Received the above in my mailbox this am...How to focus the in this widening window ... what would give me the most joy is what I found myself asking this am after the news announcement, and before the following discussion. Inviting guidance from all angles...
Ysha
On 12/6/06, Timlynn Babitsky wrote:
YOUR TIME IS NOW >>>>>> the SACRED WINDOW IS OPENING BIG TIME!!!!
...saw this last night and KNOW you'll want to hear it..
NBC news last night covered this story and I thought immediately of you and that NOW is your time to get your book out there....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16056220/
You might want to seriously consider putting together a book prospectus and shopping it around to some of the mainstream publishers. I think you have a lot of content in your course materials and with some refocusing for the mainstream market, a good book on " the natural path to dealing with post partum depression" or something like that would be an excellent book. You could quickly follow that up with "The Right Foods to Combat Post Partum Blues" .... or something like that...
Here is something to consider. ..... If you "mainstream" your materials so that Jane-Mom-to-Be might want to buy your book to learn about her body chemistry changes and how to nurture these in herself, I can see a future for you of giving talks, writing articles, being interviewed on Oprah, and becoming a noted "post partum" care "guru" if you will .... sharing widely the whole area in which you are working........... popularizing, yourself becoming noted and in demand
If you keep totally in the ayurvedic vocabulary space, you will be less mainstream but closer to the tradition. Here I see a future of you teaching classes to other traditionalists -- maybe to holisitic medical people -- treating this from a more medical/professional perspective..... perhaps helping to enlighten nurse practitioners or holisitic doctors to take your courses or set up a course in their area for you to teach "parents to be" ..... something like Lamaze classes.... at first they were on the fringe.... now they are widely accepted for parents to be.
You need to think about this some, talk with your friends, family and ayurvedic professional friends ---- the whole issue of post partum depression is now out of the closet and totally mainstream................ how you respond to this opening window for the things you believe in and practice depends on finding the direction you want to pursue and moving forward with confidence.
enJOY!
Timlynn
From: Ysha Oakes [mailto:ayurdoulas@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 4:10 PM
To: Babitsky, Timlynn
Subject: Re: Ysha -- saw this on the news last night
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THanks Timlynn;
Oh my, if I thought we could get mainstream attention, I might get back into a good redo of the handbook, with signif explanations, instead of focus on the cookbook so much. Or maybe the cookbook will really still be a good angle. I'm not convinced to do the perinatal one, tho some pregnancy and posptartum I guess can be done without too much difficulty.
I've an ayurvedic MD/OB/vaidya in Nepal who teaches in this country, might co-author if I do most of the work. She calls herself my little sister ("bahini") and me her didi (big sis) though she is so much more mature than I. But she emailed just yesterday that after attending a big WHO conference in Thailand soon she will focus on some requested recipe edits and the like for my book (January, I think).
Thank you for this connection, I should be watching and signed up for the myyahoo import on pregnancy articles.
I hope your day went smoothly;
Love,
Ysha
