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Giving Birth To My Parents

Giving Birth To My Parents is a guide, for every generation; teaching all of us how to honor, celebrate and remember the elders of our culture.

This is a story of how my relationship with my parents was created through the course of thousands of hours on the phone and staying with my parents in Philadelphia. This was a labor of love for over a decade, stirring emotions that never seemed to end. During that time, I helped them, taught them, exposed them to new things and showed them by example. I worked with them using my coaching skills. They had a willingness, openness and enthusiasm to move forward, to eventually trust the source of knowledge, inspiration and experience. Our interactions inspired my parents to eventually understand and acknowledge the depth of their lives and begin to see the blessings and miracles that they could create on their own.

Book Cover Design by William Rosner

The pain of remembering the past might get in your way. Still, I ask you to read in faith that this book can penetrate your consciousness and help you build stronger, better, more satisfying relationships with your aging parents. It is perhaps, seeing that possibility that will erase your karmic debt. Karmic debt are things important to your soul growth that have been left undone in a previous existence, past lives, or a hurt or damage that you have inflicted on another and must be resolved before further soul growth can take place. This is referred to as Karma which implies the karmic debts we have incurred over the many ages we have walked upon this earth. My gift to you is to learn generosity and compassion, kindness and humor, joy and forgiveness.

Hopefully, you the reader will see the teachings I offer as a way to help set yourself free from fear and disappointment, from old stories that now can be thought of with grace, laughter and extraordinary memories. I offer this with benevolence, blessings and humanity and the dream that their lives — and yours — might benefit from deep and lasting healing.

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“I must first congratulate you. Writing a book is a labor, even if it is a labor of love. It is an achievement. And you have achieved. Your writing encourages the reader to read on, which is the hallmark of a successful book.

I do think the subject matter you're tackling with passion is so important, and you have the verve to do it. Age and aging are difficult and embarrassing subjects - as you point out....in a culture of youth youth youth. Old people ARE invisible as you say, and who wants to deal with the inevitability of passing on?

What I've read is great and full of soul. May it sell, may it make a splash, and may it help aging gain respectability.”

Tani Ruiz

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“Your title is perfect, in so many ways. I think this book is very much needed in our culture. Because we do not know how to care or care to care for our elders... elderly parents are usually discarded in to institutions where strangers have to care for them...places where abuse occurs and the elderly are disgraced, abandoned and tossed out.

I love the vision of this book as it comes from such a genuine place, a place from your own commitment and love...you have walked this journey and you have an enormous amount to share and teach us. Thank you for such a brilliant inspiration and thank you for your devotion to your parents and for loving them the way you do. This will change the world. I completely support you in this endeavor. I am here with prayers for success in raising the consciousness of our culture.”

Alexandra Whitney, Ph D

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Once again you have lifted my vision. I feel exactly the same about generation gaps and differing views. I have no affective resentment, only the driving desire to change the existing paradigm for the better. I am running for Mayor again, the election is May 8th.

Torre
Aspen City Council

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"I am enjoying reading your first draft. It is going to be very rewarding, I can already tell. Your story is deeply touching and invites the reader whole heartedly to embrace themselves, their lives and their life-givers."

Stefanie Hart
Reiki Master of the USystem of Natural Healing

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"You have such lovely intuitive gifts so of course your sense of timing is perfect for a resource/book like this. As we look to the east for so many of our spiritual teachings one can’t help but envy the eastern cultures that celebrate the older generations. It is about time that someone honestly gets real about how do we in the west celebrate and honour where we come from. No one can do it better than you Lorrie!"

Laurie Gregory

Design Consultant/
Lifestyle Trend Expert/
Yoga teacher

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"What a moving title and foreword. I know it will do well as we are starved to have role models and this feels like this book could be one."

Carole Hyatt
Author - When Smart People Fail

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