Wellness Radio With Dr. J

Obesite, overweight and pleasing plump; have you heard these words and cringed?  Are you running through life looking for things to change your weight and risking your health?  Are you always looking at things outside yourself to help you 'feel better' with the person in the mirror?  Can you ever accept your appearance as it is and be happy with who you are?  Impossible you say?  No, it is called self acceptance regardless of outside peer pressure or forces. My guest is Monica Parker, author of Getting Waisted:  A Survival Guide to Being Fat in a Society That Loves Thin.  Monica is also an accomplished comedy actress and TV writer, so she knows the struggles of looking good, perfect and small on a stage that is society.  She will be sharing her decades of diet experiences, from the wild and crazy to the fads that come along.  Monica found what mattered to her most in life, self acceptance and joy. For more information about Monica, visit her website:  www.gettingwaisted.com

Are you eating better these days with fruits and vegetables?  Are you eating less toxins in your food?  How are you feeling?  Did you know that food supplies the energy for your body and spirit?  What does that mean?My guest is Dr. Deanna Minich, author of Chakra Foods for Optimum Health:  A Guide to Foods that Improve Your Energy, Inspire Creative Changes, Open Your Heart and Heal Body, Mind and Spirit.  Dr. Deanna has developed a program that supports changes in your body and spirit by nourishing the corresponding chakra with the correct foods to produce that change.  We are a complex system that works better when we listen to all aspects of our being and make adjustments to flow to a better way of health. Sign up now for new Detox Challenge starting in September:  Click here.For more information about Dr. Deanna and the Food and Spirit programs, visit:  www.foodandspirit.com

Always looking for healing sources outside of yourself?  You can learn 'energy healing' to help heal yourself.  We all can be healers and it takes time, patience, and a bit of guidance.  Here is your guidance.My guest is Brett Bevell, author of Energy Healing for Everyone:  A Path to Wholeness and Awakening which is presented as a teaching manual for individuals wanting to increase their connection to the Divine.  Even if you have visited other energy healers, learn how to tap into this energy and shift your consciousness for any given issue.   His book includes creating a forty day cycle for connecting with the Divine, long distance healing and creating an abundant life.  This manual is meant to empower you to rise to the next level of healing and go forth to help others.For more information, visit the link:  www.brettbevell.com Brett also has informational gatherings and training seminars.  For more information on gatherings, click this link.

Feeling stuck and don't know your way out?  Do you seem to be on a journey that is foreign to others around you but living in fear of what your life could be?  What is your spirit and how can you find it?  What are your values, beliefs and morals according to you, not a book to follow for salvation?  If you feel you are in a living hell, squashed by life, disconnected or shut down, this is your show. My guest is Lee McCormick, author of Spirit Recovery Medicine Bag:  A Transformational Guide for Living, Happy, Joyous and Free and founder of The Ranch Recovery Center and The Canyon Treatment Center.  Lee shares a collection of tips to consider on your path of awakening regardless of your past hurdles, pains, addictions and choices.  He suggests the steps to finding and connecting with your inner self and how to begin to live a life not according to anyone else's 'book or dream' but to find and write your own. For more information about Lee and to purchase his book or to find out about his centers, visit:  www.

Are you having issues in life right now and screaming you need change?  What is change, how can it help you and what will your life look like if you had what your heart and soul wanted?  Are you in touch with your purpose and soul?  No way, you say?My guest is Heather Ash Amara, author of The Toltec Path of Transformation:  Embracing the Four Elements of Change.  Heather talks about the elements of Fire, Water, Air and Earth and how the seasons have messages also to bring us back to center to find who we are.  In this world of running around, having a full plate of to do's, and collecting the labels of success, do we have a clue what the inner importance of our being at this second in time. We were not meant to have our spirit and soul separate from our brain and physical bodies.  The earth and other elements are living breathing energy that affects us all.For more information about Heather and to purchase her book, visit:  www.toci.org

Are you struggling to find out what is wrong with you and no one has been able to help?  Are you a sensitive person feeling so out of place in this world and now have physical symptoms that are screaming to be heard?  Wish you had an insight into your body to shine the light on the solution to your pain and suffering?  Is your thyroid playing a dance that you don't know the moves; is it being evasive in diagnosis and treatment? My guest is Dr. Emil Faithe, medical intuitive and author of two books we will be talking about today: You Are Sensitive!:  How to Survive and Thrive in a World That Doesn't Get You  also  Hormone Lies and Thyroid Misunderstandings.  Dr. Faithe is a medical intuitive and holistic pharmacist.  In his work, he senses organ, gland, microbial and nutrient imbalances as well as detecting areas of energetic and emotional stifling. For more information on Dr. Faithe, visit his website:  www.healingwizards.com   If you are stuck and need to schedule an appointment with Dr. Faithe, visit this l

Do you have arthritis?  Do you occasionally have flare ups and not sure what might be the cause? Might it be possible your diet is contributing to systemic inflammation?My guest is Baker Dan, author of Beating Arthritis:  Alternative Cooking.  Baker Dan wrote this book based on his experience with arthritis, the process of inflammation and how to change his diet with no tool to guide him.  It is a collection of recipes that address the limitations we may have in our diet.  It is simple, concise and very easy to follow.  You are not asked to purchase fancy ingredients to create foods that you have to learn to like or to make foods that only you can eat.  The recipes are made so the whole family can enjoy fresh, healthy food together.For more information and to purchase the book, visit:  www.bakerdan.com

Are you having issues dealing with the world around you today?  Have you sought professional support and walked away not helped or satisfied with the process?  Are drugs the only answer for your mental health issues?  Is life just throwing curve balls at you and dealing with life is getting harder each day?My guest is Dr. Amelia Kemp, psychotherapist and author of From Psychotherapy to Sacretherapy: Alternative Holistic Descriptions and Healing Process for 170 Mental and Emotional Diagnoses Worldwide.  The process of getting help for our mental and emotional being is often over looked in the healthcare arena and the stigma of needing help is a barrier to seeking treatment or support.  No longer are we denying the connection between all areas of our body, mind and spirit as our wellbeing.  We are not pieces to be fixed but rather a unit of life that needs to be nurtured and listened to as symptoms arise.  Help is available, exercises are included and solutions outlined in this book by Dr. Kemp.For more informa

How do you garden; throw seeds out and pray, turn the land and feel the ground or do what you have to do to reap the fruits of your labor?  Are you connecting with the messages and energy of the earth as you sit in its presence?  Gardening has much to share with us if we learn how to listen and observe.My guest is June Cotner, author of Garden Blessings which is a one-of-a-kind treasury of uplifting prayers, prose and poems that share a common appreciation for the love of gardening and the many blessings that gardens bring to our lives.  If you dream of flowers, work your garden weekly or take pleasure in the power of nature, these prayers and poems are uplifting and nuturing.For more information about June, visit her website:  www.junecotner.com  To purchase her book Garden Blessings, click here.

How can our dreams give us messages about our lives?  Do you awaken to find yourself sweating from fear or excited with joy to meet the new day? My guest is KAYA, spiritual teacher and author of Dictionary Dreams-Signs-Symbols:  The Source Code which is the ultimate spiritual guide to dream interpretation.  KAYA has incorporated over 15 years of research and study to share in his book about the profound significance of the messages received during sleep state and signs encountered in everyday life.  Sleep is not random, it has meaning and purpose. For more information about KAYA and to purchase his book, visit:  www.ucm.ca/en/authors/kaya

Are you at wits end to help find ways to curb your migraine pain?  Are you always popping pills in hopes of stoping the onset of a headache?  What if you had a few  simple tools to 'try first' before bringing in the pharmaceutical guns?  Migraines are very difficult to treat and the pain takes on many different presentations.My guest is Sarah Hackley, author of Finding Happiness with Migraines:  A Do It Yourself Guide.  A few of the tools you will learn are how your emotional and physical imbalances may contribute to the intensity or repeat incidence of attacks.  While every headache is truly a different event, a box of tools that may help is a welcome gift.For more information about Sarah Hackley, visit:  www.sarahhackley.com  To purchase the book, click here.

What is 'Human Design' and how can it help me?  It can give you more information so you can find your right work, understand yourself and improve your relationships.  If you are stuck and don't know what is really wrong with your life these days, have a reading on your Human Design report.My guest is Karen Curry, author of Understanding Human Design; The New Science of Astrology:  Discover Who You Really Are.  Once Karen has your birth information, a chart is generated according to the principles of astrology and she can guide you to things that may be easy for you in life and those that are roadblocks to ultimate happiness.  While we all have free will, sometimes we take a road that perhaps we need to barricade and choose a dirt road on the side.   Karen can help you see things from your past that influenced who you are and how you can flourish in the future.For more information visit:  www.humandesignforeveryone.com

Your child is complaining of stomach upset and you have no clue what to do next?  Kids are missing school, you miss work and medical testing does not nail down a source or treatment, now what?  Is medical testing causing more fear and anguish for your child?  Is there a possibility that their gut issues are affecting their behavior and school work?  How can you help your child?My guests:  Michael Lawson, MD, board certified gastroenterologist and Jessica Del Pozo, PhD, clinical psychologist, both of Kaiser Permanente.  They are the authors of The Gut Solution: For Parents with Children Who Have Recurrent Abdominal Pain and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.  This book walks the parents throught the SEEDS program and clearly explains not only the physiological and biological reasons for gut issues but also the neurological, behavioral and emotional factors.  The program has produced results for hundreds of children and supported parents in the process of finding reliable answers to their child's gut symptoms. For more

Warning:  BRING YOUR TISSUES!!Everyone has a story to tell, everyone has a purpose that may teach us something and everyone has love and kindness to share; don't you agree?  So why do so many people walk this earth with pent up issues about love, kindness, our past and the illusions we call our life?  Maybe because they have not been challenged and allowed to grow against the odds. My guest is Kevin Scott Hall, author, journalist, singer/songwriter and teacher.  He is the author of a memoir A Quarter Inch from My Heart.  This is a story about taking in a stranger, loving him until his death and realigning life's treasures from the heart.  Kevin had past events that were stored deep inside and by sharing love and caring with another person without barriers and conditions, he was allowed to release the deep sorrows and pains that held his heart. For more information visit:  www.kevinscotthall.com and to purchase his book click here.

Have you formulated this vision of who you are and what you are?  How are you doing at holding that up every day?  Is it crumbling to your feet or is it a picture that you do not even recognize anymore?  What is important to you, your views of life, your opinions and your beliefs?  Can you be tested and challenged?  Are you a puppet of others beliefs and impressions of what you should be?Step up and step out of the past, time to create a wonderful life that is simple, honest, real and in tune with your inner spirit.  You can do it!My guest is don Miguel Ruiz Jr, author of The Five Levels of Attachment;  Toltec Wisdom for the Modern World. He invites us to reclaim our true freedom by cultivating awareness, detaching, and discovering our true selves.  Ruiz will be exploring the five levels of attachement that cause suffering in our lives.For more information visit:  www.miguelruizjr.com and to purchase his book click here.

Does your marriage seem to ebb and flow with the wind of love, anger, disrespect or work?  Does the world seem to 'have it all' and you are grasping at the vision of what your life should look like as it walks out the door?  Life is hard, love is hard and to find a way to have the best, is that hard too?  Maybe not?My guest is Marcia Naomi Berger is a clinical social worker and author of Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love;  30 Minutes a Week to the Relationship You've Always Wanted.  In her Marriage Meeting Program, she tells exactly how to create a great relationship and keep it thriving for a lifetime.  This is way more than a date night, it is a real life plan that requires committment and responsibility to keep a marriage going. For more information visit:  www.marriagemeetings.com  and to purchase the book click here.

Have you heard from your kids 'Mother, that was in the olden ages, they don't do things like that anymore' or 'Don't they have peeps to do that'?  Has the power of technology and the internet breed teens and young adults the power to feel 'they know it all' but can they separate laundry?  Where have the days of cut and chop wood gone, cleaning the house, doing laundry and balancing a check book gone?  The dark ages, that is where!My guest is Becky Blades, author of Do Your Laundry or You'll Die Alone: Advice Your Mom Would Give if She Thought You Were Listening which is full of morsels of inspiration and eye opening facts that girls really should recognize, their mothers already said it once or twice.  We all know the phrase 'if YOU tell my kids, maybe they will listen' to something that is so basic in life but it does not seem to phase them until someone else says it differently. If you have girls, any age, this book is great because someone else said it!  For more information and to purchase the book, visit

Can a pray save the world, shift the intentions of many or just help one person to go on in life?  Is there power in prayer?  Does it take more than one person to pray for the 'intended results'?  What is a prayer and what is the potential of words spoken with intention?My guest is Paramahansa Jagadish, author of The Prayer Project.  This is a movement to advance the healing of the world with positive prayer in a unified voice.  People all over the globe, in many languages and faiths, can join together and direct their energy to shift the results we are seeing now in life to one of more peace, caring, and positive healthy actions.  You can make a change in the world, one prayer at a time and when this is amplified by millions of others doing the same action, it takes on a power that will heal the world.For more information on The Prayer Project, visit:  www.ThePrayerProject.com or www.StewardshipOfTheSoul.com

Once you have kids, did you lose some part of yourself?  Have you given everything you can to their upbringing and at the end of the day feel spent?  How much time and attention is available for you in this busy world with kids, husband and work?  Empty nest can equal an empty mom with health and life issues, learn how to keep yourself going with healthy habits along the way.My guest is Dr. Rick Hanson, a neuropsychologist and New York Times best-selling author who will be sharing about his book Mother Nurture.  The latest generation of mothers are having to juggle more than just raising great kids; they have work and schedules that are very over loaded.  While looking after a family that is more active than ever, a mother and her needs can get put on the back burner until a health crisis or life challenging event occur.  Learn how what simple steps you can take each day to avoid pitfalls later in life.For more information on Nurture Mom, visit the site:  www.nurturemom.com and to purchase the book we are dis

Are you struggling with knowing what supplements to take and if they are good for you?  What if you could drink your supplements in a daily drink to help with sleep, stress, immunity and energy?  What if these drinks were low in calories, great on taste and never use artificial colors or flavors?  Would you run out to purchase them and give them a try?  Neuro drinks are on the market now across the country in grocery stores, drug chains and convenience stores; look for them.My guest is Chris Noonan, the scientific and regulatory affairs advisor for Neuro drinks.  He will be sharing how this company got started in a market of many different energy drinks, enhanced waters and spiced up toddies.  Neuro is unique as it provides supplements in a drink that are useful for a certain time of day to help you with stress,sleep, energy and immunity; the top things everyone deals with every day.  It is so easy to reach for past regular drinks and feel the sugar and energy spikes that do nothing to support your health.  B