Authentic Living

This thing about staying young has become quite an important topic today, with many visiting their doctors regularly to keep up with their Botox shots and many others seeking facial change, and launching body work, vitamin and nutrition programs—all in an effort to sustain the grace of youth. But our guest today tells us that the body already knows how to stay young. She is Caroline Sutherland a medical intuitive who has written several books in a series called "The Body Knows," the latest of these and the topic of today's discussion called "The Body Knows How to Stay Young." She has answers for the chronic degenerative breakdown that leads to mobility issues, decrease in hearing and vision, osteoporosis, arthritis and memory loss. And she offers four components of a vibrant-aging program that demonstrate the body's wisdom and capacity to self-repair. You don't want to miss this show!

We are fortunate today to have Caroline Myss return for the second time to the Authentic Living show. Caroline is a five-time New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. After beginning her career as a journalist, she co-founded Stillpoint Publishing, and simultaneously began her career as a medical intuitive working with Dr. Norman Shealy. Over the years she honed her skills to the point that by knowing only the patient's name and age, she can profile the physical, psychological, emotional and family history. Based on her extensive research she developed the field of Energy Anatomy, a science that correlates specific stress patterns with diseases. Caroline continues to impact the worlds of consciousness and spirituality and to publish bestselling books, the most recent of which is the subject of our talk today Defy Gravity.

It's in those darkest of moments when we wonder what the heck is going on that we are actually changing in such an alchemical way that we just don't recognize it until later. Regina Brett has been there and back. She wrote a column on her life's lessons that by popular demand became a book. God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours is an inspirational collection of essays and stories about life's lessons based on a column she wrote after turning 50 about her own life's lessons. These lessons have now traveled the world from Austin to Australia. One car dealer in Cincinnati hands the lessons out to customers. A Cancer care agency gives them out with every wig. Teachers share them with students. Essentially they have taken on a life of their own. And now, we are going to get to hear all about them. Tune in and see what you might be learning just now.

We generally define faith as a kind of knowing—we believe strongly and therefore trust. Some of us were raised in traditional religious backgrounds in which that kind of faith was considered to be essential to our final post-life ascendance into heaven. And that kind of elegant influence has been around for so many centuries now that it is archetypal—it impacts us in deep unconscious ways that we may not even understand. Further, even when we begin to wonder if that definition of faith is really true, it still nags at us, as if that understanding of faith has somehow become cellular. Mostly this means that mystery has the power to shatter our grounding so that our first response to it is to try to define and explain it. But, what if we were to learn that it is leaning into the mystery that is actually faithful? What if we began to settle into the deeper regions of ourselves only when we can acknowledge what we don't know? Tune in to learn how to have faith in mystery.

We've all made promises to ourselves that we would change something about our behavior or attitudes only to find ourselves back in the same old rut not too long after we made that promise. If we can't even make the surface changes, how in the world are we going to make the deep changes? Most of us don't even consider the possibility—so we just work on things like changing behavior, and thoughts. But what we don't know is that the reason these more surface changes are so hard to make is because we haven't made the deeper changes. But again, how? This week Michele Rosenthal, mental health advocate, public speaker, blogger, writer, workshop/seminar leader, Certified Professional Coach, Hypnotist, and Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, is going to teach us about e three steps we can take to deep personal change. Don't miss this important show.

What would it be like to know that you were dying? Would life look any different than it does from the perspective of your routine everyday experiences? We strongly suspect that it would but we don't want to have to be close to dying to find out. Well, this week we are going to get to hear from those who are on the edge of this precipice and learn from their experiences rather than having to go there ourselves. Death is an amazing mystery, as is life and the fine line between the two. Bob and Judy's book "Life is a Gift: Inspiration from the Soon Departed" will grant us the gift of insight and wisdom that comes from those who are currently living very close to that line. Don't miss this beautiful experience.

From every angle, we are basically being told that our emotions are at best invalid, and at worst, influences that lead us astray. From the rational intellectual world, we are taught that our feelings are just fleeting, fickle, flights that have no more value to us than the wind blowing. From the traditional religious world we learn that our emotions are not only fleeting, fickle and invalid, but also could lead us into temptation. From the New Age/New Thought world we are currently being told that our emotions are only useful if we can plug them into "positive" thinking, which allows us to manifest our dreams. So, here's what I want to know: What is the purpose of our emotions? Are they unnecessary appendages blowing in the wind like the hair on our heads—yet with greater impact? Or are they gifts given to us as a part of the Divine image from which we were created? And if it is the latter, shouldn't we be figuring out how to use them instead of dismissing them? Tune in and find out!

Dr. Joan Borysenko appears, for the second time, on the Authentic Living Show today to discuss her latest book, "It's not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change." One of the most popular and sought after speakers in the field of health, healing and spirituality, Joan is world-renowned for her expertise in the field of Mind/Body medicine. A three-time graduate of Harvard Medical School, with a Doctorate in Medicine (MD) and two post-doctoral fellowships in behavioral medicine and psychoneuroimmunology, her brilliance is uniquely matched by her warmth and inspirational presentations. She is the author of several best-selling books, including her first, "Minding the Body, Mending the Mind," "Inner Peace for Busy People," and the topic of last year's Authentic Living show,"Your Soul's Compass." You know, if we are forced to endure these tough times, we might as well get something out of it. Don't miss this opportunity to learn the art of resilience from Dr. Joan

We are excited that Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD comes this week to tell us about the unveiling of her long awaited audio work and online series called "The Dangerous Old Woman, Myths and Stories of the Wise Woman Archetype." World renowned author of "Women Who Run With the Wolves," which was on the NY Times bestseller list for 145 weeks, she is an internationally acclaimed poet, Diplomat Jungian psychoanalyst, post-trauma specialist, award-winning social activist and writer, as well as a cantadora, (keeper of the old stories in the Latina tradition). Dr. E, as she is affectionately called by her many followers, jokes that there have been a few "sightings" over the years, though she disappeared from public view for three decades to write. This week she comes out into the "clattering world" to talk with us about her work. Come and listen to her unique storytelling ability, soothing voice and deep understanding of the complexities of humanity and grow closer to your own soul.

Who is really in charge of your life? Let's ask that a different way. How much of your life is hanging in the balance of other people's choices? How much of your life are you choosing, as opposed to excusing? Authentic living is all about taking full responsibility for your life—all of your life, not just the parts that no one else controls. Do you have a secret life that no one knows about? Do you carry a boatload of secret resentments because you do so much for others who do nothing for you? Does your life feel beyond your control? Are you striving and struggling to think only "positive" thoughts and handle no "negative" energy so that you can finally have the life you dream of? Is it raining all over your life? Or do you reign over your life? This show will provide you with a surprise ending to the story you are telling yourself right now. Don't miss it!