A Fine Time for Healing

Why do we say we have zero tolerance for bullying, but adult society is rife with it and it is an epidemic among children?

Because the injuries that all forms of bullying and abuse do to brains are invisible. We ignore them, fail to heal them, and they become cyclical and systemic.

In today's guest, Jennifer Fraser's book The Bullied Brain, readers learn about the evidence doctors, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists and neuroscientists have gathered, that shows the harm done by bullying and abuse to your brain, and how you can be empowered to protect yourself and all others.

Jennifer Fraser  earned her PhD from University of Toronto in Comparative Literature. Her first book Rite of Passage in the Narratives of Dante and Joyce explores the way in which individuals transform from readers to writers of culture. Her second book Be A Good Soldier: Children's Grief in Modernist English Novels looks at pedagogical beliefs about children and the ways in which they fuel aggression and war. She has written three plays that focus on contemporary suffering: Distortion, Aristotle's Poetics, and Wakeful Sleeper. They're with the Playwright's Guild of Canada. Her third book Teaching Bullies takes lived experience with an abuse crisis and puts it into the context of psychology, psychiatry, education, law, and neuroscience. What's being discovered in neuroscientific labs across the world has the power to change how we understand our brains and lives. This empowering research infuses her latest book The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health. She also writes thrillers. For fun, check out Crush (a wine thriller) and Royal Dispatch which is about Queen Elizabeth II's dangerous trip to Canada in the 1950s (yes, it's fiction).

You’ve probably attended multiple personal growth seminars and read lots of books about manifesting “change” and creating success in your life. Maybe you’ve even studied specific techniques to help you release “blocks” and get yourself “unstuck”. But you still haven’t seen the results you’ve been hoping for. If you’re going to create an authentic life – a life that is yours – you’ve got to start with knowing Who You Are and what you need to do to get started living the story you were born to live.

Today's special guest, Karen Curry Parker, is the Founder and creator of the Human Design for Everyone Training System™ and the Quantum Alignment System™

Quantum Human Design™ is often called the “new Astrology,” and the “intersection of science and spirituality.” Your Quantum Human Design chart is formulated by taking your birth date, time, and location – giving you specific information about your life path, your style of working, your relationship blueprint, how you experience energy in the world, and most importantly, how to create a truly meaningful and authentic life.

During a Quantum Human Design™ session, you will learn and understand how every line, intersection, and symbol correlates to a personality trait that can directly affect your life with an experienced guide by your side.

Karen has been speaking, coaching, training, and podcasting for almost 30 years, building several successful businesses and touching close to 100,000 lives around the world in the process. Karen’s work has been featured on Fox News, Bloomberg Businessweek, CBS, and ABC, as well as various radio shows and telesummits. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Integrative Health at Quantum University

Do you feel deeply tuned in to the feelings of others to the extent that you sometimes have a hard time distinguishing your emotions from theirs? If so, you may be a highly sensitive person or an empath (yes, there is a difference!).

Empaths often describe feeling like a “sponge” that soaks up the emotions of others.

Today's special guest, Signe (Sig NEE), an ordained Spiritual Counselor, certified Integrated Therapeutic Alignment (ITA) practitioner, and author of the recently published book, “The Space in Between: An Empath's Field Guide, will share how to tell if you are an empath or a highly sensitive person, and how establishing boundaries can help both.

“The ability to distinguish your thoughts, feelings, and emotions from those you receive from the space around you is an important skill in public spaces,” Signe says. “Hopefully, this awareness will help you feel less entangled by the energy of others. It will also help you maintain boundaries and a sense of safety in public places.”

Splitting her time between Colorado and Norway, Signe Myers Hovem is an ordained Spiritual Counselor and energy medicine practitioner, and authorteaches highly sensitive people practical exercises to successfully be vulnerable, at peace in their bodies, connect to nature and feel safe with others. She's lived on five continents, raised four children, pets, and has a soft spot for playing squash and golf. A good listener, she has a knack for sensing what is not being said.

Most parents have followed one of these paths in parenting their children:

Imposed their vision or ego on the child of what that child should do –whether it’s get good grades, study for a specific career, play sports or music, attend a preferred college, etc.Tried so hard to ease their child’s path that the child never learns to fend for him or herself, feels entitled, or becomes simply unmotivatedInflicts their own fears on the child so that the child either rebels or multiplies the fearsCorrects or criticizes the child to fulfill their own needs for outer appearances and expectations and stimulates the child’s feeling of never being “enough.”

Today's special guest Julie Phillips Hatch says there is another way. And that is to release your own needs and expectations and guide your child to follow his or her own path based on the child’s inner spirt, intuition and natural inclination. In her half-manifesto-and-half-practical guidebook A Parenting Revolution for Higher Evolution: Raising Resilient, Responsible, Compassionate Kids from the Inside Out, Julie makes the casethat children parented from this standout are far better capable of becoming happy, stable, fully self-realized and empathetic adults who contribute to a better and more highly evolved world—whatever path they may follow.

Julie knows kids. As a mother of three, a pediatric nurse practitioner, pediatric acupuncturist, a parenting coach, and host of the “Mums on a Mission” podcast, she has devoted her life to some aspect of healing and growing capable children. Seeing the impact of so many poor parenting choices, and the suffering, bullying or unfulfilled children who result from them, Julie felt she had to speak up.

If you’re not pursuing a rewarding career, not in loving relationships, not financially secure, healthy or vital, aren’t fulfilling your purpose and passion (or don’t even know your purpose or passion), then you’re stopping yourself without even knowing it. 

Today's special guest, psychic therapist and medium Vincent Genna explains the mechanisms and processes at work—your brain has unconsciously created blocks that sabotage your efforts to create a meaningful life. The bottom line is you don’t believe what you think you believe!  Vincent offers his spiritual, metaphysical, and psychological insights in his first book, The Secret That’s Holding You Backthat will be released on June 21, 2022. 

Vincent has spoken at notable organizations such as the Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research Enlightenment, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, The Shift Network, Afterlife Research and Education Inc, and the International Association of Near-Death Studies. He has made numerous media appearance, is a regular guest on CBS My Carolina, and a beloved speaker at various Unity Centers, Centers for Spiritual Living, Spiritualist Churches, and spiritual centers throughout the country.

There is a place beyond even simple meditation. A place where you become aware of your awareness, where you becomeyour awareness, where you are immersed in it, where you rest in it, where you experience the totality of space, freedom, and oneness with infinity. Where your ego, your “I”-ness, your labels or your addictions just disappear. You transcend all else to just BE the awareness.

This is your “mind in its natural state.”

Today's special guest C von Hassett maintains that once you’ve stepped over the threshold, to experience this awakened state, it is easier and easier to attain it—and there is no going back! Being bogged down in the “conceptual mind” pales in comparison and holds no attraction.

In his book Entering the Mind, a poetic, illuminating and deep-diving volume of intense higher consciousness, C von Hassett shows you how to access it—and why you must—if your purpose is to seek more than what the “conceptual mind” offers—the transactional, the material, the emotional.

A writer, editor and publisher of Riot Material magazine, C von Hassett is a decades-long practitioner of Dzogchen, an ancient wisdom practice which points the individual inward toward the recognition of their own mind, the path to full awakening. He and his wife, Rachel Reid Wilkie—who is also a skilled practitioner—are committed to bringing Dzogchen to the wider world as a way to open the wellspring of love, joy, compassion, ease and peace for all of humankin

Once called “highly sensitive people"—today they are “empaths.” Empaths are highly aware of the emotional energy around them and of their own emotional needs.

To be an empath is an art form—to discover how our perceptions guideand inform us, shape us, and at times limit us, requires extraordinary awareness. It also requires the skills and the strength of a lion because it takes real courage to be empathic. The good news is that there are waysto protect yourself while living with an open heart.

Today's guest, Elaine Clayton, has written a book, The Way of the Empath, to show you how to use creative visualization for that purpose. It is a guide for every empath and spiritually sensitive soul to explore their abilities with exercises, affirmations, and creative journaling, as well as methods to protect themselves.

Elaine Clayton is an artist and author/illustrator of several books for children and adults on intuitive intelligence. She is an intuitive reader, Reiki Master, and teacher of intuitive empathic development. She has taught in premier independent schools in Atlanta, Boston, and New York City and as visiting author/artist in cities around the U.S. Elaine has also worked in community aid organizing and at a Cesar Chavez migrant camp. Elaine studied at School of Visual Arts in New York where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Essay. Her editorial art includes work for the New York Times, New York Times Book Review, and books by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley and author of the popular Broadway play Wicked, Gregory Maguire.

Today, narcissistic abuse expert and coach Randi Fine will be explaining why it is so difficult to process narcissistic abuse from the logical mind.

There are actual physiological reasons for why you are finding it difficult to rise above the pain you are suffering.

Randi will be discussing Neuro Bi-lateral Processing, a patented technique she is now certified in using that allows the disturbing, subconscious memories lurking in your brainto be processed and released. Book a Free Discovery Session Here to See If Neuro Bi-lateral Processing is Right For You!

This is a call in show. If you would like to call in and ask Randi Fine a question, please call 424-220-1801 and you will be directly connected to the show. Randi welcomes all questions.

Do you have over-the-top sensitivities, fatigue, anxiety or depression, and even chronic illness?

Today's special guest, Ben Ahrens says, "It’s not you – you’re not broken. It’s your brain. AND YOU ACTUALLY CAN CHANGE IT."

At age 25, Ben Ahrens, a semi-professional surfer, became bedridden for over 3 years with Chronic Neurological Lyme Disease. Despite his best efforts and conventional medical treatment, Ben found himself truly stuck – unable to get better or make a full recovery. Then he came across neuroplasticity.

Ben's eventual success with recovering his own health (Ben has remained 100% healed for over 10 years now) led him to form The Brain Trust™ which now serves as the cornerstone of re-origin®. Together, they’ve developed a program and process capable of replicating these results at scale, for a wide range of debilitating conditions.

Re-origin is a science-based, self-directed neuroplasticity training program with coaching, live programming & a supporting community – specifically designed to help you get back to living a happy and healthy life.You can use the principles of neuroplasticity to interrupt the overactive threat detection and response mechanism in your limbic system that’s causing your suffering. With persistence, patience, dedication, and time, you can change your neural pathways and step into a life free from symptoms and full of happiness and well-being. re-origin® can help you dramatically reduce anxiety and diminish a wide range of symptoms that stem from chronic inflammation and stress.

Do you ever feel trapped by experiencing challenging feelings over and over again--sometimes without realizing it? Or do you find yourself thinking "Why is this happening to me again?" or "Why do I always feel this way?" You're not alone. 

In today's special guest Dr. Radhule Weininger's book Heart Medicine: How to Stop Painful Patterns and Find Peace and Freedom—at Last, she shows how to identify your emotional and behavioral patterns through the lens of loving awareness—without self-judgment or blame, learning to hold yourself as you would a dear friend, with space and grace. 

Drawing on decades of experience as a therapist and meditation teacher, Radhule Weininger, MD, PhD, helps readers understand the trauma behind their patterns, then offers twelve simple steps to work toward healing through guided practices of self-compassion, mindfulness, and embodiment. With Heart Medicine you can finally be equipped with the tools to break through the patterns that hold you back and begin to live with more freedom, confidence, and peace. And that's good medicine, indeed.

 Dr. Weininger is clinical psychologist, psychotherapist,  meditation teacher, and also a Psychology Today contributor.