The Dr. Ward Bond Show

According to Nancy Alcorn, there is no such thing as a life that cannot be transformed when Jesus is allowed to work.Inspired to answer some of the questions left unanswered by the Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why, Nancy Alcorn wrote Treatment or Transformation: 13 Real Stories Why You can’t Argue With A Changed Life.The book includes 13 powerful stories where God intervened and radically transformed lives.Many people have been diagnosed with such things as bipolar disorder, clinical depression, post traumatic stress disorder, an eating disorder... the list goes on and on. These diagnoses have become their identity. They are unable to imagine a life of complete freedom without addiction, depression, or the effects of abuse. But, according to Nancy, there is no such thing as a life that cannot be transformed when Jesus is allowed to work.The young women you will read about in this book represent thousands who have received the same transformation since Nancy's organization Mercy Multiplied opened its first residential home in 1983.Listen as Nancy joins Dr. Bond to share insights from the book, as well as the good work Mercy Multiplied is performing to change people's lives.

Contradicting health headlines and commentary-filled social media feeds bombard expectant mothers with fears and concerns they may have never considered.Bringing a child into the world can be a scary endeavor, and getting the health facts straight about what to consume or avoid during pregnancy and after the baby is born can be overwhelming. Contradicting health headlines and commentary-filled social media feeds bombard expectant mothers with fears and concerns they may have never considered.Dr. Kecia Gaither says as more information and studies are published, old theories are being discredited and giving way to new practices.For example, the notion that "a little wine is fine" should be discredited. Alcohol use is the leading preventable cause of birth defects. Mothers should abstain from imbibing while breastfeeding as well.In regards to "breast is best," Dr. Gaither agrees. Breast milk contains properties that provide boosted immunity in the baby. If a mother is unable to breastfeed, for whatever reason, formula will still provide the appropriate nutrients for the baby to thrive.Listen as Dr. Gaither joins Dr. Bond to discuss some of the mommy myths circulating, as well as the medically-proven truths moms and dads should be aware of.

Tiffany Cruikshank, founder of Yoga Medicine®, has taken the traditional practice of yoga and turned it into a real medical methodology.Yoga has long been touted as a healing practice, with roots in Eastern medicine.However, Tiffany Cruikshank, founder of Yoga Medicine®, has taken the practice and turned it into a real medical methodology.Yoga Medicine® is a thorough, anatomically based training system that trains teachers across the globe to work more powerfully with their students. Yoga Medicine® is not a style of yoga but rather a training that educates the teacher to understand the body and create individualized yoga programs for the student based on their understanding of the anatomy, biomechanics, physiology and the traditional practice of yoga.Listen as Tiffany joins Dr. Bond to explain the differences between her methodology and traditional yoga, as well as the many benefits of following a Yoga Medicine® approach, such as pain relief and improved mental health.

In her book, What if You Could? Find Faith in the Face of Fear, Jackelyn Iloff helps individuals learn how to use faith to face their fears and break through to success.Many people have fears of failing, whether in their careers, relationships, or life in general. These same people often take other people's opinions as "truth," no matter how correct they actually are. This leads to an even more desperate downward spiral.In her book, What if You Could? Find Faith in the Face of Fear, Jackelyn Iloff helps individuals learn how to use faith to face their fears and break through to success. She believes that all things truly are possible with God on your side.Listen as Jackelyn joins Dr. Bond to share insights from the book, why God needs to be an integral part of life, and how you can push through fear to reach your true destiny.

Learn how you can take charge of the aging process and make your coming years the best they can be, if you just make a commitment to "just move."An inspirational speaker, author, and former Wall Street rainmaker, Jim Owen was 70 when he decided he had to get fit.Getting started was a challenge. Realizing that the old bodybuilding approach was no way to tackle the stiffness, weakness, and aches and pains that come with age, he set off on a journey of discovery and transformation.With help from the experts, he developed a common-sense, step-by-step program that can be tailored to any level of physical ability. Today, Owen is in better shape than he was at 25. He has proven you don't have to be powerless in the face of advancing years.Listen as Owen joins Dr. Bond to share how you can take charge of the aging process and make your coming years the best they can be, if you just make a commitment to "just move."

Chef Jacqueline King Schiller joins Dr. Bond to share her personal journey with food, highlights from her new book, and why eating a pescan diet is beneficial for health.The pescan way of eating, as defined by Chef Jacqueline King Schiller, is centered on plant-based, dairy-free dishes, but with high-protein seafood and eggs incorporated. It's also the focus of Jacqueline's new book, co-authored by her best friend Abbie Cornish: Pescan: A Feel Good Cookbook.The cookbook is a culmination of Jacqueline and Abbie's weekly trips to the farmers’ market, after which they'd spend all day cooking and then serve those dishes to their family and friends. Pescan is an extension of this tradition and all the food the two explored together. It’s also a story of friendship, healing, and developing a more positive relationship with food.Listen as Jacqueline joins Dr. Bond to share her personal journey with food, highlights from the book, and why eating a pescan diet is beneficial for health.

You cannot truly be healthy if you are not happy.Being a serial dieter never ends well for anyone.Getting caught up in a constant battle with the scale is detrimental to both one's physical and mental health. As Nathalie Botros, "The Bon-Vivant Girl" avers, you cannot truly be healthy if you are not happy.Her book, If You Are What You Eat Should I Eat a Skinny Girl?, is the ultimate "anti-diet" book, providing a roadmap to living life to the fullest potential by transforming your relationship to food, your self-image, and your everyday life.Listen as Nathalie joins Dr. Bond to share insights from the book to help motivate you, make you laugh and get you on the road to a happy, healthy life.

Learn how you can heal yourself by reducing your toxic exposure.Beth Greer thought she was living a fully healthy lifestyle, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising, eating (mostly) right, meditation... all of the things we're told to do to preserve health and promote longevity.So, when she was diagnosed as having a large tumor in her chest, she was taken aback. Multiple surgeons advised an invasive surgical procedure to remove the tumor. The tumor was benign, but was causing her debilitating pain.Instead of going the surgery route, Beth took a hard look at the food she was eating, the personal products she was using, and other toxins she was exposed to. After a complete "detox," scans showed that the tumor had disappeared. Beth kept up with this clean lifestyle, and encouraged her family to do the same.In her book, Super Natural Home: Improve Your Health, Home, and Planet--One Room at a Time, Beth reveals the alarming extent of the dangerous chemicals we unwittingly expose ourselves to every day. The book invites readers to put their lives under a microscope -- to scrutinize what we put in and on our bodies and bring into our homes—and to make personal choices that will enable us to "live clean" in a toxic world.Listen as Beth joins Dr. Bond to discuss the steps you can take right away to change the amount of toxins you put into your body -- and realize better health in the process.

While some view MS as a "disability," David Lyons knows a diagnosis is not a sentence to be bound to a wheelchair.Multiple sclerosis (MS) takes different forms and is categorized into four different types. While some view this condition as a "disability," but David Lyons knows an MS diagnosis is not a sentence to be bound to a wheelchair. Diagnosed at age 47, David went through a period of darkness and doubt about his future. He lost the muscle mass he'd worked so hard to build in his many years in the gym. Ultimately, he decided that was not the future he wanted to live.Now, he's helping others with MS and other conditions to meet their fitness and lifestyle goals. In his book, Everyday Health and Fitness with Multiple Sclerosis: Achieve Your Peak Physical Wellness While Working with Limited Mobility, David provides solutions for overcoming mental hurdles, nutrition fundamentals to properly fuel workouts, easily adaptable exercises, and motivation. As Amazon describes it, the book is a "road map for every person who wants to conquer a disease or disability, and just get moving."David also co-founded the MS Fitness Challenge (MSFC) with his wife Kendra in order to help others with MS.Listen as David joins Dr. Bond to share his own journey through MS and the great work the MSFC is doing.

More than one doctor told him he would never play an instrument, but Brandon Mendenhall had other plans."Mind over matter" is a common phrase when encountering difficult situations. For Brandon Mendenhall, it was the mantra of his life.Mendenhall was born with cerebral palsy, a neurological condition that affects movement, coordination and balance. More than one doctor told him he would never play an instrument, but Mendenhall had other plans, which he documents in his film, MIND OVER MATTER. The film follows his unbelievable journey to rehabilitate his then-paralyzed left hand in order to play guitar, while also overcoming bullies and stereotypes. Along the way he found friendship and mentors with members of the Grammy-award winning band KORN.Mendenhall joins Dr. Bond to share his resilience, despite being faced with not only physical challenges, but the bullying and misunderstandings he's experienced throughout his life.