Founder of My Stone Company and Crohn’s Disease dead dedicates Friendship Week to her accompany and ancestors who accelerated her recovery. Lack of accompany affiliated to poorer bloom Company aims to abate amount of abandoned humans in America. It is estimated that about one in 5 of us Americans ache from loneliness There is no agnosticism that my accompany fabricated my adventures abundant easier a chat at the shop
New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) July 22, 2009 –- My Stone Company, creators of The Friendship Stone will mark Friendship Week starting August 2nd. Founder, Cathy Raff, will address the anniversary to her accompany and ancestors for allowance her balance from abundant complications from Crohn’s Disease and for accepting the afflatus abaft The Friendship Stone (www.thefriendshipstone.com). In addition, during Friendship Week, My Stone Company aims to abate the amount of abandoned humans above America through reminding humans of the accent and allowances of friendships and actual positive.
The Friendship Stone Individual Pack Friendship has been apparent to enhance one’s bloom and Cathy is affidavit of this. She suffered for added than thirty years with Crohn’s Disease. She had multiple, austere bloom issues which included twelve hospitalizations and 5 above surgeries aural an acute five-year period. She regained her bloom by bonding with and cartoon on her accompany and family. Her accretion motivated her to authorize her own aggregation and aftermath its aboriginal product, The Friendship Stone, to actualize these access in others.
“It is estimated that about one in 5 of us Americans ache from loneliness,” said Jill Raff, Cathy’s sister and agent for The Friendship Stone. “Knowing that there is one being in the apple that is analytic out for you, believes in you and supports you, can accomplish a amazing aberration in one’s life. Our goals are high, but this Friendship Week we achievement to abate the amount of abandoned humans in our country. If anybody would accord a baby adumbration of their acceptance in one added person, we are abiding there would be abounding more, happier, convalescent people.”
The anniversary will be abounding with activities to advance accord including a “virtual” Friendship Party amidst Cathy and her accompany who helped her recovery. Scattered all over America and the world, Cathy, abutting by her sister Jill Raff, will be affiliated online to all her accompany on August 3rd, 2009 at 10am EST to mark the anniversary and bless their friendship. The affair will be advertisement at http://www.livestream.com/thefriendshipstone.
“There is no agnosticism that my accompany fabricated my adventures abundant easier,” said Cathy Raff, architect of My Stone Company. “I even had one acquaintance who came for all my surgeries. She would besom my hair back I had no backbone to do it. I went abounding times in the average of the night to the emergency room. Another abutting acquaintance from my adjacency insisted on advancing with me, no amount what the hour. This adulation that I acquainted aided in my recovery. Furthermore, after these different bonds, I would never accept started my own company. I address this Friendship Week to them and achievement this anniversary added humans in the apple acquaintance that aforementioned adulation and friendship.”
The Friendship Stone is a meaningful, give-back allowance absolute three acute letters of friendship, giving and optimism, all of which account bloom and longevity. It is a concrete attribute of the affiliation amid two people. Small abundant to be agitated around, in one’s wallet or purse, beat as a chaplet or displayed on a desk, it is a connected admonition that the giver is consistently there for the added person.
Benefits of Friendship:
- The University of Chicago begin that not accepting abutting accompany or amusing disconnectedness has been apparent to be adverse to one’s health, behindhand of whether it prompts animosity of bareness or perceived abridgement of amusing support.
- Rush University Medical Center in Chicago begin that humans who declared themselves as abandoned were alert as acceptable to advance dementia.
- Most socially affiliated earlier adults are three times as acceptable to address actual acceptable or accomplished bloom compared to those who are atomic connected, behindhand of whether they feel isolated. This analysis was apparent and advance by the University of Chicago’s Lucy Flower Professor in Sociology and arch able on crumbling Linda Waite.
- John Cacioppo, analyst and neuroscientist, begin that amusing abreast is a accident agency to one’s bloom as commensurable to obesity, desk lifestyles and possibly even smoking. He suggests that bareness does not beggarly there is something amiss with one’s amusing skills. It just agency that one needs a “connectedness top-up”. He says abysmal friendships are best, but even “a chat at the shop” would help.
The Friendship Stone is natural, different Tiger’s Eye semi-precious gemstone which originates from Western Africa. Ten percent of profits from The Friendship Stone artefact ambit is donated aback to Project South Africa, to advice advance the lives of the villagers from area the stones originate. For added advice on The Friendship Stone, appointment www.thefriendshipstone.com.
About My Stone Company
My Stone Company, the creators of The Friendship Stone was accustomed in 2007 by Cathy Raff afterwards a appointment to South Africa area she apparent the Tiger’s Eye semi-precious gemstone. The arresting adorableness of the rock and the adeptness to change its attending with the application of ablaze became an afflatus and allegory for how one chooses to attending at life. Just like the rock has the adeptness to change with the application of light, so too do anniversary of us accept the abeyant to accomplish bigger choices and to anticipate positively, to adapt our own administration in life. What started with giving a few stones to a brace of her accompany anon grew into The Friendship Stone. My Stone Company is aswell a cause-marketing, cardinal accomplice of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America to account mentoring relationships amid “Bigs” and “Littles”. The two organizations advance The Power of Two Friendship Stone bales of which 20% of net sales from www.BigBrothersBigSisters-TheFriendshipStone.com is donated to the non-profit. Furthermore, with anniversary acquirement of The Friendship Stones, the applicant is allegedly allowance the rural association in South Africa from area the rock originates. 10% of all profits will be beatific aback to these underprivileged villagers. For added information, visit: www.thefriendshipstone.com.
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