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When Life’s Hard Knocks Make You Feel Beaten, Take Heart from Lily
Sanders, Whose Conquest over Abuse and Hardship Led to
Enlightened Self-Knowledge and Real Self-Love

Today, Lily Sanders can point to extraordinary the successes of being named one of the top 15 coaching experts in New York City, years as a soap opera regular and TV/movie dancer and actress, multiple-franchise owner, devoted mother and even a year as a featured Barnum & Bailey Circus show dancer!

But it was the lowlights, not the highlights that have defined and refined her.

Looking at it objectively, Lily’s life sounds like a sad country song. Its refrain began early when she was very young, living with a depressed frightened mother, three siblings and an abusive father, who made life a living hell for the children and wife who helplessly watched. Lily endured until relief came when he departed, but that left her to be the adult to her childlike mother. It was through dance that she first found her footing. Passionately engaged, she could forget about everything else and just dance!

And that was her ticket away from home for the first time, going on the road with the circus, learning tough lessons and standing on her own. Eventually, she pursued the life of a professional dancer, auditioning and getting TV, movie and theatre opportunities that blossomed ultimately into success as an actress. And then further success in business.

But it was her private life that proved to be her real crucible.
Repeatedly aligning herself with damaged men, she found herself once again emotionally and physically abused. And then in a life-long custody wrangle with her ex-husband over her beloved son. But she knew she had to break the pattern. So she started with herself.

Truth to Triumph: A Spiritual Guide to Finding Your Truth is the story of how she found her truth, how she forged a new relationship with her higher self and the Divine to be a beacon of love for those to follow. Her book is far more than a chronicle of her life and her transformation…it is filled with guidance, wisdom and advice for anyone who is struggling to find their way, to find peace, love, contentment and prosperity.

It is steeped in insights, hard truths, gentle encouragement, inspiration, spiritual doorways, darkness-defeating honesty and authenticity. Lily wants to lift up her sisters so they may never have to just endure – they can thrive!

Today, having a highly successful coaching practice in New York, and being a sought after TV and radio guest, speaker and workshop leader, Lily Sanders is transforming the lives and hearts of men, woman, and children across the nation.

Lily can illuminate for you:

• What to do when you’re willing to face the truth about your life, or the abusers around you
• The keys to love yourself unconditionally
• How to let go of self-blame
• The way to release the past and break the mold for new generational blessings
• How to begin forging a new relationship with yourself and the spiritual force that empowers you

Lily Sanders brings forth powerful messages encoded in Truth to Triumph: A Spiritual Guide to Finding Your Truth to give women the path to a life worth living. The paperback book is available from Amazon for $19.95 and the Kindle is $17.95.

Title: Truth to Triumph: A Spiritual Guide to Finding Your Truth
Author: Lily Sanders
Paperback: 334 pages
Publisher: ABL Publishing
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0999324519
ISBN-13: 978-0999324516

Lily Sanders
Biography

Lily Sanders’ life experiences, adversity, talent, sense of humor, and intense compassion has gifted her a purpose to write, influence, and coach others. As a magazine columnist, Lily inspired thousands while writing her own powerful book, Truth to Triumph. Her newly international released book, Truth to Triumph: A Spiritual Guide to Finding Your Truth has already begun transforming lives.

Lily grew up in a domestically violent home, and used ballet class as her sanctuary. Performing and producing was her dream since she was a young child. She later went on as a professional dancer and landed interesting gigs as a dance contestant on Ed McMahon’s Star
Search, and a Showgirl/Dancer on Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Circus. She continued onto a promising acting career and won various Off Broadway roles and a day player role on ABC’s One Life to Live.

Years later, she married, had a beautiful child and became a highly successful entrepreneur in the franchise world. Sadly, Lily suffered
behind a veil of silence for 14 years, as she found herself back in a domestically violent home as a battered wife. The good news is that the lessons she learned and the awakening she experienced transformed her into the inspirational, insightful, and thought-provoking author, speaker, and coach that she is today.

Lily specializes in transition, giving spiritual and practical guidance through her books, speaking engagements and coaching. She helps others see through adverse life situations and gain healing, clarity, and focus on their soul purpose. No matter what someone’s story is, Lily is not about holding onto stories. Rather she teaches others how to stop seeing themselves as a victim and instead, learn how to use these experiences to become an empowered expression of love and truth. Teaching others how to hold onto that love and truth while navigating through life situations is what she mirrors and masters.

Lily invites us to unlock the magic within, and awaken our dormant potential. She believes that we all have the power to choose the creations we wish to experience. Her personal transformation has proven it, and she continues to teach others how to unlock it, and walk a path of knowing one present step at a time.
No matter how accomplished we are or how complete we feel in a relationship, Lily suggests that we all have areas in our life that can use enhancement. Sometimes it can be a matter of your health, asking us to examine if our physical and mental energy level is the best it can be.

Perhaps we are challenged with counter-balancing our career with our loved ones. She poses the curious question: “Is your career guided by your purpose?”

On a spiritual level, Lily encourages self-inquiry. “Who am I?” And in that self-inquiry, “Am I doing things that serve my highest Self? Am I fully aware of consciousness at soul level as it plays out in the physical world?” She uses these self-inquiries as tools to help us transform.

That said, her passion is for humanity, and she thrives on helping others transform. Her purpose is to become a light for others that burns up the nonsense in life. Her message is love.

Amazed at life’s interesting crossroads, with gratitude and enthusiasm, Lily Sanders engages in global opportunities, and advancing collective consciousness. Visit her site www.lilysanders.live. She may be contacted for bookings at: www.lilysanders.live/speaking.

“Love is the essence of all consciousness. Love is the stimulus for everything in life. It is the yeast that
develops and gives rise to our daily bread.”
~Lily Sanders

Learn More

Book

• Truth to Triumph: A Spiritual Guide to Finding Your Truth by Lily Sanders
• Retail Paperback $19.95, Kindle $17.95
• Available on Amazon
Website:
• www.lilysanders.live

Products

• Paperback Edition

Personally autographed copy of “Truth to Triumph: A Spiritual Guide to Finding Your Truth” https://lilysanders.live/truth-to-triumph

• Free E-Notes and Quotes and Free EBook
• FREE Subscription to Lily’s E-Notes and Quotes. Subscribe and get her FREE eBook
“SOUL BREAD: Daily Affirmations that Feeds the Soul” https://mailchi.mp/e90650444c6e/soul-bread-daily-affirmations-by-lily-sanders

• E-Course www.7gatewaystotriumph.com

Speaking

• Schedule Speaking Engagements, contact Lily Sanders at:
https://lilysanders.live/speaking

Lily Sanders offers Speaking and workshops that promote, teach, and inspire others to break the mold for generational blessings. She is masterful in moving self-love from conceptual to practical.

Workshops and Speaking Topics:
• Creating a Self-Love Culture
• Co-Parenting
• Resilience Building
• Fear-Proofing
• Reaching children of divorced parents
• Building Confidence
• Generational Blessings
• Domestic Violence Prevention
• Home Safety
• Positive Social and Emotional Transformation

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When Life’s Hard Knocks Make You Feel Beaten,Take Heart From Lily Sanders, Whose Conquest Over Abuse and Hardship Led to

Enlightened Self-Knowledge and Real Self-Love

Today,Lily Sanders can point to extraordinary the successes of being named one of the top 15 coaching experts in New York City, years as a soap opera regular and TV/movie dancer and actress, multiple-franchise owner, devoted mother and even a year as a featured Barnum & Bailey Circus show dancer!

But it was her privatelife that proved to be her real crucible. Repeatedly aligning herself withdamaged men, she found herself once again emotionally and physically abused.And then in a life-long custody wrangle with her ex-husband over her belovedson. But she knew she had to break the pattern. So she started with herself.

Truth to Triumph: ASpiritual Guide to Finding Your Truth is the story of how she found her truth, how she forged anew relationship with her higher self and the Divine to be a beacon of love forthose to follow.

Bio

Lily Sanders’ lifeexperiences, adversity, talent, sense of humor, and intense compassion hasgifted her a purpose to write, influence, and coach others. As a magazinecolumnist, Lily inspired thousands, while writing her own powerful book. Hernewly international released book, Truth to Triumph: A Spiritual Guide toFinding Your Truth hasalready begun transforming lives.

Lily grew up in adomestically violent home, and used ballet class as her sanctuary. That becamea springboard to a successful career as a dancer, TV and film actress, Broadwayperformer and later successful multiple franchise owner. But domestic abusefollowed her long into adulthood, risking her life and that of her son…untilshe took the steps to learn to love herself unconditionally and connect withthe Source power of love. Today, she is a highly successful coach in New York helpingwoman live fully empowered, happy lives.

Website:

www.lilysanders.live

Social Networks:

· Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lilysanders.live/

· Twitter: https://twitter.com/lilysanders11

· Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lily_sanders_author/

· YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDY9uZBAPUEpcqly4aynsJA?view_as=subscriber

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Amy Chalfy of JASA shares the Good News of JASA, Good News thanks JASA for doing such important work for years. According to the latest statistics from the NYC Department for the Aging, more than 18 percent, (over 1.52 million) of New Yorkers are over the age of 60. And this number is growing daily as the Boomer generation becomes the Senior population. To commemorate this wide and varied group, and to continue providing services and activities to keep them engaged, vital and cared for, JASA, one of New York’s largest and most trusted agencies serving more than 43,000 older adults in the New York metropolitan area, will host its annual Celebrating Seniors fundraiser on Tuesday, May 10. The Cocktail Reception will take place at 583 Park Avenue from 6 to 8 p.m. and we invite you to attend.

The Emcee for the evening is Jane Marsh, internationally acclaimed soprano and Artistic Advisor of the Metropolitan Opera Guild; the special celebrity guest is NBA legend, John Starks and, leading the bidding for the third year is Christie’s auctioneer extraordinaire, Toby Usnik. Also of particular note, is guest speaker Philip C. Marshall, elder-justice advocate and grandson of Brooke Astor. Mr. Marshall is a speaker in demand, whose work is particularly relevant and aligned with JASA’s service to the city’s more vulnerable seniors.
We would be happy to arrange an interview at the event with JASA’s special guests to discuss their commitment to the organization’s work, or with a JASA representative who can speak to you about the agency’s important role in a city that’s home to a senior population with a wide range of needs.

Event details for your readers who may wish to attend:
• Location: 583 Park Avenue, (corner of East 63rd Street) New York, NY Cost: Tickets are $500 and sponsorship packages are available.
• Dress: Business attire is preferred.
• For more information and tickets: visit www.jasa.org or contact development@jasa.org or call 212.273.5320.
About JASA:
Founded in 1968, JASA is a not-for profit organization that provides a range of services to seniors of all races, religions and economic backgrounds, to help keep seniors living safely in their own homes and communities with independence, dignity, and joy.

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See the Faces and Listen to the Stories of Our Society’s Most Overlooked Outcasts:

The Mentally Ill and Homeless http://www.robertokinmd.com

From L.A. to Philly to Miami, they’re out there—pushing their carts, digging through garbage, sleeping on park benches, sometimes ranting about nonsense to no one. They often look and sound crazy, smell bad, and make us uneasy, so we avoid them. We know better intellectually, yet most of us shun people suffering from homelessness and mental illness because we view them as deeply flawed—somehow less human than the rest of us.

As part of his career devoted to the mentally disabled, Dr. Robert Okin decided to use a powerful artistic medium to advocate for these people. In SILENT VOICES: People with Mental Disorders on the Street (Golden Pine Press, October 2014), Dr. Okin invites all of us to get to know the people society treats like pariahs, people who, beneath their symptoms and rags, struggle with feelings and needs similar to those of the rest of us. He shares the striking and evocative photographs and stories—most often, in their own words—of more than 40 mentally ill people he met on the streets of San Francisco. “I wrote this book,” Dr. Okin reflects, “to contribute to making these people known as human beings.”

SILENT VOICES offers a glimpse of the dark pasts—marked by abuse, violation, tragedies, crime, drugs, and addiction—and everyday challenges of homeless men and women suffering from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and other serious mental disabilities.

Based on his interviews, research, and decades of professional experience, Dr. Okin discusses:

 Staggering facts on how the mentally ill are neglected, mistreated, and discriminated against. In America today, over 200,000 people with mental disorders are abandoned in the streets and another 250,000 are locked up in jails and prisons.

 Measures needed to reduce the widespread, escalating problem of the homeless mentally ill, including increased government funding for affordable housing, partnerships between the public and private sector to provide job training, and legal reform.

 The critical need for well-trained, dedicated professional clinical case managers. “Without excellent clinical case managers, a mental health system will tend to be mechanistic, inaccessible, and exclusively focused on the management of symptoms with medication, rather than also on clients’ human development and rehabilitation,” Dr. Okin asserts.

 What everyone can do to overcome the stigma of mental illness and prevent homelessness, with the goal of not just social acceptance for people with mental illness but genuine inclusion in society. “Treatment cannot occur first and inclusion second,” stresses Dr. Okin.

Robert L. Okin, MD, served as chief of psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital and professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, for 17 years. He is also a former state commissioner of mental health for both Vermont and Massachusetts. Throughout his career, he developed crucial services and clinical case management programs to enable mentally ill people to live with dignity in the community. A member of the board of advisors of Disabilities Rights International (DRI), he has provided psychiatric advocacy and consultation for missions to Mexico and Turkey, among many other countries, to investigate human rights violations in mental institutions. He lives in San Francisco.

I hope you will be moved, uplifted, and outraged by the stories in SILENT VOICES.

Dr. Robert Okin, Author of SILENT VOICES

1. You’ve forged relationships with the homeless, but you’re a trained psychiatrist. What can the average person do to help a homeless person they see on the street?

It is true that I was able to forge such relationships, but I don’t think this primarily resulted from any particular skill I had as a psychiatrist. It was more the result of my openness and expressed interest in the people I met. This may sound corny, but saying a simple “Hello, I hope you have a good day” or “I wish you well” is probably the best and easiest thing to do. It won’t change the actual living conditions of the homeless people, but at least it will make them feel that they’re not invisible. It would be great if you could follow up with an e-mail to your city supervisors and congressperson about the need for supportive housing for homeless people. And if you really want to move this project forward, get your friends to send e-mails as well.

2. What is the root of society’s fear and stigmatization of mental illness?

Some of society’s fear comes from the strangeness and unpredictability people associate, sometimes correctly, with mental illness. Because mentally ill people seem strange, it’s hard for us to empathize with them and to remember that they were once children with hopes and dreams like our own. At a deeper level, people have always projected the most feared and hated parts of themselves onto those who have mental illness. Mentally ill people become the living representation of the most disavowed parts of ourselves and thus become stigmatized. Not wanting to be reminded of these parts of ourselves, we, as a society, have burned these people, drowned them, isolated them in mental hospitals, and put them away in jails where we can’t see them. But those who become homeless and aren’t put out of sight evoke in us responses that cause us to avoid them in other ways: basically, we close our eyes to them.

3. Did you have any preconceived ideas about the homeless? What was your biggest misconception about them?

I expected to be dismissed and rejected when I reached out to them. I was a stranger, so I assumed they wouldn’t want to talk with me. I also assumed that if they did, they wouldn’t reveal their feelings. I was wrong on all counts. Most of the people I met genuinely welcomed my overtures and quickly warmed up to me. I was repeatedly surprised at how much grief these people were carrying just under the surface and how willing they were to reveal it to me. More than anything else, I was reminded of just how human and vulnerable these people are. I easily identified with and felt close to them. At the end of a day of talking with them, I felt sad, wrung out, and anxious about my grip on my own financial and emotional security.

4. How did your own opinions change after meeting and getting to know some of them?

I developed an abiding admiration for many of them—I respected how they were willing to continue living, despite the brutal conditions they were dealing with day after day. I often wondered if I would have the grit and the courage to stick it out if I were in their position. I don’t know if I could stand living their lives and dealing with the hopelessness most of them feel.

5. What percentage of the homeless suffer from mental illness?

Approximately 25 percent primarily have severe and chronic mental illness and another 15 percent have significant drug abuse disorders.

6. What can city and state governments do to help the homeless mentally ill integrate back into society?

First, these people need supportive, supervised housing and a sufficient income that allows them to escape the deprivations of poverty. Without housing, any other intervention is ineffective. Second, they need case management from a social worker with a relatively small caseload who has the time to meet them where they live, provide a loving human connection with them, help them with their daily tasks (laundry, shopping, budgeting), help them reduce their drug intake, and when indicated, help them to be evaluated by a psychiatrist to get them on psychiatric medications. These social workers also have to play a major advocacy role in helping their clients rejoin society. And third, the homeless mentally ill need something productive to do during the day—some sort of job.

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An international, non-profit association created by a group of citizens on 15 April 1999, at the initiative of the UNESCO Director-General, Federico Mayor, and under the presidency of Ms Homayra Sellier, in response to the recommendations of the UNESCO expert meeting convened in January 1999 on Sexual Abuse of Children, Child Pornography and Pedophilia on the Internet, in order to pursue the objectives of the Action Plan adopted by the experts to combat sexual abuse of children.

Innocence in Danger operates throughout the world, with partners who share the same objectives. IID thus brings together militants, Internet specialists, jurists, political decision-makers, businessmen, media and national action groups to sensitize world opinion on the increasing problems of paedo-criminality.

Innocence in Danger represents an action force to sensitize and catalyze, educate and inform governmental and non-governmental bodies, European and international intergovernmental bodies, business enterprises, and the general public – schools, community associations, the youth. Aside from those persons explicitly listed on our website as officials of the bureau of Innocence in Danger associations in France, Switzerland, Germany, USA and Colombia, no one has the right to make any declaration in the name of Innocence in Danger, nor to organize any manifestation of whatever nature under penalty of the law.

Since 15 April 2000, on which date Innocence in Danger was formalized and operated independently of any other organization, its choice of partners and projects to support or put into action emanate solely from the authority of the national Innocence in Danger associations under the control of Innocence in Danger Foundation.

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