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		<title>You Deserve to be the Best You Can Be</title>
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On October 23 &#38; 24, moms from around the nation will be gathering in
Denver for an amazing weekend. And I don&#8217;t want you to miss this event.
Why?
Because I know that there is a good chance if you&#8217;re reading this,
you need to be there. My heart and mission in life (besides being a mother)
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<p>On October 23 &amp; 24, moms from around the nation will be gathering in<br />
Denver for an amazing weekend. And I don&#8217;t want you to miss this event.</p>
<p>Why?</p>
<p>Because I know that there is a good chance if you&#8217;re reading this,<br />
you need to be there. My heart and mission in life (besides being a mother)<br />
is to support you in the everyday aspects of parenting. Do any of the<br />
following describe your life?<span id="more-14"></span></p>
<p>*** You dread waking up every morning to face children with difficult or severe<br />
behaviors</p>
<p>*** You look into the mirror and seeing your own childhood pain and<br />
&#8220;unfinished&#8221; business staring you in the face</p>
<p>*** You simply don&#8217;t know where to turn to for help anymore-all your<br />
resources have been exhausted</p>
<p>*** You feel completely overwhelmed with all the dynamics of being a<br />
mother from groceries, to cooking, to cleaning, to carpooling, and not<br />
to forget the worst of all-homework!</p>
<p>*** You find yourself trying to ignore the resentment you feel towards<br />
your child or your husband.</p>
<p>*** You bulldoze your way through each day, exhausted and praying<br />
for the day to be over.</p>
<p>*** You feel like you would rather go back to work in a high pressure job,<br />
working 80 hours a week where projects where due yesterday. At least<br />
you felt some sense of control and sanity (and you got paid!).</p>
<p>*** You feel like an ineffective parent and that you are actually adding<br />
to your child&#8217;s pain and struggles.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve probably searched for answers through all the parenting books you&#8217;ve<br />
purchased or from the books friends and teachers have recommended,<br />
yet the solutions continue to allude you.</p>
<p>What has been missing all along is knowing how to get yourself back on<br />
track! One more book isn&#8217;t going to change the tide. One more medication<br />
will just be another Band-Aid solution. One more sticker chart will only<br />
generate more frustration. One more expert telling you your child needs to<br />
change now or a future of trouble is eminent. These will only sink you to a<br />
lower level of hopelessness.</p>
<p>If you want to change something in your life, there is only one<br />
place to look: inside you! The &#8220;Everyday Is Mother&#8217;s Day&#8221; conference<br />
is designed to be the missing piece-the piece that everyone has overlooked.<br />
It is in you and I want you to reclaim yourself and be able to have the<br />
experience to find happiness and peace again.</p>
<p>This Mom&#8217;s Conference will teach you how to move from surviving to thriving.<br />
It cannot be about &#8220;When my child acts better, I&#8217;ll be better&#8221;<br />
anymore. You deserve better and the reality is that you need to get<br />
better before your children can get better. Mahatma Gandhi said it best, &#8220;You<br />
must be the change you want to see in the world.&#8221; (You must be the<br />
change you want to see in your family).</p>
<p>This conference will open you up emotionally to be able to embrace the most<br />
difficult of moments your child presents to you. Opportunities for self<br />
discovery, self-love, and self-forgiveness will be part of these two days. The<br />
difference is that you&#8217;ll be loved and supported at this conference<br />
in a way that you&#8217;ve probably never experienced before.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.EveryDayIsMothersDay.com" target="_blank">www.EveryDayIsMothersDay.com</a></p>
<p>Tools for keeping you from returning back to old habitual patterns and<br />
negative thinking will be used and taught in order to make this a life-changing<br />
experience. You&#8217;ll participate in a combination of emotional and cognitive<br />
experiences that will lock the &#8220;new you&#8217; into place, ensuring that you return<br />
home to make significant changes in all your relationships.</p>
<p>The discount for the Mom&#8217;s Conference is still available. This is a FULL<br />
(9am to 9pm) two day event for $197.00 (regularly $297). It takes<br />
tremendous courage to even consider spending two days with a group of women<br />
you don&#8217;t know, opening yourself up to your own emotional process.</p>
<p>I would be honored to have you and break the fear barrier!</p>
<p>Perhaps your first thought is, &#8220;But I can&#8217;t afford to come.&#8221; In the bigger<br />
picture, I strongly believe that , &#8220;You can&#8217;t afford NOT to come.&#8221;<br />
This is an investment in you and in your future. For the $197 registration<br />
fee, you will receive the equivalent of six months of therapy. Honestly. It will be<br />
that intense and that powerful. Even six months of a $25 co-payment for<br />
weekly therapy is more than the registration fee and the airfare.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve set up a private group on my social network:<br />
www.heatherforbes.ning.com</p>
<p>You can connect with other moms before the conference so you can<br />
find a roommate, share a ride, and make lasting friendships.<br />
The support you&#8217;ll receive will go far beyond these two days.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll be with other moms, just like you&#8212;all of them. This is different than<br />
anything you can find in your hometown. I know you&#8217;ve sat in playgroups or at a<br />
Mom&#8217;s night out and thought, &#8220;I just don&#8217;t fit in here!&#8221; You&#8217;ll fit in with<br />
this entire conference!</p>
<p>But you&#8217;re still thinking, &#8220;How can I get away? Who will watch my children?&#8221;<br />
This is a logistical issue, no doubt. But there is always a way. If you&#8217;re<br />
married, think how your spouse will appreciate you more than ever after<br />
being gone for a few days!</p>
<p>You can plan the weekend in two hour blocks for your children when you&#8217;re<br />
gone, keeping them busy and distracted, having fun, and giving them a plan<br />
so they know what to expect. Create a video for them when you&#8217;re gone,<br />
reassuring them you love them and haven&#8217;t forgotten them. Make a paper<br />
chain so they can count the days when you&#8217;ll be home. There are so many<br />
ways to be creative in order to give them reassurance and security when<br />
you&#8217;re away.</p>
<p>Attend the special webinar I&#8217;m giving this Thursday &#8220;You Deserve<br />
to be the Best You Can Be&#8221; which will have a great Q&amp;A about what<br />
to expect, how to get away and a discussion with past attendees.</p>
<p>https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/843402019</p>
<p>&#8220;Yeah, but, I&#8217;ll have to pay for it when I get home!&#8221;  See &#8212; I hear you!<br />
And I know if feels that way. But the reality is that you&#8217;ll be in a completely<br />
different space within yourself that you&#8217;ll be able to calm their fears like<br />
you&#8217;ve never been able to do before. The mothers that attended my<br />
previous moms&#8217; conferences reported back that it was different when they went<br />
home&#8212;significantly different.</p>
<p><img align="left" alt="Heather T Forbes, LCSW, Adoptive Mom,  Parenting Expert" height="168" hspace="10" src="http://www.beyondconsequences.com/webpage/images/enote-heather.jpg" vspace="10" width="144" /></p>
<p><strong>My Gifts to You:</strong></p>
<p>After the conference, you&#8217;ll be signed up for three private group support calls<br />
that I&#8217;ll host to keep you motivated and energized, for free.</p>
<p>I also have something I want to give to you for having the courage to make<br />
the commitment to this event. With your paid registration, you&#8217;ll receive<br />
download access to my audio &#8220;Issues Facing Adoptive Mothers of Children<br />
with Special Needs.&#8221; If you&#8217;re a mother struggling with post-adoption issues,<br />
this audio CD is for you. It will speak your language and help you to see that<br />
you&#8217;re really not going crazy!</p>
<p>And it is my gift to you for coming to this conference. (If you&#8217;ve already signed<br />
up, not to worry, you&#8217;re in on these gifts, as well).</p>
<p>So, what is holding you back? Send me a note and let me know. Or better yet,<br />
log into my new ning site and start a discussion with me and the other<br />
moms. (www.heatherforbes.ning.com)</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve made it this far in this email, it tells me you do want to come<br />
and somewhere deep down inside you know you need to come.</p>
<p>I would be honored to have you at this conference and I know this would<br />
be a life changing weekend for you. I promise to do everything in my power<br />
to this weekend worth it for you. I will deliver. I hope you&#8217;ll find a way to<br />
make this work for you!</p>
<p>Signing up is easy. Just log into:<br />
<a href="http://www.EveryDayIsMothersDay.com" target="_blank">www.EveryDayIsMothersDay.com</a></p>
<p>Press on,</p>
<p><img alt="Heather T Forbes, LCSW, Adoptive Mom,  Parenting Expert" height="53" src="http://www.beyondconsequences.com/enewsletter/images-vol2/signature.jpg" width="580" /><br />
Heather T. Forbes, LCSW</p>
<p><em>If you want to change something in your life,<br />
there&#8217;s only one place to look: inside you.</em></p>
<p>P.S. Still not sure? Attend the special webinar I&#8217;m giving this Thursday<br />
&#8220;You Deserve to be the Best You Can Be&#8221; which will have a great Q&amp;A about<br />
what to expect, how to get away and a discussion with past attendees.<br />
I hope you&#8217;ll consider this event because you deserve it, and your family<br />
deserves you to be at your absolute best.</p>
<p>Sign up for the webinar now: <a href="https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/843402019" target="_blank">https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/843402019</a></p>
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