Melissa is the creator of TheGrassGetsGreener.com, a site that helps adult survivors of childhood trauma, particularly childhood bullying, overcome the lasting effects of their trauma to become the person they desire to be.

Melissa is also the host of The Grass Gets Greener podcast where she interviews survivors of childhood traumas who have gone on to not only survive, but thrive, in an effort to inspire and provide hope for those who are still struggling.

Melissa is herself a survivor of childhood bullying and child abuse. She uses her past experiences along with a background in psychology to guide her in the work she does today. Melissa’s mission is to help those who feel stuck in life as a result of their past trauma get unstuck and live an amazing life.

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Roy Eisenberg dealt with crippling encephalitis as a child, Lymphoma, and knee replacement more recently. Each time he used the technique of positive outlook and finding positive ways to fight his adversity. Roy shares his inspirational methods used to stay positive through hardship.

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Licensed Mental Health Counselor Kate Cohen-Posey, LMHC joins host Alan Eisenberg to discuss how we can train our brains to respond in difficult situations. The discussion includes how the chemicals in our brains affect our emotional responses and how we can learn to train our brain to respond better in situations.

Kate Cohen-Posey’s call to counseling began with listening to her mother grieve the death of a dashing fiancee. Her official MS degree was awarded in 1973 and she soon began to practice in Florida. Driven by a desire to provide clients concise information she started writing booklets. By a near miracle John Wiley & Sons discovered these thera-tracts, called her, and said, “We think you’re the author we need.” This proposal birthed 4 books: “Brief Therapy Client Handouts,” “More Brief Therapy Client Handouts,” “Empowering Dialogues Within,” and “Making Hostile Words Harmless.” Booklist, citing her book, “How to Handle Bullies, Teasers, and Other Meanies,” agrees she is an author of necessity

Kate’s Books on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Kate-Cohen-Posey/e/B000APLP7W

Speaking Engagements: http://www.pesi.com/

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Author Kristian Hall joins host Alan Eisenberg to discuss overcoming depression. Kristian Hall went through eleven years of deep depression as a teenager and student. He overcame his depression by practicing techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and positive psychology. He took his true story and wrote a book on his experiences called “Rise from Darkness“. His personal development did not stop there – accordin

Alen Standish is a husband, dad, app developer, writer and host of the Inner Effort podcast. Beginning in 2011, Alen learned to finally manage several of his own inner personal challenges including a 15 year struggle with an eating disorder and crippling perfectionism. Alen began podcasting in 2012 as a way to share his experiences, to connect with others and to simply learn more. His podcast in 2012 began as the Quit Binge Eating Podcast which then morphed into Progress Not Perfection. In August of 2015, Alen launched his biggest project to date, Inner Effort, a podcast and blog that shares the tools and techniques that real people use to guide themselves through their own thoughts, emotions, challenges and habit changes.

Inner Effort: http://innereffort.com

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Dr. Lynn Curry from The Growth Company discusses her new book “Beating the Workplace Bully” with host Alan Eisenberg.

Dr. Curry is the President of The Growth Company, Inc., Lynne Curry brings her clients a track record in management consulting; Board, manager and employee training; human resources and organizational strategy consulting.

Dr. Curry has provided more than 55,000 consulting projects to more than 3,700 organizations in Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, Connecticut, Arizona, Washington D.C., Illinois, New York, Arizona, Texas, Japan, Korea, China, Guam and England.

Curry’s clients include a diverse variety of private sector companies (oil & gas; construction; finance; medical & dental; real estate; retail & hospitality; professional

Sharon is devoted to teaching professionals around the world how to be courageous leaders using critical communication skills.

As a published author of seven books, her latest book Mindfulness In Action: How To Create Peace Amidst the Chaos reached the international Amazon bestseller list and today she will share how you can easily incorporate “real mindfulness” into your everyday world. Mindfulness in Action is available on Amazon and MindfulnessInActionBook.com

Sharon’s also the host of eWomen Network Radio’s popular podcast Life Interrupted Radio: Empowering you to live well with autoimmune that you can find on all the podcast places such as iTunes, BlogTalkRadio and LifeInterruptedRadio.com.

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Interview with James Burns founder of Bully Proof Classroom. He has almost 40 years of experience working as an administrator, teacher, college instructor, and seminar leader. He is committed to helping administrators, parents, and teachers establish standards of excellence and help them build successful relationships with their staff, students, and children. He has written and designed The Bully Proof Classroom, a graduate course that is now offered at The College of New Jersey in partnership with The Regional Training Center. (bullyproofclassroom.com/)

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Karen Jaynes from All Ways Yoga (www.allwaysyoga.com) discusses the importance of Yoga and mindfulness to hep bring peace to our minds and our lives.

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On this episode, Dr. Robert Wright Jr. and Mrs. Christine Wright from Stress Free Now (stressfreenow.info) discuss how stress affects our mind and bodies as well as ways to cope with the stress in your life.

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