Life, as it is practiced, is mostly a mirror, because life, as it is frequently lived, is mostly about attachment.  To be attached is to need a mirror--an outer reflection that validates something about oneself which can truly only be validated, empowered and treasured from within.  If I use you as a mirror it's because I want you to be responsible for and make the decision for what I'm thinking or judging about myself. 

If I truly integrate myself into the awareness that, right or wrong, I am one with a Goodness that know no opposite, would the attachment to needing a mirror or reflection to validate me completely dissolve?

Yes.

Love and light,

Sandy Brewer

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Sandy’s bio:

We have all heard the cliché about how it is not how often you fall down that counts, it is how many times you get up – and what you do with life once you do!  Sandy Brewer did not just fall down – she was knocked down again and again, and each time she got up, she purposefully grew stronger.  A human behavior specialist, a gifted speaker, and a therapist with over thirty year’s experience, Sandy uplifts audiences with her personal story of hope and empowerment while offering strategies for self-development and successful life-changing principles that have radically improved the lives of countless people throughout the country.  Her memoir, PUSUIT OF LIGHT, AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY, is based on her gripping true-life story.  She can be

reached at her website www.PursuitOfLight.com.

If you would like to have Sandy speak for your organization, please contact her through her website or through her publisher, PeachTreeHouse,Inc at 760-230-8123

From Pursuit of Light, An Extraordinary Journey, by Sandy Brewer
 ©2007 and published by PeachTreeHouse, Inc, Carlsbad, CA   760-230-8123
 

The power of choice is the recognition that we have the right
and the ability to perceive any circumstance or condition any way we want. That recognition does not necessarily come instantly or without going through a huge learning curve--a huge choosing curve. In the end, though, we get to choose whether what did happen, what is happening, or what might happen determines what we are and our worth.

Sandy Brewer www.PursuitOfLight.com, author of Pursuit of Light, An Extraordinary Journey is available to speak for your organization.  Please contact her through her website or through her publisher, PeachTreeHouse,Inc at 760-230-8123

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The intensity of our stories varies as does the degree of the resulting chaos.  Some of us had it really rough, as did I.  Yet others have had harsher lives.  And for some of us, not so much.  High-end or low-end trauma, it matters not.  All of it can make for a great story about how and why we have the right to be victims of our own reality.  Because reality is not carved in stone.  It is based on a point of view.  Namely, ours.           

Like Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be,” it’s a choice.  To be – to empower ourselves; not to be – to debilitate and hobble ourselves.  Neither choice makes us right or wrong, but one will definitely make us happier.  Which candle will we light today?

It’s easy to let stories – old ways of seeing ourselves, our histories and agendas – take center stage in our lives and be the focus of our existence.  It’s easy to consciously or unconsciously be a victim.  What if we all looked at the experiences in our lives, especially the tougher ones, as simply passages?  Places through which we have traveled.  Whatever the journey has been, it pales in comparison to the core of who we are today.  We’re all at the head of our own line.  No circumstance, no individual, event, or history gets to state who we are.  We do. 

Who and how do you want to be today?  You get to choose.  Really, you do.

Begin by releasing resistance.  If things are or were tough allow that things are or were tough.  Don’t debate it.  Acknowledge it.  Now, here comes the caveat.  No story.  If you want to choose triumph, if you want to choose you, you can’t put a story around why you feel so miserable.  You won’t create change and learn how to empower yourself by saying, “The clerk in the grocery store forgot to put the milk in the bag and now I have to go back and nobody does it right and nobody ever takes care of me and this always happens to me…”  By the time you’re done letting your run on sentences – your victimization story – vomit all over you, everybody around you is ready to throw up, too.

If you want to work with the law of non-resistance which always precedes the law of attraction, you could say.  “Ugh, the milk’s not here.  How irritating.  But, wait.  Maybe there’s something for me in the drive back to the store.  Maybe it will give me the time I have been needing to take a breath.  Maybe it will teach me that I can create fifteen minutes in my day just for me.  Next time, I’ll see if I can do it without the double milk run.”

Even if your story is based on something of much greater substance than the milk metaphor, it’s all the same principle.   Some one may have truly “done you wrong.”  You may have genuinely been hurt and it was perhaps outrageously unfair.  I’m not asking you to agree with what happened or to pretend it wasn’t hard.  I’m asking you to hold yourself in a higher light, to quit attaching your identity to what has happened to you.  You are not the result of your experiences.  Your life and the way you experience it in the now is the result of the way you own yourself in the light of whatever it is your odyssey has been. 

Change your mind about yourself and you will change your reality.  It takes a lot of practice to break away from old identities and yesterday’s attachments.  It takes courage to stay focused on the recognition that there is a Source inside of you greater than any circumstance or doubt.  It’s not a straight line.  You’ll have to be willing to fall down and then get up.  Maybe you’ll have to tumble down into doubt and confusion 100 times today; tomorrow maybe it’ll be 105 times.  But soon it will become automatic – this reaching for a choice about yourself that is greater than the illusion that something bigger than you is blocking your way.  That “something bigger” is your doubt and fear, your attachment to an old story of pain and suffering, self-judgment and inadequacy.   

If you’re feeling stuck, step off the treadmill of obsessively replaying your right and wrong, good and bad scenarios.  You’re so worth your own effort.  Make your new prayer, your new mantra, “Show me a greater point of view.  A point of view stronger than my doubt, greater than my anger, fairer than my judgment.  I am not that which has happened to me.  Show me the point of view of Love and how I can recognize and be healed by It in the midst of my chaos.”

There have been times in my life when I have clung to this prayer for weeks, and on occasion, months.  But there has never been a time when, as long as I held to my intention of self-growth, that the clouds didn’t ultimately part and the healing presence of wisdom come cascading through.

“All God’s children got a story.”  It’s part of our nature.  What will your story be today?   The light of all that you truly are and the potentials that await you?  Or will it be the shadow of doubt?  Shadows are within the light, not outside of it.  And shadows have no true power over you, for at your core you are so much greater than the illusion of separation.

Today make the promise of you be an empowering choice, not an interminable process.  We’re all in this dance of life together.  Know that in the midst of all our self-perceived flaws, is the stunning light of all that we can be.  Let it shine.

Now that’s a story worth living in!

Sandy’s bio:

We have all heard the cliché about how it is not how often you fall down that counts, it is how many times you get up – and what you do with life once you do!  Sandy Brewer did not just fall down – she was knocked down again and again, and each time she got up, she purposefully grew stronger.  A human behavior specialist, a gifted speaker, and a therapist with over thirty year’s experience, Sandy uplifts audiences with her personal story of hope and empowerment while offering strategies for self-development and successful life-changing principles that have radically improved the lives of countless people throughout the country.  Her memoir, PUSUIT OF LIGHT, AN EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY, is based on her gripping true-life story.  She can be

reached at her website www.PursuitOfLight.com.

If you would like to have Sandy speak for your organization, please contact her through her website or through her publisher, PeachTreeHouse,Inc at 760-230-8123.

Check out Sandy’s Video

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The secret of The Secret is that all things and all people are, at their essence, transmitting a frequency, a field of energy, which is the creative source of all that we are and all that connects us. This frequency can be perceived as a light. It is the light of our own intentions and dreams that moves toward us as we move toward it.

May this day be filled for you with the limitless bounty of the inner planes, manifested through you in your physical world!

Sandy Brewer, author of Pursuit of Light, An Extraordinary Journey 

 (www.PursuitOfLight.com) 

If you would like to have Sandy speak for your organization, please contact her through her website or through her publisher, PeachTreeHouse,Inc at  760-230-8123.

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This web blog is intended to produce a more intimate conversation and dialogue between you and Sandy. As a consequence, Ask Sandy is designed not only to post standard article type blogs, but also to have specific blogs in which you the audience, may post questions directly to Sandy, and she will respond and answer your selected questions.

Come join ASK SANDY the official web blog of the PursuitofLight.com at either Sandy's main web-site or at http://sandybrewer.typepad.com.  

This web blog is intended to produce a more intimate conversation and dialogue between you and Sandy. As a consequence, Ask Sandy is designed not only to post standard article type blogs, but also to have specific blogs in which you the audience, may post questions directly to Sandy, and she will respond and answer your selected questions.

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Global Woman Magazine

© December 2007

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THE SECRET OF THE ROSE

                                                                   by Sandy Brewer

It’s springtime.  Tulips and crocuses, with lilacs right around the bend.  And, of course, the rose is on its way, too.  It’s a time of renewal and rebirth, a time for the re-emergence of that which has lain dormant; a time for new love and the dreams of an extended winter’s night ready to be fulfilled. 

Bette Midler wrote and sang it best in the “The Rose.”  For, especially when things seem their gloomiest, it is essential that we know there is a seed buried so deep within us that even during the starkest winter snows it can and it will survive and then thrive.  But it needs a little help from us.  We have, after all, free will.  With our determination and conscious intent, with our refusal to never give up, and with our stubbornness to stay with it until we have healed our ideas of lack and limitation, this seedling essence of us will blossom to its fullest.  If we stay with our dream long enough and refuse to get lost in appearance, doubt, and old stories, we will ultimately be changed by the warmth of the sun’s love in the spring thaw, which actually is a metaphor for the love that we are – that magnificent core which joins us together as a Universal family of one.  This seed of us and our potentials, forever nurtured by the core of love that we are, can one day become the rose.  It can one day blossom into the promise and fulfillment of us.

That day can be today.

The good news is the “spring” of our potential is not limited to the calendar.  On the other hand, often our personal “winters” are not limited to three short months.  But working for the experience of healing, rebirth, and renewal is more than worth the wait and the effort.  We are all so very worth our own effort.  I know because my “winter,” fueled by the experience of and then recovery from horrific childhood abuse, lasted for the first three decades of my life, plus a few extra years thrown in for good measure.

Ah, but then came spring…

My favorite spring arrived one November, over twenty-five years ago.  My long winter’s dream was no longer ensnarled in pain and suffering.  I had grown to the place where I was only interested in experiencing the parts of life I had not yet known.  I was divorced, the mother of three, but I had never known true love with a partner.  So I took out a fresh canvas and new paints and set about creating my dream.  I knew that I had to be willing to own in me everything I desired in my partner.  How could I magnetize into my life something that I had not at least energetically and emotionally integrated with? 

Being a natural organizer, I began by making a list of what I wanted. 

What a list!  I wanted someone who was intelligent, kind to the core, funny, attractive, wonderfully sexy to me, knew himself, and perhaps more important than anything, someone who shared what drove my life.  A spiritual perspective that we are created out of the substance of a Divinity that is forever, a Light that is greater than dark, a Love that is greater than pain.  He didn’t have to express this passion for what I call God in exactly the same way I did, but it had to be an integral part of who and how he was. 

And then I added the next piece, because in order to accept the potential of my dream, I needed to be able to resonate with the feeling of being so loved and treasured.  I needed to be able to match the picture of what I wanted with the passion/feeling of it.  Now that was definitely something new.  It certainly didn’t reflect anything from my personal history of childhood cruelty and rejection. 

I went on a mission, searching industriously for a model of today’s dream.  And then one night, voila, there it was right in front of my face, reaching out to my consciousness from my Sony television.  Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers.  Hart to Hart.  On screen, they treasured each other.  The way the character of Jonathan Hart was filled by his lovely wife, how he drank her in – I soaked it up.  I would say to myself, “Yep, that’s how my guy will look at me.  That’s how we will delight each other.” 

I turned back to the metaphoric rose I was coaxing into becoming the blossom of my intention for my personal life. 

A picture and a passion.  Heart to heart.

I checked to make sure I didn’t have any hidden agendas.  I didn’t want my partner because he would heal me.  I had already done that for myself.  I didn’t want him to validate me, complete me, or take care of me.  He was simply the part of my life I had not yet experienced. 

A new mantra formulated in my mind.  I felt so certain that my counterpart existed and that some part of him was looking for all that I was.  I began to think and repeat and repeat:  For every thought there is a corresponding factor.  That which I am seeking is seeking me.  The law of attraction in action!

And yet when the day came, when my big moment was upon me, I almost canceled.  It was 1982, the night before Thanksgiving.  I was tired, planning a holiday feast the next day for my children and some friends, and here I was with a last minute plan for a kind of non-date date with a great guy named John with whom I had been friends for a year.  But, really, nice as he was, I didn’t have time for this.  I was after all very, very busy looking for Mr. Right.

John returned to my home with me after the non-date movie we went to see.  We opened a bottle of wine, turned on the music, lit the logs in the fireplace, and chatted easily as we always did.  We laughed and teased, and then something magical happened.  In the soft glow of the light, I began to see facets of this lovely man I hadn’t realized were there.  His quick smile, his defenseless attitude, his wonderful mind, his handsome face – they all were suddenly coming together in a new awareness within me. “Put away your telescope,” my inner senses said to me, “Mr. All-that-you-have-ever-hoped for is right before your eyes!”

The flower of my spring time blossomed lusciously that winter.  John and I, living out a romance that has never faded, will celebrate our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary this May.

The calendar tells us now that it is spring once again.  Embrace it – the colors, the the fragrances, the vitality, the blue skies and warming temperatures.  And if there is, for whatever reason, a cloud darkening the heart of your spring, remember there is a power within you greater than the dark, greater than the problem.   For even in the appearance of the darkest winter day, the seed of the rose that holds your dreams and hopes is rising to the surface, just waiting to be recognized.  Just waiting to blossom into the fulfillment of the love that you are.

Sandy Brewer (www.PursuitOfLight.com), author of Pursuit of Light, An Extraordinary Journey is available to speak for your organization.  Please contact her through her website or through her publisher, PeachTreeHouse, Inc at 760-230-8123

Pursuit of Light, An Extraordinary Journey is now available in Audio and Hard Cover to purchase go to www.pursuitoflight.com .

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            It wasn’t long before Mary Margaret got more bad news.  The cancer had now spread to her liver.  She cried and so did I.  She asked me if I had any ideas that might help her remember that she lives past death.

            “Tonight, go out and look at the night sky,” I said.  “Hone in on the most brilliant star you can see.  Keep looking at it until it blurs out of sight.  And when it does, focus on the space between the stars.  That deep, dark, all-encompassing midnight blue.  It is the womb of all that is – the glue that holds everything together.  Every star, every galaxy and planet, every sunrise and sunset, every being that ever was or ever will be exists within the space between the stars.

            “Mary Margaret, my dear, we can forget that it exists or we can remember it, but we can’t actually fall out of the belly of God no matter how hard we try.”

Sandy Brewer (www.PursuitOfLight.com), author of Pursuit of Life, An Extraordinary Journey is available to speak for your organization.  Please contact her through her website or through her publisher, PeachTreeHouse,Inc at 760-230-8123

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"It isn't what happened to us that is the problem. The problem becomes the conclusion we draw about ourselves as a result of what happened to us. When we can change our minds about who we are in context to those experiences, we change our reality today. The details of yesterday start to fall away and become less important," says Sandy Brewer, author of Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey .

Many people are burdened by their past. They are incapable of relating to their present circumstances because they are slaves to painful experiences. Many of them have been driven to depression and inner conflict.

Victim No longer!

Realize that you don't have to continue to be a victim. Press your way through the dark and find the spark to a fulfilled life. Be aware that the purpose of your life is not to suffer, but to be ultimately happy.

Become a friend to yourself and start trusting yourself. Learn to be self-honest; using the times you have suffered as building blocks to wisdom. Develop the drive, focus, and determination to move forward, leaving the pain behind.


Build a New Life

Let the past fall away and build the new life that will work for you and your family. It doesn't matter where you are now, you can change your mind and make a positive turn in your life.

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Do you ever have self –judgment?

"If we are going to position ourselves to be in a place to receive a miracle, it is not going to come by having this ideal life and doing ... everything in this ideal light and always being pristine and perfect", says Sandy Brewer, author of The Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey. It is difficult for people who have suffered abuse to see the goodness within them or others. A life of light and hope is beyond their wildest dreams. The miracle of life seems unreachable, beyond the realm of their existence. Through the process of trial and error, you can learn and grow beyond the great cruelty you have suffered. The miracle you will discover is the kindness and love that has always been there for you, hidden in the shadows. It is never too late to find the light within you, which will lead you to the great joy of life. Leave self-judgment, pick yourself up and grab hold of the light, never letting it go and change the way you think about yourself. No matter what mistakes you think you have made, no matter what fears you hold inside, accept the miracle of the journey before you. Right here and now, you can change your mind about your life's purpose and you will have a miraculous end result. To listen to an insightful interview with Sandy Brewer based upon the techniques from her book, The Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey.

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"Forgiveness has to come from the heart and not the head. When I can look at that part of my life and those that did me wrong and be able to say 'between you and me there is peace now, because you no longer have the power over me to control my thoughts or my feelings or my life'", says Sandy Brewer, author of The Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey.
Many people perpetuate the negative feelings they have about their past. They are unable to forgive the ones that hurt them, choosing instead to remember the past. Not only do they blame their tormenters, but they blame themselves, as well.
Forgiveness is the proactive force needed to find the peace you seek in your life. Without forgiveness, your life is locked in a dark place often leading to depression or drug dependency.
Forgive the people who have hurt you. Make the choice to leave the past in the past. They no longer have control over what you do, how you think, or the choices you make. Your life is your own.
Most importantly, forgive yourself. Throughout your life, you believed you were to blame for the torment you suffered. That is a common feeling for an abused child, but as an adult, you must realize you were not to blame. Discover your self-worth and know that you are deserving of love and fulfillment.
Allow your heart to tell you it is okay, taking forgiveness to the next level. Help yourself grow beyond your past, be kind to yourself and do not judge.

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If we are going to position ourselves to be in a place to receive a miracle, it is not going to come by having this ideal life and doing ... all » everything in this ideal light and always being pristine and perfect", says Sandy Brewer, author of The Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey. It is difficult for people who have suffered abuse to see the goodness within them or others. A life of light and hope is beyond their wildest dreams. The miracle of life seems unreachable, beyond the realm of their existence. Through the process of trial and error, you can learn and grow beyond the great cruelty you have suffered. The miracle you will discover is the kindness and love that has always been there for you, hidden in the shadows. It is never too late to find the light within you, which will lead you to the great joy of life. Leave self-judgment, pick yourself up and grab hold of the light, never letting it go. Be proactive and change the way you think about yourself. No matter what mistakes you think you have made, no matter what fears you hold inside, accept the miracle of the journey before you. Right here and now, you can change your mind about your life's purpose and you will have a miraculous end result. About the Author:  Sandy Brewer based upon the techniques from her book, The Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey.

You can hear an inspirational FREE interview and receive a FREE preview of “Pursuit of Light an Extraordinary Journey” by going to: www.pursuitoflight.com :

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A child bears the unbearable. She is emotionally, physically and sexually tortured.  She is humiliated and sadistically raped hundreds of times by her father. At age thirteen, she gives birth to her first child, her father’s son. 

So, you think the dad is the bad guy?  Guess again.

Not according to Sandy Brewer, author of Pursuit of Light, an Extraordinary Journey www.pursuitoflight.com

Sandy Brewer triumphed over her brutal childhood to become a deeply compassionate humanitarian. She reframed any reference to her past to become an advocate, counselor and teacher as well as a compelling and witty speaker. She honored the child that survived by becoming a successful woman, mother and wife.

None of this exquisite expression would have been possible had she stayed fixed on her father and mother being the bad guys.

Sandy’s memoir is a remarkable story of choice and empowerment. Within this compelling page-turner, she reveals the startling way she discovered who had the power in her family and how she used that knowledge to end the abuse. She inspires with techniques she used to end the emotional trauma and become who she is today.

Sandy currently has a new book Pursuit of Light an Extraordinary Journey out and a new website. Pursuit of Light an Extraordinary Journey is available in print, audio and eBook formats. 

I invite you to met the Author Sandy Brewer receive a FREE PREVIEW and FREE INTERVIEWS.  See her upcoming events and seminars.  Also, email Sandy with your thoughts and comments. Go to:  www.pursuitoflight.com.

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Review by Allan Burns, About Books, Inc.

Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey by Sandy Brewer. Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-9796554-4-9, published by PeachTreeHouse, Inc, P.O. Box 1008, Carlsbad, CA 92008. (760) 230-8123.  www.pursuitoflight.com

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Is your life what has happened to you, or is it what you choose to make of it? Do you have a choice to alter what you are, simply by viewing your life, as the poet A. R. Ammons has put it, “by the light of a different necessity”?

Light: As the title suggests, this is the master trope of Sandy Brewer’s harrowing but also inspiring memoir, Pursuit of Light: An Extraordinary Journey. The abuse Brewer endured as a child was so horrific a reader may be forgiven for wondering why she didn’t go insane or commit suicide. Remarkably, Brewer not only overcame the handicaps of her own past but has also gone on to become an extremely effective therapist and inspirational speaker. Now, she has published a gripping and cathartic memoir that shares the profound lessons of her personal story.

Pursuit of Light has a double focus: It narrates the tragic story of Brewer’s childhood and also expounds the mature philosophical and spiritual perspective she has developed, which has allowed her to get beyond seeing herself as a victim. A reader quickly discovers the enormous gulf between what happened to her and what she has chosen to make of her life. The flashbacks into the nightmare world of her youth, in which mental, physical, and sexual abuse were the norm, are italicized and narrated in present tense, setting them off from the rest of the text and helping to lend them a startling immediacy no reader will soon forget.

The details of these horrific vignettes, however, are not the point of the book; they merely provide the necessary context for comprehending what is the point—that even those who have suffered the most traumatic forms of abuse can choose to take control of their destinies instead of allowing themselves to be tyrannized by the invisible bonds of self-pity and passive acceptance of an identity defined by victimization. The conclusion made me think of the conclusion of Walden, which is also about renewal and living in the moment.  Ultimately, Pursuit of Light is about freedom and choice.

As Brewer writes, “Choice impacts every area of our lives. Being a victim is a choice. Living life in the constant melodrama of a tedious soap opera…is a choice. Happiness is a choice.”

Sandy Brewer developed seminal techniques that allowed her to conquer the crippling legacy of her past. Enlightened and empowered by her journey of self-discovery, she is now committed to helping others make the same transition out of the darkness and into the light. This empowering narrative is a centerpiece of that work. Pursuit of Light provides an inspiring roadmap for how to follow the path Sandy Brewer has herself followed per aspera ad astra—“through suffering to the stars.”            Visit: www.pursuitoflight.com