Write Your Stress Away: Tame the Tension in Your Life

Show Guests: Diane Price & Susan McCollum

Stress, whether an unconscious undercurrent in your life or a rampage of emotions, can make you sick if you don't manage it. You want to tame the tension in your life, but you don't know how. Write Your Stress Away is the place to start. The book introduces you to the revolutionary Write To Be Well four-step method proven to bring relief from stress and optimize your health, simply by writing. The book describes the research behind the method, instructs how to use it, includes compelling true-life stories from Write to Be Well users, and arms you with a unique tool to combat stress now and into the future.

Thinner Leaner Stronger The Simple Science of Building The Ultimate Female Body

Show Guest: Michael Matthews

Losing fat and building lean muscle isn't as complicated as the fitness industry wants you to believe

Imagine...just 12 weeks from now...being constantly complimented on how you look and asked what the heck you're doing to see such startling improvements in your physique. Imagine enjoying the added benefits of high energy levels, fewer aches and pains, better spirits, and knowing that you're getting healthier every day. Imagine looking in the mirror and thinking “I’m glad I did” and not “I wish I had.”

The bottom line is you CAN achieve that "Hollywood babe body” without having your life revolve around it. In Michael Matthew's latest book: Thinner Leaner Stronger The Simple Science of Building The Ultimate Female Body, you will find the exact formula of exercise and eating that makes losing 10 to 15 pounds of fat while building lean, sexy muscle a breeze.

Kaizen for Couples: Smart Steps to Save, Sustain and Strengthen Your Relationship

SHOW GUEST: Dr. Rhoberta Shaler

Your relationship with your partner is foundational to your life and well-being. Whether you are currently in a long-term relationship, just beginning what could be one, or wanting to ensure you don’t repeat old patterns in your next one, Kaizen For Couples will prove to be the step-by-step guide to unfolding love, trust and emotional intimacy in healthy ways that you have been searching for.

According to the author of the book and founder of the Kaizen For Couples Program, Dr. Rhoberta Shaler, even if things feel distant, rocky, broken, or hopeless right now, by embracing the refreshing new approach that Kraizen for Couples offers, it is possible to build, or rebuild, blame-free, game-free, and non-manipulative relationships.

Healing Family Dynamics Through Healthy and Effective Communication

Show Guests: Rachel Kove and Seth Hall

Rachel Kove and Seth Hall join us to discuss how the life coaches at Transformational Solutions help coach their clients on how to have effective communication skills. How unhealthy relationship dynamics can turn into shame, which is at the root of many addictions.

If individuals can learn to actively listen in order to understand one another, rather than listen just to respond, a healthy dynamic can be restored. People need to feel seen and heard in their exchanges with one another. How this takes place is when one feels validated, valued, and safe to express themselves. Feeling safe to communicate is essential for someone to openly and honestly share their thoughts and feelings. How one can effectively do this is what will be discussed during the interview.

Shlep: Finding Healing on Horseback in the Lower 48

Show Guest: Kathy Burns

When Kathy decides to leave her abusive marriage, she is 59 years old. She feels completely stuck with her husband hiding his assets from the court, angry children, and impossible rental prices. There is something, though, that makes her feel at least halfway sane: riding horses. So, with a truck and horse trailer paid for with money borrowed from her dad, Kathy decides to hit the road. She plans to ride in every state in the US mainland and names her journey SHLEP: Soul-searching, Home-seeking, Liberating Equestrian, Party.

She experiences the death of both her parents, re-bonding with her sister, and making peace with her three children. She meets like-minded women with similar stories who help her, and in turn, are inspired by her. Perhaps most importantly, Kathy renews her relationship with God and strengthens her faith.

The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma: Release Trauma from Your Body, Find Emotional Balance, and Connect with Your Inner Wisdom

Show Guest: Julie Brown Yau

Guest Co-host: Dennis Klein

There is a piercing epidemic of trauma in the world today. Every few days there are reports of another tragedy, of more lives lost to gun violence, loved ones and family homes lost to floods, hurricanes, or fires. Women have come to speak openly about the trauma of sexual assault, and we are finally talking openly about the trauma inflicted on people of color, on transgender people, and immigrants. But now that this trauma is out in the open, how do we heal?

Dr. Julie Brown Yau presents us with a challenge, “If you’re ready to move past your trauma and rediscover your body’s innate capacity for healing, growth, vitality, and joy, this unique guide will help light the way. The mind-body approach in this book is designed to guide you away from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma and toward post-traumatic growth. Using these exercises, you’ll learn how to reconnect and relate to your body—and yourself as a whole—in a new and healthy way.”

On the Horizon – a Successful Treatment for New and Old Chronic Traumatic Brain Injuries

Show Guest: Dr. John Michael

Guest Co-Host: Dr. John Dewitt

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons, describes a traumatic brain injury (TBI) as a blow to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain. The trauma to society is that about 1.7 million cases of TBI occur in the U.S. every year.

Enter oSLO, Oxidized SLO, is an oxidized variation of a genetically engineered clone of streptolysin-O (SLO), the bacterial toxin which causes strep throat pain. oSLO’s targeted treatment is for chronic traumatic brain injury (cTBI), potentially reversing many of the cognition, motor, memory, mood, and personality deficits that define this condition.

Join us as Dr. John Michael, President of Resolys Bio, the creator of oSLO shares how physicians at Brown University have been the first to apply the technology treat approximately 25 patients with cTBI over the last 3+ years. The results, oSLO has proven completely safe for every patient and reversed the condition in 90% of those treated. One patient sums up this miracle by saying, “It gave me my life back!”

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One Teenager at a Time: Developing Self-Awareness and Critical Thinking in Adolescents

Show Guest: Kari O'Driscoll

Guest Host: Britten Devereux

Co-Hosts: Rob Danson & Erin Thompson

Kari O'Driscoll's new book, One Teenager at a Time, is a social-emotional education manual for middle and high school educators. The curriculum contained in this book is innovative, creative, and draws on the most current research in education, mindfulness, and adolescent brain development. One Teenager at a Time will add a vital piece to the growth and development of middle and high school students as it offers them "soft skills" they will need as they navigate higher education and the workforce.

Kari offers her journey of motherhood and her expertise as a context for deploying these smart strategies with the ultimate goal of developing kind, resilient and good human beings.

Love on Every Breath

Show Guest: Lama Palden Drolma

“‘Love on Every Breath’ is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist a meditation that combines breath, awareness, imagination, and an energetic transformation process,” writes author Lama Palden Drolma, who has been practicing Tonglen meditation for over forty years and teaching it for over thirty. “The meditation brings all these components together in a powerful way in order to open our hearts, to reveal and cultivate our kindness, love, compassion, and wisdom.”

The complete “Love on Every Breath” meditation consists of eight steps and is done as a sitting practice that takes forty-five minutes to an hour from start to finish, but the practice is highly adaptable and can be done “on-the-spot” in daily life as well as on the cushion. Lama Palden provides instructions for both in Love on Every Breath. She also provides a “non-Buddhist” variation for people from other traditions that can be easily adapted for the non-religious or for those of different religions.

Healthy Habits Suck: How to Get Off the Couch and Live a Healthy Life, Even If You Don't Want To

Show Guest: Dayna Lee-Baggley, PhD

Salad instead of steak? Working out? Skipping that second or glass of wine? Healthy habits are THE WORST. In our interview, Dr. Dayna Lee-Baggley, author of Healthy Habits Suck, describes the science of why we want the things we want (junk food), crave the things we crave (sugar), and dislike the things we dislike (exercise).

In this not-to-be-missed interview, Dayna shares how her funny, in-your-face guide, isn’t another book filled with instructions on how to “enjoy” exercise, or tips for making broccoli and kale taste as good as donuts and ice cream. What you will find are solid skills to help you actually do the healthy things you know you should be doing.