Pina De Rosa Hosts Red Carpet Book Launch for FIT FROM THE INSIDE OUT, 11/1
On Sunday, November 1st, at 2pm Gratitude International will release "Fit From The Inside Out" with a rooftop red-carpet launch. This celebration is designed to highlight a holistic approach to health & fitness. International Keynote and TEDx Speaker, Award Winning producer and Mindset Effectiveness Expert Pina De Rosa will welcome guests on the rooftop of the Santa Monica Place Mall for this red-carpet champagne toast with friends, Alexis Carra of ABC Family's Recovery Road and active volunteers, supporters all to celebrate together with live music, inspiring speakers. In "Fit From The Inside Out," De Rosa who was date-raped her first semester in college, shares how such negative experience opened positive doors, rather than shut her down from her life. Today she speaks on college campuses on date-rape awareness and sexual assault prevention: her intention is to end the date-rape epidemic once and for all.
Date-rape is considered to be the most underreported crime on college campuses against both men and women. As highlighted in the gripping documentary "The Hunting Ground," 16-20% of students are assaulted and 88% of those students do not report it. Nationwide, 1 in 5 women are raped on college campuses annually. "Results are not achieved with willpower alone, nor with just diet and exercise, but by exploring the deep seeded emotional blocks that keep us from achieving what we want to achieve," De Rosa says. "Not everybody is raped, and not everyone needs to lose 50+ pounds, but nearly everybody has some emotional blocks that are preventing them from getting where they want to be." After her acclaimed TEDxTalk "Choices...Choices...", and after co-leading The New Hollywood's "Get My Body Back" Health Elective with award-winning actress and Founder/CEO of "The New Hollywood" Brianna Brown, De Rosa was inspired to take her health & fitness results to a whole new level, and ended up writing a book about her journey to losing the extra 50 pounds she had gained as a form of "protection" after being raped, and finally getting her body back. The idea of this book sprung within the framework of "The New Hollywood" (TNH) 501(c)(3), a women's philanthropic goal group that helps support women within the entertainment industry to achieve their personal and professional goals, to be a positive example and to make a difference. TNH intends to inspire everyone to ?Rise Higher, Shine Bright & Give Back.