A Fine Time for Healing

Has today's guest, author Cathryn McIntyre made contact with the spirit of Henry David Thoreau?  If the story she tells in her memoir, The Thoreau Whisperer is true then perhaps so.  After an encounter with her mentor, an eminent Thoreau scholar, eleven days after his death, in The Thoreau Whisperer, McIntyre finds she must hone her psychic abilities, set her doubts aside and accept the role she was destined to play in a remarkable collaboration that allows the words of Henry David Thoreau to be heard once again in our time.

In addition to The Thoreau Whisperer (2018), McIntyre is the author of Honor in Concord: Seeking Spirit in Literary Concord (2008); and the founder of The Concord Writer, a literary and publishing concern dedicated to the words, wisdom and enduring spirit of Thoreau.  She has studied the literary history of Concord, Massachusetts for over 25 years; holds a B.A. in English literature from Michigan State University; and is a long-time member of The Thoreau Society.  She is also a natural psychic and clairvoyant, a UFO experiencer, and a sometime ghost investigator, whose blog about a ghostly occurrence in Maine led to an investigation by author Greg Latimer and her story being included in his book, Ghosts of the Boothbay Region.  She moved from Michigan to the Boston area in 1984 and has lived in or near Concord, Massachusetts since 1998.

After a full day of creating beautiful interiors for the rich and famous, Lew Smith would come home, take off his tie, and get down to his real work as a psychic healer who miraculously cured thousands of people. For his son, Philip, watching his father transform himself, at a moment's notice, from gracious society decorator into a healer with supernatural powers was a bit like living with Clark Kent and Superman.

Walking Through Walls, is today's special guest Philip Smith's astonishing memoir of growing up in a household where séances, talking spirits, and exorcisms were daily occurrences, and inexplicable psychic healings resulted in visitors suddenly discarding their crutches and wheelchairs or being cured of fatal diseases.

While there are benefits to having a miracle man in the house, Philip soon discovers the downside of living with a father who psychically knows everything he is doing. Surrounded by invisible spirits who tend to behave like nagging relatives, Philip looks for ways to escape his mystical home life -- including forays into surfing, and even Scientology.

By turns hilarious and profound, Walking Through Walls recounts Philip Smith's often bizarre but always magical coming of age in a household that felt like a cross between Lourdes and the set of Rosemary's Baby, and shows how he managed to map out his own identity in the shadow of a father who, truly, loomed larger than life itself.

Philip Smith is the former managing editor of GQ and an artist whose works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museaum of American Art, the Dalla Museum of Art,and the Detroit Institute of Arts, among other. He lives in Miami, Florida.

Today's special guest, Susan U. Neal, RN, MBA, MHS, is an author, speaker, and certified health and wellness coach whose background in nursing and health services led her to seek new ways to educate and coach people to overcome health challenges. She published six healthy living books including 7 Steps to Get Off Sugar and Yoga for Beginners. Her passion and mission is to inspire others to reclaim their health.

Have you tried to decrease your weight and improve your health without success? Or maybe you lost weight but gained it back. Don’t allow frustration to take over. This journal will help you make and maintain healthy lifestyle changes.

During the next six weeks, commit to spend a few minutes daily recording your eating choices and how your body responds. With time you will see how different foods affect you physically and emotionally. As you record and reflect in this journal, you will begin to solve your personal health puzzle.

As you discover each new puzzle piece, you will learn how to make your body feel good again. Each day you’ll record water and food intake, exercise, energy level, and corresponding moods. Through journaling you will discover more about yourself and any negative eating patterns, draw closer to God, and experience better health.

Live life in all its fullness, not in a worn-out, sick body. So let’s determine the root causes and solutions for your ill health or excessive weight so you can experience a more abundant life as you:

· feel and look better

· increase your energy

· sharpen your clarity of mind

· identify and eliminate unhealthy behaviors

· lose weight naturally without fad diets, prepared meals, or supplements

Reclaim the abundant life you want to experience. Your body will thank you.

Free Advice Friday

As a survivor of Narcissistic abuse myself I know how frustrating, helpless, and confusing this disorder can be to deal with. As an experienced counselor I know that issues dealing with this problem are always arising. I am fully aware that many of you cannot afford the out of pocket expense of paying for counseling, but do have important questions you would like answered. I can and want to help all of you work through these sensitive issues. The second Friday of every month my internet radio show, A Fine Time for Healing, will be entirely devoted to taking to your calls and answering your questions about NPD. The advice is FREE! The show airs at 11 a.m. EST and runs for 45 minutes. The number you will call to connect with the show and speak to me is 424-220-1801. This time will not be a convenient one for everyone so there is another way for you to get your questions answered. Just email me ahead of time and I will read your questions on air and answer them. I assure you that your identity will be kept anonymous. All shows will be recorded and archived after broadcasting. They can be listened to at your convenience by clicking on the link I will provide you when you email me. Please send your emails to [email protected] with “Radio Show Question” in the subject heading.

Today we welcome back Dr. Chris Cortman, co-author of the book Keep Pain in the Past: Getting Over Trauma, Grief and the Worst That's Ever Happened to You, This book will teach you the critical 21st century skill of treating your own psychological wounds, help you confront the emotional baggage of your past, reach closure by completing the event, and finally discover a life unhaunted by past trauma

Contrary to what many people believe, we can recover from emotional trauma relatively quickly and completely on our own. Whether it’s extreme trauma such as sexual abuse or the horrors of war or less dramatic, but psychologically speaking just as serious, wounds involving shame and guilt, we don’t need to spend years in intensive therapy to recover. While most people know what they can do on their own to treat physical ills, like using ice on a muscle sprain, they don’t realize that they can apply certain psychological principles to treat anxiety, depression and many other conditions in the comfort of their own homes.

Follow the journey of Mark, a 29-year-old Army veteran who experienced the horror of war in Afghanistan, as he healed from the downward spiral that had caused him to lose his job and become increasingly uncommunicative with his family. Explore how Melinda, a 42-year-old professor who struggled to sustain a romantic relationship, confronted her torturous childhood and has now found love.

Chris Cortman, PsyD has been a licensed psychologist for 28 years. He is a much-sought-after speaker, has facilitated more than 60,000 hours of psychotherapy, and has provided psychological consultation at five hospitals in the Sarasota/Venice area. Dr. Cortman is the co-creator of a youth prevention and wellness program called The Social Black Belt.

Jack Canfield has so embraced the work of today's special guest, Sandra Biskind, that after working with her and her husband Daniel he personally brought them in to engage with his entire staff, calling the results "truly life changing" and "magical." International business leaders, spiritual luminaries, female icons and celebrities sing their praises...  

But it's their extraordinary work as Codebreakers that is serving not only the elite, but the everyman or woman who is suffering in physical, emotional, psychological or financial pain.

These international bestselling authors, speakers, trainers and healers have finally committed their full decoding process to paper in their new book CODEBREAKER: Discover the Password to Unlock the Best Version of You, and its perfect companion, The CODEBREAKER Journal. These go straight to the heart of recoding what blocks us from realizing our optimum life.

They ask: "Imagine if we could eradicate the war between the ego mind's unconscious priorities and the soul's desire to be whole--to be the best version of who we are?" And indeed, they have done it!

CODEBREAKER is an all-encompassing cipher to the hidden and locked parts that have had you entrapped. Perhaps the most transforming element they use in their training is "Neutrality," in which Sandra is regarded globally as a Master. Neutrality erases the emotional charge that triggers you to react from previous memories and programs--freeing you from repetitive sabotaging behavior or physical pain. The Biskind's Quantum Neutrality method creates instant detachment. And the result is often complete change in circumstance, lasting a lifetime.

If mindfulness is the gateway to the awakened life, today's special guest Stephen Fulder's book, What’s Beyond Mindfulness describes the garden that lies beyond: a magical, rich and fulfilled way of living that comes when we live according to Buddhist practice and principles. This book is a uniquely practical and accessible exploration of Buddhism in everyday life that will appeal to people of any faith and to those of none. It is filled with important concepts such as: happiness is found in being, not having, the impact of deep listening and sharing our suffering as a way to build bridges, using mindfulness to heal conflict, and how to make friends with your body, your heart and mind.

Divided into three sections which can be read in any order, the first part of the book is about how we act and function wisely in life in the face of sickness, work, ethics, money etc. The second part deals with the pathway up the mountain and what we should take with us. These chapters include working with difficult emotions, conflict, conditioning and so forth. Whilst the third section is how things look from up there and deals with the divine, autonomy, wise social action, karma and liberation. This book will imbue your life once more with the sense of magic and mystery that you felt as a child; it will allow you to put down the burdens of anxiety, joylessness, restlessness or a judging mind and shift your experience of the world in a truly profound way.

Stephen Fulder, PhD is the founder and senior teacher of the Israel Insight Society, the foremost organisation in Israel teaching mindfulness and other meditative practices, and has over the last 25 years, guided thousands of people in Israel and worldwide in exploring Buddhist teachings, practices and perspectives. He is also well known for applying these methods to promoting peace in the Middle East. Fulder has also written 14 books on health-related subjects.

Honored guest, Laura Lee, popular professional and "radio-medium" is back on the show by popular demand. 

Laura will be taking your calls and giving free readings. Please call 424-220-1801 to speak live with Laura. Laura Lee has the incredible gift of being able to access the link between the physical and spiritual worlds. She can see, feel, hear, and know what the other side needs to communicate with the living. Laura Lee, popular, loved and enjoyed by many listeners every time she comes on the show, has partnered with Randi Fine, the host of A Fine Time For Healing, to be a monthly guest.

Save the date and call in early for a chance to speak with Laura. For more information about Laura Lee, please visit her website http://www.MediumLauraLee.com

Only in her early thirties, today's special guest, Jane McLelland, was given everyone’s worst nightmare, a three-month death sentence, Stage-4 Cervical Cancer. The subsequent huge doses of conventional treatment would later also lead to Leukemia. Both cancers are extremely aggressive and acknowledged to be 100% fatal.

As an award-winning former NHS Physiotherapist with medical knowledge and a love of science, McLelland threw herself into research – and decided to create her own treatment plan unlike anything ever seen before. Eighteen years later, she is still here to tell her story, travelling the world as a motivational speaker at top cancer centres all over the world and holding a beacon of hope to others facing their own cancer diagnosis. In her new book, ‘How to Starve Cancer ...without starving yourself’, McLelland details her remarkable self-directed treatment plan; a plan anyone else can follow, as it focuses on the altered metabolism, common with every cancer, no matter where or what tissue involved. Rather than being ‘alternative,’ the treatments can accompany any orthodox conventional care.

In this truly ground-breaking book, Jane takes us through her remarkable, heart-breaking journey, and the medical discoveries she made on the way. Using herself as a human guinea pig, she worked out the best drugs and supplements to starve her own cancer in an easy-to-follow ‘Metro Map’.

This is a a compelling story of resilience and determination in the face of impossible odds that will answer all the burning questions you face when you begin to explore complementary cancer care. Which ‘off-label’ drugs and supplements should you take? Should you try the ketogenic diet? Should you fast? Is fat safe? How much and when should you exercise? Jane explains why each patient needs a personalised approach and, importantly, how to work this out.

Divorcing an abusive man can be even more dangerous than the marriage. Once the divorce process begins, the woman faces the potential for an escalation of the abuse, which may include destructive and outrageous behavior and verbal harassment, as well as violence. In this case, it’s vital for her to have a framework for how to prepare to get out, take control of her life and ensure she is taking necessary financial and legal steps.

Breaking Bonds: How to Divorce an Abuser and Heal - A Survival Guide, written by today's special guest, financial advisor and candid abuse survivor Rosemary Lombardy, provides a safe haven for women to refer to throughout the many phases of divorcing an abusive spouse. Pairing essential financial and legal information with practical self-care tools and healing techniques, through Breaking Bonds, Lombardy helps women to minimize stress and feel empowered as they deal effectively with their abuser.

Today Rosemary will be discussing life-saving, life-changing topics such as: financial and legal considerations, what to pack for an escape, tips to help you escape in a hurry,strategies to minimize financial and emotional damage, and more.

Rosemary Lombardy is a financial advisor with over 35 years of experience. Although her professional expertise is in financial matters, her perspective on marital abuse, divorce, and recovery is deeply heartfelt and holistic. She draws on decades of personal experience, as well as the experiences of others who have gone through similar situations, to help inform abused women so that they will become empowered to leave their abusers and begin to heal.