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HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE NOVEMBER 17 AT CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN EDINA, MN

November 7, 2018 • Julie Saffrin • Leave a Comment

If you’re looking for a holiday boutique to visit on Saturday, November 17, 2018, Christ Presbyterian church’s Holiday Boutique is back! Last year, the church was in the midst of a renovation and did not have boutique. This year, the renovation is complete! This is the 16th annual boutique they have done. Boutique hours: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The church is located at 6901 Normandale Road, Edina, Minnesota. I’ll be in the Multipurpose Room at Booth No. 5. Stop by and say hi, should you be dropping by! I’ll be signing BlessBack®: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life…

BlessBack® Finds a Home in Covet Crate, a Subscription Box for Women

November 3, 2016 • Julie Saffrin • 6 Comments

Several weeks ago, a young woman contacted me via the contact page of my website, https://juliesaffrin.com. She owns a subscription box service, Covet Crate, geared toward professional women, and she wondered if I would be interested in having my book, BlessBack®: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life, be a part of its November box. I couldn’t have been more surprised, or grateful. All sorts of online subscription box services exist, geared to a person’s preference. Some boxes are beauty and make-up related, others are food or sewing related – there’s even one for DIYers. I subscribe to Stitch Fix, a…

A BRIDE GIVES A BLESSBACK® TO HER PARENTS

June 3, 2016 • Julie Saffrin • 1 Comment

To all of you who bought my book, thank you so much! I’m deeply touched. My heart, like the picture above, is full. Like Celia Thaxter’s saying, I’m having an eternal summer, thanks to your kindness. Just a small heads-up for others thinking about buying the book. Today, June 4th is the last morning BlessBack: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life is on sale for $1.99. At 10 a.m. CST, the book will be full price at $3.99. As my blog post earlier this week explained (read about it here and here), there are many ways to express thanks back to…

EXPRESSED GRATITUDE: A BLESSBACK®

May 31, 2016 • Julie Saffrin • 2 Comments

A BlessBack®* is an expression of thanks given to those in your past who have had a positive influence in your life. It is an exchange of blessing between two parties: the giver and the receiver. As you live the BlessBack life, you will discover that at various times you may be a giver and at other times a receiver; sometimes you may experience both giving and receiving at the same time. BlessBacks are different from random acts of kindness. Most often, a random act of kindness is being kind to someone in a spontaneous way. A BlessBack, on the…

BLESSBACK® IS ON SALE FOR 99¢ THRU JUNE 2ND!

May 29, 2016 • Julie Saffrin • 1 Comment

I’m so pleased My Book Cave extended an invitation to feature my book on the power of gratitude, BlessBack®: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life, for its Memorial Day Week campaign. Let me extend that invitation to you. From Monday, May 30th at 8 a.m. CST through 9 p.m. CST on June 2nd, BlessBack®: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life is available on Amazon for only 99¢! At 9 p.m. on June 2nd, Amazon will raise the price of BlessBack® to $1.99 for the remainder of the book sale — which ends at 10 a.m. on June 4th, 2016. My journey with My Book…

BlessBack® paperback on sale!

February 3, 2015 • Julie Saffrin • Leave a Comment

Join us to celebrate BlessBack’s third birthday! February 17th marks the third birthday of the popular book on gratitude, BlessBack®: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life As a way to express my thanks to all of you for supporting my book on gratitude, BlessBack®: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life is on sale for the entire month of February 2015. Now’s your chance to get a paperback version for just $11.99. Hurry, offer ends February 28th at 11:59 p.m. Click the red button to be taken to Amazon to get your discounted book. Here’s what others are saying about how…

Thank you for being a friend

May 2, 2014 • Julie Saffrin • 2 Comments

Is there ever reason not to say, “Thanks”? In BlessBack’s May 2014 newsletter, I tell a story from my book, BlessBack®: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life. Eleanor Roosevelt’s mother-in-law’s response is priceless to the children’s being late for dinner. Their excuse? “We ran out of time.” The matriarch’s words, if we allow them to be, can be a life lesson for you and me. The matriarch told the children, “You had all the time there was.” Life’s uncertainty is certain, yet we can lighten another’s load. Words heal. Words break down the walls and fences we build…

“Go Bless” Earth Day only, give someone a BlessBack® for 99 cents

April 22, 2014 • Julie Saffrin • Leave a Comment

Sheldon Bass sent me an e-mail after he and I connected on LinkedIn. I liked his message for its simple, action-filled message. Here is what he wrote: “I think I’m translating ‘BlessBack’ correctly. I do my best to be a blessing to everyone I come across. A friend sent me an email a few years ago and he signed off with a typical, “God Bless”. Only, he accidentally left off the “d,” so it read “Go Bless”. After we talked about it, we realized it was a much better sign off to use. Simple wisdom from a typo. Go Bless.…

Be Causal

April 14, 2014 • Julie Saffrin • Leave a Comment

From BlessBack®: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life by Julie Saffrin “We can be people of “because.” We can act or write others when we see them doing something good. “Be causal,” by blessing and thanking others with a BlessBack in your neighborhoods, communities and places where you work. It won’t be long before a bond of compassion forms. To help you “be causal,” if you would like to download this free stationery in pdf form, please do and send a letter to someone who deserves your thanks for how they influenced your life. Change the world. One BlessBack at…

Lavish Love

July 3, 2013 • Julie Saffrin • Leave a Comment

In college, I studied various communication theories. The one I found most memorable was Young Yun Kim’s Cross-Cultural Adaptation Theory, a theory that explains how immigrants learn to adapt to a new culture and country. Kim explained this theory in Understanding Communication Theory: The Communicative Forces for Human Action, by giving an example of how Korean immigrants accustomed themselves to living in the United States. To acclimate themselves to living in America, the immigrants planted one foot in their new country and kept the other in their old by: Speaking English to those who spoke English Speaking Korean to fellow Koreans Reading…