Life Minutes: Igniting Joy from the Fire of Heartache

From a young age, Tara Heaton learned to rely on an internal flame for resilience. That fire blazes as never before after devastating seizures threaten to debilitate her healthy 12-year-old daughter. Tara becomes an unstoppable mother on a mission, believing that ending epilepsy will restore her daughter's life and dissolve the grief and trauma inflicted on her family. Through this warrior's plight, Tara discovers that heartache is not heartbreak. She learns that we can repurpose pain to make room for new depths of freedom, love, and joy. 

Life Minutes clears a path for readers to discover their gifts within buried emotions and tap into energy that keeps hope alive. Tara Heaton is a master storyteller whose skill shines through in this unforgettable story woven with relatable fears, unpredictable humor, and fierce honesty.

Life Minutes chronicles how Tara exhausts traditional medical treatments, then seeks holistic and even radical remedies, traveling thousands of miles and depleting her savings. As her daughter's brain gradually declines, Tara becomes more determined to find a cure, even sacrificing the needs of her business, her other two children, and a marriage that ultimately ends after a surprising revelation. 

Tara's obsession with a cure is first interrupted by her younger daughter's assertion that Life Minutes are treasures that should not be wasted. Even in the face of turmoil, Tara learns to embrace life's abundant gifts, realizing that heartache is what fuels the flame of joy.  

With raw truth and colorful writing, Tara carries the reader into her journey of unimaginable challenges and heartwarming moments, making them relatable to anyone with the capacity to love. It's an unforgettable story that sparkles with wit, humor, and even new romance.

Life Minutes is a powerful reminder that we cannot wait for the absence of pain to celebrate the life that is now. We could be waiting a lifetime. 

Tara Heaton combined her decades as a successful business owner and corporate sales trainer with her knowledge of neuroeconomics to create her company En Pointe Communication. Her study of the brain began as a relentless quest to cure her daughter's seizure disorder. Over time, it became an insatiable desire to learn more about memory, human behavior, habit, cognitive function, and neuroplasticity. After years of research and with her sales and leadership experience, Tara developed her signature platform, Talk to the Brain(TM). Talk to the Brain(TM) is designed to help teams and individual clients communicate for deeper connection and greater impact. It is the foundation for Tara's workshops, keynotes, and writing and coaching services that help clients tell unforgettable stories, improve results, and elevate joy through authentic communication. She teaches strategies and techniques based on what delights and influences the overstimulated minds in today's noisy world. Tara believes that the most crucial component of success at work and in life is our ability to create and elevate deep, trusting relationships.To learn more about Tara's work, visit www.enpointeglobal.com. Enjoy her TEDx Talk, Is Our Pleasure Killing Our Joy. And check out her YouTube channel: @taraheaton3170.

Elizabeth Ann Atkins is a best-selling author, award-winning TV host, actress, and journalist who teaches how to unlock one's infinite potential to live and love in peace and purpose. Elizabeth's and sister Catherine M. Greenspan created Two Sisters Writing & Publishing, which has written and published 32 memoirs, novels, business books, poetry books, and journals since its creation in 2016.The company also hosts monthly writing contests and the Two Sisters Writing Club, and showcases their blog, A Tale of Two Sisters. Elizabeth and Catherine have written and published dozens of books, including their mother's book, The Triumph of Rosemary: A Memoir, by Judge Marylin E. Atkins. Their mother wrote the book herself, chronicling her controversial, interracial marriage to former Roman Catholic Priest Thomas Lee Atkins. Elizabeth has a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan.She has been a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, NPR, and many other programs. As America's Book Coach, she helps aspiring authors achieve their dreams of becoming published authors.The bestselling author of 40 books, Elizabeth also co-hosts MI Healthy Mind, a weekly TV show aiming to shatter the stigma of mental illness, addiction, and abuse. Elizabeth's new book, The Biss Tribe: Activating Your Goddess Power, inspired her popular podcast/YouTube show, The Goddess Power Show.She is also a certified meditation teacher and wellness advocate.

I'm Trish Lockard. As Strike The Write Tone, I offer a full range of editorial services for nonfiction and creative nonfiction, and am a writing coach and ghostwriter, specializing in memoir.In my personal life, I am a long-time member of and volunteer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). I have served as a chapter president and am a certified classroom instructor for the NAMI program Family-to-Family. I brought those years of experience to my writing of Make a Difference with Mental Health Activism.In October 2023, I became a Humanist Celebrant, authorized to attend to the pastoral and ceremonial needs of Humanists or those seeking nontheistic, nonreligious services. See my Humanist Society directory profile here. I post about my celebrant experiences on Instagram as trishlockard. Long ago and far away. . . after receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida in Tampa, I began a career as a technical writer of software instruction manuals for telecommunications, insurance, cartography, and freight logistics companies, as well as corporate policy and procedure documentation and employee benefits handbooks.