Sonia M. Puopolo Has Chispa

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Sonia M Puopolo_Chispa MagazineSonia M Puopolo: Author, Entrepreneur, Lecturer, Inspirational Speaker, Publisher, Multilingual and Multicultural Brand, Image and Communications Specialist, Mom to her Lhasa Apsos, GodMother to Becca and Bella, and last but most important, Daughter to her best friend and most precious DAD in the world.

What have you overcome? “Life is all about possibilities. There is nothing in life that’s impossible. I have overcome significant traumas in my life. The first was when my mother Sonia Mercedes Morales Puopolo perished on American Airlines flight No. 11 on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. I was completely, totally devastated when my Mom, my best friend was killed so tragically on that most horrific day in human history. The important lesson to be learned from this overwhelmingly tragic event is that I put all my energies into healing and into writing my book SONIA’S RING: 11 WAYS TO HEAL YOUR HEART,
www.soniasring.com.

It is a beautiful book that shows that MIRACLES DO HAPPEN and with LOVE anything is possible. I transformed that most negative, dark and miserable experience into something that offers others hope, inspiration and the wisdom to know that you are not alone, and that love lasts forever. Approximately ten years later after 09.11.01, on Friday, November 25, 2011, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, I experienced another catastrophic event and I was hit by a car. A car ran over my left foot three times crushing it and causing me unbearable relentless pain which immobilized me for almost three years. I had another series of choices to make.

For me the only way to go was onward in a positive direction so the path I choose was to succeed and heal. Therefore, with a laser sharp focus and incredible perseverance, supernatural strength, divine determination, and unwavering faith, I focused on my healing and I turned to my own book SONIA’S RING during my time of crisis and read every word I had written over and over to fill my soul with my own instructions that I include in my book about how to be resilient and overcome what I call a “911 Moment;” a moment of pain and suffering whether divorce, death, financial loss, and so forth… we all have experienced pain and suffering and we have the power to not only survive but thrive. God wants us to thrive and shine!! I never thought my faith or my resolve would be tested a second time in such a profound way. The doctors said I would never walk again.

Being a person of faith, that was unacceptable and I pleaded with God and the universe and some very special Tibetan Buddhist teachers and master healers to aide me to move into the next phase of my life. I wake up GRATEFUL each day with LOVE overflowing from my heart and soul, and I’m appreciative to share my story to show that MIRACLES DO HAPPEN and with LOVE, anything is possible. My message is one of HOPE, INSPIRATION, GRATITUDE, and ENDURANCE. My mission is to help spread healing and love to create peace. I have spoken about resiliency and how to overcome “911 Moments” and so forth and I’m grateful for all my blessings. For anyone out there experiencing your own “911 Moment” —you are NOT ALONE and you are so LOVED. My book is a great guide that includes many tools and techniques to help one heal. My book can help you learn to live your best life now with greater harmony and joy, and more love and peace!”

The Bible says, “… when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.” How has your endurance grown with the process of your tests and how do you operate in the now looking onward? To best answer question No. 2, I would like to share an excerpt from my book SONIA’S RING: 11 WAYS TO HEAL YOUR HEART, “Dear Reader, my new friend, I ask, are you with me? Do you understand the profound message? This is my ring, a song from my soul, Sonia’s Ring: 11 Ways to Heal Your Heart, in answer to my prayer from above. I share with you that God was reminding us that even in the worst possible tragedy, though we experience indescribable chaos, pain, and suffering, there is always a witness, something that reminds us that something—call it God, spirit, divine intelligence… or call it nothing at all—is right there in the middle of the mess along with us, that we are not alone, and it will not only bring us through it all, but will somehow—even miraculously—bring good out of it. Sonia’s ring was God’s witness to my family—first to my mother herself, then to my father, brothers, and me that God is there with us. The miracle of Sonia’s ring surviving under such horrendous circumstances, and then being found and identified, now is a witness to everyone who hears the story. Sonia’s Ring: 11 Ways To Heal Your Heart should be by your side at happy times and sad ones too…”

For more of the Sonia M. Puopolo, and the many faces of perseverance order your copy of the November | December, Overcoming Issue here. 

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Mavian Arocha-Rowe

Mavian Arocha-Rowe

Editor-in-Chief at Chispa Magazine
Mavian Arocha-Rowe is known as an asset to the business and communications industry and is motivating and advocating “your authenticity should be your strategy,” for all women, regardless of their season and roles. For the past 20 years she has directed magazines, plus multiple art and marketing departments as creative director and brand manager. What supersedes all of her great career moves is her role as wife and mother living in Atlanta. Challenging herself to discover and bravely pursue the calling for her life, Arocha-Rowe helps other women discover and pursue their life’s assignment. She is a passionate, and loud-laughing speaker on the topic of purposefully redeemed, and mentors young women so they can exercise a mind that is doctrinally pure, along with a heart that beats toward sanctification. She will almost never turn down Marlow’s Tavern double-tavern cheeseburger, a cooking-demonstration from Leaning Ladder, or any opportunity to head to Miami to spend time with family.
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Mavian Arocha-Rowe is known as an asset to the business and communications industry and is motivating and advocating “your authenticity should be your strategy,” for all women, regardless of their season and roles. For the past 20 years she has directed magazines, plus multiple art and marketing departments as creative director and brand manager. What supersedes all of her great career moves is her role as wife and mother living in Atlanta. Challenging herself to discover and bravely pursue the calling for her life, Arocha-Rowe helps other women discover and pursue their life’s assignment. She is a passionate, and loud-laughing speaker on the topic of purposefully redeemed, and mentors young women so they can exercise a mind that is doctrinally pure, along with a heart that beats toward sanctification. She will almost never turn down Marlow’s Tavern double-tavern cheeseburger, a cooking-demonstration from Leaning Ladder, or any opportunity to head to Miami to spend time with family.