Alder Allensworth - Author • Speaker • Guide
Books: Fiction and Non-Fiction
Helen is asked to take a scarf back to the Camino De Santiago. She is making the pilgrimage with a group of Catholic women led by Sister Sophia, a Catholic nun. This is to be a mother-daughter trip to celebrate her daughter’s graduation from high school. Walking the Frances Route, she struggles physically through the Pyrenees, finds her religious beliefs challenged on the Meseta, and is shocked into integrating it all as she walks into Santiago. Little does she know that the spirit of the pilgrimage has been embedded in the fibers of the scarf and she will receive much more than she expected.
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Valerie arrives in Spain with only a small backpack and a scarf from her friend Helen -- a comforting reminder of home as she sets out to walk the final hundred kilometers of the Camino de Santiago. She hopes the journey will mend her fragile heart. But when she locks eyes with a handsome stranger, her pilgrimage takes a wild turn. Drawn to him, she abandons the well-trodden path for the rugged and grueling 833-kilometer Camino de Norte -- a route far more treacherous than she ever imagined. With every aching step, doubts creep in, but the scarf around her neck reminds her that sometimes the greatest healing comes from embracing the unknown.
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Widowed and nearing eighty, Dot sets out alone from Lisbon on the Camino Portuguese, determined to heal her own grief and shoulder her own pack. Around her neck, she wears the legendary Camigas Scarf, passed from woman to woman, supported by the
stories of those who walked before her.
What begins as a pilgrimage becomes a reckoning with the life she built through marriage and motherhood and the independent woman she Quietlv set aside
Along the road, long silenced truths rise. When her protective daughter and idealistic granddaughter join her, old tensions resurface and a new understanding begins. By the time she reaches Santiago, Dot has done more than walk a trail. She has reclaimed herself.
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Mackenzie Meets Alzheimer’s Disease Picture Book, written by Alder Allensworth and Brenda Freed and illustrated by William Banda, includes a children’s song and is the perfect introduction to Alzheimer’s disease for young children.
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Seven-year-old Mackenzie has always depended on her Gran for fun, help, love and understanding. She learns from her parents that her Gran has Alzheimer’s disease and may start acting strange. Now the tables are turned and Mackenzie has to figure out how to help her Gran.
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The story brings to awareness many aspects of Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia such as memory loss, anger, frustration and fear in terms children can understand. A free download of the Mackenzie Meets Alzheimer's Disease Story Song included with the book purchase makes learning about the disease fun. Also included is a special discount code to receive 50% off the digital, video-based Mackenzie Meets Alzheimer’s Awareness Program that suggests activities, diagnosis through the severe stage.
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Prevail: Celebrate the Journey
by Alder Allensworth
Alder's story of her 1,200 mile sailing journey from Florida to Maine is an inspiring celebration of courage and hope. Find out more about Alder's book signings and about her miraculous journey.​
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Celebrate the Journey: Self-Care Cancer
by Alder Allensworth
Join Alder on a journey through a cancer diagnosis and learn how to cope. Alder is a long-term survivor of a rare, often fatal cancer. She is also a nurse and a therapist who has provided support to hundreds of people as they journey through cancer.
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