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10/09
Beverley Danusis and AboutWisdom.com Featured by the Daughters of the American Revoluntion (DAR)
Beverley Danusis and AboutWisdom.com were recently featured in the October 2009 newsletter published by the Daughters
of the American Revolution (DAR).
08/31/09
"Sophia and the Seven Goddesses" is an Award-Winning Book!
"Sophia and the Seven Goddesses: A Journey of Self-Acceptance" has recently received 2 awards: The Dove Foundation Award and the 2009 Creative Child Magazine's Seal of Excellence Award.
"Sophia and the Seven Goddesses: A Journey of Self-Acceptance" has been approved by The Dove Foundation for family viewing.
"Congratulations! Sophia and the Seven Goddesses (Book) has been awarded the Dove "Family-Approved" Seal by the Dove Foundation. This means the Foundations believes that the content expressed makes for the kind of entertainment family members can enjoy together with confidence. The Dove Family Approved Seal is awarded to movies, DVDs, made for TV movies and other entertainment products that portray and encourage positive values." To read more, click here.
To view the Certificate, click here.
"Sophia and the Seven Goddesses" has also received the 2009 Seal of Excellence Award from Creative Child Magazine. To find out more, click here.
09/18/07
Product Safety
The safety of our children is a major priority for AboutWisdom.com and WisdomDollsTM. As a result we have adopted a strict product safety assurance program for all of our products.
09/14/07
The Goddess Within
Beverley Danusis is a goddess. She is also the creator of a new line of dolls designed to help pre-teen girls build self-esteem and positive body images and find the goddesses within themselves.
The WisdomDollsTM, nine years in the making, will be introduced to the world March 8 when Danusis, a Fort Wayne resident, makes a special hourlong appearance on shopping channel QVC. But northeast Indiana women will have a chance to order the first edition of the dolls, to be delivered in time for Christmas, at Woman's Night Out on Sept. 20 at Headwaters Park in Fort Wayne.
01/06/07
In The News
Up close: Beverly ("Lee") Danusis, 60, Fort Wayne
Dollmaker with a dream deferred
Source: Rosa Salter Rodriguez The Journal Gazette
Beverly Danusis used to work in the cosmetics industry, so when she lost a good friend to suicide and then struggled with her daughter, Beth, over issues involving body image, she realized that the messages our culture sends to women about beauty and self-esteem needed a major makeover.
"Look at that," she says, pointing to one of the popular Bratz dolls - one with an oversized head on an impossibly skinny body. No real woman, she says, looks like that - except perhaps, someone emaciated from an eating disorder.
"It teaches unrealistic body image," Danusis says. "And the name - Bratz! ... She teaches you to be bratty, not to be confident. ... And this is what we're teaching our daughters!"
