Kim John Payne
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It’s both a simple adventure story and a profound allegory of the Christian journey through life, a delightful read with a message kids ages 6 to 12 can understand and remember. Ms. Taylor has carefully rewritten a centuries-old tale in order that children might be able to grasp the truths set out by John Bunyan in 1678. -
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David Thomas, L.M.S.W., is the Director of Family Counseling at Daystar Counseling in Nashville, TN. He is the co-author of six books, including the best-selling Wild Things: The Art of Nurturing Boys (Tyndale House Publishers), a frequent guest on national television and radio, and a speaks across the country.
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Ainsley Arment
Ainsley Arment is the founder of Wild + Free, co-founder of Wild Explorers Club and the Wild + Free Farm Village, and host of the weekly Wild + Free podcast. She and her husband Ben are raising their five children, Wyatt, Dylan, Cody, Annie, and Millie, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. | IG: @ainsl3y | bewildandfree.org
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Ginny Yurich
Ginny Yurich is a Michigan-based, homeschooling mama of five kids, and she is the founder of 1000 Hours Outside, a global movement to help families match the average amount of time kids spend on screens each year with time spent outdoors. Ginny is a thought-leader in the world of nature-based play and its benefits. Ginny has a BS in Mathematics and a Masters Degree in Education from the University of Michigan. Find her online at 1000HoursOutside.com and join the movement on Instagram: @1000hoursoutside, Facebook: 1000 Hours Outside, and Twitter: @1000HoursOutsid
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Emily Morrow
Emily Morrow is the creator of Really Very Crunchy, a viral social media presence with more than two million followers. She and her husband, Jason, have traveled the world together, creating video content for the last fifteen years. Emily has a love of different cultures, people who think differently, and things that grow from the earth.
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Katy Bowman
Bestselling author, speaker, and a leader of the Movement movement, biomechanist Katy Bowman, M.S. is changing the way we move and think about our need for movement. Her ten books, including the groundbreaking Move Your DNA, have been translated into more than 16 languages worldwide.
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Bowman is the creator and host of the "Move Your DNA" podcast, teaches movement globally, and speaks about sedentarism and movement ecology to academic and scientific audiences such as the Ancestral Health Summit and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Her work has been featured in such diverse media as the Today Show, CBC Radio One, the Seattle Times, NPR, the Joe Rogan Experience, and Good Housekeeping.
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Michaeleen Doucleff
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Greta Eskridge
Greta Eskridge is a nature lover, book reader, and coffee drinker. She is a home schooling mom of 4, wife of 21 years to her husband Aaron, and an author and speaker. Greta’s first book, Adventuring Together, releases July of 2020 with Thomas Nelson. She loves to travel the country speaking and sharing her message of joyful, connected parenting.
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Amanda Blake Soule
I'm Amanda, and I live in beautiful Portland, Maine with my husband, Steve, and our three young adventure-seekers — Calvin, Ezra, and Adelaide. Our days are spent making things, exploring our coastal Maine surroundings, and growing together as a family.
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I've always had a love of textiles and crafting, but it wasn't until the birth of my first child that creating became an essential part of my daily life. Making things became a way for me to nurture myself in the busy and giving role of Mama, as well as a way to save money and conserve resources by repurposing readily available materials. Making things also allows me to connect with countless women before me and share my love — through the gift of handmade — with those dearest to me.
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Dr. Mike Rucker is an organizational psychologist and charter member of the International Positive Psychology Association whose work has been published in the International Journal of Workplace Health Management and Nutrition Research. His ideas about fun and health have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Vox, Thrive Global, mindbodygreen, and more. Named one of ten digital changemakers by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, he currently serves as a senior leader at Active Wellness. Learn more at https://michaelrucker.com.
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Nadine Artemis
Nadine Artemis is the author of Renegade Beauty: Reveal and Revive Your Natural Radiance, Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums and a frequent commentator on health and beauty for media outlets. Alanis Morissette calls her “a true-sense visionary.”
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Nadine is the creator of Living Libations, an exquisite line of botanical health and beauty products that are the purest of the pure on the planet. As an innovative aromacologist, Nadine has formulated a stunning collection of rare and exceptional botanical compounds. Her potent dental serums are used worldwide and provide optimal oral care. She, and her products, have received rave reviews in the New York Times, the National Post, and the Hollywood Reporter.
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B. Brett Finlay
Dr. B. Brett Finlay is a Professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories, and the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Microbiology and Immunology at the University of British Columbia. He obtained a B.Sc. (Honors) in Biochemistry at the University of Alberta, where he also did his Ph.D. (1986) in Biochemistry under Dr. William Paranchych, studying F-like plasmid conjugation. His post-doctoral studies were performed with Dr. Stanley Falkow at the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he studied Salmonella invasion into host cells. In 1989, he joined UBC as an Assistant Professor in the Biotechnology Laboratory. Dr. Finlay’s research interests are focussed on host-mic
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Daphne Miller
Ever since a high school biology teacher informed me that clover produces a hormone similar to human estrogen, I have been fascinated by how our external ecosystem is linked to our internal one. I am a practicing family physician, author and Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco and mother of two nature-lovers. I'm also a contributing columnist to the Washington Post as well as other newspapers and magazines. I received my medical degree from Harvard University and did my residency and a research fellowship at the University of California San Francisco.
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My first book was The Jungle Effect and I am delighted to see it has been given high marks by Goodreaders. It chronicles my adventures as I travel the glo -
Deborah MacNamara
Dr. Deborah MacNamara is a clinical counsellor and educator with more than
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twenty-five years experience, and is the author of the bestselling book Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one). She is
on faculty at the Neufeld Institute, operates a counselling practice, and
speaks regularly about child and adolescent development to parents,
childcare providers, educators, and mental health professionals. She
continues to write, do radio and television interviews, and speak to the
needs of children and youth based on developmental science. Deborah resides
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Martha Sears
Martha is the mother of eight children, a registered nurse, a former childbirth educator, a La Leche League leader, and a lactation consultant. Martha is the co-author of 25 parenting books and is a popular lecturer and media guest drawing on her eighteen years of breastfeeding experience with her eight children (including Stephen with Down Syndrome and Lauren, her adopted daughter). Martha speaks frequently at national parenting conferences and is noted for her advice on how to handle the most common problems facing today's mothers with their changing lifestyles. Martha is able to connect with both full-time mothers and mother who work full-time, because she herself has experienced both styles of parenting Martha takes great pride in refer
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Tamás Vekerdy
Vekerdy Tamás 1935. szeptember 21-én született Budapesten Vekerdy Géza[2] ügyvéd és Friedrich Anna[3] gyermekeként. Apai nagyszülei Vekerdy József bankhivatalnok és Adler Jozefa. Anyai nagyszülei Friedrich Jakab kereskedő és Klein Ilona.
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Egyetemi tanulmányait az ELTE jogi karán végezte 1954–1958 között. Ezután a BTK pszichológia szakát is elvégezte 1962–1967 között. Mérei Ferenc és Nemes Lívia szemináriumaira 1971–1976 között járt.
1958-tól 1960-ig házitanító, illetve a Nemzeti Színház statisztája. 1959–1969 között a Család és Iskola külső, majd belső munkatársa. 1969–1972 között a Színház- és Filmművészeti Főiskola óraadó pszichológiatanára. 1972–1983 között a IX. és a III. kerület Nevelési Tanácsadó pszichológusa. 1983-tól az Országos Pedag -
Géza Gárdonyi
Géza Gárdonyi, born Géza Ziegler (August 3, 1863 – October 30, 1922) was a Hungarian writer and journalist. Although he wrote a range of works, he had his greatest success as a historical novelist, particularly with Eclipse of the Crescent Moon and Slave of the Huns.
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Gárdonyi was born in Agárdpuszta, Kingdom of Hungary, the son of a machinist on the estate of an aristocrat in Western Hungary. He graduated at a college for teachers and worked for some years as a teacher and Catholic cantor. He married Mária Molnár in 1885, but their marriage was unhappy and they separated in 1892.
Gárdonyi's career as a writer started off when he began writing for magazines and newspapers in the mid-1880s. His first successes were the satirical "Göre Gábor" le -
Hal Edward Runkel
HAL RUNKEL is a world-renowned relationship expert, licensed marriage and family therapist, conflict mediator, and internationally acclaimed speaker. Hal’s books, including e New York Times bestseller ScreamFree Parenting, have reached hundreds of thousands around the world, and have been translated into twelve languages. Hal has been featured in hundreds of media outlets, including over forty appearances on NBC’s Today Show. Hal and his high school crush Jenny have been married for twenty-three years, and they’re in the process of launching their two teenagers into adulthood.
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Sharifa Oppenheimer
Sharifa Oppenheimer was the founding teacher of the Charlottesville Waldorf School, Virginia, where she taught kindergarten for twenty-one years and served as day care director of the early-childhood program. She has helped develop new teachers through teacher-training programs at Sunbridge College in New York State, and at Rudolf Steiner College near Sacramento as a master teacher offering practicum and internship opportunities. She has written many articles on Waldorf education, helping the parents of her students create supportive home environments. Recently she initiated a home-based kindergarten program, The Rose Garden. Sharifa is the mother of three grown sons, who were educated in the Waldorf tradition. She lives in an enchanted for
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Victoria Dunckley
Victoria L Dunckley MD is an award-winning integrative child psychiatrist and leading expert on the physiological impacts of screen-time on the brain and body. She blogs monthly for Psychology Today, and has been a featured expert on such media outlets as the TODAY show, NBC Nightly News, Fox News LA, and NPR.
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Over the past decade, her Reset Program has helped more than 500 children, teens, and young adults who've failed conventional treatment alone. Dr. Dunckley feels screen-time is contributing to misdiagnosis, overmedication, and misuse of health and education resources in children. She is a board member of Doctors for Safer Schools and Families Managing Media. She lives and practices in Los Angeles, CA.
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Jen Schmidt
Jen Schmidt: As a mom of five blessings and full time family manager, Jen Schmidt has learned to balance and embrace both the beauty and bedlam of every day life. As a speaker, worship leader and writer, Jen shares with humor and authenticity on a myriad of topics, many which fall under her passion for understanding "It's the little things, that are the big things." This suburban girl, turned country mom, lives a Green Acres life on a family homestead with her siblings and their families, along with a few too many dogs and chickens. She considers herself a full time family manager, who now works from home as a blogger, author, and speaker. She writes about her never-ending pursuit of balancing it all at her personal lifestyle blog. You can
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Linsey Knerl
Linsey was born and raised in Nebraska, where she still lives and homeschools her six children with her entrepreneur husband. When she's not enjoying the beautiful Missouri River bottom landscape you can find her reading weird short stories, playing the piano, and recreating the Danish recipes her grandmother made long ago.
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Sharon Lovejoy
Naturalist, author, and illustrator Sharon Lovejoy’s passion for nature led her to a lifetime of cultivating wonder for grown-ups and children. Her honors include the National Outdoor Book Award for Children’s Literature, 2010 Gold Award from National Parenting Publications, the key to the city of Indianapolis for her work with youth, numerous Garden Writer’s Association awards, and one of the Best Chapter Books Pick by the International Reading Association for her novel Running Out of Night.
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As a graduate with Distinction in Art from San Diego State University, Sharon successfully combined her training in art with her love of botany, natural science and history. She worked as a docent naturalist for the Morro Bay Museum of Natural History a