Exceptional Challenges: Successful Recovery Following Trauma

Martie Russell's fiancee killed himself behind a local super store. Lisa Romero broke her back in a freak fall from the second to the first floor, next to an unprotected fire pole in an old firehouse. Both tell the story of challenge and succes in full emotional and physical recovery on Internet radio's Full Power Living, hosted by Ilene Dillon, M.S.W., Tuesday, August 31, 2004, aired on VoiceAmerica.com at 8 a.m. PST.

Kentfield, CA (PRWEB) August 24, 2004 -- How do you cope with major tragedy and come out the better for the experience? Two courageous women share their stories on Internet Radio, Full Power Living," 8 a.m. Pacific Time on Voice America.Com. (This program is rebroadcast at 8 p.m. Tuesdays and is available on VoiceAmerica.com archives three days post-broadcast.) Martie Russell, R.N., tells the sad tale of the suicide of her fiancée, days after they went shopping for their new home. U.C. Berkeley Ph.D. candidate Lisa Romero tells about breaking her back in a bizarre one-story fall in an old firehouse. VoiceAmerica is the world's leading live talk radio network.

Ordinary people having extraordinarily bad luck, yet courageously doing what was necessary to recover full functioning and come away better people! And what was necessary to recover? Listeners find out as each of these brave women talk about the unexpected twists that occurred as a result of their trauma, yet resulted in their full recovery of normal life. This is the ultimate in emotional literacy," learning to work with ones own emotions and achieve greater life balance. Learn how one found out the meaning of the principle In life, in order to get past something, we must go through it." Hear how the other came to dance again, and is moving forward with her career goals.

Full Power Living, a program dedicated to the positive and proactive use of emotions as both a tool and a guidebook for creating the life people want to live, is an Internet radio show on VoiceAmerica.com, Americas voice, hosted by psychotherapist Ilene Dillon, M.S.W., airing at 8 a.m. Pacific time on Tuesdays. Dillon has worked as a Transpersonal Psychotherapist for 32 years, and is a professional member of the National Speakers Association.

Martie Russell, R.N. and U.C. Berkeley Ph.D. student Lisa Romero appear on the Internet radio program Full Power Living, 8 a.m. Tuesday, August 31st, 2004, on www.VoiceAmerica.com to discuss their full emotional and physical recovery from the traumatic life events of a suiciding fiancée and a broken back. Listeners hear what they learned and did to create a full recovery.

For additional information, contact:
Ilene L. Dillon, Host
Full Power Living
905 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Ste D
Kentfield, California 94904
www.EmotionalPro.com
1-866-385-5769

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