The Wellness Coach: Take Time to Tune In

Find Connection in the Face of Technology Overload Are you young or do you know someone who is?  Mental health issues are on the rise for young people.  Learn why young people are facing such mental health challenges today. Learn practical and intuitive strategies to improve mental health for young adults.    Also, learn how Doc Conor handled his life and health, after being diagnosed with scoliosis at a young age. Learn how to address mental health issues in young people facing issues like anxiety and depression. Visit Doc Conor here:  http://www.docconor.com/ Conor wrote a chapter on Friendship in Modern Times in the book Mental Health for Millennials. The book is the first in a series of books targeted at those from the milllennials age group. To purchase a copy go to: http://www.bookhubpublishing.com/product/mental-health-for-millennials

Mary Shores is the international bestselling author of Conscious Communications: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life. As an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and CEO, Mary Shores teaches individuals and businesses to fearlessly create their own realities by using scientific methods and practical personal development. Mary has appeared internationally in magazines, on television shows, and has been a guest on over 80 podcasts, including the Chicken Soup For The Soul Podcast, Lavendaire Lifestyle, Positive Head, Ever Forward Radio and more. Her practical and scientific methods, straightforward teaching, and actionable tips ensure that anyone can improve their life. http://maryshores.com/companion https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Communications-Step-Step-Harnessing/dp/1401952135 One of the youngest people in the U.S. to start a business in her industry, Mary Shores overcame the odds to build a thriving company. Nearly 20 years later, she has spent the last decade inspiring businesses and individuals across the nation to use their own words to create new ways of thinking, identify their goals, and take action to create meaningful results. Devoted to awakening the power of words, Mary balances her passion and her business with the challenges of raising two teenage boys.  To learn more, visit MaryShores.com

Celebrity nutrition and fitness expert JJ Virgin teaches clients how to lose weight and master their mindset so they can lead bigger, better lives. She is author of 4 NY Times bestsellers: The Virgin Diet, The Virgin Diet Cookbook, JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet, and JJ Virgin’s Sugar Impact Diet Cookbook. Her memoir Miracle Mindset: A Mother, Her Son, & Life’s Hardest Lessons explores the powerful lessons in strength and positivity that she learned after her son Grant was the victim of a brutal hit-and-run accident. JJ hosts the popular JJ Virgin Lifestyle Show podcast and regularly writes for Huffington Post, Rodale Wellness, and other major blogs and magazines. She’s also a frequent guest on TV and radio and speaks at major events. In addition to her work with nutrition and fitness, JJ is also a business coach and founded the premier health entrepreneur event and community, The Mindshare Summit. Find articles, recipes, helpful online programs, and more at www.jjvirgin.com. I want to invite you into the most powerful conversation about miracles – and mindset – that I think has ever taken place.  My friend, JJ Virgin’s, movie premiere, You Are Stronger Than You Think opens today. (And I have a front row ticket for you).  The world’s leading minds debate that miracles are even possible. …But this movie has created a powerful idea to consider:  not only are miracles possible, they come from you, not happen to you. Learn how to thrive and not just survive! Watch her movieYou Are Stronger Than You Think  here: http://portlandwellnesscoach.com/mindset

Being healthy in this crazy, busy, modern world is not easy. For journalist Shannon Harvey, finding the solution became personal when she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease.This inspired a 10-year journey testing treatments, searching through 1000’s of scientific papers, and interviewing pioneering researchers. About ten years ago Shannon Harvey faced a personal health crisis and doctors couldn’t give her a cause or a cure. As a journalist, she went in search of answers, compiling the latest research proving a connection between our mind, body and health. She made a film which includes remarkable stories of people recovering from illnesses like cancer, heart disease, infertility, chronic pain and MS. The Whole Health Life is a follow-up to The Connection.  It is 320 pages, filled with simple, evidence-based solutions to help improve your health. The ten chapters cover topics ranging from stress, emotions, beliefs and relationships, to food, sleep and exercise, as well as healthcare, the environment, and how to make the healthy changes last. Discover why: Meditation can turn off genes affecting diseaseSitting is considered the new smokingOne simple change to your diet can add years to your lifeA walk in nature can boost your cancer fighting cells by more than 50%Getting enough sleep makes you smarter, faster, and even better lookingBeing positive can help you heal more quickly from a woundLoneliness is on par with obesity and addiction as a leading risk factor in chronic diseaseAnd much more... https://www.thewholehealthlife.com/ https://theconnection.tv/

Feeling Right At Home is neo-classical original solo piano pieces for you to dream and deeply relax to... Mark’s solo piano music plays internationally on numerous new age radio stations, online internet programs, and syndicated new age satellite programs such as PANDORA, XM/SIRIUS, MUSIC CHOICE, DMX, and on CBC GALAXIE hosted by Renee Gelpi. Another solo piano broadcast called WHISPERINGS on LIVE365.COM hosted by pianist/composer David Nevue which is an extremely popular show airs Mark’s music regularly. Mark has sold over 250,000 CDs and cassettes worldwide. The CD “SIMPLICITY” sold 40,000 copies in the first 3 months of its release in 2006. Mark’s music has been used for television and film broadcast in Asia, Europe and North and South America. Global Television’s syndicated TV series entitled “Men of Music” did a 30 minute special on Mark’s life and music that has been getting national airplay for the past several years. Mark’s most recent project was the completion of a book to teach music for beginners based on his own original teaching methods, emphasizing musical creativity and self expression. Mark’s music will be used in a film/documentary along with composer David Arkenstone.in a film entitled There is a Season. This film will be broadcast on PBS in California in June 2014. Mark’s music reflects his love for nature, love and relationships, moods, travel and his quest for peace and tranquility. Mark’s compositions are like sound paintings, creating picturesque images that take the listener’s imagination on a journey. https://www.srivast.org/ http://www.markpinkus.com/mp/ http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/markpinkus12

Are you a health coach or personal trainer seeking to leverage your time and skills? Learn how to be successful online as a personal trainer or health and wellness coach! Learn how to scale your business with one of the most successful online coaches and entrepreneurs! AJ Mihrzad is the author of the best selling book, “The Mind Body Solution: Train your Brain for Permanent Weight Loss.” He studied Exercise Science and Nutrition due to his passion for health and earned a Masters degree in Psychology due to his fascination with the mindset of weight loss. His cutting edge approach to permanent weight loss insists that the key to a healthy body is a healthy brain. His clients are walking proof that this is true; there are hundreds of them! His writing has also been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, The Huffington Post, Men’s Fitness, and Bodybuilding.com. AJ is a keynote speaker at high end entrepreneurial and personal development events. He is also the host of the popular podcast, the Online SuperCoach Podcast, available on iTunes. Along with inspiring the lives of the general public, he is dedicated to helping coaches create an ethical and profitable online income through his business mentorship program available at OnlineSuperCoach.com. https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/274333

Zach has always lived a life unscripted, chasing adventure and longing to travel this world’s far corners. A diagnosis with Type 1 Diabetes in 2013 did little to dampen his spirit. Though diabetes can be physically and emotionally demanding, Zach refuses to be held back by his diagnosis and continues to travel, chasing waves, following bands and living life on his own terms. Through Travelbetic, Zach hopes to challenge the stereotypes about type 1 diabetes and inspire others to overcome life’s obstacles and lead a healthy life through travel and adventure as well as raise awareness about type 1 diabetes and debunk common myths surrounding the disease.  Through his blog, Travelbetic.com, Zach challenges common misconceptions about the limitations diabetes places on an individual and offers encouragement and tips for other diabetics to get out into the world and challenge themselves and their personal limits. Zach believes adventure has a healing power far greater than any traditional medicine. Adventure trains us to expect and accept mishaps and manage risk, it teaches us that shortcomings and tremendous challenges are inevitable and helps us to feel less victimized by our situation.  http://travelbetic.com/ https://www.generosity.com/medical-fundraising/miles-for-vials-bike-ride-for-t1international

Do you struggle with self-esteem or feeling worthy?  Joy was adopted, and struggled with a lifelong sense of feeling worthless.  However, she survived, built her mental resilience, and also thrived using creative methods such as dance, music, and photography. Today, she coaches and empowers heart-centered women through body-awareness. Joy Leng is the founder of Joylight Transformational Coaching, an empowerment coaching for women company. She is also the firestarter of For Our Children (FOC) Singapore, an initiative set up to raise funds to build schools in third world countries. Joy has a BA in Psychology and is an International Coach Federation (ICF) accredited NLP Life Coach. She is also a Choice Theory practitioner and a DiSC consultant. She has her own goal setting coaching program, Let's Step! She is passionate about empowering women and volunteers with Aware and Institute of Mental Health (IMH). She believes in empowering women to Recharge, Renew and Remember their womanhood through her professional and humanist endeavors. http://www.joyleng.com/ Your free gift for listening!  https://joylight.leadpages.co/thewellnesscoach/

Dog Medicine is the story of a woman in deep depression saved only by the love of a dog, who taught her what true love looked like.  At twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed. Summoned by Julie’s incoherent phone call, her mother raced from Ohio to New York and took her home. Psychiatrists, therapists and family tried to intervene, but nothing reached her until the day she decided to do one hopeful thing: adopt a Golden Retriever puppy she named Bunker. Dog Medicine captures in beautiful, elegiac language the anguish of depression, the slow path to recovery, and the astonishing way animals can heal even the most broken hearts and minds. Join me as I interview the author of Dog Medicine, Julie Barton, and we discuss this moving, heartwrenching, life-saving, life-affirming book.   If you live in Portland, come and meet Julie on Friday, November 13th for a reading @ 7 pm at:  Another Read Through http://www.thinkpiecepublishing.com/tpp-authors/julie-hill-barton/ http://byjuliebarton.com/

Living Wheat-Free for Dummies explains what the wheat-free lifestyle looks like and how to smoothly transition into this new dietary way of living.  Whether you suffer from a wheat allergy, intolerance to grains, or just want to cut out inflammation-causing foods from your diet, this book gives you the tools and tips to improve overall health. It is undeniable that obesity and diabetes rates are soaring.  In fact, rates have been on a rapid acceleration since the early 1970’s.  Coincidentally, that is when the recommendations to eat more grains and reduce fat intake were implemented on a nationwide level.  We are on a collision course with disaster from both a health perspective and the costs associated with treatment. Living Wheat-Free for Dummies explores why wheat and other grains are one of the biggest contributors to the obesity epidemic.  Along with refined sugar and vegetable oils, Living Wheat-Free for Dummies explains the how and why of these toxic substances and lays out a foundation of eating that should be the basis for whatever dietary lifestyle you choose to follow. Join me, Edie Summers, as I interview the authors:  Rusty Gregory and Alan Chasen! http://www.rustygregory.com/ http://www.chasenfitness.com/the-book/

This is my recorded interview with Sam Talbot for an article I wrote about him for MindBodyGreen.com Author and celebrity chef Sam Talbot has a new book out: The Sweet Life - Diabetes without Boundaries. The Sweet Life is chock full of fresh, vibrant recipes, as well as one-of-a-kind tips from Sam on how to navigate the road of living with diabetes. Any way you slice it, Sam Talbot is the model for living a healthy lifestyle, and has a visceral understanding of how to live in harmony with the food that sustains us. I caught up with him one morning as he was headed to a yoga class in New York City. Sam Talbot was a finalist on Bravo's Top Chef for Season 2:  http://www.bravotv.com/top-chef Check out the article and some of the transcript of my interview here on Mind Body Green as well!   http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-5449/Celebrity-Chef-Sam-Talbot-on-Yoga-Surfing-Living-with-Diabetes.html

A former US Air Force Captain turned Author / Coach / Speaker, Bryan Reeves has triumphed through multiple dark nights of the soul after hurling himself into the transformational fires of intimate relationship over and over again. With massive insight gleaned through countless adventures, Bryan now coaches men, women and couples. He is a regular blog contributor to The Good Men Project, Elephant Journal, The Daily Love, Raw Attraction Magazine, Conscious Lifestyle Magazine, Sexy Conscious Awake and more. His book “The Sex, Flirting, Dating, Hunting and Hoping Diet” is available on Amazon. Find Bryan on Facebook (bryanreevesofficial) and his website (www.BryanReeves.com). Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/bryanreevesofficial http://bryanreeves.com/my-free-gifts/

Marilyn Tam, Ph.D. is a Speaker, Author, Consultant, Board Certified Executive/Corporate/Leadership Coach, and Founder and Executive Director of Us Foundation. She was formerly the CEO of Aveda Corp., President of Reebok Apparel and Retail Group; Vice President of Nike Inc. and also a successful entrepreneur who has developed and built four companies. Among her numerous recognition and awards is the Artemis Award from the Greek Government and Euro-American Women's Council, with her image on a Greek postage stamp. Marilyn is featured in many documentary movies including GLOW Project, The Compass, Tapping the Source, and FEMME for her inspiring accomplishments and inner wisdom. She was also recognized as one of the Top 30 Female Entrepreneurs in the USA by Fempreneur magazine. She is also the author of How to Use What You've Got to Get What You Want and Living the Life of Your Dreams. Her mother regarded Marilyn as a waste of a pregnancy and she was abused and mistreated accordingly. As a teen Marilyn left her home in Hong Kong to come to America alone and became an international business success and humanitarian. In The Happiness Choice: The Five Decisions That Will Take You From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Wiley; Hardcover & ebook; ISBN: 978-1-1184-9316-8) she shares how anyone can choose to be happy and successful. She shows that happiness is a choice; anyone can find the resources and tools within any circumstance to guide them to a better place. Happiness, as verified by studies at Harvard, Yale and Gallup research is not only good for one’s personal health; it increases productivity and creativity too! http://marilyntam.com/   www.UsFoundation.org http://www.fmgradio.com/marilyntam/

It’s no secret that women today are juggling a lot. We now make up more than half the workforce in the United States and are busier than ever with partners, children, family, and friends, often putting the needs of others ahead of our own. And if we feel overwhelmed by it all or fall short of perfection, many of us have learned to be our own worst critic rather than our own best friend. In Warrior Goddess Training, bestselling author HeatherAsh Amara provides the antidote to the flawed idea that you are not enough. HeatherAsh Amara is the founder of Toci — the Toltec Center of Creative Intent, based in Austin, TX, which fosters local and global community that supports authenticity, awareness, and awakening. She is dedicated to inspiring depth, creativity, and joy by sharing the most potent tools from a variety of world traditions. HeatherAsh studied and taught extensively with don Miguel Ruiz, author of The Four Agreements, and continues to teach with the Ruiz family. She brings this openhearted, inclusive worldview to her writings and teachings, which are a rich blend of Toltec wisdom, European shamanism, Buddhism, and Native American ceremony. She is the author of Warrior Goddess Training, The Toltec Path of Transformation and No Mistakes: How You Can Change Adversity into Abundance.    Websites: www.heatherashamara.com www.warriorgoddess.com   Facebook: www.facebook.com/heatherash.amara www.facebook.com/warriorgoddesswomen   Twitter - heatherashamara

JP Sears is an emotional healing coach, international teacher, world traveler, and curious student of life.  His work empowers people to live more meaningful lives.  JP presents classes, workshops, online seminars, and leads retreats at numerous locations around the world on inner healing and growth.  He is also very active on his YouTube channel, AwakenWithJP, where he encourages healing and growth through his entertainingly informative and inspiring videos.   JP Sears is one of our featured experts on https://www.smashon.com/community/, your local health and fitness community.  It's free to join! I absolutely love JP's approach in helping people to heal:  his videos can be quite funny, but his message is deep and his healing techniques are profoundly effective.  I have found his work to be profoundly healing for myself, and I learn and laugh so much from watching his videos.  You can learn more about JP and his work at www.InnerAwakeningsOnline.com and www.YouTube.com/AwakenWithJP.