Media Release

St. Peter’s Press

Box 190

Muenster, Saskatchewan

S0K 2Y0

Phone: 306-682-1770

Fax:306-682-5285

Press@stpeters.sk.ca

and

cfenwick@sasktel.net

Love and Laughter is a Revised and Expanded Edition of Healing With Humour,

the Canadian Bestseller that has helped thousands of people to rediscover hope and joy.

This book “is a valuable tool to help us look back at ourselves and reflect, pinpoint the areas of our lives that we have neglected and decide what we want to do with the time we have left.”

All human beings have a need for meaningful purposeful work, we all want to be surrounded by loving caring people, and we all want a life filled with joy and enthusiasm.

Love and Laughter: A Healing Journey is an engaging discussion of what we can do to help ourselves to create a fuller and more rewarding life. Catherine Fenwick’s first edition of Healing With Humour, published in 1995, is a workbook designed to help people rediscover their laughter, joy and enthusiasm for life. This successful guide to happy living, has become a Canadian Bestseller. Tens of thousands of people have attended Catherine’s workshops and seminars. Many people asked her to include more of her personal stories in the next edition of her book. This she has done in Love and Laughter, along with an added chapter, Hope is Knowing I Can Handle It.

Catherine Fenwick has more than thirty years of experience as an Educator and Therapist. She faces life head-on and accepts difficult situations with a sense of resolve. This no-nonsense approach did not work so well during surgery and chemo-therapy for cancer. She realized that her usual way of doing things was not working and she had to make some changes. This was a matter of life and death, with many unknowns. She found some comfort in laughter and realized it was more than a passing fancy. Catherine read, searched, explored and tried. She discovered that hope and humour were very important elements in her recovery.

Life can be pretty hard to face at times. People grow up, adopt a serious attitude, take on responsibilities, we get sick and we experience loss and suffering. Love and Laughter: A Healing Journey is designed to help people find hope and joy. Catherine challenges her readers to have at least one hundred positive thoughts or laughs every day. It includes an L.Q. (laughter quotient) test, suggestions for activities, things to think about, and cartoons and stories to tickle your funny-bones.

· wanting to know more about how love and laughter can help to improve their lives.

Love and Laughter: A Healing Journey, originally published as Healing With Humour is a book about recovery. It presents basic principles for living and can help people to look at themselves and reflect, pinpoint areas they have neglected and decide what they want to do with the time they have left. It discusses in a straightforward fashion difficult issues such as life, death, joy and suffering.

Catherine Ripplinger Fenwick, MA (Clinical Psychology) is a therapist, educator, author and cancer survivor, who shares her belief in the value of love and laughter in the healing process. She gives workshops across Canada and speaks at national and international conferences.

St. Peter’s Press

Box 190

Muenster, SK S0K 2Y0