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Introducing the Winner of 2010 Face of Mahya Campaign At Mahya Minerals, we believe that a woman’s beauty is more than skin deep; but the radiance she feels on the outside can have a direct impact on her confidence and ability to accomplish great things. To highlight this truth, we have created the Face of Mahya Campaign, to feature a beautiful woman who sets an example of using her inner talents and feminine grace to make a profound difference in the world.
After a difficult decision, reading many amazing stories, Mahya is excited to announce our selection for the Face of Mahya: 
Melanie Davis,
author of The Triumph Book
An Important Book Supporting Great Causes
Here is her story:
Melanie Davis lost a baby girl of seven months to SIDS. She kept a journal from the time she discovered that she was having Brynn, writing of her anticipation for the birth of her little daughter, and which then she took to the hospital for foot prints to be put inside. A few months after Brynn’s death, Melanie revisited the journal she had kept and wrote about the experience… finding Brynn life-less in her crib, the ambulance ride to the hospital, her van breaking down in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains with the coffin and baby inside. Then, many months later, Melanie wrote about all she had learned from the experience. Melanie often says “If you had told me ahead of time I would lose a baby, and asked how I would react, I would say ‘lock me in a dark room and don’t check on me for at least a year.” She honestly thought this was an experience which would be impossible to overcome. However, when the tragedy did strike, Melanie discovered she could endure the impossible, and eventually found purpose and joy in the experience. She feels strongly that Brynn’s death was meant to be, and there is a higher purpose to life and death than she recognized before the tragedy.
Some years after recording her life-wisdom for her children and posterity, Melanie discovered a way to preserve the story of Brynn, along with the pictures, in a beautifully bound storybook. In this way Melanie was able to release her grief, knowing that Brynn will always be remembered through the sharing of this book. Melanie says that when she is introduced to or informed of others who have lost a child, she makes a copy of her book to share with them, because she wants them to know that it is possible to overcome such a severe tragedy, and find purpose. In fact, Melanie says that every time she is able to share her story with someone sorrowing, and give them hope, it give Brynn’s death meaning. Melanie believes that by sharing her story, and healing others, Brynn’s affect on the earth can be as if she lived her whole life.
The ability to find purpose and joy by sharing a grief-turned-to-triumph story is a process available to everyone, and so from the experience of journaling and preserving her experience, Melanie created a new and innovative program which utilizes a writing process which has the ultimate crowning achievement of a published beautiful hard-bound storybook. The process is called The Triumph Program because it is meant to help people find purpose in their tragedies and experience joy in the process. It can assist them to such a level of healing, hope and purpose that it can be labeled a triumph!
As Melanie pilot tested and developed the program, she realized that one of the most important elements to overcoming grief is to believe it is possible! And so, to serve as inspiration and a companion to the program, Melanie collected stories from people who have endured severe tragedies and who have overcome their loss, finding joy and purpose in life because of the tragedy! The book is called The Triumph Book.
The stories Melanie was able to gather for the book are of such profound losses that many of them were featured in the national media at the time they happened. The Triumph Book provides a behind the scenes look at tragedy and shows how such adversity is overcome. This book can inspire and give hope to anyone going through a difficult time, while providing life-lessons and insights which are priceless because of the cost of obtaining this wisdom. 40% of the sale of all Triumph Books will go to non-profit organizations.
Mahya has become a supporting partner with The Triumph Book and is promoting it to raise funds for Multiple Sclerosis Research. Mahya’s own father died of MS many years ago, and so it is with great passion and purpose that this particular charity was chosen as the recipient of Mahya’s Triumph Campaign. If you would like to read the first three chapters or purchase a copy of The Triumph Book, and support MS research, click on the link below
Click here to purchase The Triumph Book And give 40% to MS Foundation
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