A Quest for Well-Being

— In modern allopathic medicine, we find doctors specializing in only one area of the body or a single aspect of health such as endocrinologists, immunologists, gynecologists, rheumatologists, and so on. Each area of the body is isolated as though they are not connected.

When Sandie Gascon first started coaching, her business coach emphasized the importance of finding a niche. Even in the functional and holistic world there are niches. Practitioners specialize in hormones, adrenals, candida, Lyme Disease, and so forth. Just like in allopathic medicine, many holistic practitioners tend to focus on treating only one area of the body as though nothing is connected.

She thought long and hard on what her niche would be. Due to Sandie's own experience healing from chronic illness, she was unable to pick one. She knew that regardless of what symptoms or diseases are present, the entire body, mind, and spirit must be addressed as a whole because everything is connected.

Valeria Teles interviews Sandie Gascon — the author of "Heal Yourself: Body ~ Mind ~ Spirit."

Sandie Gascon is a Health Coach who has helped guide hundreds of people from over twenty-five countries on their healing journey. After suffering severe side effects from medications during her twenty-year battle with chronic migraines, when she was diagnosed with Lupus she committed herself to healing naturally. Through her experiences, she developed a whole body, mind, and spirit approach that addresses the person in a truly holistic manner. She takes the guess work out of the equation by running functional lab work to see what the body needs. She healed herself of migraines, depression, Lupus, Interstitial Cystitis, and cystic acne. Her purpose is to help educate others on the importance of shifting focus to rebuilding and rebalancing the body and removing internal and external stress so the body can heal itself.

Sandie lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband Eric and son Kaiden. She has a passion for riding horses and spends much of her free time at the barn with her horses Bee and Vala. She loves playing with Kaiden, spending time with family and friends and hiking with her dogs.

Meet Sandie at motivated2heal.com

— True healing takes place when all three areas; mind, body, and spirit become healed and integrated. Integration may mean accepting what is; it does not mean all our physical issues will go away or we will no longer have problems to deal with. What happens is that even with these issues and problems, we now respond differently. We have an expanded view of interconnectedness. We want to grow to a place where we can serve others and move beyond taking care of only what is in front of us.

This philosophy or way of believing may not be for everyone. But those who feel called to serve will understand the feeling when it comes knocking. The question is: will we answer?

Laurie Teixeira believes everyone should love who they are and live a happy life—a life not stopped or impeded by a trauma they have experienced. When we undergo one trauma a piece inside of us can break and multiple traumas can leave us feeling broken, unhappy, anxious, depressed, unworthy, and disconnected.

Healing can bring back wholeness. From a place of wholeness, we can show up differently in the world. We can be happier and healthier within ourselves. We can have better relationships with our family and others. The ripple effect of us changing can expand not only into our families, but our neighborhoods, communities, workplaces, and the larger world. When we are whole, we are not in competition but community. We can build each other up instead of tearing each other down for our differences. We can create a better world for the next generations.

Valeria Teles interviews Laurie Teixeira — the author of " Claiming My Light: In Search of Meaning—Healing Trauma Through Conversations, Connections and Spirituality."

Laurie Teixeira is a licensed clinical social work therapist specializing in treating PTSD, anxiety, phobias, and depressive disorders. Her practice provides effective and simple techniques for working through distressing emotions and cognitive blocks brought on by trauma that are interfering with life, health, and relationships.

She graduated from Boston University in 1987, and has worked for 30 years in private and clinical practices. From 2007 to 2011, she worked in the military's Behavioral Health Department located on a base that serves some 5,000 soldiers and their families. She is trained in sensory-based psychotherapies that have proven to be successful in treating both military deployment-related traumas and other traumatic events.

Her series, "In Search of Meaning: Healing Trauma through Conversations, Connections and Spirituality," documents her experiences, observations, and personal transformations surrounding some of her more challenging work that inspires her life. She lives with her family in Georgia.

Meet Laurie at healwithlaurie.com

— Beyond simply meeting one another, most humans have made relationships a central focus of their lives. We all know that humans are fascinated by relationships. Human relationships are an inspiration for art, music, conversation, novels, movies, games, and sports, ad infinitum. Our lives are essentially about relationships, whether it be business relationships, political relationships, familial relationships, social relationships, romantic relationships, friendships, and even adversarial relationships. Thus, the purpose of the universe, meeting mysterious others, fits the human experience particularly well. Relationships are possible based on the separation that is provided by human individuality. We must be separate from what we're relating to. Therefore, some sort of separation is required for relationships to occur. The physical realm provides a setting that includes physical separation between people. The space between one person and another provides the opportunity for us to relate to each other as separate individuals. Still, it's an illusion. The deeper truth is that everything is part of a seamless whole. In spite of the seamless wholeness, each of us experience being an individual human. Finding out how it feels to meet mysterious others is simple; we do it effortlessly. This is because each of us have been fashioned into individuals and placed among other separate individuals.

This makes us and our physical reality well-suited to accomplishing the goal of discovering how it feels to meet mysterious others. – Passage in "The Magnificent Soul by George Chyz.

Valeria Teles interviews George Chyz — the author of " My Open Hearted Life: Opening to Love While Solving Life's Greatest Mysteries and The Magnificent Soul: The Art of Living in a World Founded on Consciousness"

George has been following his inner guidance throughout his entire life. He received a master of science in mechanical engineering degree from MIT in 1985.

After choosing to step away from the hi-tech world and toward nature George bicycled around the USA for three years and then moved to Maui, Hawaii. There he delved into living close to nature while designing and building unique structures that fit the landscape and local weather conditions. His designs merged simple yet practical structures with the mild yet windy and rainy climate to create an indoor/outdoor experience.

Then, while living close to nature he delved deeper into his soul to uncovered a novel three part "Triality" of human consciousness that demystifies the source of intuition. He also discovered how opening and following the heart and opening to love are the keys to the happiness and genius that comes from our superconscious-Soul. Then having lived the way of the heart for decades, he sat down to share what he had discovered.

After 17 years of writing essays, booklets, and finally his well-documented book, The Magnificent Soul: The Art of Living in a World Founded on Consciousness, George brought forth a landmark work that may influence the way humanity views the human soul, consciousness, and the entire universe.

With a background of science, and a life filled with intuitive experiences, George has bridged the spiritual and scientific worlds in a new and fascinating way that turns reality right-side-up by placing consciousness at the foundation of the universe.

To assist people who are learning to opening and following their hearts George has been guided to found the Soul Covenant Organization. While the world appears to be growing more and more divisive, violent, and extreme, this organization endeavors to establish sanctuaries that will provide safe havens for open hearted people to follow the way of the heart with kindred souls.

The Soul Covenant Organization is just beginning. Hope this project will grow to become a global force for peace and prosperity for all.

Most recently, George has written an autobiography to share the exciting adventures and challenging hurdles he encountered while learning what he presented in his first book. The new book is entitled My Open Hearted Life: Opening to Love While Solving Life's Greatest Mysteries. The end of this new book addresses the global upheaval by revealing deeper levels of science that have remained hidden to most people. It turns out, Mother Nature is wonderfully nurturing and cooperative while civilized humanity is awfully divisive. Regardless of the problems humanity is facing, George offers hope for a glorious resolution that will benefit everyone.

Meet George at soulcovenant.org

— Dr. Andrea Vitz When will uncover a version of you that you haven't yet met… the one who's the calm in the storm, the safest person in the room, levelheaded, clear, and peaceful. You'll know how to handle situations in your life that once seemed impossible.

Valeria Teles interviews Dr. Andrea Vitz — the author of " The You You've Never Met: How to Stop Experiencing Pain and Chaos in All of Your Relationships by Sobering Up, Emotionally-Speaking."

Dr. Andrea Vitz is founder and CEO of Levelheaded Doc, LLC, a educational platform committed to a global Emotional Sobriety movement, and the primary developer of EMSO Training. She is also the co-founder and one of the primary faculty at Lifted Academy where the next movement in human evolution is taking place. She leads others to their own healing by attacking the cause of suffering and addiction, opening the door for reinvention, and being an example of the power to welcome drastic correction and control of their lives. Along with being an Emotional Sobriety Educator, she's a mother, Doctor of Chiropractic, Life & Relationship Coach, and Strength & Rehabilitation Expert.

Attaining her doctorate from Life Chiropractic West at age 23, becoming a mother at 25, and becoming a business owner soon after, "Dr. V." hoped her successes were an indicator of certain maturity. It wasn't until someone she trusted expressed their concern that who she was being didn't match her statement of what she intended, that she embarked on real change. Here she began her work of self-investigation, self-reliance, and self-metamorphosis.

Her efforts as an educator and coach have provided her with countless hours of experience from which to draw. As a result of her intense passion for Emotional Sobriety, she was given the name, "Levelheaded Doc" as it applies to both her personal intention and what she encourages in her students.

Alongside her process of becoming emotionally sober, she experienced a major spinal injury. Refusing surgery, with her dogged determination she overcame all of her ails via her desire and practice of being real. Her injury rehabilitation led her from disability to finding strength and earning an elite status in the sport of powerlifting.

Dr. V. attempts to excel in many different areas in an effort to better serve her students, clients, and patients. Her belief is that she's never done growing, improving, and choosing to be an example of inspiration.

Meet Dr. Andrea at levelheadeddoc.com

— "Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It's simply holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ' You're not alone.' "— Brené Brown

Valeria Teles interviews Daniela Petznick — She is a Marriage And Family Therapist, Speaker and Founder Of Uptown Phoenix Counseling, a private practice in Phoenix, Arizona

Daniela earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Azusa Pacific University and has received post-graduate training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy. Her passion is to help client's build strong, loving, and meaningful relationships. She specializes in couple's therapy, parenting, and women's issues. In addition, she enjoys working with individuals with a range of needs--conflict in relationship with others, desire to heal from past trauma, anxiety, depression, and lack of meaning in life, and a range of other issues.

She has been working in the field of Psychology since 2011. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from California State University, Fullerton with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Bachelor of Science in Human Services. In her undergraduate internship, she led groups of college students to help them gain self-awareness, heal from past trauma, work through conflict in an effective manner, and gain tools to improve their life. Her previous psychotherapy experience has given her the opportunity to work with people from many different walks of life, diverse backgrounds, ages, and issues. She has also worked extensively with children with ADHD, has ran parenting, self-exploration, interpersonal, and support groups in English and Spanish.

Outside of work, Daniela is a wife and a mother to two beautiful high-spirited little girls. She enjoys traveling with her family, reading, listening and dancing to Latin music, all things related to animals, and having deep conversations with her closest friends.

Meet Daniela at uptownphoenixcounseling.com

— As a Self Love Diva Life Coach, Jacqueline Ortiz' specialty is working with women who feel something is missing from their lives... often missing that burning passion and sense of purpose that make an extraordinary life worth living and celebrating. Women who desire to cultivate and elevate their sense of self, power, confidence, and most importantly, self-love!

Jacqueline promotes a synergistic, holistic and personalized approach, incorporating and integrating mind, body, spirit and environment to assist in your personal healing growth, self-love and empowerment.

She delves into her trove of powerful personal development tools she has collected through numerous certification courses, seminars and workshops. Jacqueline has read over 1000 books on various topics and have practiced healing modalities that will assist, support and empower you... designing a blueprint that will transform you into your own personal vision of an extraordinary life!

Valeria Teles interviews Jacqueline Ortiz — She is The Self-Love Diva! A Self-Love, Dating, Law of Attraction & Empowerment mentor. The Founder of the 6 Step Self Love Hi-Vibe RE-Imprinting System & HYP-ME UP's. (HYP-ME UP's integrates the 6 Steps into a transformational HYPnosis & MEditation process)

Jacqueline is the creator of The Self Love Mastery Course: The Superpower YOU Need To Attract True Love, Abundance, Joy, & YOUR Heart's Desires! And, The Chakra Healing Mastery course & multiple additional courses & programs.

The published author of the book: Extraordinary You! Speaker, Neuro-Linguistic Life Coach, Hypnotherapist, Feng Shui Consultant, Reiki Master, Dream Sculpting Coach & Serial Entrepreneur.

She integrates her passion for mind, body, spirit and environment to empower women to breakthrough, cultivate and elevate their level of Self Love & Self Confidence; thereby raising their vibration to attract deeply loving relationships & their heartfelt desires.

Jacqueline incorporates her synergistic approach to skyrocket her client's energetic vibration and authentic self love to transform their lives from ordinary to extraordinary in all areas of life.

Reach out to Jacqueline, if you have ever desired to cultivate a healthy, loving relationship with YOURSELF & OTHERS!

Meet Jacqueline at selflovediva.com

— DEDICATION: To LOVE — Because that's all there is.

In the end, you realize that to find the ultimate peace, the entire journey is about discovering ourselves, who we are meant to be in this world, how to be more loving, kind and compassionate toward ourselves and others. We learn the interconnectedness of all things and the only way to this place is to honor our authentic selves, to be okay with our imperfections and to have the courage to heal and love anyway. Sometimes the journey is arduous, but unless we are willing to find our way back to wholeness, life will always seem disconnected and fractured. It is only in learning to slow down, lean into healing and surrender ourselves entirely, that we find our true strength, self-love, and the deep connection we all seek.

Valeria Teles interviews Zahra Karsan — the author of " 6 Weeks to Happy: The Ultimate Roadmap To Retrain Your Brain For Better Health, Greater Abundance, and Long Lasting Happiness."

Certified in Mindset Coaching and Neuroscience, Zahra Karsan is an inspirational public speaker as well as a trusted personal Success Coach to dozens of global executives.

Voted by Yahoo Finance as a Top 10 Success Coach, she is the best-selling author of 6 Weeks to Happy and the creator of the R.E.W.I.R.E System™, a groundbreaking methodology that retrains your brain for greater happiness, health, wealth and success. Her company, GetZEND, offers a suite of interactive tools that include online video training and an award-winning app to help you stay on track with your life goals without compromising your life experience.

With over 20 years of experience as a top-tier Management Consultant and Corporate Coach, goal setting and producing results became second nature for Zahra. She now coaches corporations, business executives and industry leaders on how to achieve their career goals while also experiencing a more fulfilling life. Most recently, Zahra was awarded a Top 100 Healthcare Visionaries Award by the International Forum for Advancements in Healthcare. She holds degrees in Psychology, Applied Positive Psychology, and Neuroscience, and is Certified as a Master Neurolinguistic Programming Practitioner and Life Coach, Master Hypnotherapist and Master Timeline Therapy Practitioner.

She also continually advances her education in Quantum, Metaphysics, and related fields, to bring you the latest research and most innovative tools so you can continue to achieve and thrive.

Zahra sits on the board of the World Happiness Foundation, whose mission is to create a world where we can be free, conscious, and happy. Zahra also works on her passion project with The Steve & Marjorie Harvey Foundation to empower young girls to move past limiting beliefs so they can live more powerfully.

Meet Zahra at getzend.com

— "Make room in your heart for all of you.

The loving, kind, doubting, fearful you.

The angry, caring, silly you.

The messy, daring, relaxed you.

The brave, sad, adorable you.

Make room in your heart for all of you.

The forgiving, wise, impatient you.

Make room in your heart for you, all of you." – Susan Lax

Valeria Teles interviews Susan Lax — the author of

" A Heart's Landscape: An Invitation to the Garden of Moments."

Susan, like each one of you, has a story. The chapters of her story continue to add pages, presenting an ever-growing passion for sharing the healing gifts of awareness. Susan offers spiritual coaching and care for many, including those touched by illness and loving someone through death. She leads workshops and guided meditation sessions. In 2010 she began writing Morning Inspiration—and email for your soul. In addition, Susan is a certified Reiki practitioner. The co-owner of Naot Footwear, Susan spends her moments between New York and Tel Aviv together with her partner in life and love. They share the joy of three daughters and five grandchildren.

Meet Susan at susanplax.com

— Energy Medicine helps rebalance the imbalances at the root of physical, emotional and mental issues, because the energy systems are foundational to our health on every level. Physical and emotional symptoms lessen greatly and often disappear completely as we peel away layers of traumas, emotions and limiting beliefs, allowing you to experience an increased level of wellness and vitality. These improvements are wonderful, but there is something else, something infinitely more beautiful, happening on a deeper level.

Paige Apgar has worked with clients for extended periods, she observed that as people release old patterns, and the stuck emotions around experiences that have shaped their perceptions of life and of themselves, many subtle foundational shifts take place simultaneously. The process can best be described as a gentle unfolding of the self, not unlike a flower that slowly opens to the sun, and reflects back the light that it absorbs.

As her clients move through this process of unfolding, they become more in touch with who they are at their core, more attuned to their own higher consciousness, and more at ease with themselves and with life. Peaks of joy are experienced, sometimes for the first time, and the little stresses of life don't have as much impact. People who had once walked in with visible tension in their faces and their bodies move with a relaxed ease, and tension is replaced with smiles and laughter!

Valeria Teles interviews Paige Apgar — She is Eden Energy Medicine Advanced Practitioner, Certified Transformational Coach, And Speaker.

Paige Apgar has spent the past 24 years exploring healing and consciousness and how to fully align with soul-level expression.

Through her own extensive personal healing work and life transformation, she gained the experience and insights she now draws on in order to lead her clients along a path of deep healing that unblocks the flow of their soul's desires.

Using a multi-faceted, co-creative energy healing process, Paige assists her clients in accessing their deepest healing, their highest wisdom, and opening to the fullest expression of their soul's light.

Meet Paige at soulslightenergyhealing.com

— "Applying the 'Human Awakeness' to the Soul Awareness was quite fascinating. Nothing in the house belonged to me. I had absolutely no bond with anything (I even 'forgot' I had my own family) yet I had everything I 'needed' within me. The Soul has access to zillions of realities (think strings of choice) whilst also fully present and detached — un-emotional but not 'cold' — in each 'choice'. Stating that a lesson was complete meant the string/path was released and a new path followed. Never was 'incarnation' used but it was always 'path' - to access the lessons required. Each path was in a new vehicle (form as tree/human/animal)

I also loved the *FACT* of a Soul's knowing that 'we are all well' - I wasn't asking but merely stating a truth from a Soul level. My strongest message from this:

***The Soul has no doubt or dependency. The lack of attachment felt whole*** " — Writes Nitya

Valeria Teles interviews Nitya Lynda McIntosh — She

has decades of experience working with Energy Healing and Multi-Dimensional Living founding a pioneering Wellbeing Centre in Scotland focusing on Multi-Dimensional and heart-based living.

She has early childhood memories of channeling and telepathy, is an Energy Healer Practitioner and Teacher Trainer, Crystal Healer, Yoga Siromani, and Reflexologist. She learnt Transcendental Meditation (T.M) in 1986.

Spiritually she works as an empath, channel, psychic, medium, is a Lemurian elder, works with Ascended Masters, Angels, Archangels, Galactic Beings, brought a new vibration Trovak (TM) energy to people, works with Lady Gaia, Stone Circles, ancient monuments and any other landmarks which connect with her.

She continues her energy work transforming fear-based living into healing, connected, loving vibrations – within herself, her business and her clients.

Her formula to wellbeing, over decades of experience is:

— Integrity to fearlessly live the authentic truth of who we are;

— Empowerment to be true to who you are, which, by nature opens opportunity for others into empowerment;

— Growth in all areas as we embody these practices

Nitya works with the 'Spirit' of the person, aiding conscious, heart-based living; making life more meaningful and fulfilling. There's enough to go around in the world; the old 'dog-eat-dog' paradigm has no place in wellbeing. Nitya goes to the 'seed' of the issue, not papering over the cracks for it to appear somewhere else in the future

Her methodology helps people understand and heal themselves in a compassionate manner, with clients finding relief from anxiety, depression, inner child issues, trauma, addictions, low self-esteem.

Meet Nitya Lynda at thenaturalwellbeingacademy.com