Lasting Love and Marriage

Accidentally on Purpose: A One-Night Stand, My Unplanned Parenthood, and Loving the Best Mistake I Ever Made

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Length-40 minutes, 59 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Mary Pols, author of Accidentally on Purpose: A One Night Stand, My Unplanned Parenthood, and Loving the Best Mistake I Ever Made published by Ecco/Harper Collins.

Mary Pols is the author of "Accidentally on Purpose" (June 2008, Ecco/Harper Collins), a memoir with one of those long subtitles ("A One-Night Stand, My Unplanned Parenthood and Loving the Best Mistake I Ever Made") that give away a lot (but not everything). A native of Maine, Pols has spent most of her professional life as a journalist in California. For the last eight years, she was the film critic for the Contra Costa Times, and her reviews could be found in the San Jose Mercury News and the Oakland Tribune.  

Prior to becoming a movie critic she worked as a news reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times and Los Angeles Daily News. She has written for a number of magazines, including "Gourmet" and "Self." Her journalism awards include a first place prize from the ASNE, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, for column writing. The highlight of her news writing career was traveling to Ireland to write about the Northern Ireland Peace agreement. Having grandparents named Dolan, Duffy and Sinnott probably had something to do with her fascination with the subject.

 

A graduate of Duke University (with a BA in art history) and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Pols was a Knight Fellow at Stanford in 2005-2006. She has taught movie criticism at UC Berkeley.

 

The youngest of six children, Pols grew up with a philosophy professor for a father and an art historian for a mother. Edward Pols gave his daughter C.S. Lewis and Edith Wharton while Eileen Pols gave her Pauline Kael and tours of seemingly every church and museum from Florence to Connemara.

 

Pols lives in Northern California with her son Dolan, who is four years old. Having taken a buyout from the Contra Costa Times in March 2008, she is freelancing and working on her next book, a novel.Visit her website.

The Healing Choice: How to Move Beyond Betrayal

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Length-44 minutes, 33 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Mr. Fred Stoeker and Mrs. Brenda Stoeker about the book The Healing Choice: How To Move Beyond Betrayal written by Brenda Stoeker and Susan Allen and published by by Water Book with an introduction by Fred Stoeker, best-selling author of The Every Man Series.

Brenda Stoeker is a registered nurse, mother of four, and seasoned marriage teacher with life experience in rebuilding a broken marriage. Together she and her husband, Fred, have counseled hundreds of couples struggling with issues related to sexual brokenness. Visit her website.

Fred Stoeker is a bestselling author of several books, including Every Young Man’s Battle and Tactics, the president of Living True Ministries, and a popular conference speaker who challenges men to become sexually pure, to reconnect in true intimate relationship with their wives, and to train their sons to become godly men. A graduate of Stanford University, Fred lives in Des Moines, Iowa with his wife, Brenda, and their children.Visit his website.

The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal

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Length-43 minutes, 21 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Victoria Zackheim, editor of The Other Woman: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and Betrayal published by Grand Central Publishing.

Victoria Zackheim is the editor of The Other Woman. A native Californian, she is a writer, freelance book editor, and an instructor in the UCLA Writer’s Program.  She writes and records commentaries for the Mimi Geerges Show (Satellite XM radio and public radio) and is a frequent guest speaker for organizations and academic events.  Working with Rosemarie Reed Productions, Victoria is the developer and writer of the documentary film, Tracing Thalidomide: The Frances Kelsey Story, scheduled for a 2009 release. Visit her website.

First Comes Marriage: Modern Relationship Advice from the Wisdom of Arranged Marriages

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Length-44 minutes, 8 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Reva Seth, author of First Comes Marriage: Modern Relationship Advice from the Wisdom of Arranged Marriages published by Fireside.

Reva Seth is a journalist whose articles on arranged marriages have appeared in national newspapers across the U.K. and Canada, including The Globe and Mail. Trained as a lawyer, Reva's professional life now includes a mix of communications consulting, freelance writing and policy researchSeth and her husband live in London and Toronto with their son.  Visit her website.

Chosen Forever: a memoir

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Susan Richards, author of Chosen Forever: a memoir published by Soho Press.

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Susan Richards and her husband Dennis Stock, live in Bearsville, New York with four dogs and a cat. Susan has a B.A. in English from the University of Colorado and a Master of Social Work degree from Adelphi University. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Chosen By A Horse. Visit her website.

Video of The Queen of the Road Tales a Ride from Hell

In this Queen of the Road Travelogue, author/shrink Doreen Orion details her death-defying Meltdown Cruise in Boulder, Colorado.

Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own

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Length-22 minutes, 55 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Doreen Orion, author of Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own published by Broadway.

Doreen Orion is a triple-boarded psychiatrist on the faculty of the University of Colorado Health Science Center. She is an award-winning author, has lectured throughout the U.S. and has appeared on major national media such as Larry King Live, 48 Hours, Good Morning America and been interviewed by the New York Times, People Magazine and many others. Still, she considers her greatest accomplishment that her bus was the centerfold for Bus Conversions magazine (which she is the travel writer for), thus fulfilling a life-long ambition of being a Miss September.  Visit her website.

The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids in A White Bread World

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Ms. Betsy Block, author of The Dinner Diaries: Raising Whole Wheat Kids in A White Bread World published by Algonquin Books.

Betsy Block has written food features and restaurant reviews for the Boston Globe and Wondertime Magazine, and online for Epicurious.com. A regular contributor to NPR's Kitchen Window, she lives in Boston with her husband, two children, and fourteen-year-old mutt. Visit her website.