Background
Mason-John spent her childhood ‘in care,’ id est (that is) in foster homes and childcare facilities, including the Barnardo"s Orphanages in Britain with the exception of a short time spent living with her mother in her early teens.
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Detox Your Heart
( Anger, hatred, resentment, fear, jealousy, greed. Tough...)
Anger, hatred, resentment, fear, jealousy, greed. Tough emotions, but ones that most of us experience at one time or another. This gritty exploration of such “toxins” helps us to recognize the negative emotions and mental states we can absorb consciously—or unconsciously—and suggests creative ways of working with them. With short exercises for anyone to use that draw on Buddhist teachings on self-love, mindfulness, and more. Valerie Mason-John is a former journalist and a trainer in anger management who speaks openly from her personal experience of conflict, anger, and fear. Also the author of the novel Borrowed Body (Serpent’s Tail, 2005), which draws from personal life history of being a foster child, black, lesbian—and a woman finding her way.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1899579656/?tag=2022091-20
Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma
(Drawing on her own experiences with abuse and addiction, ...)
Drawing on her own experiences with abuse and addiction, Valerie Mason-John presents a well-grounded series of meditations that transform anger, hatred, and fear to heal emotional trauma. Valerie Mason-John knows what it is like to be filled with toxic emotions—and how to release them. After years of abuse and struggles with addiction, she was mired in anger, resentment, and fear. But through meditation and willingness to forge a new path, she learned how to disarm such toxins and find peace. In Detox Your Heart Mason-John helps us recognize our emotions, good and bad, and to develop the self-care to heal ourselves. Chapters that explore and clearly define negative emotions are paired with chapters on how to transform them. Meditation exercises based on the Buddhist principles of mindfulness, loving-kindness, and compassion provide tools to help us heal our own hurts and to close the gap that toxic emotions create between heart and mind.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1614293872/?tag=2022091-20
Valerie Mason-John
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After eighteen months of studying philosophy and politics at Leeds University during the 1980s, Mason-John studied post graduate journalism, earned an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing and diploma in theatrical performance at Sussex University and The Desmond Jones School.
Career
She uses the stage name "Queenie". She dropped out before receiving her undergraduate degree in the eighties, but has continued to pursue post-graduate education and training into the present. Since the early nineties, she has worked as a writer, performing artist and lecturer.
She received a teaching certificate, and currently conducts seminars in anger management and conflict resolution.
In December, 2007, Mason-John was named Honorary Doctor of Letters by The University of East London. Mason John continues to write, work as a self-awareness trainer.
She performs and lectures internationally. She has also contributed to: Half the Earth: Women's Experience of Travel Worldwide (second edition, Pandora Rough Guide, 1990), Frauen Zimmerim Haus Europa (Papyrosa, 1991), Assaults on Convention (Cassell, 1995), Words from Word Up Café (Centerprise Publications, 1993), and Tell Tales (Tell Tales/Flipped Eye Publications, 2005).
Mason-John edited was the editor of Feminist Arts News from 1992-1997.
Additionally, she was the artistic director of the London Mardi Gras from 1997 to 2000, and spent four years as the director of the Pride Arts Festival. Her television credits include freelance work for British Broadcasting Corporation, Channel 4 and Vis International television She has also been featured on British radio broadcasts for the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service and the regional programs, Mid Week, Woman’s Hour and The Libby Purvis Show.
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Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma
(Drawing on her own experiences with abuse and addiction, ...)
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Detox Your Heart
( Anger, hatred, resentment, fear, jealousy, greed. Tough...)
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Detox Your Heart: Meditations for Healing Emotional Trauma
