Vision Beyond Sight

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Diane Mueller, your Libido Doctor, bestselling author and international speaker, to talk about battling chronic illnesses, particularly Lyme disease, and including pleasure in your healthcare. Join Dr. Diane as she dispels myths on living with your disease and those strange mystery symptoms, and invites you to look at holistic health. She...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Faust Ruggiero, the award-winning author of The Fix Yourself Empowerment Series, to talk about how to fix yourself, your relationships, your business and your world! It’s quite an intimidating order but everything starts with fixing the first: YOU. Are you out of balance? Faust helps identify those symptoms and shares ways to get your interna...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Amanda Beausoleil, founder and Executive Director of Self-Injury Recovery & Awareness (SIRA), to talk about self-injury or nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). Discover eye-opening and empathetic insights on this often-considered taboo topic through Amanda’s own experience with it and her inspiring recovery. Self-injury knows no age and face, and...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Deb Shapiro, Voice Whisperer, founder of DEBx and the award-winning nonprofit, Amplify Voices, to talk about the power and healing behind discovering your authentic voice and telling your story. “If you have 8 minutes to change the world, what will you say?” It is not just about learning how to speak in front of an audience, it’s owning yours...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Richard Laudon, retired behavioral optometrist, to talk about financial planning and finding proper balance with work and family. Rich inspires us to take charge of our finances despite the initial doubts, challenges and mistakes. Eventually we will gain wisdom and even meet the right person to help in our journey, just as what happened t...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Dan Press, optometrist, owner and clinical director at Park Ridge Vision, to talk about the impact of vision to learning in preparation for August’s back to school and Vision and Learning Month. Are your children visually ready to learn? How well is your child doing at taking in the information through vision? Dr. Press discusses the impo...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Doug Major, neuro-optometrist and pub-lic health advocate, to talk about the eye-opening impact of traumatic brain injury (TBI) treatments and vision care in the justice system. With 40 years worth of experience, Dr. Major provided insight on how focusing on eye and brain health made dramatic changes to literacy and recidivism in correcti...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Jeff Golden, author, educator and activist, to talk about helping people reclaim the depth and beauty of themselves and the world to live more joyful and rich lives, rooted in the ideas explored in his book, Reclaiming the Sacred. Money can buy some happiness but what if you’re not happy within yourself? Jeff encourages all of us to embrace s...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Wendy Rosen, educator and author, to talk about how the pandemic exposed deep fractures that have long been destabilizing one of the most essential bricks in the foundation of society - school. Imbalances and injustices have compromised teachers, children, families, and communities. We are at a watershed moment in our human story where school...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Brad Yates, Change Facilitator and bestselling author, to talk about (and even demonstrate!) how to clear limiting beliefs through Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) or Tapping. Learn about the origins of Tapping and how it complements with other forms of therapy. Brad even provided an easy-to-follow Tapping session for everyone, even kids! D...

It’s Vision Beyond Sight’s 100th episode, and it also coincided with Dr. Lynn Hellerstein’s birthday last week (of seven decades plus a few years)! Our beloved host celebrates this double milestone with a special message of reflection and immense gratitude. In this show, she fondly recalls her professional journey and how it elevated through the power of community and showing up for each other, an...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Peter Shankman, entrepreneur, founder of HARO, bestselling author, podcaster and global keynote speaker on customer experience and workplace neurodiversity and ADHD, talks about the gift of neurodiversity to people and in businesses, the neurodivergent way of thinking, how neurodiverse employees can be productive for companies, and strategies...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Nellie Harden, author, speaker and family life and leadership coach, to talk about changing the world one living room at a time by building worth, esteem and confidence in our children, especially daughters and young women. Nellie discussed tools that parents can use such as creating a vision, instilling discipline, showing vulnerability and...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Ray Merenstein, idea hamster, speaker and nonprofit consultant who serves as Executive Director of NAMI Colorado (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and President of RDM Communications, to talk about how we can each of us better the communities in which we live, work, play and learn. He discussed providing free mental health access and reso...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Moshe Kornfeld, climate activist and founder and executive director of Colorado Jewish Climate Action (CJCA), to talk about approaching the climate crisis from an interfaith perspective and being inspired by our own religious and indigenous narratives, communities and traditions to take climate action. Moshe discusses CJCA’s role in the Jewis...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Barb Jordan, founder of Always Bev Personal Safety workshop, educator and public speaker, to talk about Always Being Vigilant and protecting yourself from violence and sexual assault through awareness, intuition and preparation. Barb discussed crucial safety tips and warning signs in different real-life scenarios like lone walks and drives, g...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Jen Wilking, physical therapist turned yoga and meditation teacher who’s on a mission to help people feel at home in their lives, to talk about life pruning and identifying your core values through your heroes and villains. Jen discussed using your list of heroes and villains to establish what’s meaningful to you in order to take action and m...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Guy Maytal, Chief of Integrated Care and Psychiatric Services of Forge Health, to talk about creating a new context for mental health and mental well-being upon getting diagnosed with a mental or severe illness, going through it, and after recovering from it. Dr. Maytal discussed the challenges of facing and reacting to our symptoms and i...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Renee A. Simon, licensed Dietitian-Nutritionist, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Reiki Master, and owner of Total Wellness Nutrition LLC, to talk about “precision nutrition” or personalized/specialized nutrition, the right diet, the gut and brain connection, factors that affect longevity, and helpful tests and strategies for healing like Reik...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Julie Skolnick, M.A., J.D., author and founder of With Understanding Comes Calm LLC, to talk about 2e (twice-exceptional) children and adults, how to identify gifted learners and their transitions and struggles in the current school system, and how her book Gifted and Distractible provides strategies to help teachers and parents (including 2e...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Melanie Gruenwald, Executive Director of Kabbalah Experience, to talk about Kabbalah and its mystical and philosophical study of parallels and holding opposites: the seen and unseen, finding light in darkness and finite within the infinite, the different masks of our identities, and crossing the borders of humanity. Melanie teaches how Kabbal...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Janet Powell, occupational therapist, retired faculty, and author, to talk about how vision care impacts occupational therapy and rehabilitation, the advantages of interdisciplinary collaborations, and effectively fostering these collaborations through share and show. Dr. Powell provides a layman’s definition on occupational therapy, and...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Rabbi Sarah Shulman, congregational rabbi at the Hebrew Educational Alliance in Denver, and Ironman athlete. She talks about the role of vision in Jewish texts and spirituality, chazon or the Hebrew word for vision, and the importance of seeing God through one’s struggles. Rabbi Shulman also discussed the power of collaboration and community...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Nicole Avena, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Visiting Professor of Health Psychology in Princeton University, author and expert in nutrition, diet and addiction, to talk about the dangers of added sugars, how sugar addiction looks like, and Dr. Avena’s new book Sugarless. She also touched on the link of sugar to diseases like type 2...

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Melissa Toole, preschool teacher and children’s book author, to talk about Time is On Your Side, her first children’s book that inspires everyone to embrace the moment, live in the present and be surrounded by creativity, kindness, honesty and enthusiasm, like happy, imaginative kids we all used to be. Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Developmental Opto...