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            <title><![CDATA[Kindle Edition
by Michael Boccanfuso (Author)
Panic disorder book and how I overcame 30years of…]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2018 07:18:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kindle Edition<br>by Michael Boccanfuso (Author)<br>Panic disorder book and how I overcame 30years of fear....</p><p>Second book is The social media murders….The good and bad that all this technology has done to all of us….</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=e2912cded9b8" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[My burning desire to write this short very true and extremely difficult tale is sad and provokes…]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[cancer-lies]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Empowerment Academy]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:01:52 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-01-15T03:31:59.970Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><strong>I SIT HERE IN A HOSPITAL THAT IS ESCORTING BREAST CANCER OUT MY MOTHER AND INTO A MEMORY…SHAMEFUL BEYOND MEASURE THAT THE CURE IS NOT AVAILABLE TO US.</strong></blockquote><p>My burning desire to write this short very true and extremely difficult tale is sad and provokes intense frustrating thought simultaneously. Mom feels lump..Mom gets mammagraphy…Mom is a young 68…Moms results from an eventual biopsy,breast cancer. God’s mercy and grace and her good health provide emmense relief as it was caught early and curable. We, my brother and I here now, couldn’t be more grateful.</p><p>Having stated the current truth of what is….I now have a form of rage within my soul that wants to scream..At who? Where does one find the BEING that holds the cure so close and so secretively? Does this fraudulent, morally bankrupt being possess a single body or is it a massive team of massive morally bankrupt merciless beings. American Cancer Society???? Where 2 percent goes to “treatment”. American??? I am in a state of numbness and loss of words as I sit and pray for the board to tell us surgery is through. My wish,my prayer and my hope is that as humans ,soon and damn soon our health care system speaks the TRUTH.. Leaving us all to live life healthy mind body and soul. Oncologists,pharmacies, Radiologists, and so many more shouldn’t be the priority..job stability for them in trade for cancer.. no problem as long as we can steal your strength, insurance,family and sense of self, live a long life, full of side effects and illness.Your welcome society…With every bag of poison thrust upon you we thank you…..Drink up,and radiation is your friend.</p><p>I’d rather eat dirt than look away. The truth of our lives today is what the top of the list dictates it will be.</p><p>God be with my family as healing will indeed be in within the next couple of hours….</p><p>Sincerely,Two son’s ,mom,a mastectomy and the massive morality misplacement.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=627e552f4eb9" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[A powerful, storm from the depths of hell almost took my life away.]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[anxiety-disorder]]></category>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2018 12:06:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A powerful, storm from the depths of hell almost took my life away. Panic Anxiety Disorder blew into my life like a tornado blows into a community and rips it to pieces!</p><p>The day it arrived was the day I was changed forever. Mental disorders make up 80 percent of the world’s health problem.ost being anxiety related. Studied show that our political ideals ,leaders and the safety of our nation are a great source of unease amongst many of the population.</p><p>Sadly many insurance lans do not cover mental health as they still do not see it as a physical condition. This causes many to suffer and do so in silence. I have had this disorder for over thirty years and not only wrote and am publishing an e book on it but explaining how I brought my symptoms from a ten to a two. I researched the decisions people make and why and obsessed over it and in turn learned enormous valuable information about the him an condition but also the tools to take back the stolen power we know as Panic disorder. I now know some of our greatness and strengths come wrapped in sandpaper sometimes. Are you willing to show up for your life…The pain my friends is inevitable, however the suffering is optional! Simple re adjustment of an old untrue story that we tell ourselves that we can change. I’ve lived it,cured I and work with many clients that now with a new thought process finally are free from fear and doubt…Its time to stop asking permission.This disorder is just that. No more no less. A habit that like any other we can turn around…..I am privileged to be able to help one on one and with groups…..I know I hated traditional therapy …talking to someone without the physical experience and then paying 2–300 an hour to them. I have found my purpose and made a permanent solution for those who can only afford a limited fee. Life is wonderful and yr power is non negotiable……God Bless and Deep Breaths.. Michael Boccanfuso Empowerment Academy</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=2e1730ba3160" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[My journey through the storm I came to know as Panic Anxiety Disorder…..The]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[too-much-technology]]></category>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Empowerment Academy]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2018 09:03:56 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-01-06T09:03:56.276Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My journey through the storm I came to know as Panic Anxiety Disorder…..The suffering,the storm damage and how I navigated and interrupted the fear, essentially learning how to turn a shipwreck into a life of purpose….and you can too….</p><p>I am now 44 years old and immersed in a career that I cannot fully describe just how much satisfaction it brings my soul to it’s deepest inner space filled with peace. I am a coach now that lives to inspire and encourage anyone suffering in any way. While this is my focus, we have lost the simple idea that has been the key to simple happiness in the world we now find ourselves a part of…Communication and empathy toward each other. The universe is compromised of one of a kind, uniquely special, amazing and kindred spirits…Human “kind”…However we seem to be lost. There is a clear and present danger that lurks amongst us all like a low lying secret society. Most would agree that this quality and concept of kindness and communication is lost.</p><p>We simply have been thrust into a society of me and what do you think of me and it needs to change before we loose the chance to truly express and impress upon younger people today that while technology may provide us with new people and friendships, there’s a serious disconnect. One I feel is similar to a plane without a pilot that holds us all in a state of complete lack of control and fear of where we will all “land”or essentially crash….</p><p>Tech times have provided the ability to have literally everything from speaking to others , any topics complete appearance simply at the click of a key. Topics that could educate or eliminate any chance of truth and decency. Pornography, violence our brains we’re never equipped to absorb at such a rate and so much more. This is slowly turning many of the users into inhuman beings that through over stimulation and an abundance of life situations through a screen become almost sinister. Communication is breaking down and fractured like a leg snapped from the human journey through different walks of life.</p><p>What have we become? How bad will it have to get before parents who don’t enforce rules and continue to “buy the babysitter” who went from the girl next door to a laptop on the floor.</p><p>Kids don’t play outside and learn face to face interaction and empathy whatsoever. They have new techniques to bully, hide behind lies. Lies behind a screen where they can be kind or the more popular damaged and dangerous with a fake personality they make up to boost themselves on the shoulders of the weak and vulnerable .</p><p>Yes,we need computers to enhance business and create life abundance in some ways , however we also need to set limits. In a world where a Kardashian is ultra famous directly stemming from a sex tape that would shame any moral family our core values are sinking like a ship full of holes. The media whores like the Kardashian family and the Facebook bully are now the norm. This society is diseased. Please,I pray, someone develop a cure and develop it quickly. If we want our kids to grow up with kindness in there soul ,there soul is the most at risk.What does that mean. Evil has the key to the door. The door we used to be able to lock. Now, the technology has the parental set of keys to the kingdom. Let us all pray we can teach after what we have learned and give when we get. At the simplest points in the experience of life. Empathy and kind hearts are needed. I hope and pray we’re not breaking the heart that holds the true sadness. Whomever your religious go to is ,watches and watches. Are we practicing the human souls purpose or playing with our own demise..</p><p>Let us all land the plane and not all perish in a nosedive that will devastate the reason we we’re blessed with a life . A human life meant to serve others not to serve others up on a plate…God Bless us all..Michael Boccanfuso ..mjosephrea@gmail.com</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=55e584ea1530" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Humankind is under attack…….]]></title>
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            <category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2018 22:26:17 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2018-01-05T22:26:17.151Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Humankind is under attack…….</em></p><p>I am writing this small article,part of a larger book I wrote, to convey a sad but very true tale of two truth’s. Truth’s that are now our past and present.</p><p>My past as well as many others in their forties and older was filled will kindness,empathy, communication, friendship and so much more we as people held dear. At least that’s the world I remember.</p><p>Sadly, the world has become somewhat sad and to younger kids these days, frightening. We as the older generation had to learn how to communicate face to face. Make friends and compassion and kindness soon was just a follow up to that exchange. However society today has decensatized our children and youth. Laptops ,phones, tech. In general was a blessing and a curse cast upon us. We are not hard wired to absorb all of the violence on tv and video games etc…..Reality television has in my opinion destroyed any truth from the world and has created a world that is similar to watching a car wreck in slow motion. Blood, fire, smoke and terrible memories that whether we are aware or not stay in our world’s consciousness. What happened to us as people. I am not nor have I ever been a political man, however our leader is a tweet trolling incompetent disgrace and is separating us more each day. Kindness should not be difficult,cost anything or a chore so to speak.</p><p>That is the saddest fact we face. We all are one. We all belong to a family. We all deserve to be heard and seen.. encouraged and treated like a human being. None of us are broken or need to be fixed. Black,white,red,gay, straight, purple and so on…….what happened to just moving through life with a kind heart…serving others in whatever way we can. We can heal this gaping wound we now find ourselves living in….I just continue to pray for the band-aid we so desperately need. It takes one person. Be the change. All of us as one can begin to be that band-aid. All we can do at this point is pray. I can’t help but write this and feel sick. Almost like being on a plane without a pilot…Where do we land this sadness and begin again…Mike Boccanfuso</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=cf120985fdaf" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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