for the SciFi Channel as well as having hosted a TV infomercial for the famous Pierre Michael Salons, 5th Ave. at the Trump Tower, New York. Her radio career began writing and performing nationally syndicated comedy bits for Dick Clark’s United Stations Radio Networks. She was also the voice of the NBA (National Basketball Association).

She then co-authored, with writing partner Janette Barber, the USA Today Bestseller Breaking the Rules, Last Ditch Tactics for Landing the Man of Your Dreams (Career Press) and Love Online (Career Press).

Laura is the host of Star Gal Radio, broadcasting on CRN Digital Talk, and writes a humorous astrology column on Tarot.com, boasting a million readers per month.

Laura is also currently the co-owner of Targeted Nutritionals, LLC with her business partner, Dr. Alan Pressman working as a producer within the radio infomercial industry.

June 2008 Program Schedule

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What the Heck is Cohesive Theology?

2008-05-10T07:36:00.002-04:00

The goal of Cohesive Theology is to enrich our spiritual, emotional, intellectual and physical life experiences by exploring a variety of teachings and concepts which are found within spirituality, metaphysics, quantum physics, psychology, religion, life coaching, secular leanings, and scientific understandings, and then weaving them together into a fluid & dynamic, yet cohesive whole.

In a world where people are boxed in and labeled for easy understanding, or even for the purpose of mindless misunderstanding and judgment, how can a Cohesive Theology even be created, let alone shared and used to create a new dynamic in our lives and in the world?

Imagine for a moment a single point of light. Within this light exists all that is, and all coexists peacefully because all operates on a single harmonic where differences go unseen. Consequently, all exists in love, knowledge, understanding, compassion, acceptance, and peace.

Now imagine the rays of light that emanate outward from the center point. What happens to those rays of light? They not only get dimmer as they stream farther out from the center source, but the distance between them increases as they stretch out in all directions.

The sameness that exists within the point of light gradually changes the further out the light streams. The further out the light streams, the more the harmonic transitions from a state of sameness to similar; from similar to unique; from unique to different; from different to unfamiliar; from unfamiliar to unknown; from unknown to foreign; and finally, from foreign to chaotic.

What is all and same at the core, becomes individual and chaotic at the far end of the spectrum. The further out the light streams from its source, the more dim and disconnected all becomes, unless of course that light streams outward with intent and purpose, carrying the source within it.

Because all is interconnected, intertwined, and interdependent, all is the same at its most basic core. As we move outward along the spectrum, we move from same to similar; where all share commonalities and the harmonic is still peaceful.

When we move even farther out along this awesome spectrum of all that is, we begin to encounter uniqueness and differences. Some are able to find value there; but a soul that is traveling with a predefined and limited perspective or closed consciousness, or a soul that is highly focused on limiting thoughts and beliefs can find itself frightened, suspicious, or even enraged by differences and uniqueness. The response is often defensive and the already limited consciousness closes itself off to protect the ego of its human host.

This is where the trouble begins. As a result of this closing down of consciousness; as a result of being fearful, suspicious or angry with those who are perceived as being different in appearance, belief, practice or thought, people begin to separate and gather into groups where they compete with each other and fight for what they perceive as survival.

Instead of existing in a state of cooperative harmony, the world exists in a state of chaos and all of the negative things that come with it, such as bigotry, hatred, fear, selfishness, poverty, war, disease, and judgment.

Our objective here at Empowerment Sanctuary is to change this dynamic through education and the providing of tools in a way that is engaging, informative, interactive & fun!

It is not about making everyone the same; it’s about empowering everyone to be unique. This is as it should be, because stagnating in peace is no better than stagnating in chaos.

People exist on both ends of the spectrum and everywhere in between. What Empowerment Sanctuary offers is the opportunity to get back to the core, or the point of light where all is the same, in order to absorb what can be found there, gain strength from it and then move outward to simultaneously create the life you desire while being a beacon of light to others.

When we are willing to open ourselves to infinite possibility and potential, our consciousness expands and we become self empowered. Once self empowered, we are enabled to fearlessly move outward along the spectrum, to where differences and uniqueness can then coexist in a state of harmony and balance rather than separation and chaos.

A Spiritually diverse person is one who is open to this process and desires to explore these concepts from their own unique perspective in order to learn, grow, and empower self, which in turn helps to create an enriched life experience that is both desired and deserved.

We are committed to offering a variety of tools designed to assist you with your personal & spiritual growth and development. It is our hope that you will feel free to explore what we have to offer and join us on the journey through this magnificent thing we call life.

Whether you resonate to Angelic Support, Universal Law, Buddhist Principles, Gnostic Thought, Christianity, or a more secular, scientific, or intellectual approach to your spirituality and world view, there's something uplifting, inspiring, motivating or educational for everyone here at the Empowerment Sanctuary!

If our message stirs within you feelings of being welcome, safe, at peace, or feelings of curiosity and a desire to learn and grow, then you’ve found the right place. Welcome Home :)

Be Blissful & Blessed,

Kim Loftis & Kelly Hudson

Founders, Empowerment Sanctuary, Inc.