PRO CONNECT
Jennifer N. Martin holds a BA in English and an MA in Educational Administration. She is a former university instructor, high school teacher, and educational administrator.
Jennifer is the co-author, along with Rosemary Dean, of The Angels Speak: Secrets from the Other Side which was published in 1994. She is a contributing author to the New York Times best-selling series, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and has stories in the series, Not Your Mother's Book.
In 2007, Jennifer's first novel, The Huna Warrior: The Magic Begins, won a bronze IPPY award for Best Visionary Fiction. She's also written five award-winning screenplays, including The Hunatics (rhymes with lunatics) which won the Gold Kahuna Award for Best Screenplay at the 2011 Honolulu Film Awards.
A former television host/producer of Hot STUFF, an educational program which aired in the Sacramento area for eight years, Jennifer also hosted Tahoe Weekly Magazine on the Travel Network.
She is the producer/writer of Breaking Ground for Peace, winner of the Outstanding Cine Visionary Award at the 2012 Sacramento International Film Festival.
Funny, factual, and over the edge, Jennifer's latest book, Psoriasis—A Love Story, tells the true story of her 30-year battle with psoriasis. Disgruntled with poor results from traditional medicine, she began a quirky journey exploring unfamiliar landscapes in Eastern medicine, juicing, past life regression, soul retrieval, Rife machines, Dead Sea salts, the Edgar Cayce protocol, and more. Her personal transcendence and ultimate victory over psoriasis will not only enlighten readers about the nature of disease, but will uplift and inspire them along the way. Endorsed by Jack Canfield, Joe Cross, and other notable authors, Psoriasis—A Love Story serves as a life manual, not only for millions of psoriasis sufferers throughout the world, but for anyone looking for a way to go beneath the layers to soul healing as well.
Learn more about Jennifer by going to www.hunawarrior.com or www.jennifernmartin.com.
“A pleasant narrative of experiments in natural cures, alternative treatments and looking for a cure outside the mainstream.”
– Kirkus Reviews
The story of one woman’s attempt to deal with her chronic skin condition.
In this debut memoir about the pursuit of a cure for her psoriasis, Martin leads readers through her treatments—many of them unconventional—which have spanned nearly three decades. Martin explains that when she was first diagnosed, she pursued the standard medical treatments for the condition, which has no known cure, but found that they did little to improve the psoriasis and often left her feeling worse than before. She then proceeds through a series of alternative treatments—from Hawaiian prayer to colonics to dowsing to psychic healing. Martin writes of accumulating thousands of dollars of credit card debt in her pursuit of alternative treatments, but she brings a sense of humor to her travails, as when she describes the practitioner of Chinese medicine who was so offended by her body’s energies that he had to leave the room. At the same time, it appears that Martin is earnest in her beliefs that California Sen. Dianne Feinstein should have responded more seriously to Martin’s contention that psoriasis is her body’s response to airborne toxins delivered by chemtrail spraying, or that carrying an EMF protection device will shield her against ambient electromagnetic radiation. Readers may also find her credulous as she cites an online article as the source of her information or writes about the archons—“a cyborg type species made of inorganic matter”—that have implanted her with devices that must be removed for a $156 fee. Martin enthusiastically embraces concepts well outside the mainstream, and her willingness to try yet another nostrum after each one fails is unlikely to win over skeptics. Nevertheless, in the book’s concluding chapter, she reports that she has seen an improvement in both her mindset and her psoriasis symptoms, so readers interested in alternative medicine may find it a worthwhile read.
A pleasant narrative of experiments in natural cures, alternative treatments and looking for a cure outside the mainstream.
Pub Date: May 29, 2014
ISBN: 978-0964697539
Page count: 162pp
Publisher: Prairie Angel Press
Review Posted Online: Aug. 22, 2014
Favorite author
Harlan Coben
Favorite book
Chicken Soup for the Writers Soul
Favorite line from a book
When you are truly genuine, there will invariably be people who do not accept you. And, in that case, you must be your own badass self, without apology. - Katie Goodman
Hometown
San Leandro, California
Passion in life
Fulfilling my writing bucket list
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