Launching THE A LIST Kindle eBook for healthy eating and positive living at a limited time discount price Feb 19 - 25

The A List: 9 Guiding Principles for Healthy Eating and Positive Living, is a self-help book I wrote and first published back in 2006. As a proud cancer survivor who also overcame my food and weight issues, I am very proud of this book as it has helped thousands of others change their lives one bite at a time for a healthier body and happier life. After many requests, I have FINALLY published it as a Kindle eBook now available on Amazon.com for $7.99. If you buy the book between February 19 – 25, 2023, you can take advantage of the launch promo price at only $3.99.

Why and how did I come to writing this book? Here's the story...

When I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma at 29, I was in shock. How could I have cancer? I was only 29. I was full of plans and hopes and dreams for my future so battling cancer was not exactly part of the plan. The good news is that after 9 months of chemotherapy and keeping a positive attitude, I beat it. Yup, I beat my cancer and 27 years later, I remain cancer-free. 

At 39, I got on the scale to discover that I was at my heaviest weight. How could I have let myself put on all those unwanted pounds? Maybe I was subconsciously thinking, "Hey, I just beat cancer, I deserve that piece of chocolate cake. I deserve to celebrate just having survived it." Who knows, right? I can't say for sure how I allowed it to happen, but the bottom line was that I had already lost my health to cancer. So, now afraid of putting myself at risk of getting cancer again, or heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure and/or any other diet and weight-related diseases, I chose to fight back once again, only this time to win my battles with food, weight, and lifestyle obstacles once and for all. I won that battle too. How? The answer is what makes up the life-changing principles that I discovered through my weight loss journey to a healthier body and happier life that I share in my internationally acclaimed book, The A List: 9 Guiding Principles for Healthy Eating and Positive Living, now available as a Kindle eBook.

In The A List book, I offer practical tools, personal insights and positive inspiration to help people BREAK FREE from self-sabotaging eating, thinking and lifestyle habits; REACH, MAINTAIN and ENJOY a healthy weight and positive lifestyle; TRANSORM their relationship with food for results to last a lifetime; MINIMIZE weight and lifestyle related health risks such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, some forms of cancer and more; REDUCE menopausal symptoms; and INCREASE energy and sense of well-being. The book outlines the my 9 guiding principles for healthy eating and positive living each starting with the letter "A". I explore each as a necessary ingredient for achieving greater health, lasting weight loss and control, and enhanced quality of life.

Along with loads of practical tools and information, I share personal insights from my own struggles with food, weight, and life management challenges plus real life examples from my weight loss coaching clients. With self-reflective coaching style questions, I help people understand themselves and their relationship with food and their inner selves in a newer, deeper and more meaningful way. This helps them relearn how to eat properly and improve their quality of life by making healthy, balanced food and lifestyle choices. The book also includes fast and easy healthy recipes.

Available now as a Kindle eBook on Amazon.at a special discount promotion price in effect February 19 – 25 for only $3.99, regularly $7.99.

For more information, visit https://roslynfranken.com/about-the-a-list-book.html.

Daughter of Kamp Vucht Holocaust survivor spoke at Maurick College in the Netherlands

So excited to make my European media debut with this article in a Dutch newspaper called 'Het Klaverblad' about my speaking to over 300 students in the Netherlands. I told the students the story of my parents remarkable survival, love and triumph over tragedy as Holocaust and atomic bomb survivors and all the positive life lessons we can learn from them to better ourselves and help make our world a better place. 

It was especially meaningful for these students since my parents were also Dutch. For example, when I showed the video of my dad reading his love letters to my mom in Dutch, these kids could understand his every word and didn't need to read the subtitles. The students loved it. 

I look forward to speaking to more students in the Netherlands, North America and around the world!! If you know anyone in the school system where you live, please contact me and I will reach out to them. The original Dutch article is available HERE (page 5). 

Below is the English translation with a few slight modifications. 

Daughter of Kamp Vucht survivor spoke at Maurick College in the Netherlands

Students in the Netherlands listening to Roslyn Franken tell her parents'​ life story as told in her book, Meant to Be.

Roslyn Franken is the proud daughter of John and Sonja Franken, two unlikely survivors of World War II. Sonja, née Schoontje Pagrach, was taken by the Nazis at 15 from her home in Rijssen, a city in the Dutch province of Overijssel, to Kamp Vught, the first of 11 Holocaust concentration camps in Europe where she was held captive located in the city of Vught and the only SS concentration camp outside of Germany in Western Europe. John was born in the former Dutch East Indies and shortly after being drafted into the Dutch Navy Air Force at 18 was captured by the Japanese to become a prisoner of war. He was working as a slave laborer near Nagaski when the Americans dropped the atomic bomb there. He, too, survived.

How did these two young Jewish teens survive the horrors of their captivity continents apart to eventually meet, marry and make a beautiful life together in Montreal, Canada after all the trauma and suffering of their past? Roslyn recently answered all of these questions and more in a series of three virtual presentations she delivered to over 300 students at Maurick College in Vught, the city where Sonja was first held captive.

Roslyn says, “Young people learn about the Holocaust and World War II in school from history books, but as the daughter of survivors, I feel it is important for youths everywhere to hear about the real-life experiences of real people like my parents and not just statistics from a textbook. As my mother was their age when she was taken to Kamp Vught in the city where they live, it makes it even more relatable, which helps them develop a greater understanding and sense of empathy and compassion for what my parents went through.”

Roslyn wrote an award-winning book about her parents’ life story entitled, Meant to Be: A True Story of Might, Miracles and Triumph of the Human Spirit which is being made into a movie slated for production in 2023. Her book is currently being translated into Dutch.

Book cover of MEANT TO BE book by Roslyn Franken

In these times of growing division and adversity, and increasing rates of teen depression and suicide, youths everywhere need to know Roslyn Franken’s story of her parents' amazing survival over suffering, humanity over hate, and triumph over tragedy, NOW more than ever.

Sebastiaan van Oers, History Teacher at Maurick College, said, "The story of Roslyn and her parents came to us through her relative whose children attend Maurick College. In the context of living history and an increasingly international world, we thought it would be a good idea to have Roslyn give lectures in English at our school. The fact that her mother was in Kamp Vught and was then the age of the students who attended the lectures makes it very easy for the students to connect to the story. Roslyn's story is full of situations that students can identify with as they are real-life stories. Our students were impressed by the story and listened with fascination. The lectures were a unique experience for our students and we hope next year to bring Roslyn to Vught to give her presentation in person."

For more information, go to www.RoslynFranken.com.