Books published by Balboa Press Australia

Use this journal to discover through your thoughts, feelings and actions where you are hungry to savour more freedom. Peanut Power offers you a guided journaling opportunity and presents a simple and effective method to reveal the elements which are fundamental to thinking anew, challenging the status quo and becoming more peaceful, powerful and fully Self-expressed, ready to take the next step forward in the direction of your dreams.Be informed. Have a voice. Take a stand. Make your difference!

Use this journal to discover through your thoughts, feelings and actions where you are hungry to savour more freedom. Peanut Power offers you a guided journaling opportunity and presents a simple and effective method to reveal the elements which are fundamental to thinking anew, challenging the status quo and becoming more peaceful, powerful and fully Self-expressed, ready to take the next step forward in the direction of your dreams.Be informed. Have a voice. Take a stand. Make your difference!

Use this journal to discover through your thoughts, feelings and actions where you are hungry to savour more freedom. Peanut Power offers you a guided journaling opportunity and presents a simple and effective method to reveal the elements which are fundamental to thinking anew, challenging the status quo and becoming more peaceful, powerful and fully Self-expressed, ready to take the next step forward in the direction of your dreams.Be informed. Have a voice. Take a stand. Make your difference!

This empowering step-by-step guide helps you find the gift in every moment experienced in your life. By following the process, you will find the answers inside and finally set yourself free.So many self-help books teach you to bury your past and just focus on your future. The truth is that you can't create the life of your dreams until you understand the gifts you have already received. As long as you keep burying your past, ignoring it, or just pretending that it never existed, you will always feel stuck. When you can understand the value of each experience that you have had in your life, then and only then can your life take off.In this unique work, Your Past is a Gift, you will learn: Who you truly are The purpose of your relationships How to learn from your mistakes, rather than avoiding them What's holding you back from living the life you always dreamed of having Why you are angry or frustrated all the time The truth about your money issues Why you keep sabotaging your best efforts to be happy The reason you feel alone, regardless of how many people you have in your lifeHollie Belle invites you to use this book as your journal, start the process today, and fall in love with your life. You deserve to be happy.

Depression is a difficult place to be. Challenging on many levels, it can be as frightening for the sufferer as for those who watch on. Those in the midst of its gloom can feel as if they are living a different and parallel life to those they share their homes and world with. This disconnection, and inaccessibility of outsiders to share this highly personalised state of being, can be scary, isolating and lonely.It takes tremendous strength and resilience to successfully conquer reactive depression, to acknowledge and accept the triggers and personal shortcomings that allowed it to take hold, and to eclipse the darkness of mental illness in favour of the light of happiness. It takes fortitude to share these experiences with a wider audience.Journey into the Dark and the Light depicts one woman's progression from the shadows of her darkest places, overwhelmed and out of her depth, through her awareness that she could instigate change towards a productive life incorporating personal empowerment and professional success.The selected poems and artworks illustrate with candour the insights she gained through her journey to well-being, exposing valued understanding of the harrowing process through which she developed inner strength and resilience, thereby consolidating the foundations for a balanced life encompassing self assurance and contentment.

Genevieve, a poet, and Sean, a bartender, wrote this literary affair between classic cocktails and love poems-an adventure into the romance and libertine spirit of classic cocktails, including fabulous recipes from the 1920's with modern variations. Hemingway's advice to "write drunk and edit sober" describes their creative process as poems were written under the spirit of each drink.The cocktails provide the metaphors for a poetic love story, giving the history, secrets, and mystique of each drink. What started as a single poem, using the martini as a metaphor for love and life, grew into a merger of many classic cocktails with the developing romance. Key social issues of the times were also swept along with it as the poems invite the reader along on their journey.Classic Cocktails: Liquid Love Poems is a tribute to the slower styles of earlier times, linking classic cocktails with important issues such as liberty, freedom of choice, love between men and women as equals, and honoring previous generations-for whom everyone should be grateful to as part of the evolution of the human species. These issues are still present in modern culture, and now more than ever people need poetry, romance, and spirituality in their lives.With the quick pace of life and dependence on technology to communicate, people need to slow down and take time to get in touch with their natural selves; who we were before the social conditioning around survival, money, and materialism cemented people into false identities or stereotypical roles. Everyone needs time to just be-to reconnect with one's spirit and allow creative urges and inspirations to express themselves freely.This reconnection can truly be a spiritual journey to not only connect with our selves, but also with each other. Hemingway has a lot to say about this in the last poem, The Liberty Bell.

Stella used to think she was just a normal twelve-year-old girl. She used to believe everyone knew they had a light shining brightly within them making magical things possible. She used to think everyone saw auras and sometimes just knew things without ever being told. She thought everyone saw Crossovers and Whisperers, and chatting with Mother Earth was nothing out of the ordinary. Apparently not. Now, Stella is realising just how unique she truly is. She's also discovering what she's here for. She is somehow right in the middle of what Mother Earth has always told her-that nature is a balancing act, and when it's harmed, Nature Spirits pay the ultimate price. Not only are the Faeries depending on Stella, they're depending on others just like her.

Following the tragic death of his wife and eight-year-old daughter, undercover federal police officer Glen Johnson is on compassionate leave. To numb his pain, he turns to the bottle, but he is still haunted by loss and doesn't know if he'll ever move beyond the pain. When his closest friend, Neil, dies, Glen finds himself teetering on the edge of sanity.Neil's death is far more sinister than that of Glen's family. Glen suspects foul play, especially since Neil was poking around where he shouldn't, investigating drugs and possible treason. Together with Neil's widow, Mary, Glen begins his own inquiry in an effort to bring Neil's killers to justice. He never could have guessed how far up the corruption goes.Death becomes a constant companion the deeper Glen probes into the murky world of drugs and betrayal. Hostage taking and kidnapping attempts are normal occurrences as Glen, Mary, and a new recruit uncover the devious truth. Their final stand will be on an isolated property of the Warragamba Dam area, where Glen will have his justice or die fighting.

Dancing in Her Own Full Moonlight presents an invitation for you-an overdoer and overgiver, and a woman who has gone through grief, change, and challenges to love yourself and your life in its amazingness and messiness. Author Janelle Fletcher gives you thirty days of poetry which is the unsilencing of her voice that she kept quiet and hidden for too long. She shares the pining of her soul, the cries of desperation for something different, and a deep appreciation for what and who has been part of her life to date. Through this work, you can create stillness in your daily life, feel into the essence of the poetry, and use the reflection questions as a starting point for your journey ahead into a new vision of possibilities for yourself. Alone or shared with other kindredspirited women, this sacred ritual seeks to help you find a deep connection within, dance to your own rhythm again, ignite your passion and joie de vivre, and find yourself again amidst the hustle and bustle of a busy life. This poetry collection offers healing words for your soul, inspiration for your spirit and an invitation to love you in all of your womanly glory!

If you live in a world of pessimism and negativity, that is exactly what you get. But if you live a life filled with hope and faith and think about wealth, prosperity, and luck-guess what? You'll get those things instead. Vikki Ann Bless knows because she's seen these patterns in her own life. In this playbook to mastering life to get what you want, she shares how to: • understand why you're facing unwanted events in life; • eliminate unwanted annoyances that take up time; • alleviate fears and frustrations that stress you out; and • reframe the way you look at life to enjoy better outcomes. After reading the playbook, you'll be convinced that thinking about anger, hate, stress, worry, negativity, frustration, and other negative thoughts can have disastrous consequences. Sometimes, the repercussions may seem like accidents or bad luck, but it is often more complicated. Find out why you're facing so many problems, and change your luck once and for all with the insights and action steps in Think before You Think.

Marsane and Valara were chosen to come to earth from their home planet Ziama, residing in the twelfth dimension. In this dimension, they were one being. Not until they lived on earth did they realize how harsh it could be to be separated into two souls and to drop one's vibration so low. Once the wheel of destiny had begun to turn, there would be no turning back. They had begun the experience of being human and could not return to their source until they had experienced and completed a cycle, which could be hundreds of thousands of years. Here is their story, their beginning of being human, and the enormous shock that was to come to them in learning what the future held-pain and suffering until they could eventually return to their original advanced state of consciousness.Their star family, especially Oriam and Stariam, would be there to guide them at all times, especially the many times they both wanted to give up.Marsane pledged to do all he could to keep balance on planet earth. He had no idea what was in store for him, committing himself to such a grand task.The time on earth for them to come back together is now!

Back when I was in early high school, I wrote a short story called The Little Grey Tractor. This story was based on experiences that my dad and his parents when through. It seems odd in our minds today, but in 1967 no one in Australia believed that bush fires could or would penetrate urban areas, and come into the city. Bushfires happened in the bush.I have never been able to throw out the little book and always in the back of my mind was the thought to rewrite it as an adult. Living in Australia, weather extremes, is a topic that we never fail to enjoy discussing, and with some of the devastating fires that have in more recent years claimed lives, I don't want people to forget what happened, and why.