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Sent on April 25, 2007

Welcome to the Unlocking Secrets for Women Newsletter APRIL 2007 ANNOUNCEMENT Make sure to check out Candace's newly designed site. Take a look at all the great content and let us know your comments! http://www.UnlockingSecrets.com FROM STEDMAN... "It was a pleasure to share my leadership message with the participants at the February 28, 2007 Unlocking Secrets for Women event in Vancouver. I feel the greatest opportunity in life is to have a sense of who you are - and to continually redefine what this means in your life. The freedom that comes with finding out who you are is your foundation, and a gift that allows you to engage in personal and professional pursuits that are fulfilling, meaningful, and rewarding. I appreciate Candace asking me to provide my insights to the women in attendance, and look forward to being part of the future events that are in the process of being scheduled." Stedman Graham www.stedmangraham.com YOU TUBE See Candace's hysterical humour on "You Tube" Annie Mac Design Annie Mac greeting cards are hand-crafted and unique. People you care about will appreciate the extra special touch you add with an Annie Mac card. www.anniemacdesign.com Chloë Angus Design One of Canada's leading fashion houses, with collections that are as innovative as they are classic. For ready to wear and custom designs for special occasion outfits, Mother of the Bride/Groom, Bride, Bridesmaid, Grad, Suiting, Cruise Wear and casual clothing Visit www.chloeangus.com or call 604.224.2456 for a personal appointment. Eidam Diagnostics Corporation A diagnostic tool that is FDA & CE approved and manufactured by Eidam Diagnostics Corporation of Richmond, BC, can identify breast cancer in a symptom free state , prevent breast cancer before it begins and offers same day results with a non-invasive, radiation-free diagnostic tool. The diagnostic tool is CRT 2000®, a Computerized Regulation Thermographic System. It measures heat physiology by touching your body in 119 very specific points and then introducing a cooling stimuli. There is no radiation and no pain, therefore it can be used on children. Regulation thermography represents a tool for "tipping-off-diagnosis." Thermal changes are the first signs of beginning processes of disease, and no other method recognizes them at such an early stage.This system can be found in various clinics throughout the world.Eidam Diagnostics Corporation and Panacea Center in Richmond, knows that early detection saves lives and can make a world of difference! www.eidam.com Essential Nutrients in Every Bottle Infinite Health Water is a vitamin and mineral supplement that delivers important vitamins, minerals, calcium and soy to the body. Infinite Health Water is for the smart consumer who appreciates getting more health benefits from what they drink. Available in four unique flavours, with only 50 calories per serving, Infinite Health is a new healthy alternative to water and other beverages that is convenient to take anywhere. Smell This! Aromatherapy Smell This! is dedicated to offering the highest quality essential oils, synergy blends, carrier oils, perfumes and our own line of natural skin and body care products, to enable you and your clients to truly experience aromatherapy at its best. Promote your identity, ask us about our private label manufacturing. Members of BCAOA, BCAPA and Leading Spas of Canada. Sweet Leilani Cosmetics Sweet Leilani is calling on all beautyholics for a sneak preview into Langley's first Beauty Box on Thursday and Saturday, April 19 and 21. LeiLani, a film industry artist has been making fashionistas and celebrities picture perfect for 20 years. She will be on hand to answer questions, demonstrate how to use products effectively and create a look that is uniquely you! Drop by to see what other beauty divas are ranting about! For more information on place and times, visit us at www.sweetleilani.com Here's How WOW was born The Women of Worth Conference So tell me, how often do you reflect on just how fabulous you are? When do you take time to move past the internal voice that whispers you could have done it better, faster, smarter? I don't know about you, but I spent way too much of my earlier life in the dark hole of believing I was never quite "enough." It was like a secret part of my psyche that nobody could know about. So then my question became, "What can I do about it?" I imagined a thousand extraordinary women joining together for an entire day with dynamic world-class entertainment and speakers on Health, Wealth, Leadership and Soul... a gourmet lunch... humour, fun, pampering, massage, makeovers, retail therapy... and chocolate! This event is now held in Vancouver and MC'd by CBC-TV news anchor Gloria Macarenko. It's an unforgettable and empowering day that will inspire and ignite every cell of your body, mind and soul. It humbles me every time I get another email from women who have attended WOW and taken their dreams to a whole new level - from starting their own business, to improving relationships with a partner or family member, to creating results with less effort and more ease, to experiencing greater health and energy, to improving communications at home and work, and to finally balancing their hormones! Are You A Woman Of Worth? founder, Christine Awram www.theWOWevent.com Our Last Event First of all let me thank everyone for coming out and enjoying the "Making a Difference in Women's Health" evening with us. And of course, our sponsors!! Here's my special thanks to all who assisted. Special thanks to my event planner, Assunta Bortolazzo, who dove in at the last minute and Lana Hodgson for being there to meet/greet Stedman and get him back and forth!  Thanks also to all the volunteers including servers, gift bag stuffers and extra hands that helped out and my assistant and friend, Lynne Preston - without you - I couldn't function! Thanks also to Stephanie Morgan-Black, and Dane MacKendrick - for all your filming work and to  David Zuskind -photographer, for capturing our memories and Ciska Asriel for compiling our after event stats! The Jade Book was outstanding and impressive. Thank you to its creator Cosimo Geracitano for all his hard work in setting up the book and then having to drive it back home in the crazy snowy weather! For more on this one of a kind outstanding piece of art go to:  www.colossalcreations.com  The food from Take 5 was fabulous as was the offering of wine from KWV International and a fantastic flow of the best health water from Infinite Health. The  "Woman Who Made a Difference contest" was excellently run by Clear FM and Launch RX, special thanks to Gravity Pope, Chloe Angus outfit and the contest and the Nikko Cosmetics Team! The gift bags that were provided and door prizes from various sponsors were excellent. Arline from Smell This! Aromatherapy, created a fragrance called:  "chill out" in a cute gift box for everyone in attendance with bags supplied by Chapters.  Annie Mac Designs included her famous cards for everyone as well as many other great inserts from Fitness World of a free pass to any location in the Lower Mainland and of course the Michael Cuccione Foundation provided CD's for everyone of Michael's music and message. Fraser Health Authority provided all the printing and layouts for the programs and surveys.  Thank-you to our wonderful doctors, Dr. Jon Havelock, Dr. Jerilynn Prior and Dr. Sandra Dunn for all your hard work/support and information you provided to us! The White Rock Bladder Health and Incontinence Centre Devoted to assist patients overcome incontinence through minimally invasive means. More than two million women of all ages in Canada suffer from urinary incontinence or loss of bladder control at some point in their lives. Headed by Medical Director Dr. Roy Jackson, the Bladder Health Centre uses urodynamics to diagnose stress urinary incontinence, and then provides the appropriate minimally invasive treatment, taking into account the uniqueness of each patient. The aim is to offer comprehensive treatment options, including Behavioral/ Muscle Therapy, Biofeedback, Electrical Stimulation, Medication and the TVT* Tension Free Support for Incontinence Procedure. Innovated by Gynecare (Johnson & Johnson), the TVT* is a thirty minute outpatient procedure that has demonstrated proven results in effective stress incontinence treatment. TVT* is an excellent treatment option for many women, as it is performed under local anesthetic, with rapid recovery. Patients experience minimal scarring, and little or no pain subsequent to the procedure. They are able to return to their typical routine within a day or two. TVT* is the only treatment of its kind to have its efficacy demonstrated by long-term clinical results. Of the women treated by Gynecare TVT*, 98% are still dry or experience significantly less leakage seven years after treatment. Very few patients experience complications. More than 500,000 women globally have been treated with Gynecare TVT*, which is 10 times the number who have undergone the next procedure of its kind. www.southernhealthcentre.com Urodynamics White Rock Continence Centre for Research and Treatment, in association with Uromed Continence Care Clinics, had its official launch on September 13th.  The Centre is extremely proud to offer Urodynamics, a state of the art diagnostic system, for patients with bladder concerns such as urinary incontinence, frequency, urgency, incomplete bladder emptying and recurrent urinary tract infections.  Maureen McGrath, RN, of Uromed, is a Nurse Continence Advisor trained in Urodynamic testing, and she will perform the tests, provide information and answer questions. Maureen will also be available for individual, one-on-one continence counselling sessions. Put Kids First Started after the abduction and murder of a little girl in our community.  This organization has fought for the national sex offender registry as well as to educate adults on the dangers of predators against children and give those children tools to stay safe. No-one knows just how many pedophiles are in any given neighborhood because our country started to register pedophiles and sex offenders only a few years ago. Anyone convicted before then will not be registered unless they abuse again.  Even after they are registered, the public will not know if they are placed in their neighborhood because that would violate the offender's rights. Thousands have been pardoned with their records wiped clean and the public will never know. According to the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), 145 dangerous offenders were released on parole just in B.C. alone between January 1, 2002 and December 31, 2006. These offenders are considered dangerous because they are expected to commit another serious crime in which someone will be seriously hurt or killed. Of these, 66 are sex criminals.  EDUCATE YOURSELF AND YOUR KIDS.  Feng Shmeng: Unconventional Advice for the Organizationally Challenged Dear Susan & Heather: I am a chronic, repetitive loser of items that I have dubbed "nomads"- possessions that appear to have minds of their own. I have been plagued by the mayhem caused by these wandering gypsies my entire life. Anyone who suffers from this affliction can attest to the frustration associated with the countless hours pointlessly engaged in pursuit of missing objects that literally disappear into thin air. Typically, professional organizers stress the importance of finding and maintaining permanent homes for household items for easy, on-demand retrieval. Yet, those items that travel from room to room, or go in and out of the house, remain defiant in their refusal to occupy a fixed location. I am going bankrupt buying replacements for my sunglasses alone. Can you help? In Desperation, Born to Lose Dear Born to Lose: We recently undertook an informal poll of friends and clients, to determine if there are universal experiences shared by sufferers. Each person volunteered a list of items that go astray most often. There was a remarkable similarity in the responses - regardless of age or gender. The common threads included items that were typically small, portable and frequently used. The following renegades constitute the ten most elusive. Without a Trace 10. Watches 9. Earrings 8. Gloves or Anything that comes in pairs 7. Claim checks 6. Phone numbers 5. Pens 4. Remote controls 3. Phones 2. Glasses 1. Keys Here are several suggested solutions we have collected from recovered "lose-aholics." Although it might be a bit cumbersome, try to attach as many of the above to your person. Your neck is a powerful resource. You can hang multiple accessories- phones, glasses, keys and pens, for a layered look - and it leaves you hands-free! Don't ever buy a cordless phone without a locator feature. Clip your gloves to your jackets, like the pre-schoolers do. Give important papers like claim checks, tickets and parking receipts to more responsible friends, family members and colleagues for safekeeping. Remote control? Forgetaboutit. You are a woman!! You are more than capable of watching a 30 minute program without channel surfing. You can simply work out the single earring dilemma by piercing a second or third hole in your earlobe. Watches are becoming redundant anyway, with the cell phone serving as the preferred timepiece (advantage: already attached to your neck). Use the "store" feature for every call you receive. That way you won't have to write numbers on small pieces of paper you are bound to misplace anyway. So, unless you enjoy the endless runaround of hide and seek, give these a try. At the end of the day you will have your time back. And what is worth more than that? Susan and Heather Susan Borax and Heather Knittel are co-founders of Good Riddance Professional Organizing Solutions www.goodriddance.ca dedicated to helping people manage the struggle they have with clutter they are unable to handle alone. They inject humor into their approach to getting their clients organized. The company specializes in downsizing and organizing homes for sale. You can reach them at (604) 421-5952. Gift of Fertility - Dr. Jeffrey Roberts The Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (PCRM) is the first fertility clinic in Canada to offer a compassionate fertility preservation program for women with cancer. Although modern medical therapies for cancer have become immensely successful, the price paid for survival is often the loss of reproductive function from ovarian toxicity. PCRM has launched a compassionate program providing the latest in fertility preservation technologies in an effort to offer hope and future fertility for woman undergoing these potentially sterilizing cancer treatments. These services require the use of assisted reproductive technologies, including in vitro fertilization, and the cryopreservation of eggs, embryos or ovarian tissue. PCRM will provide all of the necessary treatment without charge to women accepted to the program. The Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (PCRM) is unique in its ability to offer these technologies. The clinical staff have been assembled from the some of the finest IVF centres over the continent. The director of the fertility preservation program, Dr. Jeff Roberts, received special training during his fellowship at Cornell Medical Centre in New York, where the first human ovarian transplant was performed, and many of the commonly employed fertility sparing techniques pioneered. The PCRM IVF laboratory has the instrumentation and technical expertise required to conduct the techniques of egg, embryo, and ovarian tissue cryopreservation. In particular the PCRM laboratory staff has over ten years of experience freezing all developmental stages of human pre-embryos, with a particular interest in egg cryopreservation. Patient eligibility is determined by a number of factors after consultation with the patient, their physicians, and PCRM staff. Since fertility services in British Columbia are not insured, through this program, all medical and laboratory services will be donated by PCRM. Medications will be paid for through the PCRM Fertility Preservation Foundation allowing nongovernmental organization, industry, and caring individuals to donate with PCRM to this worthy cause. 100% of the money donated to the foundation will be used for the purchase of fertility medications for patients utilizing this service and to support appropriate charitable organizations. PCRM continues to interface with all groups providing cancer care, to ensure that eligible women are informed about the fertility preservation program. www.pacificfertility.ca How to Turn Yourself Inside/Out! Have you ever tried to change someone? When relationships don't cooperate with our expectations, it can be easy to focus on what the other person is doing wrong, how they should be different, and what we need to do to try to change them. See if you recognize yourself in this scenario: Every time Linda gets together with her friend Paula for coffee, she finds herself patiently listening to Paula vent about her challenging marriage. Linda has given her lots of helpful advice, and although Paula seems grateful, she hasn't acted on any of it. Linda feels hurt and stops taking Paula's phone calls hoping she'll get the message. What would it be like if Linda paused for a moment to consider how she might be contributing to her own frustration? I meet a lot of people who believe that happiness or satisfaction comes from outside of us and that when people and situations are the way we want them to be, we will feel happy and fulfilled. I call this living "Outside / In" because we look outside of ourselves for something to make us happy on the inside. And it's not that this belief is wrong, but if we truly want more fulfillment and peace in our lives, relying on something we can't control to give us this (other people and situations) is pretty risky. I help people explore what it means to live "Inside / Out." Taking responsibility and getting real about what's going on in our inside selves first and allowing that to inform our outside actions. Turning ourselves "Inside/Out" requires an exploration into who we REALLY are; not who we want the world to think we are; not the masks or roles or identities we developed to ensure we were liked and accepted. Until we really know and accept ourselves on the inside, we will always be looking outside of ourselves for happiness. If Linda had taken the time to get real with herself, she might have discovered that her expectation for Paula to change was draining a lot of energy and that she was not being the patient, open and accepting person she believed herself to be. Once Linda accepts this about herself, she is now clear to choose her course of action. She might choose to continue connecting with Paula, seeing it as a learning opportunity to practice open-hearted acceptance without expectations. (This may be exactly the safe container Paula needs to take some steps out of her situation). Linda might also decide to share with Paula what she is feeling, which could deepen their friendship. The point is that by getting real, Linda has empowered herself. And with this comes a tremendous capacity for joy, peace and fulfillment from within. Citrus coaching solutions uses the tested and proven "Inside/Out" empowerment model for individual coaching and corporate coaching, facilitation and training. Please contact citrus for a complimentary coaching session or complimentary corporate "Lunch & Learn" session. www.citruscoaching.com Questions or comments on anything to do with Unlocking Secrets, send them to me at askus@unlockingsecrets.com Blessings Always, Candace Newton Unlocking Secrets for Women

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Candace Newton is a facilitator, motivational speaker, and educator and is not a professional counselor. Candace Newton does not give advice, but redirects it to our onboard counselor and to other resources. The topics discussed on-air and at speaking engagements are to be taken as informational, motivational, and as another point of view. Her comments expressed are in the context of "generally speaking" and may not be suitable for all and as a facilitator takes no liability or responsibility for any information disseminated on the program or in person. Personal judgment and evaluation of one's own situation is the responsibility of the listener.