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Aired Thursday, 5 November 2015, 10:00 PM ET

Cheryl’s will be talking about her experience of her wife’s illness and death and how that changed her. IT also connects to all the work Cheryl does now. Cheryl would love to share what makes her so impassioned about working with illness, death and grief, and the surprising life that came from loss. In that vein, it’s important not to skip over the hard work it takes to get to the point where a deeper, more meaningful life comes out of the ashes- never want to imply that process was easy for her. In fact, that is part of her message, that it is worth diving in, that emerging from loss after whatever is painful about it leads in mysterious and wonderful ways to our best lives.

About the Guest Cheryl Jones

Cheryl Jones is Marriage and Family Therapist who specializes in grief. During her training, her first wife was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, which was at the time a uniformly fatal illness with a six month to one year prognosis. In the eight years that followed, Cheryl engaged daily in the work of preparing for her death. She received training during this period from Stephen and Ondrea Levine (Who Dies and Grieving into Life and Death) and Richard Olney (founder of Self-Acceptance Training). After her wife’s death, Cheryl immersed herself in her own multifaceted grief, surprised by frequent moments of joy.

Along with her private practice, Cheryl is host of Good Grief Radio. Each week, she interviews a guest who has been transformed by engaging with the experience of loss. Cheryl is also the Manager of Professional Education at the Women’s Cancer Resource Center in Oakland, CA. She developed, teaches in and facilitates the Continuing Education program there and also consults and facilitates support groups there. She has trained extensively with Erving Polster, leader in the field of gestalt therapy and author of Everybody’s Life is worth a Novel.

Before becoming a therapist, Cheryl enjoyed careers as a musician, a restaurant owner and a carpenter. She still enjoys singing with the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, eating eating out at outstanding Bay Area locations and remodeling her Craftsman. She lives with her wife in Oakland, California and especially savors time with her family (including 3 daughters and 2 grandsons) and friends.

Airing Thursday, 5 November 2015, 7:00 PM ET

Raising a child in today’s world is challenging for even the most conscious and loving parents. It is difficult to protect children from outside influences such as the onslaught of television images and Internet temptations. Once children learn to use electronic devices, these dynamics are difficult to control. Parents are perplexed how much to monitor social media exposure to their developing children who often lack discernment what is a beneficial and what is a dangerous influence. Complicating the co-parenting experience is the common confusion for two parents how to role model a secure functioning partnership as they guide a child’s choices, so the growing child feels secure and safe.

Even what used to be natural – such as a simple frolic in the grass – can be challenging when it can have a devastating impact on the health of a child, such as Lyme disease, sun-damaged skin, or pesticides used on the lawn. Feeding children is no longer easy. A wise parent has to watch out for GMOs and chemicals in foods. Growing bodies have to be protected from radiation from cell phones and smart meters. The ability to protect our children from the simple pleasures of life can feel daunting.

So how can you guide and and protect your children from life’s unexpected threats? The answer is by providing them with the basic building blocks of love, which creates secure emotional attachment for everyone. The neuroscience of secure attachment has developed over 20 years of research, and more than 2000 studies on child development. Carista Luminare explains how you can use the accumulated wisdom to guide the optimum development of your child’s well being throughout all stages of a child’s life. Children who experience the power of secure love are more apt to make wise and self-loving choices in their relationship to themselves and others, throughout their life.

And if you had insecure bonding with their parents, it’s never too late to learn about secure attachment with a child or partner.

About the Guest Carista Luminare, Phd

CARISTA LUMINARE, PhD has 30 years experience as a consultant, counselor and coach to parents, individuals, executives, entrepreneurs, and organizations, bringing them into alignment with their highest virtues and their True Self.

After graduating from Harvard University in Psychology and Social Relations Carista pioneered educational programs focused on the integration of the personality and soul. She has developed a comprehensive holistic parenting methodology and integrates into her private practice her lifelong research on childhood attachment, and how our early bonding patterns with our parents profoundly affect our primary adult relationship dynamics. She is the author of the groundbreaking book Parenting Begins Before Conception, excerpts from which are available online at InspiredParentingMagazine.com, and has been featured in a variety of international media. http://www.confusedaboutlove.com

Aired Thursday, 5 November 2015, 4:00 PM ET

Intimate connection through love making can be one of the most pleasurable, fulfilling and sacred experiences in adult life. But due to taboos, shame and discomfort many of us find it hard to speak about our needs, desires and experience. Pleasure & embodiment coach and sexuality educator, Laura-Doe will talk about why it is so important to overcome any challenges and how and when to best talk about sex, both to our children and to our lovers and friends.

About the Guest Laura-Doe

Laura-Doe is a professional somatic sex educator. Her vision is to ‘create more love in the world, one happy, fulfilled woman at a time’. Nineteen years ago she created the web site yOni.com, a grandmother of the feminine web.The site brought vulva puppets into her life which began to sing and chat, rather humorously! The comic cabaret, ‘Vaudeville of the Vulva’, was born, educational entertainment designed to tickle at our taboos. Having trained with teachers of sexuality across many traditions and disciplines Laura-doe founded the yOniversity, which offers a juicy program of courses for both yOni owners and yOni lovers. She creates and distributes the Vulvalicious® Cushions, anatomically accurate 3D fabric art pieces.

Her most recent creation is a ground-breaking documentary, The Art & Science of Female Arousal. Designed to spread the news further than she can in person, about the amazing structures, systems and pathways responsible for arousal in female bodied people, this movie contains a wealth of cutting edge scientific information, interspersed with comic sketches, practical exercises and catchy songs.

Website: www.yoniversity.com.au 

Twitter: @vulvalationary 

Facebook Page: fb.com/lauradoerocks

Aired Thursday, 5 November 2015, 1:00 PM ET

Today, Michelle is going to talk with you about how to create your own Sacred Business Success by making the contribution you desire to make while creating the cash that allows you to build and grow a profitable, freedom-based business. You can have both! She will talk to you about how to increase your Impact and your Income to be the Coach, Speaker, Teacher and Author that you dream about being. Michelle is passionate about supporting and guiding the Helpers and Healers of the world to get out into the world with their gifts and learn how to support themselves in the process. On the show, she shares her personal story and offers Powerfully Practical Tools and Processes to guide you in building your own business.

About the Host Michelle Barr

Michelle Barr is your spiritual business mentor. She is both a business strategist and mindset mentor. Michelle helps conscious entrepreneurs translate their soul purpose into a tangible, step by step plan to create personal and business success so they can make more money while making a big difference.

Michelle Barr has been a Personal Transformation Specialist for over 20 years and loves to help people create what she calls Sacred Business Success by offering Powerfully Practical and Spiritually Rich Tools to help her listeners Create A Better Life and Create A Better Business Now!