A Quest for Well-Being

— As a descendant of Yaqui/Yo'eme Indigenous Tribe, Carolina Miranda holds the same truths of her ancestors, carrying resiliency and strength within our spiritual values but above all, love & connection to all creation. Her journey in this world as a Warrior of Light has led me to help guide people wherever they are in their healing journey. Our ancestors have passed on this wisdom of the Toltec path of self-discover to grow, transform, & evolve as the true free beings we were always meant to be. As a holistic practitioner, she merges Western practices of Psychotherapy with Native/Indigenous wisdom for deeper healing and restorative balance between self and Maala (Mother) Earth. Valeria Teles interviews Carolina Miranda — a Healer, Holistic Practitioner, Psychotherapist, Sound Healing Practitioner, And Speaker. Learn everything you can, read books, gain knowledge, take time to master the skill…then throw everything out the window and just trust your intuition. Carolina Miranda recalls listening to Dolores Cannon book Between Death & Life and this is a paraphrased quote from the book. It stood out to her because it felt like a representation and confirmation of her life purpose. It is Carolina's conscious commitment to self and others, to go beyond intellectual understanding as she continues to cultivate an indigenous & Spiritual healing approach to her practice. When she began incorporating the modality Healing Touch, an Evidence Based Practice in the Nursing field to many clients who she was administering EMDR; the shift and change not just in the thinking process, but also in their demeanor and their desire to live out a healthier live style physically, emotionally and Spirituality was miraculous. This foundation and experience of working with energy really catapulted Carolina's interest in looking into frequencies and energy to expand my abilities as a conduit of healing. Additional research and theoretical frameworks Carolina has learned, and studied include benefits of Binaural Beats on the human brain and body to attain higher levels of consciousness as well as Dr. Masaru Emoto's Research on water crystals and after being exposed to both positive and negative worlds, music and vibrations affected the crystalline structures. To learn more about Carolina Miranda and her work, please visit: unearthling.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.

— Learning to manage fear by taking an empowerment approach. Valeria Teles interviews Brigitte Cutshall — the author of "Real Things Living - A Coloring Journal: Add some color to your life." Brigitte is the founder of Gemini Media, host of Real Things Living Podcast, a Health Advocate and focuses on delivering the best solutions to her clients. She's an accomplished business development professional in the communications, publishing and print management industry. One of Brigitte's goals is to "empower others from just surviving to thriving" and participates in wellness events. She's a speaker and the author of two books - RealThings: 6 Ways to Embrace Life and Expecting the Good: Inspiration from a Badass with a Big Heart - and successfully develops content for wellness and healthy lifestyles, resulting in being featured as a contributing writer on HuffingtonPost, DrLaura.com, Intent.com, Wellness.com, Sharecare.com, and TheMomiverse. "The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides us with a sense of destination and the energy to get started." Being diagnosed with breast cancer twice (8 years apart) and then a rare primary brain tumor in between was the motivation to develop the blog, along with encouragement from her sons and husband. All the medical advancements are remarkable and have helped so many people such as Brigitte, and the continued research keeps updating our knowledge. There is not a single solution to being "healthy" and personalized care is the future. We need to also take an integrative and common sense approach to our health and well-being. Brigitte wants to encourage and inspire others to be more engaged and thoughtful about their health. Don't take it for granted. One of her goals is to inspire (and remind) others to embrace life now by focusing on what's important to them. Everybody is dealing with something, and having the right perspective helps you deal with those challenges. Brigitte's happened to be cancer and a brain tumor. A lot of research was done to better understand how everything is connected and the people she has met along the way are amazing. It also inspired her to earn an international health coach certification. Brigitte's sense of humor, stubborn streak, faith, family and friends help her get through this. Life is truly about the small things you do daily. To learn more about Brigitte Cutshall and her work, please visit: brigittecutshall.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.

— Fully Shining Women stand in their power, accept, and trust themselves, speak their truth, and express their inner light in the world by being their own unique authentic self. They embrace their mystery, mastery, magic and messiness. Fully Shining Women share their inner light with the world – radiating from the inside out. They dance between worlds – between their spiritual, intuitive creative side and the side of them that's practical and grounded in everyday life and work. They turn to their own inner guidance to navigate their lives. They are rooted in possibility. They embrace their divine feminine power supported by their divine masculine. They have learned to trust their intuition. And follow their soul's purpose, using their soul gifts. Our planet needs powerful, capable, down-to-earth soul-led women who trust ourselves, speak our truths, share our soul gifts and stand into our power – while also being vulnerable, authentic and real. Valeria Teles interviews Meghan Gilroy — a Spiritual Teacher, Founder Of The Fully Shining Women Leading Our World Movement And The Creator Of The Fully Shining Women Wisdom School And Speaker. Meghan's soul purpose is to catalyze and connect women in a true sisterhood of women supporting women. Named a nagual woman (shaman) and "spiritual leader for the next generation" in her early twenties by international best-selling author of The Four Agreements don Miguel Ruiz, Meghan shifted from being an over-achiever and people-pleaser to following her intuition and making the hard choices to listen to her soul. After marrying her husband two weeks after their first date, she's quit high paying jobs that didn't light her up, partnered in creating multiple 7-figure businesses, and moved cross country based on an astrology reading. She has since worked with thousands of women around the world online, on retreats and in women's circles drawing from her ancient spiritual lineage, sharing intimate stories from her leaps of faith in life and channeling teachings and messages of inspiration. To learn more about Meghan Gilroy and her work, please visit: sisters.fullyshingingwomen.com & meghangilroy.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.

— Each and every act performed by an individual, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, is capable of merging human experience with divine consciousness. Valeria Teles interviews Dr. Robert J. Flower — the author of "Decoding Potential: The Science of Achievement - Pathways to Understanding." Robert J. Flower, PhD, is a highly successful entrepreneur, consultant, Mensa Scholar, author and educator. Having started his business career with only $321, he grew his business to a net worth of well over EIGHT figures today. For over 38 years he has dedicated himself to the study of human potential and how to fully achieve it. Late in 1980, Dr. Flower experienced an epiphany, which changed his life forever. He went through what mind scientists call a "state of enlightenment" which lasted for months. This led Dr. Flower on a quest all over the world through ancient systems of thinking and cultures until he discovered a hidden mathematical and biological code. This code clearly defined a master pattern in the structure of nature, a Natural Intelligence. By breaking this code, Dr. Flower uncovered a scientific way to achieve our highest potential. To further develop this system, Dr. Flower founded the Gilchrist Institute for the Achievement Sciences. Since then, he has successfully helped thousands of clients from all walks of life unlock their potential and achieve incredible results in every facet of their lives, businesses, and careers using Natural Thinking and Intelligence (NaTI). Dr. Bob has authored 11 books, several of which have received top acknowledgement from scientists around the world. Further, since 1986 he has survived several bouts of leukemia. Only having the support of his family and using the lessons from natural thinking, was he able to survive. To learn more about Dr. Robert J. Flower and his work, please visit: drbobflower.com and naturalthinking.org — 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.

— Grief and sadness from the loss of the family unit certainly, but perhaps more underneath that. Perhaps there is unprocessed grief and sadness from before you even met your ex-partner. Projection and blaming may be an unconscious attempt to avoid feeling pain and grief that is waiting, in our bodies, to be processed. A fight is something we can "do" whereas just "being" with the crushing grief of a lost future with the child you love and the partner you loved (and probably still do) is probably something you'd prefer to avoid. But the pain and the grief can't be as bad as the running away, and all the disruption and damage that entails. There is no escaping the pain and grief, only a choice to begin processing it or deferring it, and thereby accruing interest on it. Parents and children must grieve for their lost worlds before they can heal. The greatest thing a parent can do for their child at this time is demonstrate how to accept and process grief and sadness. A healthy relationship with sadness is an important life skill that mature and responsible adults can teach their children. Sadness, after all, is coming into all our lives sooner or later. Valeria Teles interviews Zac Fine — a Psychotherapist And Speaker. Zac Fine is a specialist in men's issues. He supports fathers through the trauma of losing contact with their children against their wishes, and came to this work through his own experience of estranged fatherhood which included mental and financial breakdown, and a stressful court case in which he represented himself. This darkness and grief cracked open something in Zac that called him to service. He found his path as an underworld guide, supporting fathers living in a toxic trap of fear, anger, rage and grief in what can feel like a silent void when these emotions are not understood or accepted in the family court system or wider culture. Zac created the Ceasefire Method to integrate concepts from neuroscience, family systems and war to support men as they try to settle their nervous systems, understand and manage their trauma responses, explore the relational dynamics at play with their ex-partners, think strategically and be the best fathers they can be for their children. Zac is an advocate of the nascent field of male psychology, which acknowledges valuable and complementary differences between masculine and feminine archetypes — or deep biological programs — that have been ignored or rejected by much of the therapy professions. His vision is to promote healing and understanding between the sexes for the benefit of future generations, because children who are damaged by family conflict often grow up to act out their traumas in the world. There is nothing as dangerous as a powerless young man, and to this end Zac is training to become a mentor for young men caught up in the criminal justice system. To learn more about Zac Fine and his work, please visit: zacfine.co.uk — 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.

— Introverts have a lot of value to offer but society disproportionately rewards extroverts while viewing introverts as loners or unfriendly. They get called shy and underconfident. But all it is that introverts process things differently and social situations cause their minds to become overstimulated and they need more downtime to process social events. Introverts are fortunate enough to have a relationship with themselves. They don't need anyone's approval but their own to keep doing what makes them happy. Remember, the only person who has to live with yourself is you so take care of yourself first before you try to make someone else happy. You are perfect just the way you are! You have a lot to offer so don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Valeria Teles interviews Saman Nasir — a Healer, Meditation Coach, Certified Hypnotherapist, A Member Of The American Hypnosis Association, Instructor At The Hypnosis Motivation Institute, And Speaker. Saman Nasir has been helping people make positive changes in their lives for over 10 years. Saman works with a network of psychologists, MFTs, and psychiatrists to provide the most comprehensive care for her clients. Saman is a kind and gentle practitioner and cares for all her clients as if they were her own family. Saman Nasir is a Hypnotherapist and Honors Graduate from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. When she graduated, she was invited to give a talk on how hypnosis deepens the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. As she was giving a talk on this topic, the dean of HMI College was so impressed that he offered her a career as an instructor which she gladly accepted. Today she helps other hypnotherapy students and up and coming hypnotherapists perfect their craft as an instructor in various hypnotherapy classes and workshops. In addition, she has a professional background in coaching, hypnotherapy, leadership, and mindfulness that spans twenty years along. Though her private practice is based in Los Angeles, California, she has clients worldwide who virtually take advantage of her unique belief system enrichment approach that utilizes CBT, imagery, mindfulness, and NLP. Her true passion has always been using hypnosis to get answers from the subconscious, studying human behavior and helping people overcome the beliefs and emotions that hold them back from living their true lives. To learn more about Saman Nasir and his work, please visit: dontwaittolive.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.

— Love what you do! Whether you're employed or not, this attitude shift of loving what you do is everything! Think about how much would change if you treated your work with utmost care, while learning how to open your heart even more. About 20 years ago, Michelle brought love to a job she didn't like, and within a few weeks, she had more job offers than she could say yes to. Magic? Nope, alignment! Hopefully, you're doing something you love now or are well on the way to discovering what that is. Part of running a successful business is learning how to bring love to all the actions that make it function. Valeria Teles interviews Michelle Boulé — a Transformational Business And Life Coach, Healer, Dancer And Speaker Michelle Boulé helps creative professionals and entrepreneurs all over the world clarify and manifest their visions with more confidence, impact, and alignment towards their truth. She runs a multi-six figure coaching+healing business, offering online group programs, private coaching, in-person retreats, speaking, and teaching. Her work draws from over 25 years of practice in somatic therapies, energy medicine, mindset psychology, spirituality, and her award-winning, international career in dance. To learn more about Michelle Boulé and her work, please visit: michelleboule.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.

— I Am the Truth that all are equal, for all are One. Equality does not mean conformity. All aspects of life are by their very nature unique aspects of Love that are equally precious and beloved. All give life to Love and Love gives life to All. I speak as Love beneath the sounds of fear and judgment. I Am the Truth that judgment is in direct opposition to unconditional Love. Where unconditional Love is opposed, there is suffering. Where unconditional Love flourishes, I Am. Where the roots of conflict are pulled up and seeds of unity are planted, I Am. Valeria Teles interviews Mary Reed — the author of "Unwitting Mystic: Evolution of The Message of Love." Mary Reed was a staunchly agnostic healthcare executive in Washington, DC when she began venturing uncontrollably into metaphysical experiences with Jesus, Buddha, and angels. She finally surrendered her "normal" life and spent seven years in a tiny nunnery in the Himalayas coming to terms with her unexpected mystical abilities. Her profound experiences, which still continue, are both a road map and an invitation into the Divine wisdom we all hold within. Through the healing power of her exquisitely embodied "direct" wisdom, today Mary is startling the world awake, relieving the origins of our long-held mental burdens and setting us free to live in the visceral state of fearless love. Mary's presence and teachings are a palpable transmission of Divine energies through her award-winning book, Unwitting Mystic, as well as online courses, talks, retreats, consultations, and weekly online gatherings with her Patreon community. She has traveled widely sharing her stories and teachings, and has appeared on numerous programs, including Buddha at the Gas Pump, Conscious TV, and Unity Online Radio. To learn more about Mary Reed and her work, please visit: unwittingmystic.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.

— Even the best talk-based practices in parenting can be limiting. How can art help parents temper storms of emotion, defuse sibling conflicts, get teeth brushed, and raise happy, successful kids? In The Innovative Parent, Erica Curtis and Ping Ho integrate cutting-edge research, years of clinical expertise, and their own parenting experience into a revolutionary yet practical guide to creative parenting. Plentiful illustrations and anecdotes bring concepts to life and show art in action with kids and parents. Together, Curtis and Ho let parents in on art therapy trade secrets to help children make sense of emotions, build connections with others, develop problem-solving skills, resolve day-to-day conflicts, process and retain information, confront fears and anxiety, and much more. These are complex tasks for something as seemingly simple as making art, yet therein lies the beauty of The Innovative Parent: its down-to-earth approach is simple, doable, and fun. Valeria Teles interviews Erica Curtis — the author of "The Innovative Parent: Raising Connected, Happy, Successful Kids through Art." Erica Curtis LMFT ATR-BC is a Marriage and Family Therapist and board-certified art therapist, Erica is an instructor and curriculum developer for UCLArts & Healing. She consults for the Board of Behavioral Sciences, the Foundation for Art & Healing, Loyola Marymount University, and more. Erica is a past board member of the American Art Therapy Association and past president of their Southern California chapter. Erica is an internationally sought speaker and has been cited in over 100 media outlets as an expert on creative approaches to psychological, relational, and emotional health. Erica maintains a psychotherapy practice in San Juan Capistrano, CA. To learn more about Erica Curtis and her work, please visit: therapywitherica.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.

— Without Self-love and deep Acceptance of how things are, it is difficult to move forward, particularly when life sends us challenges. Without taking responsibility for the stories we make up in our heads about how things are, and owning our role in every relationship and situation we are a part of, we bypass opportunities to learn and author a better future for ourselves. Without understanding that our lives are a co-creation and acknowledging that we are loved, supported and helped – via nudges and well-timed, hand-selected gifts – by the Universe to achieve what we have come here to accomplish, the way forward can feel very lonely and difficult. Regrets and fears of the unknown, death being at the top of the list, can easily paralyze us from moving forward. To be human is to suffer, for the majority of us, and suffering often results in wisdom. We are here to become wise, so why resist? Valeria Teles interviews Dr. Lisa Samet — the author of "Emotional Repatterning: Healing Emotional Pain by Rewiring the Brain." Lisa Samet, ND, is a well-known health practitioner who has appeared on the Dr Oz show to promote homeopathy and naturopathic healing. She has an international practice based in Montreal, specializing in homeopathy, emotional wellness, nutrition & lifestyle optimization. When emotional issues are an obstacle to healing, Dr Samet uses the Emotional Re-patterning techniques presented in her book to help patients uncover and rebalance the deep, subconscious beliefs that often underlie their unhappiness, "stuckness" and mental or physical pain. The results have been nothing short of life-changing! She has written this book to broaden access to the tools that she uses in her practice to help people change their perspectives, subconscious beliefs and ultimately suffer less! After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by 10 years in marketing with Proctor & Gamble, Dr. Samet realized that her real love was naturopathic healing. She received her Doctorate from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine in 1998 and has been in private practice since then. Naturopathic healing focuses on prevention and using natural approaches to stimulate the body's ability to heal itself. The primary goals of the naturopathic approach are to address the cause of illness rather than simply treat or suppress symptoms, and to treat the patient as a whole – physically, mentally and emotionally - to regain optimal health. To learn more about Dr. Lisa Samet and her work, please visit: lisasamet.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.