A Dabawenya authors for the first time a self-empowerment book. Joan Mae Soco-Bantayan, 33, who is a nurturer at Tuburan Institute and 2003 Mutya ng Dabaw, wrote the book Remember Who You Really Are: 12 questions to help you how. The book launch was held last July 21, 2017, Friday, 4:00 PM at the Abreeza Mall Activity Center.
“I have been longing to write a book that will help empower our fellow men and finally, I’ve done it,” Soco-Bantayan says that even when she longed to write a book, she did not plan to do it this year. “Interestingly, Lady Bam Petilos, a TV and personality and a friend whom I met in Ike Pono seminar, came up to me last January and told me that it’s time for me to write a book,” she says. “Lady Bam also told me that the idea to write a book is divinely guided. Inwardly, I felt that too and I knew I had to honor that.”
The book, according to Soco-Bantayan, is a summation of the lessons she learned from seminars like Ike Pono facilitated by Bruce Conching and Mission Courage Workshop facilitated by Alternative Nobel Prize awardee Nicanor Perlas. “It also discusses the personal questions that we can use as a compass so that we are able to cope with our lives better,” Soco-Bantayan adds. “Because of the busy-ness that weighs in our lives, we have forgotten to look deeper into ourselves and find that deep inside lies the fulfillment.”
Soco-Bantayan adds that Remember Who You Really Are not only talks about personal desires that one can achieve, “I am emphasizing the sense of duty along with gratitude to in the book. This is because we have to change our inner perspective first before we can help in the world.”
During the book launch, various guests were treated to angel message oracle card reading and gave angel card readings and guidance to guests for free. “This book would not have been possible without the help of the angels,” she shares.
The book comes with an angel message bookmarker created by Angeologist Princess Buendia.