Women Going Forward: One Friend

One good friend

One lifetime friend

Is it really all we need?

The one friend

Strong friendship that lasts

through distance

through troubles

through pain

through loneliness

through family

through other friends

through careers

as long as there’s a phone

as long as there is that life-line

separated by location

Creativity moves in

Friend dates to the movies

in different states

Phone time in coffee shops

in different cities

Still loneliness creeps in

Even with husbands and kids

Loneliness

Creeps in

Missing our friends

Missing the carefree life

Then the phone rings

The one friend

Always there

Always seems to know

Fills the heart

Listening and laughter

Fills the soul

Holding on to that phone

That voice so desperately needed

From One Friend

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Becky Due’s Monthly Book-Package Giveaway

Monthly Book-Package Giveaway

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The first week of every month, we will announce the winner of the Monthly Book-Package Giveaway. To enter, simply post a comment (on this blog) or “Like” Becky Due’s Facebook page.

What you will win ($60.75 Value):

The Dumpster: One Woman’s Search for Love is a Contemporary Romance Novel set in Miami, Florida about Nicole, a cute, chubby, twenty-something woman, who is looking for love in all the wrong places. Who would have guessed that a dumpster in the back alley below her bedroom window would hold the key to finding love?

With Jack away on business, Rebecca’s looking forward to four days alone to work on her new client’s PR campaign to help women take back their lives. But her past intrudes. Roy, the man who stalked and assaulted her years before, has been released from prison. Home alone in her big, beautiful house out in the country, Rebecca has to learn to take back her own life while facing her fears and regaining her strength. But will she be strong enough when she faces the ultimate test?

This story is about a young woman who hasn’t treated her body like the temple it is—she wasn’t careful with sex or her lifestyle choices—and feared she had contracted HIV. That fear causes her to avoid love, but she learns to love herself. Love will always conquer fear and Christy has much to fear. When she enters the lives of two men, they teach her everything she needs to know about love. But, while dealing with her past issues and trying to treat her body like the temple it is, she teaches them a thing or two in return.

Angie doesn’t want to be a victim anymore. Deep down what she hopes for most is to find a good man to love and to feel safe in this world, but her fears take her down the wrong path. After befriending other women down on their luck, they decide to get revenge on men who go to strip clubs.

Blue the Bird does not want to fly. Follow Blue’s journey of self-discovery. Blue the Bird is a lesson on self-esteem and independence. Great for small children, teenagers with a false sense of entitlement, and adults who need a boost.

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Women Going Forward: Distractions

Distractions… We create them…

to keep us from our purpose

We create fights with our kids…

to keep us from our purpose

We create addictions…

to keep us from our purpose

We create arguments with our husbands…

to keep us from our purpose

We create jobs we hate…

to keep us from our purpose

We create all distractions…

to keep us from our purpose

We create sickness…

to keep us from our purpose

We create fear, anger, depression…

to keep us from our purpose

We create drama and crazy life dynamics…

to keep us from our purpose

We create all distractions…

to keep us from our purpose

What are your distractions?

Why are you ignoring your purpose?

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Women Going Forward: About The Books

Traveling for Love: Searching for Self, Hoping for Love When her husband tells her, he wants a divorce, Amanda realizes she no longer knows who she is – her life revolved around her husband. At forty, she finds herself divorced, childless, living in an apartment with a roommate, with little education and no career path. Can Amanda find love again? Will she find the career of her dreams? Can she heal her pain? Will Amanda realize she deserves to be happy?

The Dumpster: One Woman’s Search for Love is a Contemporary Romance Novel set in Miami, Florida about Nicole, an average American woman who is looking for love in all the wrong places. Will Nicole stop falling in love with every man she meets? Will she stop letting men use her? Will she find the answers to her love-life problems?

In Returning Injury: A Suspense Celebrating Women’s Strength, Rebecca is happily married, loves her career, but she has one lingering problem—she has a stalker and feels like she’s going crazy. Will she learn to stop living in fear? Can she get her sanity back? How will she protect herself?

Touchable Love: An Untraditional Love Story is about a woman who avoids love and relationships because she hasn’t respected her body—she hasn’t been careful with her choices and fears she has contracted HIV. Will Christy face her past and her anxiety about her future? Will she let somebody love her?

In The Gentlemen’s Club: A Story for All Women, Angie doesn’t want to be a victim anymore. Deep down what she hopes for most is to find a good man to love and to feel safe in this world, but her fears take her down the wrong path. After befriending other women down on their luck, Angie and her friends decide to get revenge on men who go to strip clubs. Can Angie let go of her pain and escape the Cycle of Abuse?

Who has time for endless analysis, exercises, journaling, workbooks and affirmations? This easy-to-follow 15-page booklet will quickly boost your self-esteem, so you can get on with your busy life–empowered!

Benefits of 2 Days to Healthy Self-Esteem – Know who you are at your core.- Realize the power you have over your life and avoid self-destructive behavior.- Have more confidence in everything you do.- Have healthy relationships with mutual love and respect.- Cope better with life’s difficulties.- Have more energy and ambition.- Fear less and trust more in others, but especially in yourself.- Discover how to love yourself.

Children’s Book, Blue the Bird on Flying, is about a Bird that doesn’t want to fly. You’ll follow Blue’s journey of self-discovery. Blue the Bird is a lesson on self-esteem and independence.

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Women Going Forward: Last Night’s “Basement” Dream

Last night I had a dream that I was in my home, in the basement… I had no idea that I had a basement. I was so excited and I kept finding new areas and old furniture and extra bathrooms and huge rooms, one with and escalator going up. My newly found basement went on and on.

In my dream I kept showing people my basement and although they thought my basement was cool, they weren’t as impressed as I was–I was so proud of my basement. I couldn’t wait to move things around and make it beautiful.

I’ve had this same dream before, many times.

So, over coffee this morning I decided to look up the meaning of dreaming about a basement.

According to The Complete Idiot’s Guide Dream Dictionary (laughing while typing this), I have serious issues!

Some of the words used: Hidden Inner Desires, Deep Seated Instinctual Side. The Basement represents the part of me that I don’t show to the world.

This fits, it makes sense to me. There is a side of me that I keep hidden and I’m not sure why.

My husband knows and loves my basement. My close friends know all about my crazy basement and they seem to like it too.

So, maybe it’s time I start showing more of myself to more people… I’m going to slowly find my way out of the basement. Maybe painting again is one small step out…

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You Deserve Better! Inspiring Novels for Women Going Forward in Their Lives

YOU DESERVE BETTER!

Quick Inspiring Novels
for
Women Going Forward
in Their Lives

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We’ve had unhealthy relationships…We’ve been alone and lonely…We’ve had bad jobs…We’ve felt stuck in life…We’ve made terrible decisions…Never again!

Start with my first novel, The Gentlemen’s Club: A Story for All Women then work your way through… You’ll find every answer you need.

Congratulations on your future success and happiness!

Sincerely,
Becky Due

 

 

Organization and Cleaning Up the Clutter

Organization and Cleaning Up the Clutter…

When my mother went out of town, I cleaned and organized her house. (Yes, I had her permission).

When I found out my nephew was often in trouble because of his messy room, I cleaned and organized his room.

When a friend let her apartment get out of control, I move in for a couple of days and cleaned and organized.

Cleaning and organizing is one of my passions.

When I come home, I want my space to be a place of peace—my sanctuary. I want to be free to enjoy my home and other activities, hobbies, time with family, without feeling overwhelmed by thoughts like, “I need to clean this house.”

My home is organized, but I went through a phase when my office was always a mess. During that time, I was at a crossroads with my career. I had a hard time making decisions, I felt uneasy, depressed, like a failure. Once I clean up my office, everything fell into place. I started feeling better about my direction and I stopped procrastinating.

I was watching Susie Orman on PBS a while back about Women and Money. She talks about “the eight qualities of a wealthy woman.” She contends that the two most important of these are harmony and balance, followed by courage, generosity, happiness, wisdom and beauty. But she makes the most compelling case for the value of cleanliness.

“When you don’t know where your money is,” she notes, “when you have no filing system for your important documents, when you dive into your pocketbook to pull out crumpled bills, when your car looks like a garbage can, when your closets are filled with junk and clutter — I’m sorry, but you cannot possibly be a wealthy woman.”

I believe this with my whole heart… and maybe because I’ve found this to be true, I want to see the people I love also doing well in their lives.

I think a good place to start is by cleaning up our messes.

House… Car… Purse… Room… Closet… Drawer… Cupboards…

What works for me…

1. Start small… One drawer, purse, closet, room, car at a time. Conquer one thing at a time to build momentum… it’s good for the self-esteem : )
2. If you don’t live alone, make sure your family is involved. You shouldn’t (and can’t) do it alone. Teach your kids some great organization skills.
3. Organize once, and stay on top of the clutter, so you’ll never have to do it again.
4. Never let something pass through your hands more than once. Don’t “I’ll just put this here for now.” Have a place for everything. Don’t throw a penny in a drawer just because you don’t feel like walking a few steps to your purse to put in your coin purse. Don’t throw a paperclip in a box just because you don’t feel like stepping over to your desk to put the paperclip where it belongs.
5. An easy trick for the car is whatever you take into the car you take out of the car when you leave your car. If you go to McDonald’s drive-thru for lunch and have garbage in your car, at your next stop gather your trash and find an outdoor garbage can.

HOME:

If you are going to conquer one room, one floor, or a small home or apartment, these steps worked
for me.

• Take a Saturday for example – get the kids out of the house, turn off the TV, turn
  off your phone. Get rid of the distractions!
• Put on some comfortable clothes
• Put on some fun, up-beat music that you can sing and dance to
• Then put everything into four categories:
  • Clothes
    • Make your bed and throw all your clothes/towels that are on the floor, couch, in the bathroom, etc. on your bed – clean or dirty doesn’t matter.
  • Trash/Goodwill
    • Get two big garbage bags and start throwing things away, and bagging up what should go to goodwill or a garage sale.
  • Papers/bills/magazines/books
    • Put all the papers, books etc. by your computer, on your desk or where you do your bills – Have a designated place for this stuff.
  • Dishes
    • Run around, pick up all the dishes and half-eaten bags of chips, and put them in
      the kitchen.
• Once everything is up off the floor it’s time to sort: Don’t forget to dance and sing while sorting! : )
  • Throw all your dishes in the dishwasher and start it or soak them in the sink.
  • Then start folding/hanging up your clothes and throw a load of dirty clothes in the wash.
• The trick is when you are cleaning and organizing, you are on a mission. There is no time for reminiscing; don’t get caught up in memories—don’t read cards or look at pictures… just put the cards with the cards and pictures with the pictures. Once your house is clean, you can enjoy going through your photos and placing them in albums or picture boxes.

There are many benefits to staying clean and organized. You’ll stop feeling so overwhelmed. You will find you have more time in your day for the things you love to do. You can have company anytime/unexpectedly without embarrassment. You’ll never again have to wonder where something is.

Take a chance, organize and see what wonderful changes happen in your life!

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Hard and Lonely Times

It’s easy to
forget how awesome we are because of our busy lives…

• Sometimes when the alarm goes off in the morning,
  do you ask yourself, “Why bother?”
• Sometimes do you find yourself in a rut of “couch
  potato” and “snacking” and feel guilty because of it?
• Sometimes do you lack the energy to wash your
  face before bed?
• Sometimes do you find yourself so lonely you daydream
  about somebody loving you, even if you’re married or in a relationship?
• Sometimes are you jealous of a group of
  girlfriends at a restaurant and wonder where all your friends are?
• Sometimes do you see somebody jogging and wonder
  how in the world do they do it?
• Sometimes do you wake up feeling energetic and
  make a list of everything you want to achieve for the day and at night you
  realize you only achieved half, so you beat yourself up before you go to
  sleep and wake up in the morning and again wonder, “Why bother?”
• Sometimes do you find it easier to stay quiet
  than to fight with your spouse or children and then you want to hide in
  the bedroom and cry so they can’t see your pain?
• Sometimes do you feel like you’ve become somebody
  else and wonder what happened to your life?
• Sometimes do you wish you had somebody who really
  knew you, could understand you, love you and accept you the way you truly
  are?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, pick up one of my books for some motivation, inspiration, friendship and a few laughs. I, and my characters, have gone through the hard and lonely times, too.

It’s time to pick yourself up, brush yourself off and get the life you want… my characters will help you!

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Favorite Female Characters

Favorite Female characters…

The Dumpster: One Women’s Search for Love… Starring NICOLE!

Nicole is a banker, a daughter, a best friend and… a lover!
She is slightly overweight and struggles with self-esteem, her search for real
love and her parents. Silly, fun and full of life, you will want Nicole and her
friends to be your friends!

Returning Injury: A Suspense Celebrating Women’s Strength… Starring REBECCA!

Rebecca works in PR and is an advocate for women. She is a
wife, a daughter and a victim of stalking. Fear, insecurity and searching for
her own strength consume Rebecca while her husband is out of town. In this
controversial ending, Rebecca finds the power she needs to face her stalker.

Touchable Love: An Untraditional Love Story… Starring CHRISTY!

Christy is lost in her reckless life, trying to find
direction and fearing everything in her future. As a nude model for an art
class, she gets the opportunity to work with a famous photographer forcing her
biggest fears to be front and center. Can Christy face her own truth and allow
real love in her life?

The Gentlemen’s Club: A Story for All Women… Starring ANGIE!

Angie is a daughter, friend and she is homeless. She was a
victim of childhood sexual abuse, domestic abuse and self-abuse. Trying to get
out of the violence and abuse cycle, she taps into her anger and fights back.
You will love Angie’s courage and you’ll find courage in your own life.

 

The Dumpster: One Woman’s Search for Love

Great book, and easy read!!!, August 22, 2011

Nicole is a single girl living in Miami who enjoys life and the challenges that come with it. This book takes you inside her love life, that is not so great at the beginning, but soon becomes a fairy tale that every girl
wishes for by the end of it. Her relationships with her friends, her neighbors, and her parents are also a big part of the book, but the dumpster that sits below her bedroom window is the one thing that she sees as a curse in the beginning, but it actually becomes a blessing in disguise. I loved this book because as a woman who has been with the same man since I was a teenager, it was refreshing to read about a woman who struggles, but soon finds herself living a happy life without a special someone in it all of the time. This book was easy to read and there was always something interesting happening at the turn of each page. I look forward to reading more of Becky’s books in the near future.

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