Train Your Brain, Claim Your Power

Noah St. John has been a personal mentor of mine starting a decade ago. This latest of his books offers numerous secrets to get the outcomes you want in life. And they are all solid coaching techniques. He teaches us how to leverage the four focus factors that can make or break our success. It's not just theory. The book is filled with exercises and questions to facilitate your progress throughout. Noah wants you to have your breakthrough!

Author and fitness specialist Dawn Weyand helps women stay physically fit throughout their pregnancies. What she discovered is that it is far more challenging to work with pregnant prisoners within the penal system.

Jennifer Cochern developed her own system that evolved out of her personal experiences. She describes this process in her book "Alignment: Move From Internal Chaos to Clarity." Using stories, Jennifer shares the ways to apply the A-B-C's that is easily relatable to everyone's life.

Eve Strongheart shares the underlying traumas that are captured in "The Woman Next Door" and "The Black Sheep: A Survivor's Story of Recovery.  These stories are drawn from her personal experience.  She wrote these books for her own healing when working with first responders she realized that their traumas triggered and exasperated her own memories of life growing up and into her marriage.  Eve holds an MA in Counselling.  She works with First Responders - military, psychiatric nurses, police who suffer from P.T.S.D. or occupational stress disorders.   Eve's strong message:  You can experience traumatic events in your life and find ways to get past them and move on.  Recovery is possible.  She only has one asterisk: Don't try to do it alone.  She found her healing through 12 Step Programs.  

When police officer Gary Benoit went through an officer involved shooting, it was a turning point to his entire life.  He almost lost his wife and family.  Over a little over 4 years, he examined his life, his relationships and what he could do to heal the personal issues he'd been holding in for years.  He had all the issues of PTSD.  With a new mindset, his marriage healed and they began to work together to help other first responders overcome adversity as well as they explored 7 key areas of life, the seven "F"s.  The question - why are you doing so well when others are not - fueled his desire to write his book.  He goes through it all in the book and how his wife and he have grown together over the years.  He now teaches firefighters, police officers, nurses, corrections and others in a Frontline Resiliency program he and his wife offer where they show how to create a touchstone they can go back to daily to serve them during crises, be in gratitude.  They offer live events and conscious connections with others in the community.   Check out "A Call for Service: Overcoming Adversity Through Resilience" on Amazon or jump onto Benoit Wellness Consulting.com to learn all their services.   From his perspective, one message stands out:  Regardless of where you are, it's not who you are.  It's just where you are at in that moment.  The power of making one decision to change the way you're doing things can propel new results for you faster than you might believe."    

What a fun time I had chatting with Jason Thompson.  He's a comedian and philosopher.  Trained in the clergy, he left to explore a broader philosophy and found a home entertaining with his stand up and impersonations.  I was able to catch him in Australia while visiting family there.  However, you can find him performing in California where he makes his home.  

When Jesus taught, he shared stories - what we call parables.  And to this day, one of the most effective ways to teach is to do with a story that is an example of what people do to get through life events.  For Mardria, she looks up for spiritual support and her book "When Sorrow Comes My Way, I Look Up" is a presentation of the stepping stones that enable us to move from our life trials to our goals.  She learned about this through going through loss on several occasions - as an 11 year old, as a young wife and mother.   She shares on these experiences here today. 

Stacey Berger uses her business building background, combined with transformational principles to help individuals prevent burnout by balancing their lives.  If you are burning the candle at both ends and suffering physically as a result, you will want to hear her story.  Also, one of the techniques she finds valuable involves storytelling.  We all have our own stories and there are others that are archetypal.  For instance, animals don't live our lives, but it's in their nature to exemplify lessons we can learn in our own lives.  Can you relate to the patterns of a Canadian goose?  Are you trying to make sense of what is happening in your life as you transition from being a caterpillar to a butterfly?  

When we first met Uma Girish, she had just written her book "Losing Amma, Finding Home: A Memoir About Love, Loss and Life's Detours."  Uma had become  a grief guide when she lost her mother, and hosted a podcast "The Grammar of Grief" for some time.  Then she became aware of Human Design and has gone on to become a Human Design Guide where she helps individuals discover (or remember) who they have come here to be.  The system is a blend of ancient wisdom, astrology, Jewish Kabbala, modern quantum consciousness and genetic coding.   This technique is rapidly growing worldwide.  

Sara Hathaway is the author of the 8 Part "Changing Earth" series.  Nothing dry here.  There is plenty of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll to catch your interest. She's taken some of her survival stories to create radio dramas or you can catch her podcast "Survival: Fiction and Facts."  She is active in the Prepper Broadcasting Network and, at times, is taking issue with some environmental solutions being touted.  In particular, she sees problems with solar batteries that can only be created by strip mining the Andes Mountains in Latin America and destroying their wilderness.