WISH Radio: Straight Talk for Women's Health

Life can get awfully busy sometimes. And if  you don't have a system, some strong habits, and efficient practices in place, life will scoop you up and spit you out feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and out of control.  Here to help you implement solutions, systems, and a clear strategy to getting things done, is one of the greatest organizational miracle workers, David Allen.

More than 6 million children have received the diagnosis of ADD since the term was invented in 1980. While it might look like we're solving the problem with prescription pads and pretty little pills, there's more to the story than quick fix pharmaceutical solutions would like us to believe. While researching a series for the Boston Globe, investigative journalist Robert Whitaker peeled back the pages of the prescription pad to take a look at what was really going on behind the medicated curtain. That's when he uncovered the anatomy of an epidemic that would explain the astonishing rise of mental illness in modern America!

Some people read books, meditate on mountains and smoke weird substances to try and penetrate the mysteries of the universe, reach deep notions of truth, love and understanding. All Anita Moorjani had to do was develop terminal cancer and face her death. Lucky for us she came back to tell the story and she's here with us today to share her story of what life looks like on the other side of death and how seeing it from there can change everything. 

So your butt is too wide and your chin too long. You have flabby arms, stringy hair, flaky skin, and sagging breasts. With your thick thighs, and crossed-eyes  you’d better just pack in your social life and call it all quits. There’s really no point going out or reaching out if you’re a Photoshop perfect picture of glossy magazine beauty.

Unless, of course, you have something more valuable to offer the world than pore-less skin. ;-) Here to shake up the body-haters and belly achers and help you make friends with your body is the king of kicking excuses to the curb, Sean Stephenson.

So you’re stuck in a rut of self-loathing. You’re too fat to go to the gym, too puffy to put on a nice outfit, and too fed up with feeling like crap to bother investing a little loving time and attention into self-care. So you sit and crash on the couch with another bag of salty potato chips. The vicious cycle of self-loathing keeps you stuck—but mostly in your head, pinned down and paralyzed by the idea that your body is an insurmountable barrier to being, doing and having a life you love. Here to take that notion out to the trash and kick your assumptions along with it is Dana Falsetti.

How is it that we can spend so much money on clothes, make-up and primping paraphernalia to make us “pretty…” so much time counting calories, banishing cellulite and worrying about the way we look… and yet, for all the time and attention we spend obsessively concerned with our bodies, we haven’t got the slightest clue how the most pleasurable parts of us actually work.

Our quest to achieve body confidence brings us now to an insightful investigation of the fact that the most powerfully pleasurable parts of your body have been shrouded in mystery, inaccessible medical terminology and socially dysfunctional crap. Here to put truth on the table and share the secret maps to your buried pleasure is the powerhouse of passion, Sheri Winston.

You can shop the latest styles and take a while to do your hair so it is just the way you like it. You can primp and preen and powder puff your pretty little bits and pieces. You can wear a great dress, a hot pair of heels and go out for meals in classy restaurants. You can take an hour to decorate your face and conduct yourself as a pillar of social grace and STILL not love the skin you’re in.

No amount of social veneer will bring you nearer to the sense of peace and pleasure you long to experience in your body. And if you’re livingness has been tied up in knots worrying about how you look, then maybe it’s time to sit back and relax so you can feel how just how good it really is be in that body. Here to guide you deeper on the journey of shamelessly loving the skin you’re in, is the pussy cat of pleasure herself, Pamela Madsen.

When you slouch and slump and drag your feet like a frumpy old bag of bones… When you let self-criticism cause you to completely disconnect from your curves, you forget what it feels like to really move in all your groovy little places.

No matter your size, or shape, when you move with grace, admiration and intention—when you move your body AS IF it is a pleasurable gift from the Gods... When you own and embrace your curves you instantly become magnetically attractive and your confidence goes through the roof. Here to help you navigate the bridge from frumpy to feeling fabulous in the skin your in, is the keeper of Sensuality Secrets, Patty Contenta.

It’s hard to love what you don’t understand, so it’s no wonder so much of what’s wriggling and jiggling about inside us feels like a mysterious, fleshy blob. Our dark and inner middles are an unexplored territory of sorts—all those tubes, twists, tunnels and turns inside us!

High school biology tried to get the point across, but if we REALLY understood our mushy middles would we be struggling so much to love, appreciate this part of our bodies? Our summit’s next step toward bold body confidence takes us on an exploration of your belly—the hard-working heartland that holds it all together—where your guts and the story of all bodies began. Here to guide you toward deeper understanding and appreciation of your inspiring interior, is naturopathic doctor and belly-wellness advocate, Dr. Christine Matheson.

This call is an additional recording created to accompany Dr. Christine Matheson's Body Confidence Summit call on Belly Health. It is a guided, therapeutic belly massage that anyone can do at home while listening along.