Maverick Daughter: She Rode the Waves of Life and Triumphed (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780980682731)

Gloria Hamilten is a writer, literary reviewer, dreamer, adventurer & lifelong learner. She has been writing, from the time of her first poem at age 8, about her tabby, mangy, scarred cat, & about being kind to animals. During high school, as she was born in Austria, she was focused on learning English & so her creative outlet was drawing. However, she always kept a diary which was multilingual. She says, 'My writing was either in French, my main language at the time, German, which I had heard all my life & now spoke at home since we left France, or English.' Once she left school, Gloria wrote more contemplative pieces about coping with life within a challenging family, being a migrant and the philosophising of a teenager finding her place in the world. She lived in the moment as she could not envisage a future within the confines set by a Narcissistic mother & the emotional & physical abuse that resulted. When she started secondary school teaching, she thrust her writing creativity in ensuring it was fun and engaging so that they wanted to read it & then, learn from the material. Her motivation was the same when she developed personal & business development courses for adults when she started her first offline business & then went online in 2007. Apart from secondary teaching, her careers include creating and facilitating courses for the University of Queensland's Corporate division, teaching German and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) in adult evening classes for Queensland's Technical & Further Education, Director of a College of Hospitality & Tourism in Sydney, National Executive Director of Ice Skating Australia, liaising with the Aust Olympic Committee & Aust Sports Commission, & CEO of her Life Coaching business. She always circumvented the status quo. At school, she could do this as her students enjoyed her classes, did their homework & obtained good results; parents were pleased. As an adult, it was easier to write what she wanted to better the life of her clients and readers. Humour, enjoyment, openness and learning have been her modus operandi when writing. Even her fiction works, such as short stories, have messages that gift wisdom to better the life of the reader. To date, apart from thousands of articles & many short stories, she has written and published 5 self-help books, & one fiction novel. She has a BA, B.Ed.St. & M.Ed (M'ment), NLP Accred, studied & practiced Scientific Hand Analysis, Thought Field Therapy & Esoteric philosophies