Neff Inspiration

Owen Marcus started helping men because he realized he needed help with his relationships. His 30-year journey from leading men’s groups led to writing a book, a documentary film on his work and starting three businesses that adapt the science behind stress and trauma therapy, attachment theory, and leadership development to train men to succeed in all their relationships. His work has been featur...

Theodore A. Henderson MD, PhD is president and founder of Neuro-Luminance Inc, which is bringing revolutionary treatments to bear upon traumatic brain injury, depression, Alzheimer’s disease, post-COVID fatigue syndrome, and other brain disorders. He holds three patents and three patents-pending. Dr. Henderson is president of the International Society of Applied Neuroimaging. He has published in n...

Motivation doesn't show up. It's created. Each person is the cause of and solution to most of their own problems. Vulnerability is a strength. Life is messy but you don't have to clean it all up at once. Sometimes it starts with just clearing a path. Jeremy Grater lives in British Columbia. He’s spent the majority of the last decade experimenting with a variety of wellness tools to improve his men...

Christopher Mack has been in recovery for the past 24 years. I found that their is a dynamic to recovery and healing, and speak to groups and individuals about the evidence and process. I have worked on Skid Row in LosAngeles for the past 21 years which is the largest recovery community in the world. People are recovering from all types of trauma and challenges. I have co-written a program to assi...

Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Martin currently lives in NJ with his wife and three children. He is an avid marathoner, Wordler, vexillologist, and halvah aficionado. He is a technologist by day, and a writer by night. A freelance writer on Jewish interest topics for three decades, his work has been published in The Huffington Post, The Denver Post, The Washington Times, The Jewish Press, Countr...

Logan is a born & raised Alaskan, married to his gorgeous bride Carrie, who herself is a 4th-generation Alaskan; and together they are raising 4 amazing but crazy little monkeys. Their life is a simple one - they love their family time, their dogs, and exploring the beautiful Alaskan wilderness. Logan and his wife Carrie each lead Recovery groups, doing what they can to give back by sharing th...

Born with a cleft lip and palate, Marcy's childhood was marked by an excruciating series of surgical procedures—23 in all before the age of 18. Because she looked and talked different than other kids, she was relentlessly teased and bullied. Her journey into adulthood was marked by challenging, traumatic, and downright tragic waypoints: coming out as a queer woman, involvement in a multiple-fatali...

In Pat’s words:  My new book, Surviving Alex: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Addiction (Rutgers University Press, May 2024). It would be useful to talk about my goals. And the two questions that drove my narrative: how to survive something trauma like this, and what might we have done differently? It's most useful to focus on what "we" more generally could do, beyond individual fami...

Laura Mangum Broome is a Resilience Coach and Author of "Flourishing After Adversity." In a five-year period, Laura overcame breast cancer, the loss of her oldest son, a heart transplant, and a sudden divorce after 27 years of marriage. Adversity makes you bitter or better. Laura chose better. From her experiences, she developed a 3-Step Resilience Framework to help others transform pain...

As an energetic normal boy of nine, Steven W. Wilson would not have guessed that the most horrifying day of his life was lurking just months ahead. From that terrifying day when he was at the theater, to his suicidal ideations, his attempt to kill his father and his subsequent hospitalization, Teetering on a Tightrope sweeps the reader headlong into the abyss of bipolar disorder. Wilson propels th...

Craig Meriwether is a mindset coach and clinical hypnotherapist helping people eliminate negative emotions and trauma so they can reach their full potential. Craig is a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Medical Hypnosis Specialist, Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) specialist, and Founder of Arizona Integrative Hypnotherapy helping people eliminate the negative emotions and limiting beliefs that...

Nicole Poulton is an addiction and recovery coach, transformational speaker, entrepreneur and an inspiring survivor of sexual abuse. With over 12 years in the addiction and recovery field, Nicole has impacted over a million lives with her message. Currently, Nicole serves as a coach and mentor guiding individuals, teams and families through the trials of addiction and sobriety, with a focus on hea...

Eva Rodriguez is a former HR executive turned trauma-informed Certified Life, Health, and Weight Loss Coach for Millennial women. She teaches women all over the world how to lose weight without dieting and how to become strong from the inside out. Eva’s life came to a complete halt in 2015 when her fiancé and the father of her only child died in a car accident. The following year, her mother died...

Birgitta Visser is a modern-day mystic, guiding others on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment. As a Soul Empowerment Coach and Divine Channel, she tunes into higher frequencies, delivering messages from the many Light Beings and Master Teachers. With her gift for Light Language Healing, she weaves light codes that activate transformation in those seeking alignment with their soul's purpose...

Dana Karen (“DK”) Ciccone is a certified Pilates instructor who helps people in pain improve strength, mobility, and well-being in a weight-neutral environment. She’s also trained in pain reprocessing therapy through the Pain Psychology Center. Having begun her own journey with chronic back pain as a young teen, she has been exploring ways to help herself and others regain joy of movement for deca...

Helen Sernett, founder, and host of the Sleep Lists podcast, was a non-profit fundraiser at the end of her rope struggling with a long list of medical issues. Underlying all of it was the fact that she could no longer get herself to sleep. With Sleep Lists she serves up bedtime dreams every episode by reciting a lulling list of similar items. Lately, she’s more well rested and less on edge. She re...

Karoline Fischer is a trained MD who decided to train as an RTT Hypnotherapist as she found out personally how transformative this way of work can be.  In her own words: I had worked my entire adult life with therapists for my own life, and when I found methods that worked with subconsciousness, transformation really started to happen in my life. I am Karoline Fischer, an immigrant living in New Y...

Leslie Draffin is an certified psychedelic guide, Integrative Somatic Coach, meditation teacher, feminine embodiment mentor, and podcast host who is passionate about helping people embrace their bodies, cycles, sex and psychedelics. She supports conscious souls who want to heal themselves through intentional microdosing, pleasure, womb reconnection & somatic embodiment practices. In 2022, Lesl...

There's little that Pamela hasn't done yet at the age of 31. Just to mention a few accomplishments: She's been to 100 countries, bootstrapped and built a 6-figure agency with no entrepreneurial background, worked at Google, been featured multiple times in Forbes, got a Master's degree from Harvard Extension School, and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. Pamela heads Ajala Digital, a global marketing agency...

My name is Carolyn Sophia Skowron. I am someone who has always felt like an outsider. From a young age I struggled making friends, fitting in and being my true authentic self. I grew up feeling like I never fit in and never was good enough. I spent most of my life internalizing every situation. I always thought people didn’t like me. What I failed to realize was that part of why I internalize so m...

Lillian Easterly-Smith’s journey is one of unexpected impact. Birthed from her own recovery from alcohol use and multiple addictions, her passion for helping others find true healing has become her life’s purpose. Lillian’s journey found her at the helm of two major non-profit organizations. She has authored multiple recovery curriculums and co-authored several other books along with a fairly rece...

In this deeply profound episode, Richard Kraft, a devoted healthcare professional, bravely shares his harrowing journey from identity crisis, triggered by job loss during the COVID pandemic, to redemption and self-awareness. Richard talks about his roles in the healthcare industry, his inherent desire to help others, and how all these formed an integral part of his sense of self. But the sudden jo...

Mariam Elhouli is an Australian entreprenuer , award winning author, international speaker, business mentor and film director. A mother of 5 who had her first child at 16 to many failed businesses in life to witnessing 3 wars by chance. Mariam's journey of battling depression while re building her life and finding herself is a spectacular story of hope and dreams . She proves that finding your tru...

Having been diagnosed with bipolar in 1998, Michelle Reittinger spent the next 12 years on a roller coaster of manic and depressive episodes with therapists, doctors, psychotropic meds, hospitalizations, and suicide attempts. She was at her wit's end and felt humiliated, hopeless and lost. In particular, she was devastated by the toll it took on her family-her husband and small children. Finally,...

Dr. Sauer-Zavala is Licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with people struggling with anxiety and depression. She is also an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Kentucky (UK) where she develops new treatments for common mental health conditions and tests them in rigorous clinical trials. Dr. Sauer-Zavala is the lead developer of a short-term int...