{"id":5367,"date":"2013-07-16T07:58:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2013-07-16T07:58:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T11:58:37","slug":"amazing-mentors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2013\/07\/amazing-mentors.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Mentors!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everyone needs a team of emotional cheerleaders.\u00a0 Are there people in your life that you view as mentors and guides who have blazed a path and shone a light so that you could find your own\u00a0 way?<\/p>\n

I have been blessed to have had many role models for\u00a0creativity, joy,\u00a0life long learning and resilience. Some of them have even lived in my home. My\u00a0paternal grandparents traversed what I imagine were, at times, stormy seas from their\u00a0native\u00a0Russia to their new home in America. They made a new life for themselves and then their 4 children who went on to create a new\u00a0generation.\u00a0My maternal grandmother was a\u00a0kid in a grownup suit who would\u00a0both entertain and educate me. My parents have always been my most ardent yaysayers. My son is one of my greatest teachers in this lifetime, although I have\u00a0resisted mightily, the lessons he has offered about patience and flexibility.<\/p>\n

Back in the mid 1990’s I encountered a woman\u00a0whose voice on the radio, leapt out at me on her weekly\u00a0Saturday night talk show on Philly based WWDB fm.\u00a0The station format has changed, but\u00a0‘back in the day’,\u00a0the programming\u00a0offered informative and enlightening hosts and guests. Her clipped British accent, along with her raucous and sometimes irreverent British humor, charmed me. Yvonne Kaye is her name and I am proud, all these years later to call her my mentor.\u00a0As we\u00a0got to know\u00a0each other, she held out her hand to guide me through the muck and mire of co-dependent patterns and dysfunctional relationships;\u00a0both\u00a0personal and professional. She taught me that laughter is often the best medicine and that\u00a0“discipline\u00a0is freedom,” which I resisted as intensely as the aforementioned life lessons offered by my son.\u00a0Ironically,\u00a0he\u00a0<\/strong>resists that message now! I honor\u00a0Yvonne, now\u00a0 a seasoned woman (in the 7th decade of her life),\u00a0who\u00a0describes herself as\u00a0“ripening.”<\/p>\n

This Thursday, on It’s All About Relationships, on Vivid Life Radio,\u00a0I am eager to interview a woman who honors her mentors who have inspired her to shine her own light.<\/p>\n

As an emotionally under-nourished, overly-sensitive child, multiple bestselling author and medical expert Karilee Shames\u2019 young life was plagued with maternal loneliness and misunderstanding. Yet she quickly learned to seek out women who modeled the qualities she most sought to emulate and soon realized that she, herself, had become a mentor to others.\u00a0Amazing Mentors: The REAL Hot Mama\u2019s Path to Power is a tribute to those who have helped to shape her life, and the lives of so many other women, including Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, US Army General Clara Adams, Yoga Journal Co-Founder Rama Vernon and more. www.amazingmentors.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen in from 8-9pm est on www.vividlife.me<\/a><\/p>\n

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