Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours: THE TRUTH: I'M TEN, I'M SMART AND I KNOW EVERYTHING VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '07

Join psychology and self-help author Barbara Becker Holstein, Ed.D, author of THE TRUTH: I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything! (Ladybug Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in August and September for her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours!

Barbara Becker Holstein, Ed.D. has been in private practice for 26 years in Long Branch, New Jersey with her husband, Russell Marc Holstein, Ph.D. She is a leading positive psychologist, having published her first book in this discipline, THE ENCHANTED SELF, A Positive

Therapy, in l997. She focuses on helping women be happy, and live meaningful, purposeful lives by reclaiming their talents, strengths and even lost potential.

Dr. Holstein has a comprehensive website and blog for women at http://www.enchantedself.com/ and conducts seminars, lectures, teleclasses and workshops. She appears on radio and television. She hosts Happiness, For Women Only, on http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/ and THE ENCHANTED SELF Magazine of http://www.ladybuglive.com/ She can be reached at 732-571-1200.

She received her Doctorate in Education from Boston University and her BA degree from Barnard College. Her memberships include the American Psychological Association, and the New Jersey Psychological Association. Her article discussing the development of her unique positive psychology approach for women appeared in the 2006 winter issue of The Independent Practitioner, APA's Division 42's Journal. Other articles appear on 100’s of websites.

In July, 2007, her newest positive psychology book, The Truth, I’m Ten, I’m Smart and I Know Everything, was released. You will fall in love with the ten year old girl in this book, who has the courage and the wits to put into writing what every woman should remember about herself, her children and the truths that really matter.

You can visit her website at http://www.enchantedself.com/ or her blog at www.enchantedself.typepad.com/.

Click here to listen to her podcast via her blog.

The Truth: I'm Ten, I'm Smart and I Know Everything Synopsis:

THE TRUTH ... how do we carry the truth from girlhood to adulthood? That priceless ‘truth’ that we all recognize as kids? How do we walk over that bridge into growing up, carrying the Truth? How do we recognize THE TRUTH in our children and help them carry their most precious selves into adulthood?

What if we could pass the gift of our early wisdom and brilliance along to our children, giving them permission to hold on to their most precious jewels?

My new book, THE TRUTH, My Secret Diary, I'm Ten, I'm Smart and I Know Everything, is a delightful, humorous secret diary, written by a girl who is 10-11 years of age. She is wise and yet so innocent. She makes us cry and laugh and remember ourselves. Behind this very easy read is the psychological message to the women reading THE TRUTH that they can and must recapture the fire and passion of their girlhoods not only for themselves to flourish and be happy, but for the next generation to also have the gifts of good emotional and spiritual health.

Women love the book and so do girls, ages 9-12. Women find it a pure delight-a hot fudge sundae with a secret message inside and no weight gain, while girls recognize themselves and finally feel totally understood!

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The Truth: I'm Ten, I'm Smart and I Know Everything Excerpt:

Dear Diary,

I have a secret. I was going through my mom and dad’s night tables while they were out, and I found these great tubes in my father’s night table. They said Trojan on the label. You have to unravel them really carefully and then you can fill them with liquid, just like test tubes. I went into the kitchen and put sugar and water in one of them, salt and cinnamon in another, oil and pepper in a third and cleaning powder and water in the last. I had fun shaking them. I pretended I was a scientist. I hope my parents didn’t mind that I opened all four of them. Why would my dad have test tubes? He’s not a chemist.

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Dear Diary,

I hate Gloria. Her teeth are too straight. She won’t need braces. That isn’t fair! Also, her thighs are slimmer than mine and don’t have little puckers on them. I hate my puckers. At the beach my mom told me to just hold my stomach in and no one will notice my legs. But that is NOT the truth!

The truth is Gloria has nicer legs than I do, and she knows it. In dance class she does turns really easily. Who wouldn’t with those legs? I guess she will grow up to be a great dancer and I won’t. I think I’ll trip her accidentally when she walks by my desk.

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Dear Diary,

Today, when I came out of the shower, I lifted my arm in front of the mirror as I was drying myself, and I had three dark hairs growing from my right armpit! I can’t believe it. It is beginning.

Good news: nothing in the other armpit yet.

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