Mental Wellness Speaker and Author of: "Lipstick and Thongs in the Loony Bin"
http://www.loonybus.com
All aboard the LoonyBus...You don't have to be crazy---but it helps!
http://www.loonybus.com
All aboard the LoonyBus...You don't have to be crazy---but it helps!
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- Affiliation:
- LoonyBus Enterprises
- Location:
- http://www.loonybus.com
- Birthday:
- April 9
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus" Your brain can sometimes seem like a playground or a minefield, a peaceful meadow or a thunderstorm. In the cresting and crashing thoughtwaves---create some space & distance between your thoughts and emotions. Give your heart room to breathe while your mind rolls its little movies.~CAW
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus" If you keep diving into shallow pools and getting concussions then GO DEEPER. :~)~CAW
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus"
Loonies---
The LoonyBus Lending Library Project for Urban Youth Empowerment is officially underway!!!! Say THAT five times fast... :-)
In collaboration with some local teen groups including a 501(c)3 status nonprofit org called, "The Extra Mile" (website link pending---will share this info when their site is live) we are... creating a LoonyBus Lending Library of inspirational books, memoirs, CDs, DVDs and any other resources that may be checked out to troubled teens and twentysomethings as well as their families.
What topics are we looking for???
Anything related to healing/overcoming/encouraging empowerment on any of the following issues would be MOST welcomed: Eating disorders, substance abuse, domestic violence, learning disabilities, success mindsets, Law of Attraction, mental illness, grief/loss, divorce, teen parenting, single parenting, college prep materials, young entrepreneurs, healthy eating, self-esteem, sexual identity issues ETC. Hay House type of books, Chicken Soup for the Soul series and anything that would appeal to/be appropriate for the age group of 13 and up basically.
Where will the books etc. be housed?
One of the local vendors in the community may be offering us some of his extra space to house/store the books. We are in the process of working out the details on that. Our plan going forward is to get some teen volunteers to help paint and decorate the space and make it their own. It is amazing to see how quickly this is starting to come together! Thank you all for spreading the word, sending your good energy and your self-help and inspirational materials to get this going!
The shipping info is below.
Please send all book donations to:
LoonyBus Library Project
P.O. Box 478
Woonsocket, RI 02895
If you'd like to send a check, please make it out to, "The Extra Mile". For paypal donations there is a button on the LoonyBus.com site.
These kids will SO benefit from these resources which will also be used to create classes, seminars, discussion groups, etc. Yes....they can Google any of these topics anytime BUT...there is something special and tangible about the energetic connection of interacting with physical books, creating a realtime, community fostering, face-to-face forum where ideas and ways of thinking outside the box are encouraged, shared and discussed.
Each one teach one,
Courtney A. Walsh
Namaste and ROCK ON!!!
http://www.loonybus.com
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LoonyBus Enterprises™ was formed to raise compassionate awareness and decrease fear-based stigma around mental wellness issues for teens and adults. LoonyBus Enterprises™ is currently expanding and evolving ...
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus" When I lost my mind, I found my heart. Then my mind showed up IN my heart. It was quite a revelation, epiphany, AHA, eureka and a WOOHOO moment all wrapped in one beautiful surrender. I highly recommend it.~CAW
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus" There is a place in you that is untouchable by time. It is where your brilliance shimmers, flashes, shines and knows. It is immune to fear. It is the core of love that echoes into forever. In this place you are well, whole and complete. Nurture it, honor it, trust in it always.~CAW
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus" When you feel overwhelmed by your thoughts or emotions, hit the 'pause' button. Deep breaths, counting to ten, screaming into pillows are all fine ways to do this. Exercise will help you sweat it out sometimes. Venting to a friend, long salt baths. Soft music, candles, a comedy movie. All are healthy distractions and h...elp ground and center you when your brain is not being your friend.~CAW
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus" My halo has horns. And I like it that way. Aim just below perfection and just above fear. Embody light and integrate shadow.~CAW
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus" You are needed. Your voice is the soulprint, your heart is the lifeprint that you bring to shape the clay that is this world. You are as intricate and unique and glorious as a multifaceted snowflake, leaf, star. You are magnificent.~CAW
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus" If you feel stuck on the hamster wheel in your brain, drop down into the hammock in your heart.~CAW
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus"
Loonies...this article below so totally clicked for me. Enjoy and feel free to share...~Courtney A. Walsh
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The Great Promise
by Gillian MacBeth-Louthan
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Within the human being is a seed of hope a divine blueprint that has promised never to leave. A seed that stays plant...ed no matter how bad the weather and storms of life may be. So many people have worked so hard only to see their dreams laid to rest in a barren thirsty soil. They have followed their divine blueprint into a desert that grows little and a land that does not support. They have extended themselves financially, emotionally and physically plowing a land that is unfriendly and desires not to support what their heart yearns for.
As their dreams begin to wither in the high noon sun of earthly chaos and manipulation the light of hope seems to fade, the heart begins to close the door on hope. We become robotic like as we struggle not to feel the sadness in our heart. We don’t want to give up on what lives in our heart but we do not see the seasons changing in our favor.
All hands of the planet reach out to take what little there is stretching you into more fears and tears and hopelessness. as you continue to make ends meet the rope gets tighter and tighter around your dreams seeming to squeeze the very life out of them. We begin to feel like silly putty bouncing off the walls and only absorbing the pictures that others give to us. From now till 2012 the energy is going to kick in like a angry old mule. We try hard to escape this harsh reality but life swims toward us with an open mouth hungry to take any and all. Any illusion of control is held tightly in the body as pain as we announce to the world what we are not going to do louder than what we will be forced to do via life and circumstance.
Our bodies kick and scream and our soul pirouettes spinning out of control as the seasons of time demand our undivided attention. All personal considerations go on hold as these vast energies enter our field of inquiry. Fight or flight gallops thru our biological system as adrenaline glands pump hard like horses in a quarter mile race. We step within to address the root of the problem as what is invisible in matter beats the heck out of us, like neighbor kids in a snowball fight, no harm intended but it still hurts.
We feel helpless and hopeless as our dreams seem to whither on the vine. Our ability to nurture has turned into the need to survive. We begin to panic looking for the escape hatch, anything has to be better that all of this planetary upheaval. All of these events have been predicted for many years but we did not want to hear and we did not want to see. We now sit in this empty space asking to be rescued by anything or anyone. In this place of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil, the scent of danger lingers in the air. How can little ole us fight the choices of people that turn a blind eye to what is right and wrong. How can we correct the balance of a world on tilt?
It is time to get off our humbled haunches and stand up for all we believe to be good and light, truth and honor. We have been schooled for this time. We are not little in light or heart. we are destined to make a difference, without fear of consequence. we are held responsible by our actions or inactions.
We have the quantified tools to shift the molecules of all that seems to take away our freedom of choice. we seem to be adrift on a sea that seems grander than us. we are paddling with our hopes and dreams and swim to shore with a wink and a prayer. We are not puppets to be restrung at a moments notice. We are the saviors of a world that has come undone. We are not blind victims in a con game, we have come into this world with eyes wide open. We have a Great Promise to keep that lives in our heart and soul. This great promise casts a light greater than any shadow of doubt. It is not up to others to decide our destiny. The heavens look to us to become the change we seek. Every thought is precious and counts.
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus" My ten minutes of fame and a little backstory...
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Television interview with suicide attempt survivor and mental wellness author/speaker, Courtney A. Walsh. Book now available on both Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.com.From Rock Bottom to Rock ON!Bipolar author talks about her memoir and suicide attempt.www.lipstickandthongbook.com
Courtney A. Walsh aka "LoonyBus" Coming to a school, organization, yacht, prison or cemetery near you. Wherever there's an audience who wants to hear about going from Rock Bottom to Rock ON---I will be there blabbing away. Yup.
www.loonybus.com
LoonyBus Enterprises™ was formed to raise compassionate awareness and decrease fear-based stigma around mental wellness issues for teens and adults. LoonyBus Enterprises™ is currently expanding and evolving ...
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