Welcome to Confessions of an Aspiring Author, Healing Coach, Publishing Mentor, and Real Estate News!

You are probably wondering why one website would feature Confessions of an Aspiring Author, Healing Coach, Publishing Mentor, and Real Estate News. Let me break them down and explain. The main reason is this is who I am.  The title Rebuild Shattered Dreams is a book that I wrote about my journey of being abandoned at the age of four. What amazing lessons of life I learned.

I will start with Rebuild Shattered Dreams. Like I mentioned above, I wrote a book about my experiences as a lost soul. In the book, I explain how to remove emotional scars from becoming stumbling blocks or invisible prisons. So far, my readers have asked me to do seminars. I did three small ones and it left people wanting more. Right now, I’m working on a long extensive version on removing emotional scars and changing your Core Beliefs. If it goes well, I will start doing it on the Internet so I can reach more people.

My definition of a Core Belief is the first decision you made regarding a situation. You made most of your decisions in diapers on how you are going to handle a situation in the future. The mind will always use that decision as a default, just like a computer. You cannot change it easily. I learned how to change a Core Belief permanently and replace it with a new one that will empower you to achieve what you want in life.

This might explain the Healing Coach. There is more to the aspiring author. I wrote a young adult series about a young boy finding a very powerful stone and the whole galaxy gunning for the ship that found him. The powerful stone is the center of a life and death war between good and evil.  Who will win and what price will they pay?  Stones’ Quest is one of the few young adult sci-fi/ fantasy series out there. It was written for ages 10 – 17.

Being a Publishing Mentor is a passion for me. When I started to write, and you can read my story in the section My Journal, I found it hard and few people really wanted to help me. So I started a forum, where other professionals have come together to help aspiring authors get through the maze without making huge costly mistakes.

I spoke with one author who had his book picked up by Random House and later turned into a TV movie. He made some costly mistakes and you might want to learn from his experiences.  So check it out, if you’re interested in becoming an author. If not, you might know someone. Tell them about the site.

Real Estate and news is something that I enjoy. I’m a licensed real estate broker and you should always know what is going on in the world. So I hope you enjoy this site. Sign up for email so you can keep up with the latest news. You’ll receive a newsletter either once a week or twice a month. Let others know about it. You are welcome to contact me and ask more questions about what I have mentioned above. Most of the different areas are new and they will be building as time goes on. So join us! Sign up for free newsletters.

If Star Wars was a book first, how would you describe it?

If Star Wars had come out as a book first, instead of a movie, how would you describe it? This is the reaction of many reader of the Stones’ Quest series. They have compared it to the charm and excitement of Star Wars.

It’s hard to live in a galaxy where evil has already begun to devour it. People in the galaxy are disappearing and they do not want to admit it. But suddenly you find yourself right in the middle of it with a small group of people. They are ones who found the all-powerful Master Stones that can stop the evil Suzair the Great. At what price does this small band of people have to pay to restore the Master Stones to their power?”

So I’m putting it out there to the fans of Star Wars. How would you describe your beloved story so people?

You can easily become a published author according to this news. Is it true?

I’m a published author with four books and two more on the way. They say it is easy to become a published author. Yet, it can be very difficult. For this amount of money, we can help make the experience easier for you. Is it really true? 

People come up to me all the time and tell me that they have a story they want to have published. I see apprehension and excitement in their eyes and I know what they are feeling. When I decided to get my story published, I found it daunting.

As a friend, I want to do something different here. I’m going to be blunt and tell you what it’s really like. If you still want to become a published author, as a friend, I will mentor you through the maze. You can get really hurt emotionally and it is easy to pour money down the drain. I will tell you what it’s like to be picked up by a publisher or to become self-published. You can read the material and decide for yourself.

Many seasoned authors are choosing to follow the self-publishing route. You might want to read why in my free e-book, “What Does it Take to Become a Successful Published Author.” If you really want to become a published author, then you can join me and I’ll mentor you through the process. Before I mentor you, I want you to understand the advantages of both sides of the publishing world. That way you can make an intelligent decision and understand what I’m telling you.

When I decided to enter the industry, it was very overwhelming. For help, I turned to a few books. The first book I read was written by a literary agent and he was very discouraging. According to his book, he receives 5000 requests a week for his services. You can only imagine how many rejection letters he sent out on a daily basis. A literary agent will not take a new author unless they find a publisher first. Most publishers will not look at you without a literary agent.

After reading numerous books, I decided to publish my book myself. With my background, I probably have put more deals together than some literary agents. The biggest problem with self-publishing is you can and usually do make expensive mistakes. This is why I decided to mentor people. I would have loved if someone reached out and talked me through the process when I started. It cost me money and it was very emotional. I never felt so alone in a business as I did during this time of my learning.

Since I love to learn, I decided to go out and see if the books were telling me the truth. I hired someone to get me into some important places. My journey started in New York City. On this trip, I saw and spoke with people who educated me.

The first person I saw in New York City was an associated editor at Scholastic Magazine, named Lisa Feder-Feitel. As we got off the elevator, Scholastic’s offices took me back. I didn’t expect the bright colors and the décor. For a moment, I felt like I was in an elementary school. I had expected to sit in an office. Instead, we sat down at a table where our knees barely touched the edge of it. I expected any minute to have kids join us with their crayons and coloring books. It was really fun and Lisa was very warm and wonderful to talk with.

On this trip, I visited with Mark Schoenwald, an Executive Vice President of Thomas Nelson Publishers. I learned how a large publisher works and how they view new authors. You can read more in my e-book.

My visits didn’t stop with Thomas Nelson Publishers. I spent time with Peter Cannon of Publishers Weekly magazine. He was one of their editors and I learned a lot from talking with him. Publishers want to get a good review from Publishers Weekly on their new book. It helps stores buy a book they have coming out. I thought it was interesting to talk with him. For me, I never bought or read a book because of a review. I bought it because someone I trusted recommended it.

From Peter’s office, I went to a meeting with Bowker. They are the source for ISBN numbers for your books. They have other services that are important to the success of your book as well.

After I met with Bowker, I went into an hour-long meeting with Barnes and Noble’s head and regional buyers. Now, I understand how they work. Before the meeting, I bumped into Barnes and Noble Vice President, Robert C. Knowles, and I had a nice chat with him.

Now, I understood how large bookstores handle buying books. I wanted to know if it was different for small family-owned bookstores. I stopped in and interviewed numerous bookstore owners across the nation. Every bookstore owner had the same attitude on how they chose their books.

While I was there, I had some owners give me the names of independent distributors. Then I called them up to learn what challenges they had working with bookstores. They have a hard job and I really appreciate what they do.

Again, I wish that I had someone talk me through the publishing business. You really have no idea what it’s like until you have to do it. When authors come up to me, I listen and my heart aches for them. I know most of them will never get started or they will quit at the first bump in the road. There is so much you need to learn and they have such a learning curve ahead of them.

I love the business side of publishing as much as I do writing. Most authors aren’t wired for business. Since I have so much vast knowledge of the publishing field, I decided to mentor others. It made sense to use the Internet. This way, I can mentor and still have a career and life. Join me today by downloading my free e-book, “What Does it Take to Become a Successful Published Author.” Then we will talk!

Welcome to Rebuild Shattered Dreams - Blog

You are probably wondering what this blog is all about! Let me tell you. What are the seminars all about and why do I have real estate and publishing of books on the same site? Life coach! What would constitute me to be one and for what?

Let me introduce myself. My name is LaRene Ellis and I have a active licensed real estate broker’s license. I took an hiatus from real estate to write novels and in the process I became a publisher. Now, I mentor other people who want to become an author. To complicate the situation more, I wrote more than one book. One of the books, I wrote about my life long research, which is a passion for me.

My research consists of thirty years on how the mind, body, spirit and emotions work together. In the process, I stumbled up a method of removing crippling emotional scars or to permanently change behaviors that seem to block our ability to achieve our goals. My method can remove you from an invisible cage that life’s choices seem to sometime encase us within. Some people wanted more in depth knowledge regarding my research. This was how the seminars became about.

To explain what I do, I made a video that explains the effects of my technique. You can see testimonials from people and a Doctor. You can click on the links below to see the different video:

Thoughts of Encouragement

I have a short video on anger. You can click on it below:

Anger - Thoughts of Encouragement

Self - esteem and self-love! Is is missing from your life. I have some interesting information for you. Click on the line below:

Self-esteem thoughts of encouragement

One of my favorite quotes! “Man is that he might have joy” This is why? Check out the video below:

Disappointments! I started my life out being devastated with disappointments. I learned some secrets to get them to work for you and not against you. Look at the video below:

You are welcome here! I hope you find some answers or discover a new world of healing.

LaRene Ellis

Have you ever felt like everyone was against you?

It is hard to live in a galaxy when everyone is looking for you and it means your life if they find you. This is my story or what I should say, my fictional story: Where the evil Suzair the Great wants a young boy because he found one of the all-powerful white Stone. When a man unknowingly finds the boy first, he finds the whole galaxy is gunning for his ship.

Stones’ Quest: In Search of its Master begins the tale of this great quest of the all-knowing Stones. Filled with mystery and magic, spaceships and spies, the story chronicles an ongoing war between good and evil, and one man’s journey to understand his own place in the universe.

Will they find the rest of the Stones that have the power to stop the evil from destroying the galaxy? Or will they be caught and destroyed before the quest is completed? Who will die and who will live? But, most important, how did the Stones come to leave the galaxy for so long? This is the question I want you to answer for me. Don’t help me unless you are a young adult or you know of one.

Just send me your explanation as to why the Stones left the galaxy for so many years. It will be posted online for a vote. I’m giving away a prize of $100.00 to the person who receives the most votes for their explanation. Here are the rules:

1. You need to join the Stones’ Quest fan club at www.stonesquest.com/history/
This way I can keep you up to date on the contest and future events.
2. Use your own imagination and come up with your ideas on why the Stones had to leave the galaxy.
3. The explanation needs to be under a thousand words.
4. Upon completion submit the article to me at larene@stonesquest.com. I’ll post it on Stumbleupon and digg.
5. The person with the most votes in combination of the two sites will win the $100.00. So I suggest you tell your friends to vote.
6. The cut off time for voting will be September 1st.
7. Only one entry per person.

This will be a prelude into the next contest that will begin in September. I’ll be giving away a Wii for the  grand prize.

Is the Internet the best place to hold a seminar?

I really want to know what you all think. Is the Internet the best place to hold a seminar? Is Google a good place to advertise for it? Would you rather hear about it from a news outlet? Does the Internet really work or is there a better form of media?

I dearly want to know what you think about these questions. Would you take a short survey and answer them? Before you do, let me tell you why I’m asking for your opinion. When I was four, I used to be so very happy. Then one day, someone came to the house and told us that our mother was dead. My father left the family, saying that no one wanted us. Shortly thereafter, I was split up from my siblings.

At the age of five, I fell into a deep depression, praying every time I went to bed that I would stop breathing. I wanted to leave this world. The Savior brought miracles in my life that kept me alive.

In the bible, it says all things are possible through Him. As an adult, I was in a safe, loving environment. Yet every morning, I woke up in fear. It never seemed to want to leave me.

I desired to be free of this prison. I didn’t trust people and I was so hurt from being betrayed. The word family was a bitter word to me. I had so much pain associated with it. It was hard for me to feel comfortable with my husband’s family because I didn’t trust people.

In my twenties, something happened that changed my life forever. For a split moment, as I felt the Savior’s arms around me, I saw the scars of emotional abuse that was inside of me. For that split moment, I felt His love for me. My spirit was so starved for love. I couldn’t feel anyone’s love because I had so many deep emotional scars.

After that moment, I became obsessed to learn how to remove the damage. I knew in my heart it was possible. I’m here today to say I have achieved my goal.

I do not wake up in the morning feeling blind fear. It took me until I was a first-time grandmother to do it. The reason it took me so long is because when I found something that worked, I wanted to know why it worked. What laws governed it that made it work? After I learned the laws, I watched it in other people’s lives. When I saw they received the same results, I knew I had found a true principle.

After ten years of being free, I became tired of watching strangers suffer. What I learned wasn’t something that I could explain in just a few moments, so I decided to write books on the subject. People were so taken by the possibilities that they have asked me to teach seminars.

Locally, I did. They wanted more information and I had it. I was so taken by how much I had learned over the years. I have a powerful testimony of prayer. It helped me to learn.

Today, I can permanently remove the scars from someone else’s life, even when they are victims of violent crimes. I had a lady come to me regarding a family member. They were terrified of being in a room with closed doors.

When they went to church, they had to sit next to the door with their hand on it. Something terrifying happened to them as a child and this blind fear wasn’t going away with age.

After spending an hour with me, the fear is permanently gone. They are free to enjoy life and not deal with ghosts from the past. I’m so grateful for my past, because it allowed me to free others from a prison of pain and fear. This is why I’m asking these questions. People who know me and those I have worked with want a seminar. I thought it might be great to have it online. Do you think it would work? Would you please take a survey? Click here.

Thoughts of Encouragement

Thoughts of Encouragement are always helpful. I would like to tell you a story of hope. It’s really a simple story. It was a dark day in my life when my mother died and our father left us. I was four and my world had just shifted into what felt like a deep, dark pit. I would wake up shaking, wondering what horrible thing was going to happen next. Every day brought additional pain and sorrow. I went from a happy-go-lucky child to feeling like I was a freak. Isolation, embarrassment, and the painful sense of loss all seemed to consume me. My siblings and I were told no one wanted the three of us.

Soon after our father left, my siblings were taken away, causing me to mourn for my sister and brother. All I wanted was to feel safe, loved, and wanted. Those I lived with always introduced me as the child with no parents. Their introduction always made me fell like I wasn’t a part of their family, just someone staying for a short period of time. It hurt deeply to see th looks in people’s faces. It was always mixed with sorrow and pity. I had a label over my head that often made me feel like an outcast.

I went into a deep spiritual depression at five and never came out of it until I was well into adulthood. It was a miracle that I found my way out. When It happened, I felt like it was an answer to my prayers. At the moment of realization, I received a vision that showed how deep the layers of scars were and how starved my spirit was for love. After this experience, I decided to find a way to permanently remove the layers of pain and sorrow. It became an obsession and for the first time in my life, I had a dream.

At the time of this vision, my circumstances were wonderful. I was in a healthy warm, loving environment. Yet, I couldn’t shake the depression and completely feel the love that was around me. My past refused to allow me to feel it. Not knowing where to start, I prayed and was guided first to books. I went in every direction that might teach me how to be free from my invisible prison that life had placed me in.

Today, I’m out of this prison and I’m free to be me. I wrote a book about my story so others would know it was possible to remove emotional scars and live a healthy, happy life. One of the books is called, “HOW TO REBUILD SHATTERED DREAMS.” At request, I started this blog to give out additional information. It took me some work to free myself and it took a combination of many laws and principles to do it.

I went from darkness into light. Without the vision to compare my life to, I would not have realized how dark my life was and how it stopped me from enjoying simple moments. To learn how to cut the chain, it made the experience very valuable to me. I deeply love and appreciate my struggles and tumbling into darkness. The rebuilding process is what has given me the greatest joy. Now, I know anything can happen in my life and I will be okay. I understand the tools and laws it takes to rebuild it any way I want.

My heart goes out to the youth of our world. Since my depression started when I was five, I also wrote a book for them. I took everything I learned about rebuilding your life and put it in a fictional fun story. My greatest desire was to reach out to them. I wanted them to know that they will be okay. My story to them is the “STONES’ QUEST” series.

To give you a synopsis of what I have learned, I will list it below:

• How to get affirmations to work perfectly for you.
• How to erase negative thoughts and replace them with what you want to have happen in your life.
• How to replace trauma emotionally or physically with peace, only taking the lessons you learned with you into the future.
• Learn the value of who you are and the feeling of success every day of your life.
• Learn how to bring what you truly want into your life and not what life has programmed you to expect.

I can go on, but I’ll stop here. The point is people have asked me to teach the principles so you can learn how to do this for yourself. So I’m working on the seminars that I will be holding on the Internet. I have a nine-page single spaced outline of information.

I hope to have the seminar ready to start by the middle of the summer. In the meantime, you can learn what the seminar will be like by reading my books. “HOW TO REBUILD SHATTERED DREAMS” is for the adults and the “STONES’ QUEST” series is for the ages ten to seventeen.

You can go here to learn more about the seminars and books. Click here!

I hope you find these Thoughts of Encouragement helpful.

Thoughts of Encouagement - testimonials

Thoughts of Encouragement - I have something that I would like to add to my first article. You probably have read the article and wondered if it really was possible to remove emotional scars permanently.

Below, you will be able to read an testimonial from a doctor I have been working with. You might find it interesting. When I say that I can change your past, you have to really wonder if it is possible. I can remove emotional scars and rebuild your shattered dreams if you truly want to let them go.

“The work that LaRene does has a profound ability to help someone erase or reprogram misplaced subconscious beliefs systems. It does this as permanently as any method of technique that I have encountered thru my 28 years in the health field. I have seen it make profound changes in my patients, who have cleared memories, out of these tissues and cells but still keep getting retriggered or have a specific issue that keeps throwing them back into the same negative emotional pattern.

LaRene’s technique has been able to allow them to identify and remove this trigger or pattern out of their mental programs.The expression that I have heard repeatedly is, “It is gone, it is not there anymore. I really feel different than I did before- really different.” Time seems to have proven it’s value and even many months after the process they still report “that it is gone,” when asked for their evaluation of its effect on them.

One of the very nice things about her method is that it is very client directed and noninvasive. There is no suggestive nature to the work from the facilitator. The client is aware that they are in direct control of the process at all times and that the answers are coming from the and their mind. It is not a session of reliving an unpleasant experience or having to dredge up some ugly memory. It is gentle, very non-confrontational, but profoundly effective and permanent in its effect on the individual to change either emotional reaction to subconscious triggers and negative emotional patterns”

Dr. Randy Roberts - Soli-Wellness Center - Layton, Utah

This is one of his patients!

“LaRene’s book and seminars have been an incredible blessing in my life. With her help, I have been able to release trauma and pain that has affected not only my life but also the life of the ancestors. …Her approach is simple and profound.

Stefonia Lindsey, Wife, Mother

There are more!

“I read the book, How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams which is absolutely excellent. When I heard about the seminar, I wanted to find out all I could. LaRene had a really good presentation and I’m anxious to go back and clear out more scars. She has been blessed with a very special gift and can help almost anyone.”

Carole Winmill

If you are interested in more information, you can click here. You can purchase my books from the any of my websites. HOW TO REBUILD SHATTERED DREAMS is for adults. STONES’ QUEST series is for ages ten - seventeen. I put the principle it takes to rebuild shattered dreams in a fictional story. This is one of the reviews.

“I loved the book. I felt like I was an actual character in this book. I wish it could go on and on. It’s one of the best books I’ve read since the Harry Potter series.”
- Tyler Violette
Logan, UT

You can read more by clicking here.

I would really appreciate it if you would take a short survey telling me what you would really like to learn from a seminar. You can find it here!

The Power of Color Series - Part 1

A couple of days ago, I was talking with a group of people. When we got on the subject of color, everyone seemed very interested in my knowledge of it and how it affects us.

I explained that I had found this research by going to the library in the early 1980s. I haven’t done a lot of research since then. If I knew where I could get more, I would love to read it.

Someone requested I put my findings on my blog. So I went through my papers and found the information that I dug out of the library. My information all comes from print books and magazines. If there’s someone out there who can add to it, please do by leaving a comment at the end. I want research and not something from a book that isn’t backed up by research that you can go read yourself.

Looking over my papers, I still like this article, The Power of Color. I found some of the sources on my own and I found the information to be accurate. Today, I found myself enjoying the article as much as I did in 1980. It was written by Leslie Kane in July 1982 for a magazine called Health. In my research, I found a book I think was well written. It was printed by Architecture Digest in the early 1980s. I only have pages copied out of it because it was a limited edition, so please let me know what you want. I’ll start with the article. Here are the first three paragraphs of The Power of Color - and you can decide for yourself.

“Why should hanging pretty red wallpaper in your bedroom inspire you and your spouse to make war and not love? Why does a teacher who holds sway in a yellow-and-brown classroom complain that your child’s fidgety and inattentive while a teacher who instructs in a blue room calls him a model student? And why should your job suddenly become more depressing instead of less when the boss finally shells out for a paint job and your dirty white walls get a coat of nice fresh green?
It’s a matter of science—the science of experiencing color.”

This next part I found to be true in a couple of other books that are out of print.

“Colors are electromagnetic wavebands of energy,” says Alexander Schauss, director of the American Institute of Biosocial Research in Tacoma, Washington. “Each color has its own wavelength. The wavebands stimulate chemicals in your eye, sending impulses or messages to the pituitary and pineal glands near the brain. These are master endocrine glands that regulate hormones and other physiological systems in the body.” Stimulated by response to colors, glandular activities can alter moods, speed up heart rates and increase brain activity.”

If you find this information interesting, I will continue entering Leslie’s article and other information from books that are out of print. Please let me know how you feel about this by leaving a comment below. The picture above is one of my favorite pictures from the Hubble telescope. The color is beaufitul and this is a part of our universe. Color is important to your well-being.

Have you ever wondered how your life could change if you ever wrote an book?

People are starting to know me as a novelist. I’m surprised to learn how many people want or are trying to become an author of books. It surprises me because it wasn’t my goal to be an author. Before I wrote my first novel, I never ever thought about writing. Instead, I went to great lengths to avoid it.

From what I hear from other authors, I think my story is unique. Most people, I’ve spoken too thought about writing their story a lot. They planned out what they were going to write, the genre, and the outline of how the story unfolded. For me, my story is different. I accidentally discovered a story that was inside of me. Then I couldn’t’ stop it from coming out.

I’ve found people fascinated with this story on how I became an author, So I decided to write about it on my blog, rebuild shattered dreams. Maybe it might inspire someone to discover a hidden talent that they might have been buried deep inside, like me. Sometime, we have no idea what we can do until we have no choice but to walk through our fears and do it. This is what happened to me. I’m so grateful for the experience. It showed a side of me that I didn’t know existed.

Before I tell you my story, I need to point out one more thing. This is important to know. I found writing anything to be emotionally painful. In my book, “How to Rebuild Shattered Dreams,” I go into detail about why a simple note terrified me. Today, I’m going to tell something that I didn’t put in the book. How I was forced to face my fear of writing.

For five years of my life, I had been a real estate agent and enjoyed it. Finally at the end of my fourth year, I decided to get my real estate brokers license. After, I received it. I made the choice to go out on my own. For me, it was the smartest thing, I ever did. What happened next made it possible for me to deal with the changes that were about to take place in my life.

It was November 2000 and for the first time in my career, I had sold my entire inventory. It was strange to have no buyers either. In my area, November and December are traditionally our slowest months in real estate. Ever though, I have written and presented offers on Christmas Eve. This year, it was going to be different. I was tired and grateful to take a break.

Five days into my vacation, I had the most bizarre event take place in my life that has permanently changed my life. I woke up discovering that I couldn’t speak. My voice was gone. When I tried to force a whisper, it caused my lungs to go into long coughing spells. If I laughed, the coughing spells would appear. It sounded and felt like I was coughing up my lungs.

The problem didn’t make it easy for me to go out into public. I wasn’t sick. The doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with me. They just called it a virus assuring me that I would have to ride it out. Little did I know that it would take me ninety days for my voice to return and my lungs be able to take a deep breath again.

The winter was long and cold. We had little wind and storms in our area. When you live in the tops of mountains, you can easily get an inversion where the cold air is trapped to the floor of the valley. This happens when you have little wind or storms. Even if no one lives in the valley, it can happen. Our inversion spread from Provo, Utah to Pocatello, Idaho and it was thick.

I struggled to go outside and breath the air that winter. Never in my life had my lungs been a problem for me, so why was the winter of 2000 to 2001 different. My health problems trapped me inside a room in my home. I couldn’t be away from the humidifier or air purifiers without my lungs coughing to hard it could cause my bladder to have problems. They weren’t portable. So every morning, I picked a room and stayed there all day breathing fresh, moist air.

In November 2000, I did not have an email address and I don’t think I knew someone who did. Maybe, I did know someone. I just didn’t use them because I was terrified to write. I do know they weren’t as popular then as they are today. Either way, I had to write down my thoughts on a note pad if I wanted something. Remember, I told you earlier that I found writing emotionally painful and it terrified me.

This virus seemed to perfectly design to force me to face my fears. In the process, I discovered something very special regarding me. Those ninety days, I spent trapped in a room with a humidifier and air purifier has forever changed my life. It changed my career and how I view the world in away, I cannot ever go back…

This post is getting a little long. In my next post, I’ll tell you what happened, during those ninety days. My hope is it inspires you find something special about yourself. I’ll see you next time. Below are a couple of the books, I wrote because of this experience.