Barnsley Brown, PhD, helps people create balanced, prosperous lives, doing the work they love. We discuss information from her newest ebook, “Get Out of Debt and Get On with Your Life: Every Woman’s Guide to Create Prosperity With What You Have Right Now.” She discusses how debt is often a state of mind, when we have erroneous thoughts about people and situations, and how abundance and wealth are states of consciousness. The first step for attaining spiritual and financial fitness is to release the old junk—mentally, emotionally and physically— to make space for what is for our highest good. Get rid of clutter, which is a block for your energy, and let go of stuff you don’t need! In this step, self-care is also important, including energy work (Reiki, healing touch, tapping techniques) and meditation.

In Step Two, you need to know what your highest values are (health, family, fun, creativity, etc) and write them down. Align spending of your time, energy, money, and other resources with your values. In Step Three, share your spiritual and intellectual assets and tithe your time, talents and treasures. Look for opportunities for using your spiritual and intellectual gifts to help others and be happier and live longer. For controlling spending, it’s important to write down all purchases and track spending habits and use affirmations. For more information and a free report from Dr. Brown, please visit www.spirited-solutions.com.

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One of the most important dimensions of living a healthy life is the amount of love in our lives, given and received. Strong loving relationships can help us live longer, keep our immune systems strong, help us fight illness and enjoy life more fully. Our guest, Julie Orlov, has devoted over 24 years to helping people transform their lives through her work as a psychotherapist, executive coach, trainer, speaker and consultant. She shares four stages of developing an intimate relationship, as described in her book, The Pathway to Love: Create Intimacy and Transform Your Relationship Through Self-Discovery. The first phase is Object-Fantasy, the initial phase of becoming attracted to a potential romantic partner. Phase two is Self-Discovery, followed by Personal Transformation. Phase four is Relational Transformation when we seek to find new meaning and purpose within our relationship. Join us to learn more about how to better understand these phases of romantic relationships. Stay tuned for Mary Treacy O’Keefe’s “meant to be” story that demonstrates how love never dies. For more information please visit: www.julieorlov.com

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JoAnne Funch is founder of Heartache To Healing, an on-line grief support site and author of an ebook, Coping with Grief During the Holidays. She is committed to educating, inspiring and providing hope to those who are grieving loss from death by sharing her personal story of surviving loss. In 2005, she lost the two people closest to her—her mother and, a month later, her husband. In this interview, she shares numerous tips for coping with grief, especially during the holiday season. Whether you have lost a loved one, or are trying to support someone who is newly bereaved, this show provides invaluable advice and guidance. For more information, please visit www.heartachetohealing.com/blog

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Our guest, Trudy Scott, is a Food Mood Expert and Nutritionist, speaker and author of The Antianxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood&End Cravings.Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder. Eating certain foods and avoiding others can help reduce anxiety and diminish the severity of symptoms of many illnesses. Trudy shares nine helpful steps for dealing with anxiety, including the importance of reducing gluen, avoiding sugar, and adding probiotics and amino acids and other supplements to our diets. She’ll also let listeners know how to get a free consultation with her. Trudy publishes an electronic newsletter entitled Food, Mood and Gal Stuff, available at www.everywomanover29.com and www.antianxietyfoodsolution.com

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This week’s guest, Sue Ingebretson, author of FibroWHYalgia: Why Rebuilding the Ten Root Causes of Chronic Illness Restores Chronic Wellness, discusses the challenges of living with Fibromyalgia, a chronic syndrome. After becoming frustrated with not receiving an accurate diagnosis for many years, Sue eventually embarked on a journey of moving from chronic illness to chronic wellness. Her healing included a “restoration trio” of nutrition, fitness and emotional wellness. She shares some effective techniques, including tapping and good nutrition, along with spirituality which will be helpful for anyone living with a chronic health issue. For more information, please visit http://www.rebuildingwellness.com/

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There are an estimated 39 million survivors of childhood sexual abuse in America. As you’ll hear from this week’s guest, Lauren Book, the effect upon victims is devastating. More often than not, the perpetrator is not the stranger we warn our children about, but someone they know and should be able to trust which makes the abuse even more horrific. Lauren was a victim of childhood sexual abuse for six years at the hands of her nanny. Her memoir, It’s OK to Tell: A Story of Hope and Recovery, helps us understand the many dimensions of abuse from the perspective of a victim. As someone who refuses to let herself be defined by her traumatic experiences, Lauren’s story is one of hope and forgiveness in the face of extreme adversity. As founder of Lauren’s Kids, she now empowers others to address abuse issues in their own lives plus try to prevent it within their families. Her story demonstrates the incredible power of an individual’s ability to recover and embrace life. For more information, please visit www.laurenskids.com

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It’s the holiday season and the temptation to overeat is greater than ever. But for some people, every day is a struggle to make healthy choices about what to eat. Our guest, Gabi Rose, knows what it’s like to be unhappy with her weight. After losing 130 pounds, she now is committed to helping people “eat to live” instead of “living to eat.” She helps people as an internationally renowned obesity and weight loss expert. She discusses how obesity as a disease affects a person financially, emotionally and spiritually as well as physically. Gabi describes how she helped her children conquer their own compulsive eating. To receive Gabi’s free ebook, Eat to Live, Don’t Live to Eat, sign up for her newsletter here.

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Dr. Dike Drummond discusses how fear and an inner critic voice can prevent us from living fully and successfully navigating life transitions. He says these inner voices often “mark the boundary of our comfort zones.” As part of our ego, they try to get our attention so we will respond to them. Several helpful tools for dealing with negative messages are discussed, including a journaling exercise called Active Imagination. This exercise was developed by Carl Jung, who recommends engaging in a written dialogue with a negative emotion to learn what that emotion might be trying to tell us. For more information, please visit www.threehourmidlifecrisis.com.

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Have you wondered about the efficacy of homeopathic remedies? Jerri Johnson, a founding member of the Minnesota Homeopathic Association, discusses how homeopathy is a very effective way to promote self-healing for acute and chronic illnesses, injuries and overall wellness. She describes the process for treating specific illnesses, and how remedies are created, Homeopathy doesn’t just treat symptoms, but can be used to heal mental and emotional symptoms of illnesses. Jerri explains how to self-treat oneself with remedies, including Arnica Montana and others, especially to heal trauma and injuries, including before and after surgery. For more information, please visit vitalitypath.vpweb.com

For at least one fourth of the world’s population, acupuncture is more commonly used than aspirin for medical treatment. Our guest, Dr. Jun Xu, author of Magic Needles: Feel Younger and Live Longer with Acupuncture, explains how Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture, can be very effective treatment for asthma, bronchitis, addiction, headaches, weight loss, nausea, pain and many other health conditions. As a licensed MD physician, board certified acupuncturist and Chinese herboligist, Dr. Xu is an expert in using TCM to complement Western medical treatment. He describes how acupuncture helps balance our bodies, plus gives examples of how it helps people cope with chronic pain, deal with the side effects of cancer treatment, lose weight and even prevent illness. For more information, please visit http://www.tcmpage.com/.

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