Encore: EP12: The Power of Visualization w.Master Coach Jeff Patterson

Join Dr. Rosenthal and me as we discuss Season Affective Disorder (SAD) and how sunlight and light therapy can help. Dr. Norman Rosenthal is the world-renowned psychiatrist and bestselling author who first described seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and pioneered the use of light therapy as a treatment during his twenty years at the National Institute of Mental Health. A prolific researcher and writer, he has written more than three-hundred scholarly articles and authored or co-authored ten popular books, including Poetry Rx, the New York Times bestseller Tran- scendence and the national bestsellers The Gift of Adversity, and Super Mind. His most recent book is DEFEATING SAD A Guide To Health and Happiness Through All Seasons. For further information go to: www.normanrosenthal.com

Listen in as Somatic Guru Jay Fields and I discuss experiencing your Grief as a Habit for Happiness. Whether it is processing your grief with experiential exercises or facing it head-on with therapy. Grief can be healthy and naming it and taming it can make us happier. Jay Fields, M.A. is an educator, coach, and author who has taught the principles of embodied social and emotional intelligence to individuals and organizations for twenty years. Her approach to helping people have their own back at work and in life is grounded, playful, empathic, and intelligent. Jay received her BA in Psychosocial Health and Human Movement from the College of William and Mary and her master's in Integral Transformative Education from Prescott College. She is the author of the book Teaching People, Not Poses and the Linkedin Learning courses Managing Your Emotions at Work and Practices for Regulating Your Nervous System and Reducing Stress. When not working with clients or facilitating training, you can find Jay riding her motorcycle with her sweetie in the mountains outside of Ojai, California where she lives.

Kansha is the practice of expressing thanks for the good, the bad, and the ugly, so to speak. It's about finding appreciation for both the blessed and the horrible things that have taken place in your life. Kansha is the ability to reframe situations in a way that rewires your brain to find at least some good in every experience, no matter how terrible it seems initially. Join author and executive coach Jennifer Mrozek and Sukalo as we discuss this century-old art of gratitude and its positive impact on one's well-being and happiness.

Amy Weinland Daughters will join us to discuss the habit of Writing letters and Thank you Notes. Amy's story begins when saw a post that her friend Dana’s son was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She bravely picked up her ballpoint pen and wrote a letter to Dana; the rest is history. Amy and Dana’s support for one another as pen pals inspired Amy to write all 580 of her Facebook friends a handwritten letter, and her life would never be the same. Amy is the author of Dear Dana: That time I went crazy and wrote all 580 of my Facebook friends a handwritten letter. Her story is inspiring others to pick up their ballpoint pens in pursuit of real connection.

Thomas M. Sterner is the author of The Practicing Mind, Fully Engaged, and most recently It’s Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking. The CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, Sterner is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of mastery. Prior to writing the bestselling The Practicing Mind, Sterner studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Visit him online at http://www.tomsterner.com. Here’s a link to It’s Just a Thought on Amazon: https://a.co/d/bQ66ncq You’ll find him on social media here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/practicingmind Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tommsterner/ Is there anything else you need from me? If not please confirm that we are confirmed and we’ll be all set!

Join Dr. Aaron Ahuvia and myself as we discuss the powerful habit of sharing music with your friends. Dr. Ahuvia is a Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan-Dearborn College of Business and the most widely published and cited academic expert on non-interpersonal love. He has published more than 100 academic papers and conference presentations, and his research has been quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Glamour. He has appeared on public radio talk shows as well as popular television shows such as the Oprah Winfrey Show. Dr. Ahuvia received a BA in Philosophy from the University of Michigan (1985) and a PhD in marketing from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management (1993). He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor’s Ross School of Business in 1992 before moving to the Dearborn campus in 1999, where he has won awards for research and teaching. He also holds an appointment at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor’s Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design. His book The Things We Love: How Our Passions Connect Us and Make Us Who We Are, was recently published by Little, Brown Spark.

Join me as talk with author and change-maker Jennifer Sukalo on the habit of gratitude! Jennifer is a speaker, author, transformational expert, performance coach, and the Chief SWAGGER Officer at SWAGGER U. Her bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees are centered around behavioral change. Jennifer's work as a global leadership consultant has reached nearly fifty thousand leaders across levels, cultures, countries, and industries. Her work in leadership development and coaching cancer survivors to transform their circumstances from survival to a spark for the rest of their lives laid the groundwork for the SWAGGER method, a personal development approach to harnessing your untapped potential and becoming who you were born to be. Jennifer is a passionate home chef, curious traveler, and avid fly-fisher. She and her husband live in New Canaan, COT. Her three Arabian horses keep her humble and grounded.

It’s not easy to be courageous. Feelings of fear and uncertainty often stop us dead in our tracks. But what if you had the courage to take action anyway? What changes would you make to transform your current reality into the life of your dreams? In his new book, SCARE YOUR SOUL: 7 Powerful Principles to Harness Fear and Lead Your Most Courageous Life (Balance; December 6, 2022), happiness entrepreneur and founder of the global Scare Your Soul courage movement, Scott Simon reflects on his childhood spent running from fear - and his adulthood spent chasing it - and inspires readers to take small, boundary-pushing actions to expand comfort zones, harness their fears, and lead a confident and audacious life. When fear presents itself, we are deterred from the essential work of holding tough conversations, defending new ideas against the status quo, and standing up against injustice. Simon has helped thousands of people become more courageous in life, and his popular TEDx Talk on positive psychology and his science-based work of creating, curating, and leading opportunities and challenges for people around the world has helped people of all backgrounds become braver, happier and more courageous.

D.M. Blakey is a writer, teacher, artist and inventor. He created visual effects and animation for film and television at Walt Disney Animation Studios and other production studios for thirty years. He received a prime-time television Emmy for the pilot episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His work can be seen in movies such as Iron Man III, Tron: Legacy, 2012, Into The Storm, Disney's Dinosaur and Home On The Range, Dante's Peak, Apollo 13 and The Fifth Element. He was also chair of online animation and visual effects graduate students and an instructor for eight years at an art university. He animated the Galileo Spacecraft for NASA/JPL on a room sized mini-supercomputer, and created a scientific software center for the Naval Research Laboratory. He was a full-time inventor creating machine and software inventions from advanced lossless and lossy compression algorithms, animation registration, binaural underwater whale audio recording hydrophone hardware and a couple other advanced projects. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts with a degree in experimental film graphics while learning to solder since the age of seven and growing up a kid of science who liked early tube-type lasers, radio, telephones, and xray machines. In addition to his interests in art and science, he has a teaching certificate in the Chinese internal arts of Xing Yi and standing meditation. He has twenty years of experience exploring clear channelings in the L.A. metaphysics community while learning with help from channels to receive three messages for his first book. These messages are about appreciating what is unique in each person and ending racial, gender, class and other ways we separate ourselves from an understanding of being of one thought to evolve all together in our future toward pure consciousness. Dennis enjoys sifting through metaphysical ideas with a skeptical scientific mind who loves to build and solder, but is also open to persistent loving ideas from beyond that he can personally verify. He loves animals and Nature. He has ridden dressage with soulful horses and rode a motorcycle. He learned both will go where one looks but horses have the sense to correct the rider. He's worked on diesel locomotives for a railway museum restoration and is a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association as well as Association of Computing Machinery Computer Graphics Pioneers.

Join Jennifer Cassetta as we discuss her life as a motivational speaker, author and total black belt BADASS. Jennifer Cassetta is a nationally recognized motivational speaker and health and empowerment coach with a third degree black belt in Hapkido and a master’s degree in nutrition. Over the past two decades, she has helped people to feel strong, safe, and powerful from the streets to the boardroom. Her keynotes and trainings have helped tens of thousands of women tap into their innate power, speak up against predatory behavior, and level up their mind, body, and spiritual wellbeing. From teaching Carrie Fisher self-defense on The Today Show to being a featured weight loss expert on ABC-TV's My Diet is Better Than Yours, Jenn brings a unique passion plus practical tips for self-defense, optimal mental and physical health, and personal badassery.