Nashville Author Will Discuss Personal Spiritual Freedom on Independence Day
Developing inner awareness and personal guidance are on the agenda when Anne Richardson Williams guests on the Fourth of July segment of the "Health At Every Size" show on Radio Free Nashville.
Nashville, TN (PRWEB) June 30, 2005 -- If Anne Richardson Williams were to
offer a prayer on Independence Day, she might focus on personal spiritual
freedom. Specifically, that everyone feel “the true freedom to love ourselves as
we would want to be loved, accept ourselves as we would want to be accepted,
forgive ourselves as we would want to be forgiven.”
The Nashville artist
and author (“Unconventional Means,” June 2005, Pearlsong Press) will discuss
such freedom on Monday’s “Health At Every Size” show on Radio Free Nashville.
The half-hour show will air at 10:30 a.m. on the low-power fm community radio
station WRFN 98.9 in Pasquo, Tenn. (a suburb of Nashville). The show is also
streamed live over the Internet at www.radiofreenashville.org.
“Sounds so trite, but it’s
so hard to do,” Williams says of the process of freeing oneself from shame,
fear, and self-criticism that can cripple well-being and interfere with personal
connections to the divine. “Imagine what it would be like to temper ourselves in
a loving spiritual flame that pure.”
The “Health At Every Size” show,
hosted by clinical and consulting psychologist Peggy Elam, Ph.D., presents a
holistic, non-weight-loss approach to health and well-being that celebrates
natural diversity in body size. During the Fourth of July show, Dr. Elam will
discuss with Williams ways listeners can increase awareness and appreciation of
what Dr. Elam calls “your really big self -- the you that’s bigger than the
physical.”
Williams has walked her talk, as her recently published memoir
attests. As a teenager shattered by family tragedy, she eventually found solace
in Nevil Shute’s novel, “A Town Like Alice.” His heroine’s passage through the
tribulations of war to find love and a new home modeled after the town of Alice
Springs, Australia, gave teenage Anne hope that “there is something on the other
side of the terrible things” for her, too.
While reading a book about
Australia’s Aboriginal people decades later, a photograph of Aboriginal elder
Lorraine Mafi-Williams mesmerized middle-aged Anne. She felt an immediate
kinship, even though others found it ridiculous that an upper-middle-class
Southern white woman and an Aboriginal elder could share more than a common last
name.
When Williams finally set out for Australia, she added to her
desire to see Alice Springs the dream of also meeting Lorraine. But with no
address, no phone number, no conventional way to get in touch with an Aboriginal
woman, Williams had to rely on unconventional means –- dreams, visions,
meditation and intuition –- to guide her halfway across the world to find the
woman whose ancient stories would help heal her.
Information on the show
and on the “Health At Every Size” approach to well-being can be found at www.healthateverysize.info. “Unconventional Means” is
available through online and offline bookstores and the Pearlsong Press Web site
(www.pearlsong.com).
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