What is so wrong with being perfect, or even just the concept of perfectionism?
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1538wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Jane Bluestein, PhD
- Book Title The Perfection Deception: Why Trying to Be Perfect Is Sabotaging Your Relationships, Making You Sick, and Holding Your Happiness Hostage
- Guest Website Dr. Jane Bluestein
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/doctorbluestein
- Guest Twitter Account @janebluestein
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Guest Bio
A dynamic and entertaining speaker, Dr. Jane Bluestein has worked with thousands of educators, counselors, healthcare professionals, parents, childcare workers, and other community members world-wide. She has appeared internationally as a speaker and talk-show guest, including several appearances as a guest expert on CNN, National Public Radio and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Dr. Bluestein specializes in programs and resources geared to provide practical and meaningful information, training and hope in areas related to relationship building, effective instruction and guidance, and personal development. Much of her work focuses on interactions between adults and children, especially children at risk. Her down-to-earth speaking style, practicality, sense of humor, and numerous stories and examples make her ideas clear and accessible to her audiences.
Jane is an award-winning author whose books include Creating Emotionally Safe Schools; High School’s Not Forever; 21st Century Discipline; Being a Successful Teacher; Parents in a Pressure Cooker; Parents, Teens, & Boundaries; The Parent’s Little Book of Lists: Do’s and Don’ts of Effective Parenting; Mentors, Masters, Mrs. McGregor: Stories of Teachers Making a Difference; and Magic, Miracles & Synchronicity: A Journal of Gratitude and Awareness. Dr. Bluestein’s latest books include The Win-Win Classroom, Becoming a Win-Win Teacher, and Managing 21st Century Classrooms.
Formerly a classroom teacher (in inner-city Pittsburgh, PA), crisis-intervention counselor, teacher training program coordinator, and volunteer with high-risk teens at a local Day Treatment Program, Dr. Bluestein currently heads Instructional Support Services, Inc., a consulting and resource firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Learn tried-and-true techniques to help ease stress and anxiety.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1538wl5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Mary Heath, Author & Life Coach
- Book Title Get Your Life Back: A Twelve-Week Journey to Overcome Stress, Anxiety and Depression
- Guest Website Get Your Life Back
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008875815919
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Guest Bio
As a Stress Management Consultant, Stress Counselor, Life Coach and Therapist, Mary Heath worked in Mental Health for almost 30 years helping patients and clients to overcome their stress, anxiety and depression. Embracing therapies such as Pranayama Yoga, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and Solution Focused Therapy she worked both on a one-to-one basis as well as delivering courses, workshops and seminars. She retired in 2010 and devoted her time to writing Get Your Life Back and her Breathe & Relax CD. Born in Lancashire near Liverpool she now lives in Solihull in the UK with her husband. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading and holidaying across the world.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
If you understand the stress, anxiety and depression affecting you, you're far more equipped to ease the symptoms.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1538wl5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Mary Heath, Author & Life Coach
- Book Title Get Your Life Back: A Twelve-Week Journey to Overcome Stress, Anxiety and Depression
- Guest Website Get Your Life Back
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008875815919
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Guest Bio
As a Stress Management Consultant, Stress Counselor, Life Coach and Therapist, Mary Heath worked in Mental Health for almost 30 years helping patients and clients to overcome their stress, anxiety and depression. Embracing therapies such as Pranayama Yoga, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and Solution Focused Therapy she worked both on a one-to-one basis as well as delivering courses, workshops and seminars. She retired in 2010 and devoted her time to writing Get Your Life Back and her Breathe & Relax CD. Born in Lancashire near Liverpool she now lives in Solihull in the UK with her husband. She enjoys spending time with her family, reading and holidaying across the world.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Each week, host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares her Nature's Secrets to a healthier body. This week: Keys to Solving Childhood Obesity.
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1537wl5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susanne Bennett, DC
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
With a childhood obesity epidemic in full force, how can we, collectively as a nation, encourage both adults and children to eat well?
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1537wl5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Ashley Koff, RD
- Guest Website Ashley Koff: Better Nutrition, Simplified
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/ashleykoffapp?fref=nf
- Guest Twitter Account @ashleykoff
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Guest Bio
Ashley Koff, RD, is an internationally-renowned registered dietitian who believes better nutrition is simple and is on a mission to help anyone achieve their personal health goals by providing simple but highly effective tips and strategies. A self-described “Qualitarian,” Koff emphasizes the value of quality nutritional choices in achieving optimal health and has developed tools such as The AKA Qualitarian Nutrition Plan and The AKA Personal Shopper to help facilitate this.
Koff is widely sought after for her knowledge and ability to translate nutrition science into practical and motivating messages and appears regularly in the National Media, has authored two books and speaks frequently on the topic of better quality choices for better health. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
While a healthy diet is essential for preventing childhood obesity, exercise is also extremely important.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1537wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Corinn Cross, MD
- Organization American Academy of Pediatrics
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Guest Bio
Dr. Corinn Cross was born and raised in New Jersey. She attended Barnard College where she graduated cum laude and majored in philosophy. She went on to attend the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, NJ, where she was selected for the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. Dr. Cross did her internship and residency in pediatrics at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Dr. Cross has continued to work at CHLA as a general pediatrics attending.
Dr. Cross is actively involved in her local AAP, Chapter 2, where she is an obesity champion. She is co-founder of the Fit to Play and Learn Obesity Prevention curriculum. Through a collaboration between AAP Chapter 2 and the L.A. Unified School District this curriculum is being used to educate at-risk students and their parents on the risks of obesity and to help them to lead healthier lives. Dr. Cross is an AAP Spokesperson and speaks to children throughout the L.A. school district about obesity, healthy lifestyles and the benefits of walking to school.
Dr. Cross is a member of the Executive Board for the AAP's Council on Communications and Media. She is the Editor of the Council on Communications and Media's blog. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Why is childhood obesity rising at such a rapid rate, and what can be done to stop it?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1537wl5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Melanie Cole, MS
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Guest Bio
Melanie Cole, MS, has a Master of Science in Exercise Physiology/Kinesiology and is Childhood Obesity expert.
Melanie is the host of Healthy Children (in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics) and Train Your Body (with the American College of Sports Medicine) on RadioMD. Melanie also conducts seminars and lectures nationwide on nutrition, stress reduction, balance, posture and a wide variety of health related topics. She has been featured in Shape Magazine, Inside Sports, Lerner Newspapers, and many more.
Additionally, Melanie is a practicing exercise physiologist/personal trainer with a client retention rate of 20+ years; nearly unheard of in the world of personal trainers. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
As the childhood obesity epidemic reaches epic numbers, it is causing some serious short- and long-term health issues in our kids.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1537wl5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Melanie Cole, MS
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Guest Bio
Melanie Cole, MS, has a Master of Science in Exercise Physiology/Kinesiology and is Childhood Obesity expert.
Melanie is the host of Healthy Children (in partnership with the American Academy of Pediatrics) and Train Your Body (with the American College of Sports Medicine) on RadioMD. Melanie also conducts seminars and lectures nationwide on nutrition, stress reduction, balance, posture and a wide variety of health related topics. She has been featured in Shape Magazine, Inside Sports, Lerner Newspapers, and many more.
Additionally, Melanie is a practicing exercise physiologist/personal trainer with a client retention rate of 20+ years; nearly unheard of in the world of personal trainers. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Each week, host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares her Nature's Secrets to a healthier body. This week: Can You Relieve Anxiety Naturally?
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1535wl5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susanne Bennett, DC
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Dr. Roger Landry shares doable, simple steps you use to make sure you're living your healthiest life.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1535wl5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Roger Landry, MD, MPH
- Guest Website Live Long, Die Short
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/doctorroger
- Guest Twitter Account @drrogerlandry
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Guest Bio
Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH received his MD at Tufts University School of Medicine and his MPH 9 (Masters in Public Health) at Harvard University School of Public Health. He is a retired, highly-decorated full colonel, former chief flight surgeon at the Air Force Surgeon General’s Office in Washington, preventive medicine physician who has spent over a decade smashing stereotypes of aging, and redefining the possibilities of older adulthood.
Dr. Roger Landry has been featured nationally and internationally on radio and TV with NBC, FOX News, ABC and CBS as well as BBC and 2GB radio. Dr. Landry has written exclusive articles, and been called on as an expert in the field of aging, by publications such as US News and World Report, Huffington Post (UK/Canada), About.com –Assisted Living, Expert Beacon and eHow and makes regular appearances on Growing Bolder. Dr. Landry was also featured in Esquire, LA Daily News, GRAND Magazine, Senior Planet, Journal of Aging and Health, Denver Post and ThirdAge. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
