A Fine Time for Healing

Nightmares are really working on behalf of our healing, health, and wholeness says today's special guest, Dream Expert Kelly Sullivan Walden. " When we seek to understand their hidden meaning in our waking state, we discover that what we thought was only fear was actually a blessed lesson in disguise. Much like our nightmares, each of life’s unexpected mishaps and misfortunes is an opportunity for self-exploration. In her new vulnerable yet witty memoir, A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Kelly shares some of her darkest, muddiest moments (i.e., an expensive theft abroad, hot flashes in menopause, a producer’s proposition of sex in exchange for a career-making television role, and helping friends during life-threatening crises) and how she found the positive within them by using her 4-step “OGLE” method. Kelly Sullivan Walden (a.k.a. Doctor Dream) is an award-winning, bestselling author of ten books. A dream expert, certified clinical hypnotherapist, inspirational speaker, and workshop facilitator, she holds a doctorate degree in interfaith studies. Her unique approach to dream-work led her to consultant with thousands of individuals from Fortune 500 executives to celebrities to stay-at-home moms. She hosts The Kelly Sullivan Walden Show podcast, and is the founder of DreamWork Practitioner Training, an online professional-development program empowering people to incorporate dream-work into their careers. As a dream expert, Kelly is a regular guest on many national talk shows, including Doctor Oz, The Real, Coast to Coast, and Hallmark’s Home & Family. She’s decoded dreams for celebrities such as Topher Grace, Stassi Schroeder, Logan Paul, Ricki Lake, The Real Housewives of Orange County, and Dancing with the Stars’, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, to name a few.

The symptoms can be different for everyone: weight gain, fatigue, anxiety, depression, heart palpitations, breathing difficulty, dry skin, dry hair, digestive difficulties, insomnia or hair loss. But the doctors keep telling you your tests are normal, or they are treating you with drugs, but you aren’t getting better. Maybe they know it is thyroid, but they are giving you thyroid meds that keep having to be adjusted upward because they are not fixing the problem, only masking it. Hashimoto’s is a disease where the immune system attacks your thyroid, but the medical community either can’t diagnose it, will tell you it’s just stress, or are treating the symptoms instead of addressing the underlying reasons your immune system is haywire! None of this is new to today's special guest, Dr. Gil Kajiki, the nation’s leading expert in non-drug management for hypothyroidism, low thyroid and Hashimoto’s disease and founder of the Valley Thyroid Institute, a worldwide center. In his new book Sick, Tired, Untreated and Abandoned: How the Medical Community Fails Hashimoto’s Patients and How You Can Get Your Life Back, he cites the thousands of patients who have come to him out of desperation because the doctors ignored them, made them think they were crazy, misdiagnosed or failed to fix what was wrong. They were miserable and suffering. Dr. Kajiki is a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, Chiropractor (C.F.M.P., D.C.) and patient educator with clients on four continents. His clientele include celebrities, corporate leaders, women stressed by family life and work, computer programmers, athletes, homemakers, radio show hosts, admin assistants, health practitioners and doctors. Dr. Kajiki creates his personalized program with dietary changes, nutritional supplements, vitamins, minerals and enzymes and lifestyle enhancements that improve lab test results and reduce symptoms.

Today's special guest, Anoop Kumar, MD, encourages audiences to rethink the relationship between mind and body in a way that informs solutions to real-world challenges including healing diseases and upgrading the quality of our education. He communicates his vision through the lens of the Three Minds–a framework inspired by the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta. The application of this framework in healthcare is Health Revolution, a movement demonstrating that healing is possible when we see ourselves fully. He has written books, written articles, given keynote talks, consulted with organizations, and collaborated with luminaries like Deepak Chopra. Dr. Kumar has been exploring and experimenting with mind-body perspectives since he was a child. To quote Anoop, "As a child, I was surrounded by the teachings of Advaita Vedanta (the philosophy of non-duality). I began to see that life could be lived from two perspectives—as a character in a story, and as something beyond all stories. My journey and work has been to clarify and integrate these perspectives. Looking at the world anew can reveal unseen aspects of who we are. The result? We experience ourselves and our world more clearly, fully, and intimately." Anoop Kumar, MD, MM is board certified in Emergency Medicine and holds a Master’s degree in Management with a focus in Health Leadership from McGill University. He practices in the Washington, DC metro area, where he also leads meditation gatherings for clinicians. He is the author of the book Michelangelo's Medicine: How Redefining the Human Body Will Transform Health and Healthcare. Anoop enjoys exploring and communicating about the intersection of self-awareness, science, and wellbeing. Visit him at anoopkumar.com and follow along @DrAnoopKuma

Why does the Western world demonize aging? It’s time to pivot our perspective, and today's special guest, Coach Michael Taylor is here to share his insights on making the rest of our lives, the best of our lives. There’s good reason to embrace getting older. One study found that Americans who were more positive about aging lived 7.5 years longer. It is on this premise that Taylor is encouraging his readers to embrace the second part of their lives. Michael's latest book, I’m Not Okay With Gray: How To Create An Extraordinary Life After 50,debunks the fear-based paradigm permeating society that equates aging with physical and mental decline.The book explores topics such as embracing spirituality, health and fitness, technology, joy, financial abundance and more. Taylor is a Certified Life Coach who has helped thousands of people transform their lives from the inside out by changing their attitudes about aging. The author himself did not have an exceptional first half of his life but overcame being a high school dropout, divorce, depression, foreclosure and homelessness to become an entrepreneur, the author of 11 books, motivational speaker and radio host. He also launched a career and company at the age of 60 without any formal degrees or training.

Today's special guest Paul William David is on a mission to save lives – both metaphorically and literally for the millions of people that are searching for purpose and meaning in these challenging times. A lot of what the populous say about finding your purpose, your why, and meaning in life is completely turned on its head by how Paul explains it with a much deeper understanding. From a very young age, Paul would intuitively “see” images, get “knowings”, and be able to “pick up” information for other people around what their purpose in life is. Is it because he was born the 7th son of a 7th, of a 7th; which in Ireland has significant folklore around being “gifted”? Or is it because he is a mastermind with a skewed sixth sense? Whatever it is, the insights that he gets for his clients has helped them enormously. By combining his extensive experience as a business growth consultant with his innate intuitive gifts and an exacting methodology that he has developed over many years, it makes him uniquely placed to help you to discover your true life purpose and empower you to achieve extraordinary results, both personally and professionally. In addition to being a member of the International Coach Federation, Paul is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Consultants and Advisors, an NLP Business Practitioner, Regional President of the Professional Speaking Association, a University approved trainer, a mentor with the Irish Stock Exchange for companies proceeding to Initial Public Offering (IPO), a business mentor for Enterprise Ireland, a trained facilitator with the Dr Demartini Institute, and has studied a plethora of areas including electrical engineering, computer programming, taxation, human behaviour, and philosophy.