Welcome to Three Questions with Van Heerling. This is where you get to meet authors, actors, painters and anyone else that is bent toward the arts, but on a more personal level. Today I welcome Jane Carroll author of Bertha Size Your Life! VH: If you could go back in time to when you were seven years old, what wisdom or advice would you pass on to yourself? JC: Don’t pass notes during Grammar Class. Pay attention. Unlike Algebra, you’re going to need this stuff one day. Honestly, I find punctuation to be the most challenging part of writing. In fact, I’ve been in comma therapy for years now with a professional editor who says I am not making progress. VH: It sounds like we may have the same editor. What is the number one lie you tell yourself? How is that working out? JC: The biggest lie that I have told myself is that I’m not enough. On the one hand it worked just fine for years—after all I believed it. On the other hand—it held me back all those years as well. The truth is, I am enough just like everyone else is. There’s no such thing as not being enough. VH: Well said. After a difficult day what do you do to recuperate? Does it work? JC: I drink a glass of scotch and do yard work in the nude. No, not really. I don’t like scotch or yard work and I don’t think my neighbors would enjoy seeing me disrobed. It just sounded more interesting than the things that I actually do like going to the gym or for a bike ride, Reiki, taking a nap, talking to a friend, writing, and usually going to bed early. It must work…I’m still here. VH: Thank you Jane. Jane Carroll, Author of Amazon Bestselling Bertha-Size Your Life, is a Life Coach, Registered Nurse, Reiki Master, Mother, Grandmother, and long-time student of life. She has seen the focus of her over 30 year nursing career change from illness to wellness to wholeness, a philosophy that permeates everything she does. While she enjoys all aspects of her life, writing is her passion and she is currently working on Bertha’s latest adventures.
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8/10/2012 12:08:29 am
Love the interview! very well done Van, Jane and Bertha!
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8/10/2012 12:42:11 am
Thanks, Wendy! Van asked some really tough questions...but it was a lot of fun!
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Hi Jane,
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8/10/2012 12:46:12 am
Thanks, Paul. Van does pull out some unexpected answers...luckily my neighborhood has covenants about such a thing so I won't have to have to actually try it! So glad you enjoyed Bertha...she is a fun book with a lot of insight.
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8/10/2012 02:16:58 am
Christy, thank you for your comment. This was a really fun and I so appreciate Van for interviewing me. Writing is truly a joy in my life!
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"For me, writing is a joyful torture or sorts." ~vh~ “In this life, seek your own answers, and quote yourself for a change.” ~vh~
The muse has tapped my shoulder and my ear is turned toward her lips. I am waiting for her whisper. ~vh~
"The funny thing about life: more often than not it’s laughing at you rather than you laughing at it." ~vh~
"At some point there is a moment when you should give up. I’m here to tell you that today is not that day." ~vh~
“If you are afraid of the truth, never ask a young child a question.” ~vh~
“The frailty of life is most evident at its last breath.” vh
“Prove not to the world but to yourself that you are above your current circumstance.” ~vh~
"Don't be wishful when it comes to your dreams. Take aggressive action in your pursuit of them. Start now with a single step, no matter how insignificant it may feel." ~vh~
"Nothing is more powerful than an unwavering, unapologetic decision to BE." ~vh~
"Strive to be the light in an ever-darkening world. SHINE!" ~vh~
"Think big and then think small. That’s where the details live." ~vh~
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