Left Bank Books provided the venue for another successful signing of Journey Beyond Hardship on Monday night, August 24, 2015.
Here are some comments from those attending the presentation prior to the book signing:
“It was a fabulous presentation – I look forward to reading your book. So glad we came.” – Leslye Louis
“Outstanding, informative, educational, helpful, practical, understandable.” – Tom Harig
“Illuminating book – a bright light for the dark road of hardship. Love the practical suggestions.”- Rhonda Leifheit
“Hope is like a path on the hillside. Once there was no path, but as villagers traveled that place, a way appeared.” Those beautiful words by Lin Yutang were written well before our current understanding of neuropaths and neuroreceptors. And yet they perfectly describe what happens in the brain and on the surface of the cells, as we open ourselves more and more to hope, or any emotion. Here’s how it works.
When we left Amy, played by Amy Schumer in the highly successful movie Trainwreck, she had met her love interest, Aaron, played by Bill Hader. Until that point in the movie, Amy had been living a trainwreck of a life: lots of beer, lots of sex, resulting in lots of issues in relationships and in her professional life. Beer and sex are not in and of themselves “evil.” But when used to cover pain, the consequences are often more pain.
How many of us have done the back-and-forth love dance? No, not that dance. The love dance where you fall in love, get powerfully connected, then one of you emotionally pulls back a bit, so then the other pursues a bit, then the one backing away backs away even more, and then the pursuer pursues even more…you know the rest. Usually doesn’t end pretty.
In the hit movie, Trainwreck, Amy Schumer’s character, also named Amy, shows us in the first half of the show how our childhood wounds can express themselves in our adult lives. Given the monogamy-is-unrealistic motto firmly planted in Amy’s young mind by her dad, she lives out that approach in adulthood, hooking up with lots of men and drinking to quiet any pain.
Death of a loved one is hardship. In the hit movie, Trainwreck, Amy Schumer’s character, also named Amy, struggles to connect deeply with others, grieves her father’s death, and begins a healing journey. Let’s take a look at all three aspects of the film, and life.
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