A Quest for Well-Being

— Compare loving yourself to the love your parents shared with you. Your parents may not have LIKED you all the time, but they always LOVED you for who you are. In other words, you may not like some of the habits you have, or the patterns you fall into. Yet, at the end of the day, if you can look yourself in the mirror and say, "I love you", you are rocking the self-love!" Valeria Teles interviews...

— "As Jason Elias reflects upon the health crisis now facing us, he keeps hearing Qi Bo's gentle, insistent voice: "In the past, people practiced the Tao, the Way of Life," he said. "They understood the principle of balance … they maintained well-being of body and mind." The words are thousands of years old, but the wisdom is timeless. Jason knows from experience that the pathway to health and har...

— "When we are vulnerable, we connect. When we share ourselves fully, we subconsciously give the other person in the relationship "permission" to share as well. Vulnerability is a strength, and it is freedom; freedom to be completely who we are in our rawest form; naked. When we are free to be who we are, and we feel adored, accepted and understood for who we are; there is no better feeling. Every...

— "Grief never ends… But it Changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith… It is the price of love." Valeria Teles interviews Brian Hartzman — a Grief Coach And Loss Support Life Reentry Practitioner. Brian is a grief coach working with people struggling to find their footing in the strange new world they find themselves after experiencing the l...

— When we go through hard times in life it is so easy to get caught up in seeing everything with a cloud over it. This is especially true when someone has offended or hurt us deeply. We start to see ourselves as a victim and the longer we think that way, the more we lose the ability to handle situations well. Sometimes going from victim to master may require outside help. Dianne McKim has helped c...

— For the first time in history, we are not only living longer, but everyone also has an important choice to make: commit to a meaningful, purposeful life of "Incline" as we get older or believe that a new stage – one of steady "decline" – is inevitable. What is not helping is that in the media and society in general there continues the somewhat negative connotation surrounding the concept of agin...

— Patti Henry believes that men need healing. Her belief is that men need help getting reconnected to their emotional selves so that they can take their whole selves with them into a marriage or into the workplace or wherever. The problem for men begins with how they were treated as boys. Our culture has a long-standing tradition of teaching our little boys to cut off from their feelings. This mak...

—We come into this life with many lifetimes of baggage. Perhaps it was a contract you created to a person or a church. Or perhaps it was to help release your family lineage of a pattern that has been passed down through the DNA. It can be uncomfortable at times to acknowledge that we have chosen certain paths in life, especially when going through a really difficult time. These choices are often u...

— "On our search for love, companionship, and "the one," we oftentimes lose sight and alignment with our true selves and what we deeply desire in a life partner. Maureen Scanlon's work helps us to see clearly what it takes to heal ourselves, enhance our marriage and romantic relationships, and realize the whole person we were meant to be while in a relationship, in marriage, or searching for that...

— Shamanism accepts that our physical world interacts with spiritual ones that we can communicate with through altered states of consciousness. Shamanism understands that in the inner worlds everything is both conscious and interactive. A shamanic practitioner enters a trance state to access the collective consciousness to gather information about a person that they are making the journey for. Wit...

— "When we all start doing what we love, we all can connect on a spiritual level and create better energy on Mother Earth, a better place for our children and all who will come after us." Valeria Teles interviews Laila Faridoon — the author of "Looking Forward to the Bright Side." Ms. Laila Faridoon is a passionate Emirati Speaker and Author. She is the founder of Looking Forward Consultancy, spec...

— Life isn't limited to the tangible reality we experience on this earth, and that our worst adversaries can become our greatest teachers. It's a story of how forgiveness is the best revenge. Valeria Teles interviews Kirsten Mickelwait — the author of "The Ghost Marriage: A Memoir". Kirsten Mickelwait is a professional copywriter and editor by day and a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction by...

— From the Sanskrit AYUR - meaning 'life' and VEDA – meaning 'knowledge' AYURVEDA quite literally means the knowledge of life and to have an understanding of Ayurveda is to have a blueprint for good mental and physical health. Ayurveda is the world's oldest holistic health system originating from the Indian sub–continent. It has been used for thousands of years to cleanse and restore balance to th...

— Millions of people suffer from orthopedic conditions that call for therapeutic interventions, ranging from chronic low-level discomfort to pain that stops you in your tracks. Over the years, I've observed that with physical and emotional discomfort, we subtly adjust our life around our deficit. If our knee hurts, we take the stairs less frequently. If our back hurts, it affects how we sit down a...

— "June Ahern's work with spirits and ghosts is interesting, mostly fun, and certainly rewarding. Albert Einstein concurred, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." Valeria Teles interviews June Ahern — the author of "How to Talk With Spirits: Séances, Mediums, Ghost, Hunts." Ju...

— "Not knowing who we are and that there is a doorway to freedom, we continuously suppress Spirit inside us with our intellect pondering our pasts — the whys, the how comes, the what ifs and if onlys — trying to figure out why whatever happened, happened to us and not to someone else. We try our level best to figure out what we did wrong to deserve what happened. Unbeknownst to us, we make what ha...

— When loss is so deep it can freeze us. Grief and loss make it hard for us to immediately absorb everything that has happened. So we are a bit like deer in headlights; behaving in unexpected ways or shutting down entirely. Shutting down has such a bad reputation and it's true you don't want it to go on indefinitely. But it has allowed me to take a moment and regroup. It reminds me of the moment w...

— "Now feeling confident, proud of Me and the freedom I've won. Now feeling happy, joyful, filled with laughter. Feeling peace, contentment And love. Now I just live in joy, peace, and happiness, centered and calm as I go about my life being me." A healing journey is about both letting go and welcoming. It's about letting go of thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and even people that are not serving yo...

— It's not easy going it alone. But if you KEEP GOING, stay true to yourself. It will be worth it in the end. The hardest walk you can make is the walk you make alone, but that is the walk that makes you the strongest. That is the walk that builds your character the most. To all of you fighting battles alone, to all of you going against the grain, battling the naysayers. Stay strong! Keep going! S...

— "Mother Nature talks to all of us, all the time.  Her voice is loud and clear but often muffled by all the noise around us.  But if we spent time in the forests, deserts, mountains, oceans, and prairies of the World, we can hear her. the six months I spent in the desert was both soulful and transformational."  Valeria Teles interviews Jon Turk — the author of "The Raven's Gift: A Scientist, a Sh...

— Sensitive souls not only have to deal with sensitivity to other people's negative emotions, they also have to deal with other types of toxic energies, including electromagnetic radiation, noise pollution, air pollution, and toxins in our food and water. Worst of all, our emotions are easily manipulated by mainstream media and fear can easily become a chronic state of being. By practicing BEING i...

— "Take charge of your life and don't allow your life to just happen to you – ensure you happen to it." In Diana Hutchison's book, Creating an Awesome You explores many different areas of life and looks at each one at its best expression. Thus, it encourages you to be your best in each area. If you manifest the potential expressed within, you will be creating an awesome you. It is becoming more an...

— We are nothing more than the stories we tell about who we are. We are literally the embodiment of that story. Change your story, change what you believe about who you are and what you deserve, and you will create a new life experience. When you can see what things truly are and how they work, when you see the unseen, you can create magic. The Law of Love is the most powerful of all the Universal...

— "To know yourself, you must sacrifice the illusion that you already do." — Vironika Tugaleva Valeria Teles interviews Bénédicte Flouriot on self-awareness and beyond. Bénédicte built her career in the luxury hospitality industry, working for companies of different sizes and cultures across the Middle East, Europe and North America. Working and living in so many countries has exposed her to human...

— "I found peace…peace in being present. I realized I don't have to forgive myself for my past as there was nothing to forgive! I finally understood acceptance. I accepted who I was. My past doesn't define me anymore. I love it. I appreciate it. I am not a victim of it." Valeria Teles interviews Kasia Nissanka — a Certified Life Coach, MSc Family Psychology, MSc Occupational Psychology, and Speake...