Bøger af Cynthia Leeds Friedlander

Breastless Intimacy is a memoir about the author's journey through a non life-threatening diagnosis of breast cancer shortly following the death of her sister from advanced metastatic breast disease. It is also about the author's experiences with men as a single woman who has had her breasts removed. She writes, "This is a book from my heart. I have written it as a gift, as a celebration of love, loss and learning. It's a book for those who are making, or have made, decisions to alter their bodies and are dealing with intimacy after those alterations. I recognize that it's less likely to be a book for those who are suffering or have suffered from advanced breast cancer and its many terrifying treatments. I watched my sister go through that end of the breast cancer spectrum and made choices to protect myself from those nightmares. Long before Angelina Jolie made her decision to have her breasts removed, I made difficult choices that were right for me and I have decided to share my experiences with others. Recognizing how easy it is for me to express what I need and want to say, I have developed a sense of desirable obligation to reveal openly what I have gone through. By describing a wide variety of my experiences, I can provide a mirror for others to validate their own experiences and to open up a whole new world of perspectives, possibilities and adventures for them." Breastless Intimacy is a series of vignettes. Each one is written so that it stands alone and can be read in any order or as a single separate piece. The book is divided into four sections: (1.) The author's physical journey through life in relation to her breasts and their loss. (2.) Encounters with men and what she learned from each. (3.) Speaking out to the world to be strong and vigilant in the face of danger. (4.) An epilogue, describing the shock of experiencing a failed and wilted saline breast implant and the full circle and relationships in her life at that time.

> Are you struggling to be heard at work? > Do you feel patronized during business meetings? > Are you getting passed over for meaningful work and promotion? > Do you feel your performance reviews never go quite the way you want? > Is someone at work making it hard for you to face going to work each day? There are 10 unconscious and well-intentioned mistakes that contribute to women being overlooked, unheard, and dismissed. GAGGED provides communication help for women at work. So many women wish they could make their ideas heard. They want to be taken more seriously. They want to stop people talking over them as if what they have to say doesn't count. These women want to know what to do to change how they're seen and heard. They want to make a difference, and they want to speak with authority and integrity. Find out how you can become one of those women in business, known and respected for speaking clearly, successfully, and strongly. Discover how to improve your communications by reading stories of women like you, seeing clear guidelines on how to adjust what you're saying, gaining many examples of the ways to express yourself much more effectively, and uncovering the underlying causes for your feeling stressed and uncomfortable. Cynthia Leeds Friedlander has coached thousands of working women to master difficult conversations, to develop dynamic speaking and presentation skills, and to excel in all their personal and business communications. Discover how to avoid mistakes that contribute to your feeling GAGGED.

THE ARTFUL LIAR is a fictionalized memoir about disloyalty and duplicity written in the third-person as a series of stand-alone vignettes based on the author's imagination and experiences. At the end of each vignette are five meaningful learning messages, gleaned through the life tests of that story.THE ARTFUL LIAR presents an examined life to the reader. It tells one woman's journey and her reflections on surviving deception and betrayal. It's meant to be a gift to women of all ages everywhere who struggle with dishonesty, cheating, infidelity and relationship loss. It's a call to every woman to be strong, to pay attention, to listen to her gut, to rid herself of betrayers and deceivers, and to claim what she wants.