Wellness Radio with Dr. J

Has your life long pet companion passed and you just can't get over it?  Was it sudden and you feel so scared and alone?  How long should you feel the loss and what can you do to start the road to recovery after a pet loss?  Does it seem like people all around you say all the wrong things and keep tipping you off?  Did you go out and find another pet to fill the void? Russell Friedman, Executive D...

Is popping calcium pills and uping your dairy intake the answer for strong bones?  Might the previous dogma be in question?  With the increase in heart, kidney, cancer, and bone disease, can it be possible that calcium has a large part in the process?  If you have a low calcium level does that mean you need to supplement to increase that level?  Is it is low, where is it going and why? Dr. Thomas...

Have you ever felt that no matter how you word what is physically ailing you, the help you are getting from practitioners just is not the right one?  Have you felt like it just did not find the root of the issues you have with your body?  What is going on?  Need someone to help you turn the corner in getting help?  Sometimes all you need is to ask an intuitive outside of the current treatment proc...

What is prayer?  What is fear?  What do these have to do with each other?  How can they balance out and bring peace to your life?  Are we talking about religion?  What are your spiritual beliefs?  Can you transform a fear for things in your life to living a fear based life?  Have you skimmed the surface of your life and only surviving? Debra Landwehr Engle is the author of The Only Little Prayer Y...

Are you 'stuck in the middle' of the business ladder and just can't seem to move forward?  Have you accepted the mantra 'it is what it is' and believe you will just be in the same place day after day?  What if you could learn how to spark your life, workplace and those around you to move forward and become the leader you were meant to be?  Would three minutes be too much to get started?  Start tod...

Do you mindlessly drink from the tap, plastic bottle or any other unknown source and feel you are doing the best thing for your body by drinking water?  Is consuming toxins, chemicals, bacteria and viruses really the best way to hydrate?  But how do you know what is best when it comes to finding pure water?  Ask the expert. Clayton Nolte is an inventor and founder of Natural Action Technologies, I...

Are you sensing that something is just 'off' and now one can seem to help you?  Are you up against the wall with your health and spirit but others are tired of hearing about your issues?  Help is a call away.  Detox, clearing and change you attitude, oh my, change the channel please!  Chris Kehler is a quantum energy healer who can help you get to the root of the problem.  He stays with you until...

What do you know from your ancestors about the spirit of the women?  Were they strong, healthy, a little out there, or very conservative?  How do you resonate with what they went through in life to see how you have become the powerful women you are now?  Perhaps you are having lots of issues and don't really know where it is coming from?   Barbara McNally is the author of Unbridled which is a memo...

What is a life of meaning and purpose?  I don't get it, what is the purpose of life, I have a job and kids and bills, isn't that enough?  A passion is not something on everyone's dialogue, how did that feel running off your lips?  What is the Passion test?  What really matters in your life? Chris Attwood is a co-author of Your Hidden Riches:  Unleashing the power of ritual to create a life of mean...

What is a vegan diet?  Why should I try a different diet?  Am I getting all the nutrients I need from my food?  Do you have to 'follow' a diet that others are labeling you with?  Perhaps you just eat healthy foods that support your life and body and do the best you can, is that ok?  What is a plant based diet? Mielle Chenier-Cowan Rose is the author of Veganish:  The Omnivore's Guide to Plant Base...

Do you believe our bodies are basically energy?  Can you see that possibly disease is an energy block?  How do you create energy blocks?  Can you avoid them?  Why is this conversation so important these days?  If life is truly a challenge these days, possibly moving the energy of your body can help with health and wellness.  You have been starting to work with energy in meditation, massage and oth...

Is your life set in the rules and ways that were given to you by beliefs of your parents, your profession or your inner beliefs?  Do you dream and that is as far as it goes?  Can you dream and take action?  Just how hard is that?  Super hard, but you can take one step, perhaps take out a crayon and draw a picture.  Peg Conley, author of Imagine the Life You'd Love to Live, then Live it shares 52 t...

What is your softer side?  How has breast cancer affected your spirit?  Do you feel that you are forgotten in your struggle?  Are you being heard?  How do you feel when the pink group is all about positive thoughts and you are in the middle of the anger or pain phase?  Do you need a kind word?  Here, get a copy of this book, the words are there, read them, say them outloud, tape your own voice say...

Is cancer the end of your life no matter what step you are in the process?  What lessons does it bring?  Are you so angry that you cannot possibly see the forest through the trees and pain?  Dr Wendy Treynor is the author of The Gift of Cancer:  Turn Your Tragedy into a Treasure... A treasure map to happiness which she shares her journey with cancer.  Wendy says she experienced it as a transformat...

What is your identity inside yourself?  What if how we have identified ourselves is taken away, like a job, a family or a persona that you have presented for decades?  How can we change our thoughts to live a life that is what we may have seen in our dreams or we wished we could live?  Do you understand how the brain works or do you just get up and move with the chatter in your head?  Who is reall...

Who is running your day?  Are you present or always looking for the next shoe to fall?  Can you let anything go or are you dragging around your baggage that is splitting at the seams?  Do you really have the control to command what will happen in your life?  Do you have a framework of living life purposefully?  Barb Schmidt is a speaker and author of The Practice:  Simple tools for managing stress...

Is getting older better?  Oh, do we really have to get old?  What is the magic number that makes you feel old?  Are the older expectations of life after 50 changed so much that it is hard to know how old anyone is these days?  Pamela Blair, holistic psychotherapist and author of Getting Older Better:  the best advice ever on money, health, creativity, sex, work, retirement and more which takes out...

Do you have to be happy every minute of every day?  Do you always have to be stuck in the cement?  How can I be happy?  What does that really mean?  I am not interested in being a jolly person every day, what the heck?  Are you content with your life and just laid down and let it roll over you?  What is fullfillment when you already feel like you are running ten trains in your head? M. J. Ryan, ex...

How many bottles are under your sink?  Are you living in 'sheet', 'pod' and 'spray away' city?  Or perhaps you are under the illusion that natural is perfect, no matter what else is in the product?  Do you know what the tag words are not to have in the house?  Did you also forget about your body and just what does that sunscreen have in it?  How clean is your life? Madeleine Somerville is the auth...

Do you forget your keys, pass by the milk which was the reason you went to a store in the first place or have so many lists that you don't have control of them?  Do you have short term memory or seem like the world is going just too fast?  Perhaps you can take control of your life and not let your life run the train in your head? Paula Rizzo, broadcast journalist and author of Listful Thinking:  U...

Have you had a significant life event or incident that altered your path in life?  What is trauma these days of job and home loss, cancer diagnosis or tornadoes?  How do you handle the passage of these emotions and physical symptoms so you can live your life fully?  Is PTSD only for the military?  Susan Pease Banitt is the author of The Trauma Tool Kit:  Healing PTSD from the inside out.  Susan sh...

What is in a smile?  Can a smile share your inner secrets?  You say you have a great deal of compassion but forget about having it for yourself?  Is the power to heal just in a pill or does it take more than a few affirmations?  When held accountable, do you really practice daily what you preach?  What is an action plan to happiness without boundaries? Jonah Paquette is a clinical psychologist and...

Breast cancer is not easy, simple or just like everyone else's experience.  It is unique, it touches every cell in your body and screams with all your emotions to pay attention and be present.  Why are we making such light of this process as the numbers of women who have gone through the disease say, 'oh, I did that, you'll do fine'. Have we minimalized the pain, suffereing, medical interventions,...

Have you ever said 'something is missing' or 'there is just something out there but I can't put my finger on it'?  Almost everyone has said that and then we go on a fishing expedition to find a thing, people, place or item that will ease that quest for an answer, or to fix the need you have for something to make life grand.  Is your life grand?  What does that look like?  Why or why not?  Is that...

So many times we hear of people saying they see their physician every year or two and things are always 'great', no issues.  Then a few years down the road, they either have died or they are fighting the fight of their life.  Why?  How can that be if things were so good?  Did Cancer come up in the dark of the night and take me out?  Did it happen in just a week or month?  How did this happen? Jenn...