Sonja is originally from Vienna, Austria and now lives in the Chicago area. A student of Astrology for well over 20 years, she has been a member of the National Council for Geocosmic Research (NCGR) since 1997, receiving her NCGR Level 1 certification in 2005.

She has written monthly Horoscopes for MahalayaLife.com and the online magazine "Urban CampFire". She has been interviewed for her astrological insight on several internet radio shows, including "A Charmed Life", "The Reality Manifest Show" and "That's the Beauty of it All". She was also a guest on "Astrology, Numerology Now" -- a TV show hosted by Z Starman. In addition, she was the host of her own (fully sponsored) Astrology show on BiteSizeTV until July 2013. 

Her passion is for connecting with people and helping them transform their lives. This led her to train as a life coach, in addition to her lifelong study of astrology. She currently serves dozens of clients across several continents, via Skype and phone.

She currently also enjoys sharing her online Soul-Based Astrology curriculum, as well as teaching her in-person “Soul Journey” courses all over the world. 

To learn more about Sonja’s service and get great free content, visit her online at Facebook/AstrologerCoach.SonjaFrancis

On either sites you will find her regular Astrology forecasts -- written and video -- and a link to her twitter feed.

I'm a decluttering and organizational expert. I've learned that most of us struggle with getting and staying organized because we're stuck in the energies of fear, shame and guilt. By learning easy, simple strategies and using small, self love based decisions on what we like, use and need in our life – we can then start to take stock in what we really have and even come to an understanding of why we are have it and then we will finally be able to let go of what no longer serves us without it causing us stress and aggravation. I've found that using this strategy allows people to let go more easily, make smarter decisions for themselves and there is an increase in productivity, contentment and energy. 

-Make smarter decisions quicker and more easily that are for your best and highest good.

-Increase your energy, productivity and contentment levels

-Learn how to make your life easier and less stressful.

Alison Kero grew up with 2 different organizational styles being modeled to her. One parent was precision neat while the other was a pack rat. Through her teenage and college years Alison lived more like her pack rat parent but when she became an adult and started living on her own, she searched for ways to easily get and stay organized.

When Alison became an organizer in 2004, she constantly searched for ways to make her clients lives and her own, easier through organization. However, minor amounts of clutter always tended to creep up in Alison's life, which she found frustrating and kind of exhausting. Finally Alison had a major "ah-ha Oprah moment" after reading a book about tidying up. She realized that using self love as her decision making tool she could create her best possible living space filled only with what she liked, used and needed. It was the only way to ensure the outcome would be life transforming because she realized she was now only seeing good things in her home and life and she was beginning to find herself underneath some of the clutter. By first using self love in her organizing process, Alison was then able to transfer those same easy and simple techniques into all decisions she made in her life. Whether it was who to spend time with, what activities she chose or objects she brought home, Alison had found that many parts of her life were beginning to improve because of her self-love decision making; increased energy, productivity and overall contentment were just a part of what she's been seeing show up ever since.

Throughout her career she has been fortunate enough to be invited to appear on the Dr. Oz Show, the CBS Morning Show and the Mike Huckabee Show as well as several YouTube channel shows. Since embarking upon her adventure as an entrepreneur, Alison has been sought after as an organization and productivity blogger for Manilla.com and has also been interviewed by the NY Times, CNN.com, US News & World Report and many other online publications for her expert opinions. She also wrote her first book, "How to Fail at Business" which shares lessons she learned owning her first business in 2011 and is toying with writing a new book.

Alison combines organization, interior design and feng shui to help her clients create a space that truly defines who they are while creating a workable system to help them continue to achieve their goals. Alison recognizes there are myriad solutions when it comes to creating an organized life so by listening to her clients she can help them identify what's holding them back and keepining them stuck while developing a organizational system solution that's tailor made for them.

Thanks for visiting ACK! Organizing and when you're ready to create positive change in your life, drop me a line.  -- Cheers, Alison Kero

Maureen McEvoy, MA, RCC has been in private practice for more than 20 years. She works with individuals, couples and groups. She counsels clients who have experienced trauma, either recent or historical. She is certified in trauma modalities such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DMNS). Other approaches include art therapies, hypnosis and mindfulness.

She also works with couples using Imago Relationship therapy. She is an Advanced Imago clinician (1996) and a Certified Workshop presenter of the Getting the Love You Want weekend workshop based on the work of Harville Hendrix.

Maureen believes that each of us is able to be the author of our own lives, and that we have an inborn urge to grow towards our full potential. She sees her role in counselling to provide an environment of safety, witnessing, reflection, and support that facilitates such growth. She wishes to guide people to a deeper understanding of themselves and their situation, to befriend their challenges and embrace their strengths. She believes that self-awareness and self-acceptance are critical ingredients in order to live a happier and more fulfilling life. Clients experience her as respectful, curious, pragmatic and compassionate.

She also believes that psychological issues can never be reduced to the individual, but are always related to culture, social settings and society. Therefore, problems need to be addressed in context.

Tamara Adilman Counselling and Consulting for over 20 years in Vancouver B.C.

Specialist in Relationship/Marriage Therapy and Individual Counselling

"The Journey is the Destination"

- Unknown

I have been a relationship therapist and individual counsellor since I began my career over 20 years ago. I have committed my working life to helping people discover what it truly means to be who they are and help them identify how they want to live their life. I help clients find a more positive and loving way to be in relationship with each other because I believe relationships have the power to transform the lives of couples, adult family members and individuals.

IMAGO - A NEW WAY TO LOVE IN RELATIONSHIPS

As a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist with Advanced Clinician Status a Workshop Presenter and Certified Imago Consultant /Supervisor I have worked with hundreds of couples and individuals. What I experience is that Imago therapy teaches couples a NEW WAY TO LOVE.

It teaches partners practical skills based on positive proven methods that work. Clients love this approach because it offers them new skills to change old behaviour patterns. Couples and family members learn how to calm their reactions towards each other, lessen conflict and find a deeper understanding so they can restore their connection to each other.

HARRY A. MILMAN is a PhD consulting toxicologist and expert witness and president of ToxNetwork.com. He has assisted as an expert in over 250 civil and criminal cases involving drug overdoses, pharmacy errors, exposure to toxic chemicals and carcinogens, and assaults. He is often quoted in newspaper and magazine articles and has appeared as a toxicology expert on television news broadcasts. Prior to becoming an expert witness, Dr. Milman was a scientist at the US National Cancer Institute, NIH, and a senior toxicologist at the US Environmental Protection Agency. He has published five scientific books including the widely acclaimed Handbook of Carcinogen Testing and over seventy research papers. A Death at Camp David is his first novel. He lives in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC.

Glenn Ambrose is the owner of Life Enhancement Services, a holistic company based on the belief that happiness & fulfillment are there for you to have and is attainable by anyone.  He is a Spiritual Teacher, Life Coach, Host of the Podcast: "Life, Lessons, & Laughter with Glenn Ambrose", Inspirational Speaker, Reiki Practitioner and Personal Trainer.  Combining his coaching skills with his finely tuned style of getting to the heart of the matter, he inspires the change that is necessary for truly successful living.

Piotr Cielebiaś has created a surprisingly interesting and detailed account of UFO cases in Poland. I love his title of “UFOs over Poland” since I have written a book called “UFOs over Pennsylvania” and I also do a talk show called “UFOs over Pittsburgh”. I agree that there is a link of lore to modern UFO cases, Ufologists need funding for their research and not all of the best cases took place 70 years ago. It was interesting to learn that Poland’s first flying disk case occurred in 1922 and that 22% of Poland’s population was killed by the Nazi’s. There is an underlying theme in this book of UFOs and/or the paranormal.

This book is full of remarkable cases and photos. Who knew of the 1959 Polish Roswell case of a small craft plunging into the water, emitting a red liquid and the coast guard finding a humanoid with more than ten fingers? We in the U.S. think that UFOs mostly occur here and are ignorant of the rich UFO history abroad; especially in “haunted” Eastern Europe where much folklore originated. It is also interesting that the Gray alien abduction is a U.S. phenomenon where as in Poland; they tend to be dark hooded figures much like in the early days of U.S. UFO reports. Although many UFO groups were formed in Poland, there is no official reporting agency for UFOs. In the U.S., MUFON does the job that the air force claims they do not do and Polish Ufologists can start their own MUFON chapter if they wish to. 

It was interesting to read that when Poland joined NATO in 1999, the UFO subject became taboo. The government followed western protocols to debunk and ridicule cases and witnesses. I believe part of the agreement to obtain U.S. foreign aid and cooperation includes following U.S. policy on the handling of UFOs. It was also interesting to learn that the U.S. operates “Gitmo” type prisons on Polish soil and that Poland had more than 400 UFO cases from 1978-1989. Many of these cases involved green aliens or green clothed aliens and that many Polish scientists believed these were actually Russian experiments and technology. The chapter on pilot cases contained encounters of trying to shoot them down and instructions to report the case to their superior, follow safety protocol and not to speak to the media. Silence may be driven by the fact that the UFOs were not hostile and publicly reporting the case would entail having to thoroughly investigate each case. Similar conclusions were drawn in the U.S. in the early years of Project Blue Book although that opinion has changed over the past twenty years as the alien seems to have also changed, evolved or been replaced by a more aggressive type.

Other chapters included evidence of mass sightings, space dwarves, hot spots, flying humanoids, a fisherman that was paralyzed, morphing craft and semitransparent triangular craft. Chapter 14 was particularly interesting regarding UFOs that cannot be photographed. Some of these craft appear to be out of the range of human awareness and electronic surveillance. 

Many Polish Ufologists seek answers in John Keel and Jacque Vallee books who concluded that UFOs are real but not from space. Many of the anomalous cases presented in this book appear to be a missing link between UFOs and the paranormal. UFO encounters can make you see things that did not occur. No two cases are the same and the search for the UFO seems to go well beyond ETs from space in nuts and bolt craft. 

I highly recommend this book for the quality of the cases presented and the unique view of UFOs over Poland.

John Ventre is a MUFON multi State Director and has appeared in numerous TV shows like “Hangar 1: The UFO Files”.

UFOS OVER POLAND – The Land of High Strangeness is on sale now via AMAZON

THE RAY SHASHO SHOW WELCOMES THE MUSICAL COLLABORATION OF

 MAGIC DICK & SHUN NG

Magic Dick, the legendary harmonica player for Boston’s legendary J. Geils Band has recently partnered up with guitar and vocal sensation, Shun Ng, to create one of the most dynamic musical acts to come out of Boston in a long time. The music is soulful blues, rockin’ yet thoughtful and performed by arguably two of the top musicians at their respective instruments. Since 1969, Magic Dick has toured the world playing and blowing away clubs and stadiums with the J. Geils Band. He explains the formation of the duo:

“From the moment I first heard Shun Ng’s CD “Funky Thumb Stuff” I knew that a manifest musical collaboration was about to happen. Shun’s sound simply made me feel very alive and induced in me a synchronous alignment of musical DNA as if it was his intention as well as mine all along! I helped it along by asking his manager, Ralph Jaccodine to introduce us at his office. A long and enlightening conversation happened on that day of our first meeting and now we are a duo and I couldn’t be more delighted.”

 

Shun Ng was born in Chicago, raised in Singapore now based out of Boston. At 24 years old, he is already an international star, a soulful, world-class guitarist, vocalist, and electric performer who in a short period of time, has caught the attention of the top players in the music world including Quincy Jones who said: “When you see Shun Ng, you won’t believe your eyes nor your ears – he belies all stereotypes, all premonitions. I was simply blown away by both his soul and his science – his creativity and his uniqueness is astounding.”

“In this collaboration with Magic Dick,” Shun says, “we wanted to make music in a way that no one had quite done before while remaining grounded in our roots. Magic Dick brings a powerhouse attack with ferocious precision and a killer groove to this duo. I have great respect for him, he has seemingly done it all, but is still constantly trying to push the boundaries of music and chase the best in himself, a true artist. To be working with a true Boston legend is a real privilege.”