A Quest for Well-Being

In America, general programming tells us to be in control and fill our space with things, even our minds. In the East, it even appears that we are supposed to control our thoughts with meditation, forcing our focus "back to our breath." Although this appears to be a form of control, it's actually at its most extreme, a form of mastery. Meditation is a way for us to slow down, create more space, an...

You may be daunted by the thought of rescuing a marriage that feels like its on its last legs. However, don't give up. Hold out hope that you can put in the work with the tools you need to save your flailing marriage. When your partner is pulling away and making it more difficult to communicate, that's when we employ our patented push/pull technique. When you feel like you've tried everything, the...

Valeria interviews Greg Amundson, the author of VICTORY: A Practical Guide to Forging Eternal Fitness. He shares practical strategies for achieving VICTORY in every area of your life and the Keys to better living, optimal performance, and a stronger mind, body and Spirit. Greg offers people of all faiths powerful strategies and practical guidelines for bringing health, happiness, fitness, and purp...

The "War on Cancer" was declared on December 23, 1971. On that day, President Richard Nixon signed into law the National Cancer Act, which allocated $1.5 billion for cancer research over the course of three years. Although the legislation never mentioned the word "war," Nixon declared: "The same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conque...

Living in Process®  is the work that was originally developed by Dr. Anne Wilson Schaef and continues to evolve and be facilitated by longtime members of her Living in Process training.  The Living in Process® work is about living—spiritual living and living spiritually. Dr. Anne Wilson Schaef originally named the healing work she was doing Living in Process (LIP) in the early 1980's as she brough...

Self-Care is an aspect of Self-Love. It's impossible to give oneself the care one needs if one doesn't have some aspect of one's own value.  Self-Care can be just as simple as saying no instead of always saying yes, speaking ones truth instead of hiding how they feel, or simply deciding to give oneself a hot bubble bath instead of going out to the party you really don't want to go to. However, Sel...

Soul-searing, life-testing situations have what some call "fall-out blessings." Megan Carnarius work is about understanding some of the deeper lessons we are exposed to through caring for individuals with Alzheimer's and other types of dementia. We all want a cure. But in the meantime, while this illness is still with us, how can we create a quality of life for each person in each stage of the dis...

Valeria Teles interviews Larry Ackerman, The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World. Your identity: Your uniqueness and the potential it holds. You've probably thought about how identity affects the success of your organization, or even your own. And you've probably wondered about what makes you — or your company — distinctive and why that matters....

In 2016, women still hold a shockingly low 14% of top executive positions in the Fortune 500. Trying to get ahead while operating in a man's world, women continue to face immense challenges, constantly being told how to navigate these treacherous waters in a myriad of ways. Yet the gender gap persists. While working for a tech giant in Silicon Valley, Monique Svazlian Tallon was faced with a tough...

It is possible to genuinely love the body you are in! It is possible to stop the insanity of yo-yo dieting and overeating! It is possible to feel normal again in regards to eating and thinking about food! Lemuela believes that we don't need to be told how to eat or how to exercise in order to feel good in our bodies. She believes that the key to a healthy body and feeling good inside of it begins...

Could you use some good parenting advice and tips? Are you struggling with pain, shame, and anger leftover from your childhood wounds? There are many books on recovering from the trauma of child abuse but not many that focus on the job of parenting afterward. Geanne Meta is the author of Parenting Well After Childhood Abuse. A groundbreaking, self-help book that reinforces the importance of healin...

"No matter how long we emphasize the need for real peace to all beings, there are still many individuals who don't accept our peace. If people don't accept our peace, where can it be found? Peace has to be found in us. We have to digest, we have to chew real peace in our hearts by ourselves. It is pretty hard. The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe....

Valeria Teles interviews Jason Reynolds. Jason invites us to move beyond the philosophical chatter into deliberate action. Jason facilitates powerful, Organizational Architecture and the development of a Personal Governance required for long term success. He is passionate about the everyday hero and in particular the next generation, yet his career spans across progressive multi-nationals, success...

It is up to us to know the wisdom within us, for this is something no one else can teach us. We must be our own guiding light. There is no competition with another. Any thoughts of competition come from the false self, and this belief lives in a place that holds the belief that you are not enough. If you are the belief that you are not enough, then you look at others and believe they are more than...

Who are the caregivers? We all are, for at the heart of being human is the capacity to care, to reach out to others and explore the relationships we build. Valeria interviews Edward Smink, the author of "The Soul of Caregiving". The book is about us and how we, as caregivers, serve, even sacrifice, for those in need. Dr. Edward invites you to explore with him how we have the opportunities to parta...

We are all part of one mind, a great energy gestalt, and we are connected at the level of the collective unconsciousness. Each individual aspect of the gestalt has its own electrical system, its own vibration rate, and interacts with all other aspects. Thus, we are all connected to one another and to a central point. On a higher self or psychic level, it is possible for anyone to tune in to anyone...

"Most of us show up on life's playing field unprepared to play full out to win. We neither understand the game, the opponent, the rules, nor the equipment that helps us play and win. No wonder we walk as if on eggshells with other people. We are lonely. It doesn't have to be that way. We've learned much in recent years about how our mind works and there is no doubt that we can follow our heart's l...

Every relationship starts with self – so get out of your own way! "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom" – says: Lau Tzu. In this episode, Valeria Teles interviews Maria Fudas, the author of "Connect with Yourself and Others." With new perspectives, her book will empower you to have more successful connections that will enable you to live your life in awareness, inspired...

Some say that the hardest thing to manage is people. Jan McDonald has found that the hardest thing to manage is ourselves. She says: If I can't lead myself, how can I lead others? The best leaders lead by example, modeling the behavior they desire to see in others. Jan can't think of better characteristics to model than the Fruits of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22; Love, Joy, Peace, Patience,...

A word that weaves through most relationship skills programs is "empathy", the ability—a developed skill, actually—to vicariously put yourself in another person's shoes and try to see from their point of view, their world, their perspective. People are more familiar with the word "sympathy", which means to "feel for" someone, particularly if they've experienced a loss of some kind. However, "empat...

In this episode, Valeria Teles interviews Kathy Mann about her book: Avoiding Burnout: The Seven Principles of Self-Preservation K.A. Mann had it all. She was a mother and wife, an ultra- marathon runner and a business owner. But the stress of doing the wrong work in an unpleasant environment landed her with a lifelong autoimmune illness. Without work and income, she took stock of how it happened...

"The human superpower is the ability to choose the meaning we give to our circumstances. Two individuals may confront the same exact situation and have a totally different reaction to it. One interpretation can be empowering and the other totally disempowering. Our ability to choose how we respond to our circumstances is the most important capacity we have and will massively impact the results we...

In this episode, Valeria Teles interviews Nate Terrell, the author of Achieving Self-Compassion: Giving Yourself the Gifts of Happiness and Inner Peace."  Nate teaches how we can achieve self-compassion and find greater happiness and inner peace by: •Being our own best friend •Developing beliefs that work for us •Knowing we are inherently worthy •Not projecting our needs onto others •Choosing happ...

While Becky Eldredge sat and had one of her last conversations with her grandfather, he asked her for one thing: "Becksa, promise me you'll tell people that they are not alone. Promise me you will not stop what you are doing and will keep sharing the Good News with others."   Eldredge fulfilled her promise. In her second book, The Inner Chapel: Embracing the Promises of God, she shares the gift gi...

"I am human I am a work in progress Striving to be the best version of ME" Susan Verde wrote the picture books: I Am Yoga, I Am Peace and I Am Human in her wellness series. I Am Human is a hopeful meditation on all the great (and challenging) parts of being human, it shows that it's okay to make mistakes while also emphasizing the power of good choices by offering a kind word or smile or by saying...