A Quest for Well-Being

— "You are everything that is: your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe." Learning to manage, control, and direct the resources of your own mind is the greatest opportunity you will ever have. ​Until recently we didn't even know the name of our greatest adversary––that wall which has confined us to the smalle...

— "A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things." ~~~ Plato Valeria interviews Chris Cirak — the author of " Be You: The Journey of Self-Realization" Chris has a passion for turning sophisticated topics into accessible, meaningful, and inspiring experiences. With an extensive background in design, psychology, and tech, he has spearheaded empathy-based design in...

— "My healing is about releasing, evolving, and integrating. It's about engaging, overcoming, recovering, and repairing. t's seeing the possibilities in every grain of sand as ocean waves bring coolness to my feet. My healing means putting the right label on what I'm feeling. It's unwinding what is inside of me so that I can forgive myself And making amends so that I can forgive others. It lives i...

— When a child or teen is struggling with autism or their mental health, it impacts the entire family. That's why Meliora Health takes a family-first care approach to support your child's—and your family's—wellness journey. Their innovative online platform delivers immediate support and gives your entire family access to expert-led help whenever and wherever you need it, allowing your family to mo...

— If you've ever taken personality quizzes before, you've probably been told to change yourself—maybe to be more outgoing, laid-back, or ambitious. Nicole Raheja's work is not about changing who you are but rather a map to navigate the world as someone with your unique personality. Do you like to spend more time alone or with friends? Are you a planner, or are you more spontaneous? What makes you...

— Dr. Pater Salerno believes that people make positive and lasting changes based on the insight gained during the process of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy provides an opportunity for people to reassess personal history and make connections between past and present conflicts. He does NOT view people as sick, dysfunctional, or disordered; rather, Dr. Salerno believes that when our desire to grow outw...

— "Feelings do not have an external origin.  In fact, all unhappiness seen in a situation, oneself or another person (registered emotionally as sadness, anger, fear, dissatisfaction, etc.) are just reflecting an internal disturbance, or reaction, arising from negative thoughts, beliefs, and or judgments and which is fundamentally a choice based on an incorrect belief of who/what I am." Valeria Tel...

— In 2014, alone and wretching on the floor with food poisoning in a hut in the jungles of Bali, Derek Loudermilk thought it might be the end.   In a single year, he lost his house to a freak flood, suffered a traumatic brain injury, got divorced and dropped out of his PhD program.   All the scripts running his life had dissolved. Derek had become a man with no identity. But at that moment, he rea...

— Neurodiversity is an essential form of human diversity. The idea that there is one "normal" or "healthy" type of brain or mind or one "right" style of neurocognitive functioning, is no more valid than the idea that there is one "normal" or "right" gender, race or culture. The classification of neurodivergence (e.g. autism, ADHD, dyslexia, bipolarity) as medical/psychiatric pathology has no valid...

— You are not in your body, but rather everything you experience, including your body, arises within the vast and borderless field of the awareness that you are. This field of awareness is not itself a thing, but rather it is the space within which all things appear – thoughts, feelings, sensations, people, situations- everything. And so, as we meditate in this way, becoming aware of all things ar...

— "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also filled with the overcoming of it" These words shared by Helen Keller, Alana's ancestor, have been a source of encouragement and inspiration throughout her life. When in dark places, they have been a reminder for Alana about the truth of who and what she is — the truth of who and what we all are as human beings.  From the moment of birth, we ar...

— As a happily married, fifty-five-year-old professional woman, Susan Keller had it all—or thought she did—until the day of her shocking diagnosis with stage 4 Mantle Cell Lymphoma, a rare and aggressive disease. Within minutes of being admitted to the hospital, her beautifully ordinary life disappeared. How would cancer affect her marriage? Facing a possible death sentence, Susan experienced visi...

— "We earn our disease, although we may not recognize how it happens. Stress, negative thought patterns, improper breathing, lack of nourishing foods, and poor rest all play a role in your well-being. By having The Four Pillars as part of your daily life, you can start to take back control of your life. The key to The Four Pillars is rhythm. That's the beauty of it! If you lack in one area, the ot...

— No matter what is to come in your life, work to continue expanding on all the ways of being and living these ideas, not perfectly of course, but joyfully and compassionately. Work to honor your own divinity and know that it is always there guiding you. Discern between your ego and love. Meet your own expectations of yourself with unconditional love. Over time with this love, your expectations wi...

— Larry Ackerman's journey began as a very young child on a cold and unforgiving operating table in a hospital in New York City. He thought he would die, he thought something was wrong with him, but what Larry would discover is more powerful than anything he could have ever imagined, the power of identity. Larry is the author of the ground-breaking book, The Identity Code, and today he shares with...

— "When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance." By Steve Goodier  Are you feeling stuck, stagnant, or unsettled in your current reality? Are discomfort, dissatisfaction, and dis-ease ongoing themes in your life? Are you lo...

— Maybe you are already a high performer, and this episode will also serve as a quick mental check-in for you. Or maybe you are reaching for high performance and stress is limiting your progress. Regardless, Dr. Cindy Sholes explores the secrets that can help you in your journey toward higher mental wellness and performance! In this episode, you will learn seven effective ways high performers reli...

— We know that interoception has such a vital influence on both our physical and emotional health. Our bodies are designed to send us important messages about how our body is feeling, what is the condition of our body, and that's all happening because of this sense called interoception. Interoception is how we are feeling sensations coming from our body, telling us important information about what...

— Nate Terrell helps his clients recognize the function of their "inner voice" by having them think about one thing and then switch to another.  He explains to them how they can use their "inner voice" and other strategies he writes about in Chapter eight of his book: "Achieving Self-Compassion" to detach from their thoughts and the world outside of them and find greater inner peace by tuning into...

— Energy healing is a way of balancing the flow of energy in the human body and the subtle energy systems.  When we experience trauma, grief, loss or other disturbances to our equilibrium, these experiences get stored as emotions in our systems. These stored emotions can cause blockages by building up and stopping the flow of energy. As humans we are very adept at storing these build ups of energy...

— Certified Yoga Therapy expert Lillah Schwartz clearly explains movement principles, basic anatomy, breath awareness, and the central elements of alignment-based yoga to help you uncover your own healing potential and move toward back pain relief. Her book, Healing Our Backs With Yoga, includes step-by-step instructions with 27 pose sequences, 285 color photos, explanations, hints, and cautions t...

— "We need to understand what happiness really is. A lot of people think that happiness is simply an emotion or feeling that we experience when things are going well in our lives. However, happiness is actually much more than that. Happiness is a state of well-being that includes not only emotions, but also physical and mental health, a sense of meaning and purpose in life, and positive relationsh...

— Everything is relationship and lovemaking. It is in our active looking and touching, smelling and licking, appreciating, praising and honoring the other; through interactive, interconnected play, interpenetration and mutual receptivity, darkness and light, masculine and feminine, dynamic creativity without end, that magic happens and pleasure flows, the world becoming alive to itself, including...

— Reiki is a gentle yet powerful Japanese method of natural healing, which promotes stress reduction, relaxation, restoring ease and clarity, emotional release, creative flow, and support for physical healing, amongst other benefits. Translated as "Universal Life Force Energy," Reiki (pronounced ray-key) involves the light laying of hands on or over the body to help shift, strengthen, and/or resto...

— "One of the great benefits of helping other people heal is that I get to witness the potency of compassion. A person shared with me a moment that had haunted her for decades. It was a circumstance where she not able to help a vulnerable person she loved. Since trauma is not in the event, it is in the body until it is resolved, then it does not matter that this moment was over 40 years ago. She w...