La Dolce Vita Retreats

Today is June 29, 2010.  Tomorrow will be the last day for La Dolce Vita Retreats, LLC.  The website will come down and with it will close a rich chapter in my life. 

On reflection, it has been a marvelous chapter along my path of self-discovery and exploration of my life purpose.   Three years ago, when I launched La Dolce Vita Retreats, I turned my face to the sun to follow a road “less traveled” .  I must say it was quite a journey, the ride of a lifetime!  Oh!  The people I met, the friends I made, the places I visited and the lessons I learned…they will remain with me always.  Although not a blank canvas when I began, over the years I have layered it with vibrant colors, changed it’s perspectives, experimented and erased, painted over,  all the while enthralled with the process of creation.

And so too, on July 1, 2010, I again will turn my face to the sun and begin on another journey – to lands yet undiscovered, to experiences yet to be uncovered, to a new canvas on which to begin.  As John Wooden once said to me, “Janice, every day I begin my day with the thought that today I will create my masterpiece.”  I always keep his words in the forefront of my mind.

I have learned that it is the process, the journey, that brings me joy…the destination only a mark on the map.

Ciao bellas!  Grazie mille!

Janice Briggs,

janicegbriggs@gmail .com

feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

Stile di Dolce Vita – La Dolce Vita Retreats_ Journeys of enrichment for wom

I am conducting research for my book in progress and need participation from a minimum of 500 women from across the nation.  Does the “ broken cookie syndrome” exist rampantly in our society or just among a few? Is it a demographic of age, geography, religious beliefs?  Are we living in a modern world with yesterdays perceptions? What’s the reality?

Opportunity to win a La Dolce Vita Retreats Saturday Workshop valued at $275.00!

If you would like to participate in my survey, and be entered into the drawing to win the FREE workshop,

please click here  http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e2vek0c1g8luy35p/start

All surveys are anonymous as I am seeking genuine responses.  But, if you wish to participate in the drawing you need to leave me a way to contact you should you win.   You can put your contact information in the answer box provided for question # 12. It can be a phone# or email address or any mode of notifying you if you win.  The drawing will take place upon my reaching 500 survey submissions.

I’m researching the female psyche in the USA with regards to how she sees herself  on the priority list with regard to economics, family, career, health and wellness.  This will probably be the first in a series of surveys based on the feedback I receive.  I’m just beginning to dig!

Thanks so much for your participation!

Janice Briggs

949-752-0652

janicebriggs@ladolcevitaretreats.com

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Giving the Gift of Time this Mother’s Day to moms with critically ill children. 

The story of Kimberly and her son Marques is a perfect example of how our philanthropic “spotlight” organization for May 2010, The Andre Sobel River of Life , helps single moms who are both breadwinner and caregiver for their families.

Kimberly is a single mother of two children.  When six-year-old Marques was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, an adrenal cancer that had metastasized throughout his body, he faced a 30% chance of survival. Mom was forced to quit her job and started to rely on her savings. She cut out all unessential expenses, but nevertheless a day came when Kimberly couldn’t pay the rent.  That’s when her social worker contacted the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation (ASRL.)

Meanwhile, chemotherapy, radiation and a stem cell transplant put her son’s condition in remission until a few weeks ago when he relapsed.

 Kimberly keeps up her spirits even as Marques is back in the hospital, now with significant hearing loss from the last intensive treatment. ASRL is paying the rent to give Kimberly more time at her son’s side.

The Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation is proud to give Kimberly the gift of time with her son Marques.  To help Moms like Kimberly with a tax deductible donation, visit www.andreriveroflife.org

The Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation’s unique  mission is to give the “gift of time” to single parents whose children are critically ill.  In 24 hours, this national non-profit organization makes emergency  payments for vital living expenses so that single parents don’t have to make the tough choice of being at work to earn a paycheck or being with their catastrophically ill or dying child. The  Foundation allows these struggling parents to be at their child’s bedside – to provide comfort, advocacy and love – during critical illness or in their last days. By paying for transportation to the hospital, groceries, rent, mortgages and utility bills, the Foundation gives the parent the “gift of time” and frees her to focus on her child’s healing.