A Quest for Well-Being

— Self-Love is what Stephani Grace's work is all about—ways to learn to love yourself, and to have more compassion and acceptance for yourself. The reason it feels so hard to love ourselves is because of our ego. We have been conditioned to think and believe in a certain way. A majority of the time this is negative thinking or judgements against ourselves. As we begin to be more loving it can feel inauthentic, and our ego will likely argue with us and ramp up the negativity. We are truly reprogramming our minds to be more loving, and this takes awareness, time, and practice. Please be patient with yourself. Valeria Teles interviews Stephani Grace — the author of " Creating Real Happiness A to Z: A Mindful Guide to Discovering, Loving, and Accepting Your True Self." Stephani Grace is also a motivational speaker, therapist and mindfulness expert. She has used self-exploration and mindfulness to overcome many adversities including addiction and remnants of a traumatic upbringing to live a more vital, inspired and fulfilling life. Through her personal inner work and with hundreds of her clients, Stephani knows that everyone can experience the freedom of living life as their true self, free from judgment and past conditioning to feel joy and happiness every day. She has made it her life's mission to create helpful, accessible and easily applied tools to make wholehearted living possible for all people, everywhere. Stephani Grace is a state-licensed and board-certified professional counselor and mindfulness coach with 21 years of experience counseling and coaching individuals and couples using her unique blend of psychology and spirituality. She received her BA in Psychology and MA in Counseling Psychology from Humboldt State University. She has a successful private practice in Portland, Oregon where she lives with her daughter, Olivia, her dog, Lulu, and her cats, Birdie and Gus. To learn more about Stephani Grace and her work, please visit: stephanigrace.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Change Comes from Within." Valeria Teles interviews Dr. Alex Dimitriu — He brings a deep respect for science and spirituality into his work. Professionally, Alex is dual board-certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine. As a consultation psychiatrist, he specialized in the complex interplay between the mind and body. In his work, Dr. Dimitriu helps his patients optimize peak performance by day and peak restorative sleep by night. He has been nationally recognized by The New York Times, Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Psychology Today, NBC News among other media. Alex also serves as a medical reviewer for Business Insider, the Sleep Foundation, and is a contributing author to The Encyclopedia of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Dimitriu completed his training in the Stanford division of Sleep Medicine. Through the optimization of wake and sleep, he has brought truly amazing outcomes to the most challenging of cases. A thorough understanding of neuroscience and pharmacology are applied to attain the most minimal, efficient and holistic solutions possible. Beyond repair, he strives for enhancement, optimization and longevity. Science and psychology are applied to enhance joy, creativity, cognition, and performance. Away from work, Alex lives to be in the ocean; sailing, kite-boarding, surfing, and spending time with his family. He is currently writing a book about the interplay of therapy and medication, and is involved in the development of BrainFoodMD - a natural brain-boosting supplement. To learn more about Alex Dimitriu and his work, please visit: brainfoodmd.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Shame is a liar but it's good at its job." Pam Rader didn't just crave freedom… her survival depended on it. Having escaped at knifepoint from her violent alcoholic husband, she desperately sought a new beginning for her infant son. But after a string of failed relationships and marriages, her worst nightmare unfolded before her eyes as her beloved boy developed an out-of-control heroin addiction. In her deeply personal and touching story, Pam Rader recounts her struggle for independence and acceptance during the most turbulent time of her life. And through the power of yoga and self-reinvention, this mother's discovery of compassion will comfort anyone all too close to the horror of destructive behavior. Her book, "Through the Cracks" is an inspirational memoir that will shine light at the end of any dark and treacherous tunnel. Valeria Teles interviews Pam Rader — the author of "Through The Cracks : A Gripping Tale Of Abuse, Addiction And Rising Above A Legacy Of Shame." Pam Rader is also the owner of Shift Power Yoga, the founder and CEO of Shift Coaching and Leadership (a division of Shift Labs), Speaker, Podcast host, and Life Coach. Pam's primary purpose in each of her endeavors is to help individuals and organizations discover the power they have to totally transform their lives, experiences and businesses at any moment. She continues to expand her work with the vision of positively and powerfully impacting as many lives as possible.To learn more about Pam Rader and her work, please visit: Pamrader.com and Shiftlabs.ca — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— Melissa Lowe had an unprecedented upbringing as her dad was 2nd generation skydiver (a pioneer as well, he was just inducted into the 2021 Skydiving Hall of Fame) and he was an international drug smuggler in the 80's and went to prison when Melissa was just 12 years old (she wrote about it in her books called Sugar Alpha and Charlie Bravo). In hindsight, Melissa realized that she could have been a victim of her circumstances - a traumatic yet exhilarating childhood. Her father passed away in a tragic skydiving accident in 2003. However, Melissa has overcome a lot to having become a well-respected female skydiver in a male-dominated sport. She is a professional skydiver that has just completed her 24th world record in 2021 and she has two more world records scheduled for this upcoming year. Melissa has 11,300 skydives, she is an instructor, a part of the Highlight Pro Skydiving Team, an organizer of the Project 19 Women's Vertical World Record, and recently re-elected as a United States Parachute Association [USPA] National Director. In addition, Melissa is a keynote speaker having spoken on the TEDx stage, an author, personal trainer (as of 2020), and yoga instructor (since 2007). Valeria Teles interviews Melissa Lowe about diversity, inclusion, letting go, being in the moment and rising above the odds. To learn more about Melissa Lowe and her work, please visit: melissa-lowe.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— We are told that the miracle is the means for healing our sickness, but it is not the healing itself. The healing, you could say, is the side effect of the correction that took place in our thinking where the miracle occurred. The miracle undoes misperception in our mind and any type of healing results. Healing tells us that our mind accepted correction and recognized that we are not separate from our Source from which the miracle came. Healing is not a miracle because the miracle is a thought of God that contains the light of truth. It has the power to correct error. Healing does not contain the light of truth because it is what results from the undoing of error or darkness. The undoing of the darkness is not the light itself. To speak of "a miracle of healing" would then be combining two orders of reality because the miracle has reality in truth or at the spiritual level, but sickness and healing only have reality in our mind being false thoughts or illusion. In the pre-separation condition, we had no need for healing because there was no fear. The belief in separation and fear goes together. So, until our mind can recognize that the separation is unreal and lets it go completely, we will need healing because we will be fearful. Health is inner peace and sickness is some form of external searching for peace. If we are seeking for peace externally in the physical world, we must believe we can find it there and not within us. So, we must also be perceiving the cause of our lack of peace outside of us. Even when we recognize that the disturbance to our peace; be it fear, pain, conflict, etc. is experienced within us, we will believe that something separate or in our external situation caused it. In level confusion, our mind does not recognize its casual role in how it is experiencing life. It does not see itself as the maker of its own fears. I will see something outside of itself as the cause of its suffering or problems. This includes the belief that our own body and what we do has causal or creative power to bring about suffering and hurt in us or others. We come to perceive the body as if it has a mind of its own. Valeria Teles interviews Eloisa Ramos — the author of "Beyond Self-Esteem: Discovering Your Boundless Self-Worth." Eloisa Ramos was born in 1960 in a farming village, in Guanajuato, Mexico. Her family moved to Northern California in 1968. She graduated from Stanford University in with a BA in Sociology. She married, but when two of her four children developed asthma and substance sensitivities, she began looking for "another" way to help her children. It became clear to Eloisa that mainstream medicine did not offer a permanent solution for their health issues. In finding "another" way to help her children, she discovered EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). She is a certified EFT Master Practitioner with the AMT. EFT tapping has opened up a new world of possibilities for Eloisa, her children and her clients. She has evolved surrogate EFT to The Ramos Clearing Technique which uses muscle testing to find unconscious non-serving beliefs and energetic imprints. Using the principles learned in A Course in Miracles, she helps her clients release, clear and let go of the obstacles to the awareness of Love, which is the miracle, the Source of healing. May her work help to light the way for all to uncover the Truth that is within. To learn more about Eloisa Ramos and her work, please visit: healing-with-eft.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life to the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— Start living your life to its fullest potential. Take back control, start fresh, set realistic goals and live life with purpose. Valeria Teles interviews Vernice Morris — she is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Entrepreneur who identifies herself as an African American woman. She is currenting pursuing her 200Hr YTT(yoga teacher training) through Authentic Movements. Originally attending college to fulfill her childhood dream of being a sports agent, Vernice found herself as an AmeriCorps Volunteer serving the homeless population of Spokane, WA. After her service year, Vernice decided to pursue her masters in social work. As she began working in the social work field, Vernice experienced her own mental health breakdown in 2016. Since, she has dedicated her life to working to support individuals in creating a life of their own design by improving their mental health utilizing cognitive, behavioral, and integrative psychotherapy. Following in the footsteps of her grandparents, Vernice is a second-generation small business owner. Vernice resides in Arizona where she provides psychotherapy to individuals/couples through her practice Breaking Waves Counseling and has a passion for working with BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ populations. To learn more about Vernice Morris and her work, please visit: breakingwavescounseling.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— According to Ayurveda, before the beginning, or what science calls The Big Bang there was Awareness of Oneness. Within the original Awareness of Oneness, arose a desire to experience itself that created Duality of Awareness or Experience. This Duality-Awareness of Experience created the energy of friction and the manifestation of Energy or Prana. Some of this manifested Energy condensed becoming matter. To understand matter, one needs to experience it, and so this trinity, Awareness, Experience, and Energy/Matter came into being, with the result, our physical universe with its diverse attributes. Ayurveda is a vital science and art-healing system that provides guidance for living in harmony with our inner, microcosmic, and outer, macrocosmic, environments as well as other beings around us. Its way of teaching us is very poetic, because life is poetic, with much more going on between the lines and the wave-particles of potential matter than is readily apparent by just the energy-material "facts" of the wave-particles themselves. This is said with the understanding that our minds manufacture fact. ". . we develop the fact by giving it further order, form and structure. Ayurveda is unique in that it clearly informs us how to live in harmony with Nature. It is the "wisdom of living." One may call it the original ecological worldview where the fundamental interdependence of all living systems is primary. Ayurveda encompasses all aspects of life—our physical bodies, our thoughts and emotions, our spiritual connections, our relationships and inter-relationships to each other and the other living systems in our environment. Ayurveda teaches us how to maintain a dynamic harmony with these concepts to maintain and regain our health. Valeria Teles interviews Judyth Shamosh, Ph.D — the author of "The Physics & Poetry of Eastern Herbal Medicine: How Modern Physics Validates Eastern Medicine." Judyth is a Systems Herbalist who has been a clinical practitioner since 1994. Founder of Greenfingers Herbal Medicine Clinic, she practices Ayurvedic, Classical Chinese, and Western herbal medicines and teaches apprentices. She has served on the governing council of the American Herbalist's Guild, Arizona Herb Association, and RainStar University College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and been adjunct faculty of the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine. A yoga instructor and poet, she also was an assistant curator for the Phoenix Art Museum and worked in geology and archeology. To learn more about Judyth Shamosh and her work, please visit: judythshamosh.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Life is full of challenges. Sometimes it can seem that limitations are stopping you from achieving your dreams. I know all about challenges and limitations. I was born with severe cerebral palsy. I spend most of the day in a wheelchair. I speak with a nearly incomprehensible impediment. These are my circumstances. They make achieving my goals more difficult. They do not make achieving my goals impossible. It may take creativity, but with the proper mindset, it is possible to make your dreams become your reality. I know. I wanted to live an amazing life full of many experiences. I found a way and I did it. I wanted to start a business. It was tough, but I found opportunities and I did it. I wanted to be a speaker and author. I am now the writer who can not write and the speaker who can not speak. I always wanted to be a family man. I have a family. I am making my dreams come true. Sounds pretty amazing, right. It is. But, it didn't just happen. I messed up. I fell down. I got up. I learned. I achieved. That's how it goes. You learn lessons and you achieve. It's all about mindset. If you want your dreams to come true, you have to have the right mindset. – says Sourena Valeria Teles interviews Sourena Vassegh — the author of "Big Dreams Take Small Sacrifices and Love Your Life And It Will Love You Back." Sourena Vassegh is the speaker who can't speak and the writer who can't write with one simple mission. He empowers people to take control of their lives so they can find the freedom and joy of living life on their own terms. Sourena teaches that by seizing the power of one's own mindset it's possible to be successful and satisfied. To learn more about Sourena Vassegh and his work, please visit: sourenav.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— Your mind is like your body. Train it right, and it'll become stronger, faster, and more agile! Grounded in simple yet proven strategies, Thoughtfully Fit trains your mind to perform well under any challenging circumstance. It helps you identify your strengths and weaknesses, maximize your full potential, and customize a plan for success. Developed by Darcy Luoma, one of America's most highly credentialed leadership coaches, Thoughtfully Fit is the culmination of her lifetime work training leaders and teams to achieve peak mental fitness and overcome any hurdle effectively. Valeria Teles interviews Darcy Luoma — the author of "Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success." Darcy Luoma, creator of Thoughtfully Fit®, is the founder and CEO of Darcy Luoma Coaching & Consulting, a firm that specializes in solving organization's people problems. She's a sought-after coach and consultant who has worked in forty-eight industries, with more than five hundred different client organizations, impacting tens of thousands of leaders and employees. She is one of America's most highly credentialed coaches, earning the prestigious Master Certified Coach from the International Coach Federation—a distinction held by only 3.8% of coaches in the world. The University of Wisconsin–Madison, a Big10 university, sought out Darcy to design its rigorous 9-month Certified Professional Coach training program. She served as the program's director, lead instructor, and then director of training and quality assurance since its inception. Before Darcy began her firm in 2013, she served as the director of U.S. Senator Herb Kohl's office for twelve years, did national advance work for the White House, worked for two U.S. presidential campaigns, and served as a trusted senior advisor and deputy transition director to a governor. She received the distinguished Certified Speaking Professional™ (CSP®) award from the National Speakers Association, the largest speaker's association in the world. She has spoken at more than five hundred events in front of audiences ranging from twenty-five to twenty-five hundred every month. She has a Master of Science in Organization Development from Pepperdine University Graziadio Business School. As an undergraduate she double majored in German and Mathematics, but the only time she uses these skills is when trying to double a recipe for German Black Forest Cake. For the last twenty three years she has been an avid triathlete and Ironman. She uses her grit and determination in both her athletic and professional endeavors. Along with her favorite job being a mom of two energetic teenage daughters, she enjoys adventure travel, yin yoga, kickboxing, spicy chai lattes, and afternoon naps. To learn more about Darcy Luoma and her work, please visit: darcyluoma.com — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.

— "Your True Self is who you truly are. It is your Soul. It is your Essence. It is YOU. Your True Self is kind, compassionate and wise. Your True Self is the source of your creativity and your inner power. Because you are connected to your True Self, you feel good and have a wonderful sense of well-being. You are connected to your power source, to your strength, to your Center. You are connected to that which allows you to create a wonderful life. It is the source that will provide fuel for your upcoming life's journey."Valeria Teles interviews Bonnie Barness — the author of " Experiencing The Shift - Book One: A New Way Of Thinking Seeing And Being." Bonnie Barness is from Beverly Hills, California and is a graduate of U.C.L.A. She currently resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, where she maintains a private practice providing psychotherapy , hynotherapy and SHIFT Actualization™ Coaching.Ms. Barness has created the SHIFT Actualization Process™ in which individuals are able to shift out of pain, blocks, barriers, and limitations, into a new state of consciousness, allowing for a greater experience of joy, happiness, fulfillment and the manifesting of dreams. A sense of hope, relief and freedom often is experienced for individual dealing with anxiety , loss, depression and addiction. She helps families and couples move out of conflict into deep, intimate connection. Those consciously on a spiritual path reach new levels of insight, understanding and experience. For some, the SHIFT take place over a period of time. For others, it happens immediately. As an author and speaker, Ms. Barness enjoys sharing her unique approach to relationships, life and spiritual growth with others. On radio and television, on social media and as an expert source for the Arizona Republic, and her advice column, "Ask Bonnie" she has provided specific strategies for dealing with life' challenges and for living life to the fullest.Through her books and workbooks, as well as during SHIFT Actualization™, seminars and weekend retreats, she and her Certified SHIFT Facilitators help individuals and professionals turn personal and professional dreams into a reality. For more information about her books, events and SHIFT Facilitator Training, please visit BonnieBarness.com or her YouTube channel Connecting with Your True Self at Bonnie Barness. If you are interested in arranging future speaking engagements, customized SHIFT Actualization™ seminar and retreats or private coaching session, please email her at BonnieBarness@yahoo.comTo learn more about Bonnie Barness and her work, please visit: bonniebarness.com— This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well.