Writing by Heart with Meredith Heller

Meredith Heller Feb 29 2024
Meredith Heller is the author of Writing by Heart | A Poetry Path to Healing and Self-Discovery, and several poetry collections.
A poet, singer-songwriter, avid nature lover, and educator with degrees in writing and education, she leads writing workshops online and in-person at schools, juvenile detention centers, women’s prisons, and wellness retreats.
Heller used poetry to heal her own life and has been guiding others toward self-expression ever since. She shares techniques she developed to help her students explore their emotions, find their voice, and better navigate the challenging experiences they confront in their lives.
Each chapter of her book includes inspiring themes and example poems, a Body/Mindfulness exercise to help readers get in the creative flow, and invitations that encourage readers to explore a variety of themes like belonging, fertile darkness, metamorphosis, and more.
Meet Meredith Heller

Feel Better in Five Minutes with Amanda Hainline

Amanda Hainline Jan 18, 2022
Amanda Hainline‘s chakras blew open simultaneously as she experienced the kundalini energy rising from the base of her spine up through her head! Her kundalini awakenint triggered an ability to hear and perceive new information from unseen forces that opened Amanda to her own healing techniques.
The highly effective array of her energy-transforming techniques have been compiled in her Amazon #1 bestseller, Feel Better in Five Minutes. This comprehensive set of protocols, practices and resources are a roadmap for releasing the emotional pain and trauma, physical ailments, self-judgement and general dissatisfaction with life that plagues so many.
Amanda has become a world-renowned hands-on healer using the techniques she offers in her book. She believes everyone should have these tools at hand for a quick pick-up or a life changing transformation. 
Meet Amanda Hainline

Energetic Magic and Transformation with Shiraz Baboo

Shiraz Baboo Dec 14, 2021
Using Energetic Magic, Shiraz Baboo has helped thousands of people rewrite their reality. He has used it to overcome illness and poverty in his own life, and teaches others how to do the same.
Shiraz’s transformational coaching programs for both individuals and groups, will change the way attendees function in the world. His workshops and classes will help his clients overcome issues with money, success, health, and relationships.
Shiraz is a powerful public speaker whose talks not only inspire, but also help listeners shift their beliefs and stories in the moment. He is the author of How to Rewrite your Reality – Becoming the Author of the Stories in your Life
His book contains important lessons on how you can change your stories.
Meet Shiraz Baboo

A Stroke of Luck, and That Sucks!

On December 14th, 2014, while walking with friends into a restaurant for dinner, Scott Schilling’s legs stopped working and began to tingle. He was suddenly disoriented, and things were spinning around him. Friends noticed his gray color and profuse sweating.

Scott went to the emergency room at a local hospital and was  misdiagnosed with a migraine. He was sent home. That night his head pounded in so much pain he cried out, “God, help!”

The answer Scott received was, “Get on your knees”.

God I’m choosing to believe your plan is to wake me up and serve others for the rest of my life. I need your help and guidance to do that. I was cradled.

Scott Schilling

In answer to prayer, Scott’s headache sub-sided and he had a restful night’s sleep. The next day he worked hard as usual and saw a neurologist as a follow-up.

Scott was surprised to learn he’d had a full-blown cerebellum stroke and consequently spent 6 days in intensive care. While researching these types of strokes, Scott learned he may not speak again; may not have balance again; and may not be able to drive again.

That was all unacceptable.”

Scott Schilling

Scott wanted to make sure other people know they can come through a circumstance when the odds may seem against them, and his fifteenth book emerged.

If you’re living, you’re going to take a hit every now and then. It’s not the events that count, it’s how we react to those events.

Scott Schilling

Regarding his near-death experience a friend commented, “Scott, I didn’t know you’d gone through that. What did you say to yourself after it was over?

Scott answered, “That sucks. What now?” The title of his book was born: That Sucks…What Now? Real World Solutions for Getting Through What You’re Going Through.

A stroke of luck and That Sucks!

Survivor’s guilt can come into play, as it did for Scott. He noticed everyone who’d had a stroke with their facial deformities and twisted limbs. “Why me?” He thought. “Why did I survive without problems? What’s the reason? What do I do from here?

Scott remembered creating his mission 11 years before his stroke: “To create a worldwide community of over a million people; cause over 100 million dollars in charitable giving; and impact 100 million people on the planet.

God’s plan and timing is perfect. You can believe it’s perfect, or you can believe the event shouldn’t have happened, but you can’t believe them both at the same time. Pick one and live it.”

Scott Schilling

Besides his amazing story and mission, Scott also shared during our interview the Four Stages of Competence:

  • 1. Unconscious incompetence: We don’t know what we don’t know
  • 2. Plausible deniability: You know that you don’t know. It’s decision time
  • 3. Consciously Competent: You know that you know. You decided to learn a new skill which you didn’t think you could master.
  • 4. Unconsciously competent: You know that you know, and it has become second nature. You operate on autopilot in that new skill

Since Scott is a trainer and coach, he clarified ways to mentor others:

Model from stage four but teach from stage three.”

Scott Schilling

“Leaders act differently than those who are not leaders” is a philosophy Scott shared.

Scott suggested we need more balance, and there are little things we could all do better. He urges us as a nation to return respect, honor, and dignity to the planet.

Respect is how I treat you; honor is how I lift you up, dignity is how we both feel after that’s done.”

Scott Schilling

Over the last couple of generations, we’ve taken responsibility from individuals and it’s not helping them. Respons-ibil-ity is the responsibility to respond. Take control of your life by taking responsibility for everything in your life.”

Scott Schilling

Three positions we often take are:

“It’s your fault” – blaming another“

I screwed up” – shaming ourselves

“Well…it was because…” – justification and making excuses

Scott offered us many gems of information during our interview and throughout his book. He is kindly inviting you to join his Bee Konnected Community.

Bee Konnected is a worldwide global community. It’s dating software for the business world. We match people with their ideal customer in less than two minutes, and there are courses to help people grow businesses.

Scott Schilling

As a Life Mastery Radio listener, Scott is giving you a free Bee Konnected account. Fill out your profile and join the community of world changers. It is all permission based, so no one will spam you or contact you without your approval.

Go to ScottSchilling.BeeKonnected.Com and give it a try. Read Scott’s book as well!

Solutions for Getting Through what you’re Going Through with Scott Shilling

Scott Shilling June 1, 2021
Scott Shilling has a goal to maximize the potential and God-given talents of all the individuals and organizations he encounters. He works from the understanding that “to whom much is entrusted-much is expected”!
As an executive coach, trainer, speaker, and author, Scott is committed to providing inspired answers to today’s challenges.
Bottom line, he helps individuals like you and organizations grow market penetration, improve profitability and grow the quality of their people.
Scott is the author of That Sucks…What Now? Real-World Solutions for Getting Through what you’re Going Through and has 35+ years of life experience in sales, marketing, training, and speaking. He has transformed businesses to achieve more sales and greater profitability.
Meet Scott Shilling

Burnout, weight gain, and chronic diseases

Celine Anelone Brozovich, our recent guest, was once flying high as an engineer and MBA. She was receiving awards and being rewarded. With working all the time, not sleeping, and not exercising, Celine burned out. With that all-too-familiar physical, emotional, and mental burnout there follows weight gain, chronic diseases, and even an attempted suicide.

Celine learned of lifestyle medicine. This is a type of care supported by a medical doctor which includes mindfulness, nutrition, and care for your entire body – not just treating disease. Celine lost a great amount of weight, and her depression became controlled.

Today, Celine Anelone Brozovich is the founder of FromHow2Wow, a health and productivity company created to build employee morale and reduce employer healthcare expenses. In a nutshell Celine works across the organization to teach and coach. She leverages Lifestyle Medicine programs that are scientifically based with proven results and sound business principles to deliver a program with sustainable results.

Celine explained on the show that Lifestyle Medicine is defined by six pillars:

  • Nutrition
  • Mind/Soul
  • Life Purpose
  • Body
  • Environment
  • Connectedness

When these pillars of care are coordinated with a medical doctor who understands Lifestyle Medicine, chronic diseases can be reversed.

I ate whole foods 100% plant based. There are 80,000 edible plants in the world, and if 80% of your diet can be plant-based you will see dramatic results.

Celine Anelone Brozovich

Celine is a proponent of eating every day from all five food groups, drinking plenty of water, exercise, and working on your emotions.

Forgiveness is key.”

Celine Anelone Brozovich

Once Celine’s health so dramatically improved by the changes she made, she began to share the information to as many people as possible. Once her doctor (who wanted to put her on medication) saw results of Celine’s new diet, he started listening to her. Now The American College for Lifestyle Medicine exists, and doctors receive training in the six pillars mentioned.

 “It’s a growing community of doctors who are learning the power of food and nutrition on the health of their patients.”

Celine Anelone Brozovich

Not convinced that Lifestyle Medicine is for you? Here are some shocking statistics:

  • Every 36 seconds, an American dies from heart disease
  • Four seconds later someone dies of a heart attack
  • Six to ten Americans suffer from chronic disease
  • One out of three children born today will develop diabetes

The cost to treat these diseases may be astronomical for businesses. Prevention, and personalized nutrition is the answer.”

Celine Anelone Brozovich

Americans eat 190 pounds of sugar a year. There are 61 different names for sugar hidden in foods. Foods are produced to make us addicted and keep us that way.

Sugar is as addictive as cocaine. When you change your diet, you must remove the sugar. It’s poison. Get your sweets from whole fruits. Instead of getting only bad carbs, you will benefit from fiber, vitamins, and minerals, too.”  

Celine Anelone Brozovich

Celine provided a recipe for a no-bake healthy brownie. The ingredients include dates, 100% cocoa, walnuts, vanilla, cinnamon, clove, and pinch of salt combine in a blender.

It’s a brownie that heals you!

Celine Anelone Brozovich

Celine was very clear in her advice to us:

Step one is to become aware that change in your diet is needed. Start making those changes. Take a short walk daily and throw out the sugar. There are no super foods. Eating a little of all five food groups is the super choice. Go slow. Educate yourself.”

Celine Anelone Brozovich

Find Celine and her programs available for you right here: https://fromhow2wow.com/

Thrive in Life with Clarity and Energy. Starring Celine Anelone Brozovich

Celine Anelone Brozovich May 11, 2021
Less than 5% of american doctors spend more than 10 min with their patients, and six out of ten Americans suffer from a chronic disease. Employees who are in bad health have more than 30% decline in productivity.
Combining the approach of Lifestyle Medicine, the methodologies of People Change Management, the principles of Lifestyle Coaching and consulting, compassion and personal experience, Celine Anelone Brozovich has developed a process for sustainable results.
Celine believes strongly that we’re all entitled to have a thriving life with mental clarity and energy without jeopardizing our health and with no guilt. In her inspirational talks, Celine breaks the code revealing the history and scientific research backing lifestyle medicine and shares very practical ways to start a transformation.
Feel energized, vibrant, and competent again!
Meet Celine Anelone Brozovich

Hurt People Hurt People

At the age of 20, Michelle Jewsbury left Idaho for Hollywood to be a movie star. She starred in some independent films and plays; and was just beginning to see success.

Then Michelle met a blonde haired, blue eyed, handsome man who swept her off her feet. He courted her, sent her flowers and gifts, sent amazing text messages. She loved the life they were creating together and became caught up in the allure of that dream.  

Three months into the relationship the first sign of trouble showed itself.

On the closing night of a play I was in, Paul invited the cast members to our hotel room for a party. A long-time friend of mine pulled me into the bathroom and warned me about Paul. She didn’t like him, thought he was cocky, said that he gave her the heebie jeebies.

Paul overheard this conversation and claimed the friend was trying to seduce him. Paul seemed to be protecting me and forced me to choose one or the other: him or my friend.

In those three months Paul had painted a picture of us together, and I was certain it would be a reality. I should have identified the sign, but I didn’t.

Michelle Jewsbury

The isolation began, and Michelle found herself being separated by more and more friends, and Paul continued to paint a lovely future.

At four months into the relationship the first act of physical violence was perpetrated on Michelle by Paul. She didn’t leave then either.

I stayed with Paul for four years. During that time, I endured psychological manipulation, financial abuse, physical violence, and sexual violence. I had never witnessed abuse at home and didn’t realize what was happening. The allure of the life I imagined with him made it difficult to leave. I was his savior. I knew his darkest secrets.”

Michelle Jewsbury

After all the abuse she had suffered, Michelle’s breaking point was his affair with another woman.

I lost my mind. He let me go home to my family, but he still had a grip on me emotionally and financially. In November 2015 I got a phone call from his new girlfriend. She was pressing domestic violence charges against Paul. I contacted the DA to help with her case and filed my own lawsuit.

Michelle Jewsbury

Michelle took her power back!

She began to document her story. In 2016 her story appeared on stage as a 65-minute one-woman play about domestic violence, starring Michelle.

You can now read her book:

God taught me I can make beautiful things out of the broken pieces. I could feel Him carry me. When you sit in silence you can hear Him.”

Michelle Jewsbury

Michelle felt compelled to start a nonprofit called Unsilenced Voices. She began by helping women in Ghana and Sierra Leone. Her organization has today impacted thousands and thousands of women.

Michelle is seeking sponsors (corporations and businesses) for a live event July 22nd in Las Vegas. She asks that interested parties email her at Michelle@UnsilencedVoices.Org

Michelle has a giveaway for our listeners. Text “Obstacles” to 26786 and receive a complimentary introduction to her book.

Provided below are some tips about domestic violence. Michelle asks you to consider a time when your partner may have become angry and hurt you. He/she has probably assured you it won’t happen again.

What if you’re wrong?

California Judicial System explains the cycle of domestic violence in three stages:

1. Tension-building phase:

a. Batterer-may: pick fights; act jealous; be critical; yell; swear; use angry gestures; coercion; threats; be moody; unpredictable; and drink or use drugs

b. Partner-may: feel like they are walking on eggshells; afraid; anxious; try to reason; act calm; appease the batterer or keep silent and try to keep children quiet.

2. Violence-crisis phase:

a. Batterer-may: verbally, emotionally, or physically abuse; sexually assault; restrain or threaten partner and destroy property.

b. Partner-may: experience fear; shock; use self-defense; try to leave; call for help; pray for it to stop; do what is necessary to survive.

3. Seduction-calm phase:

a. Batterer-may: apologize; minimize or deny abuse; ask for forgiveness; be affectionate; promise it won’t happen again and to change; give gifts (this also explains how three dynamics love, hope, and fear, keep the cycle in motion and make it hard to end a violent relationship)*

b. Partner-may: forgive; feel hopeful; manipulated; blame self; arrange for counseling; return home and minimize or deny abuse.

According to the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project of Duluth, Minnesota, certain behaviors of abusive men have been identified. Some characteristics of the early stages of abuse that precede physical battering are listed here. Women who recognize several of these traits in their partners should take a good look at the relationship, and carefully consider getting out before it becomes violent.

1. Your partner has a history of growing up in a violent family, a setting where he learned that violence is normal behavior.

2. He tends to use force or violence to try and solve problems- as indicated by behavior such as a criminal record for violence, a quick temper or tendency to overreact to minor frustrations, fighting, destructive behavior when angry, cruelty to animals.

3. He abuses alcohol or drugs.

4. He has a poor image of himself, often masked by trying to act tough.

5. He often exhibits jealousy, not only of other men, but also of friends and family members.

6. He exhibits hypermasculine behavior- he feels he should make all the decisions, tell you what your role as a woman and his as a man must be. He has very traditional ideas about appropriate roles and behaviors of men and women, and thinks women are second-class citizens. He expects you to follow his orders and advice and may become angry if you can’t read his mind and anticipate what he wants.

7. He emotionally abuses you or other women with name-calling, putdowns, humiliation, and attempts to create guilt.

8. He isolates you by telling you who you may see or talk to, controls what you do and where you go, even what you read. He keeps tabs on your every move and wants you with him all the time.

9. He intimidates you and makes you afraid through looks, anger, actions, a display of weapons or gestures. He destroys your property or abuses your pets. He enjoys playing with lethal weapons and threatens to use them against those he feels wronged him. You do what he wants you to do and constantly work to keep him from getting angry.

10. He portrays “Jekyll and Hyde” behavior. He goes through highs and lows, as though he is two different people, and he swings from extremely kind to extremely cruel.

11. He uses coercion and threats. He tells you he will hurt you, leave you, or kill himself if you leave. If you file charges against him, he makes you drop them by threatening violence or suicide. Have you changed your life, so you won’t make him angry?

12. He treats you roughly, and physically forces you to do things you do not want to do.

13. He often denies his actions, minimizing or making light of his own abusive behavior, refusing to take your concerns seriously, and blaming you for his behavior.

14. He economically abuses you by preventing you from getting or keeping a job, controlling all the money in the household, making you ask for money, or concealing his income.

15. Weapons are important to him as instruments of power or control, he is unusually fascinated with guns or other weapons, without or beyond any reasonable explanation for such an interest (such as collecting antiques, historical reenactment, or hunting).

16. He has battered or stalked a partner in a prior relationship and/or has a history of police encounters for assault, battery, threats, or stalking.

17. He tried to inappropriately accelerate his relationship with you when you were dating, prematurely discussing marriage or other commitment, then expects the relationship to last forever, no matter what may happen.

18. He refers to his use of alcohol or drugs as an excuse for hostile or violent behavior.

19. He can’t accept rejection, resists change or compromise, is generally inflexible.

20. He is not just devoted, but obsessed with you; he spends a disproportionate amount of time talking about you, watching, or following you, and derives much of his identity from being your partner.

21. He is paranoid, believes others are out to get him, and projects strong feelings such as hate or jealousy onto others when there is no evidence that would lead a reasonable person to perceive such emotions.

22. He refuses to take responsibility for his own actions, and always blames others for problems of his own making.

23. He is usually moody, sullen, depressed, or any about something.

24. He tries to enlist your friends and family in his own campaign to keep you with him or get you back if you have left.

25. Perhaps most important of all: If you have an intuitive feeling that you are at risk from this man, if you fear he might injure or kill you, listen to your own instincts!

Just because we went through a certain experience, it doesn’t define who we are. We can use our stories to help other people.”

Michelle Jewsbury

The Power to Take back Your Life w/ Michelle Jewsbury

Michelle Jewsbury May 4, 2021
As she lay paralyzed, his blood dripped onto Michelle’s bruised and mangled face. She broke free from his grasp and fell to her knees, begging God to make him stop.
Now, recognized as a valuable resource in the speaking industry, Michelle Jewsbury is the go to professional speaker who uses her story of survival as encouragement and motivation for others. You will want to get Michelle’s book But I Love Him .
By using reflective techniques in her presentation, Michelle creates “A-HA” moments that lead to transformation. Attendees leave inspired, revitalized, and ready to pursue their journey with renewed focus.
With a confident yet calming approach, Michelle’s story makes a lasting impression on the audience and gives them the Power to Take Their Lives Back!
Meet Michelle Jewsbury

When Shift Happens

From the age of 6, Millen Livis wanted to understand how the world worked. She studied physics but discovered it didn’t provide the answers she was looking for. A shift was about to happen.

I was on top of the world living the American dream. We came to this country with no money but ended up with a job on Wall Street and a great salary.

Millen Livis

What she calls “a divine crisis” brought Millen to her knees. A divorce. She experienced failure, guilt, and shame. Millen put aside her potential.

I was experiencing the darkest night of my soul. I was dying inside. I wasn’t sleeping or eating. I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I avoided people, but I intuitively started praying and meditating.”

Millen Livis

Millen had not been raised in a religious home and unexpectedly found metaphysics provided the answers about life she’d been seeking.

It felt right. Intelligent love gave me what I needed. I was narrow minded before, and it took this painful experience to open my heart and my soul. It had to be an earth-shaking experience to shift my model of the world

Millen Livis

Millen admits before this crisis, ego had kept her resistant to the Source.

We don’t like to embrace the unknown, but that’s exactly how things work for our benefit in the quantum field. The shifts in my external life started happening when I changed inside, and I changed big time!”

Millen Livis

Today, Millen is a financial independence mentor, best-selling author, investor, and entrepreneur. She combines her traditional and holistic education to help professional and entrepreneurial women become financially independent and retire early, so that they enjoy more choices and more freedom, without having to worry about money!

FREEDOM, Millen discovered is her core value. She wants to be free to enjoy life on her terms without obligations, guilt, or owing something to someone.

I adjusted my choices which became aligned with the vision I now had of myself. Despite being strong and smart, I still needed support. I thought only weak people asked for help, but life taught me an important lesson.

Millen Livis

Millen explains life is like a boomerang. It’s about what YOU emit to the world. THAT’S what you’ll receive. When we live in integrity with values and words we use (which are frequency based), things will change for us. We will make better choices when we have clarity on what we WANT.

Clarity about what you want is important. We have ability to create the experiences we want. Everything is perception.”

Millen Livis

We (including myself) have strange perceptions of money. Millen explains many people feel money is something to chase and is hard to get. We might even feel money is not something we’re meant to have.

Millen has a different view of money.

I choose to see money as a friend who has my back. You don’t need to chase a friend.”

Millen Livis

Millen explains we are not linear beings, but multi-dimensional. Simply learning to invest is not enough for everyone. We can create success from the inside out and attract money through our frequency.

Mediations are part of Millen’s practice. Dr. Joe Dispenza is a mentor of hers and she endorses his meditation resources.

Millen also offers you a complimentary consultation, so you never have to worry about money again. She will help you map your path to financial independence.

Make your appointment at SpeakWithMillen.Com

You can learn more about Millen at DaretoChangeLife.com

I deeply believe everyone has the capacity to be financially independent, have a clear vision, and get what they want.

Millen Livis

Todd and Jackie were recent guests on Millen’s Dare to Change Life podcast. Watch it HERE