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Episode 23: Self Love Find Your Gems

Meet Michelle Ballantyne:

Michele grew up in Corvallis, Oregon, the 2nd of 6 children. She went to art school, married, divorced, married again, and has 9 children. Now she lives in Salem, Oregon. She went to Tom Brown Jr's Wilderness Awareness and Survival School called Trackerschool and found herself under all the layers she had built up around herself. She was a homemaker and mom most of her life. She just recently began writing and making art for others. Her writing contains stories from her life that have taught her things that changed her life for the better. Some are simple stories and philosophies, and some are almost unbelievable but true. She lives in a world of contrasts: her body sometimes hurts yet her soul delights in her daily life. There are emotional pains, too, that live within her and those are always present just below the surface, but she doesn't spend much time there. She entertains herself by making art and sharing her art and stories, reading to her son, reading about other people's lives, and enjoying nature. Her favorite quote is something she was told and shown in a meditation, "Our bodies are made of countless entities that have come together out of love to give us this experience." In meditation she saw that every particle is aware and cooperating and loves us.

Michele’s website:

https://www.MicheleBallantyneDesigns.com

Her Blog is on her website and tells her story in book form, that grows week by week, with a new chapter that she sends out by email to her followers. She has another older blog site where she has lots of blogs about her life:

https://www. MicheleBallantyne.com

Email Michele:

MicheleBallantyneDesigns@gmail.com

Tom Brown’s Tracker School:

https://www.trackerschool.com/

I am a Certified Happiness Trainer

https://www.embracehappiness.me

To learn more about me:

https://www.dsflemingcc.com

Order a copy of my new book on Kindle or in Paperback:

Defying Death: Living an Empowered Life with Multiple Disabilities

Defying Death

Order a copy of my first book in paperback or on Kindle:

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Speak+Up+For+Yourself%3A+Get+What+You+Need+and+Feel+Good+About+It&i=stripbooks&crid=1TGVTFEBCG839&sprefix=speak+up+for+yourself+get+what+you+need+and+feel+good+about+it%2Cstripbooks%2C164&ref=nb_sb_noss

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