WISH Radio: Straight Talk for Women's Health

There is beauty in the flutter of butterfly wings, and in dew drops that teeter on needles of evergreens. There are diamonds that sparkle in the light on a lake, and irresistible elegance in a flower that can take your breath away. There is grace in the little spaces between the cells of your body, and more style in your smile than could ever be placed in some glossy magazine. And yet you have been taught to believe that beauty has something to do with the size of your thighs. Here with her renegade beauty and artful allure is Queen Nadine —aromatic apprentice to Mother Nature herself and one of women’s greatest health advocates.

It all started a few years ago with a blender, fruit and some leafy greens, when Robyn Openshaw embarked on a mission of helping hundreds of thousands of people around the world improve their health and nutrition. While her website is loaded with incredibly well-researched information about nutrition, detox, weight loss, immunity and so much more, today we invited her here because she cares and because she’s a mom. And these two things have given her insights into something more nourishing than chlorophyll and more cleansing than cayenne pepper—and that’s BODY CONFIDENCE. What does it take to unhook ourselves from obsessive concern about the body, so we can get busy improving our health, living and loving life!

It’s easy to argue with the body and complain about your curves. It’s easy to wish you didn’t have so much mush around the middle, but what if that extra bit of cushioning was actually your best friend? I mean, what if those layers of love handles have been building up there because they’ve been trying to help cushion the blow of life? What if it’s been there all this time trying to do you a favour—put a little extra something between you and those emotions and hard times you’ve had to process. When choosing who to bring to our body confidence stage, I absolutely had to include my own personal fitness trainer, Angela Gutierrez, a woman whose purpose it is to empower you to reclaim a confident and loving relationship with your body so you can reclaim your health, happiness and your love for life.

When it comes to achieving Body Confidence, sometimes you have to get a little sweaty and do what it takes to feel good inside your skin. Having worked with the bodies of the world’s most successful models, as well as with beautifully wrinkled, saggy-skinned and overweight women of all races and ages and creeds, Teresa Tapp knows what it takes to help women achieve body confidence.

Her unique workout style empowers women to not just sculpt and tone their bodies, but to actually understand how they work bringing a whole new level of confidence and control to women. We’ve asked her to join our summit to and her squeegee techniques and cheer-leading charm will have you loving the skin you’re in, in no time.

This short call will help to prepare you for the Body Confidence Summit, give you the details of what to expect and make sure you're able to get the very most out of your investment of time, attention and energy into this experience. Oh! And I share a little poem with you, too! ;-)

Thank you so much for being here!

If you've ever wanted to stay home from a party because your pants were too tight, or if you ever felt insecure about your hair, your hips or  the shape of your lips... If you ever felt you couldn't do what you wanted to do or be who you wanted to be, or have what you wanted to have because someone else or something else was in your way, then this is your wake up call.

While his three-foot body is confined to a wheel chair because of a crippling bone disease, his character, charm, integrity and determination to live  a magnificent life have made him an inspiration to millions, and, as we explore in this call, he's a heart throb to the women who are touched by his presence.

You can try to hide behind your fanciful excuses. You can say you’re “too busy, too tired, stressed, depressed, under slept or overwhelmed to break out of your shell and live the life you love…

You can try those tricks, and some people might even believe you. But rumbling inside, in a place where excuses can’t hide and the truth never dies, is a passionate firecracker of curiosity itching to reach up, reach out and make life AWESOME. And until she gets her day in the sun, you’ll know something doesn't quite feel right.

Here to share the story of how one firecracker came to be is the oh-so-awesome Denise Harwood, my former client and dear friend.

As another bite of blueberry muffin slips down your throat, you flip through the pages of your Cosmo magazine and suddenly start feeling quiet inside. It’s as if while you’re sitting there, your thighs are actually widening and your skin is getting more puffy. You start to sink into a familiar pit of self-loathing thoughts and decide if you could just lose those last ten pounds, if you could just get a decent haircut, you’d feel like a million bucks. But the only million bucks you should be concerned about are the ones being spent to make you feel that way in the first place. If you’ve ever wondered how you picked up your body image, your insecurities and all those nasty little thoughts about how you look, then look no further. Jean Kilbourne joins our WISH summit to share how the advertising messages from media are killing us softly, and what to do about it.

Sometimes life deals a harsh blow. Sometimes, we get knocked down by loss, pain, accidents, illness, death and broken hearts. And when we get stuck in the muck of life, we can feel more sadness, confusion, fear or anxiety than we know how to handle. And unfortunately, in the field of mental health, the socially acceptable solutions we find are often far more threatening and harmful to us than the conditions themselves

When "help" looks like 20 years of "treatments" with 38 different medications, 17 different health care practitioners, multiple hospitalizations, 24 electroconvulsive shock treatments and still no lasting relief of the symptoms, we have to admit that we are doing something wrong in the field of mental health care.

Fortunately, we don't have to look very far or ready very many thick books to find solutions. Inherent in the human spirit, built into the fabric of every decent friendship, are the essential elements of what it takes to bring a person out of the darkness of self-sabotage and into the light of self-acceptance with hope, optimism and the creation of a future.  Here to tell her story of how it happened, is my client and now very dear friend, Sarah Hills.

Life can seem to be a series of random, unpredictable events, until the day you get knocked on the head by a spiritual sledgehammer and are forced to figure things out in a more meaningful way. My spiritual sledgehammer struck nearly 10 years ago while I was living in the tropical paradise of Costa Rica. At that time, I thought I had a dream job, a dream home and a dreamy relationship with my business partner and best friend.

Then, more rapidly than I could possibly process, the whole thing came crashing down and I was homeless, alone and confused. This podcast explains the whole story and some of the commitments and realizations that have come about as a result of this experience. Thanks for your trust and attention.

Life can seem to be a series of random, unpredictable events, until the day you get knocked on the head by a spiritual sledgehammer and are forced to figure things out in a more meaningful way. My spiritual sledgehammer struck nearly 10 years ago while I was living in the tropical paradise of Costa Rica. At that time, I thought I had a dream job, a dream home and a dreamy relationship with my business partner and best friend.

Then, more rapidly than I could possibly process, the whole thing came crashing down and I was homeless, alone and confused. I’ll be sharing the details of what happened in this week’s WISH Radio podcast as part of a new category  called “Soapbox Talks” where I share a few things on my chest, without interviewing anyone.

Life can seem to be a series of random, unpredictable events, until the day you get knocked on the head by a spiritual sledgehammer and are forced to figure things out in a more meaningful way. My spiritual sledgehammer struck nearly 10 years ago while I was living in the tropical paradise of Costa Rica. At that time, I thought I had a dream job, a dream home and a dreamy relationship with my business partner and best friend.

Then, more rapidly than I could possibly process, the whole thing came crashing down and I was homeless, alone and confused. I’ll be sharing the details of what happened in this week’s WISH Radio podcast as part of a new category  called “Soapbox Talks” where I share a few things on my chest, without interviewing anyone.