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Submitted by Douglas Newsom on 19 April 2021

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Guest Occupation: Paranormal investigator and hypnotherapist
Guest Biography:

Peter is a 20 year paranormal investigator and hypnotherapist that ahs written several books on the "Art of paranormal investigation". He has educated the USA in equipment. reality over TV, how our experiences may vary from realty and much more on his travels into the unknown.

Guest Category: Entertainment, Philosophy, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Religion, Science, Spiritual, Theory & Conspiracy, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: Transcendental Stress Management, Shaktipat, Meditation, Past Lives, Corporate Wellness
Guest Biography:

Ruffina Farrokh Anklesaria has been teaching Meditation since 1978, when she was made a teacher of the Transcendental Meditation program by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Since then, she has taught meditation to over a thousand people, including many in corporate settings.

In 2013, Ruffina revealed that she had experienced a major shift in her consciousness 20 years prior, resulting in the opening of her third eye. It enabled her to see the world as made of light, and to gain more knowledge from the object of perception. This included the ability to see the previous incarnations of those at whom she looked “with intention.” It opened new channels of knowledge, of love, and bliss, within her.

She realized she could transfer these abilities to others by looking at them merely with her intention to do so. She calls this transference of spiritual energy “Shaktipat.”

Ruffina holds “Full Moon Shaktipat Retreats” both in her hometown in Ferguson, Missouri or at other locations by invitation. 100% of her retreat participants (about 75 persons) report having changes in their perception when Ruffina gives them Shaktipat.

She can be contacted by email at: tsmo.org@gmail.com. Her Facebook page is at: Ruffina’s Shaktipat. Her Voicemail is: 314.521.4390

 

Guest Category: Alternative Health, Energy Healing, Access Consciousness, Akashic Records, Meditation, Clairvoyant & Telepathic, Mystic & Seer, Shamanism, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: Starseed Contactee Group Facilitator
Guest Biography:
Starseed Contactee Group Facilitator Information

In 1990s I founded the STAR FAMILY CONTACTEE GROUPS here in Las Vegas. These groups are for people who are experiencer's: men, women, teens and children who have been contacted/abducted by aliens. I am a gifted Spiritual, Multidimensional Contactee Consultant. I started the first teen and children's groups in the United States in 1995 and was the facilitator for all of these groups. 

I was director of U.F.O.C.C.I. (UFO CONTACT CENTER INTERNATIONAL) and director of CELESTIAL CONTACTS OF NEVADA (U.F.O.C.C.I.), these organizations are designed to inform the public through speakers, workshops, Contactee panels, videos, field trips and sky watches. I was also a working group member of Steven Greer’s C.S.E.T.I. in Las Vegas, Nevada. California, where I lived for 9 years. I was a resident of Las Vegas for 17. Years. That is why I felt like it was time to return and start another Experiencer Support Group in Las Vegas and Starseed Awakening Group!

I moved to San Diego to start a Center with a group of people. While there I became involved with several groups. I was the Coordinator for of the Art Bell Chat Club San Diego Chapter, an organization designed to inform the public through speakers, workshops, videos, field trips and sky watches. As the Coordinator I am responsible for finding and scheduling the speakers, who include well known names from the UFO community, alternative healing, earth history and spiritual information, speakers who deal with hidden agendas and the world's secret societies. Other topics include reverse speech, remote viewing, crop circles #2, sacred geometry and many more. I also facilitated a support groups in the San Diego area, and did individual consulting. I have lectured in Nevada, Arizona, California, and appeared on TV and on radio talk shows, Art Bell, Dream Land was the last one I was on. I have attended several workshops/classes in remote viewing, reverse speech and many other spiritual workshops and classes. 

I moved back to Las Vegas a 5 years ago from San Diego, CA, where I lived for 9 years. I was a resident of Las Vegas for 17. Years. That is why I felt like it was time to return and start another Experiencer Support Group in Las Vegas and Starseed Awakening Group! It has been going again since 2010.

I am a third generation experiencer. I had my first experience at age three. I have had numerous contacts and abductions and have been involved with at least 5 different alien types: grays, insectoids, mammalians, reptilians, and human looking groups which include a black ops branch of our government. 
I have had three, missing time, experiences all with one or more persons. I've had on board contact as well as contact in underground bases. I've been involved in many experiments with ETs, most noteworthy, the hybrid program, Psi abilities, technology of the crafts

My experiences, whether they were of a positive or negative nature, taught me to be an understanding, non-judgmental and loving consultant/facilitator. I also feel that the aliens are not good or evil; they are just evolving at their own pace, and experience the polarities of negative and positive existences as we do. Experiencing their lives to the degree that they have evolved thus far to, which is not fair or good, it just is. Having a lifetime of experiences I understand how others feel, and can relate to their experiences. I feel that even though these abductions seemed frightening and very terrible, we have learned and grown through them. I feel that what the some abductees malevolent experiences, have caused "Post Traumatic Stress Disorders", which is the same thing many veterans of war experience. My goal is for people to work through their fear, to learn to live with their experiences, and take what they have learned from them, into their day to day life, so that they can live happy and normal lives. This is accomplished through monthly support groups, assisting them when needed to find qualified professionals in the therapeutic fields, such as hypnosis, breathe work, the breaking of contracts and removal of implants, reverse speech consulting, which I am certified in reverse speech, as well as other methods they choose. I feel that we must feel the pain and sadness and then release it. I feel this is the only way to make it stop and be free from them. I feel the only way is through releasing it, forgetting it, forgiving and clearing it out of your mind, body, heart and soul forever. 

How are we to know the polarities of life, unless we experience them? My experiences and what I have learned from them have prepared me for my mission. In my10 plus years of experience as a facilitator, I have discovered techniques which will help the individual find their answers and reach their own transformational path. It is all about free will and choices. Finally, they will realize they truly are "spiritual souls having a human experience".

Guest Category: Kids & Family, Paranormal, UFOs, Spiritual, Access Consciousness
Guest Occupation: Founder & Host of The Good Radio Network, Author, Artist, Intuitive Therapist & Coach
Guest Biography:

Founder & Host of The Good Radio Network, Author, Artist, Intuitive Therapist & Coach. Advocate for a Socially Conscious Planet.

Frankie Picasso HuffPost Contributor

https://twitter.com/thegoodnet

Today's Wisdom- an Eye for an Eye, will just make the whole world end up blind- ghandi

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness!

Advocate for a Socially Conscious Planet
https://about.me/t/sig?u=unstoppablefrankie

Guest Category: Arts, Earth & Space, Kids & Family, Philosophy, Spiritual, Psychic & Intuitive
Guest Occupation: psychic medium, Best-selling Author, Inspirational Speaker
Guest Biography:

Andy Myers is a best-selling author, psychic medium, inspirational speaker, and life coach who has appeared on popular radio stations nationwide. As one of the most in-demand psychic mediums in the country, Andy is known for his sincerity, humor, and remarkable insights into the spirit world. Andy’s first book, Flying Paint Rollers from Heaven, was an instant best-seller in three categories and was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. In addition to making several television appearances, Andy has been published in numerous magazines and online articles. He travels often to conduct sold-out psychic events and inspirational lectures in cities nationwide. Andy resides in Omaha, Nebraska with his wife and daughter.

Guest Category: Near Death Experiences, Pets and Animals, Angel Communication, Medium & Channeling
Guest Occupation: Army veteran; now an Eligibility Specialist at Craig Hospital in Colorado
Guest Biography:

Frederick (Fred) Hinton served in the U.S. Army for 21 years, 9 months.  Due to his service and valor in war, he was awarded two Bronze Star Medals, the Combat Action Badge, and the Army Commendation Medal with Valor, among other awards.  He served three combat tours overseas, with two tours to Iraq and one tour to Afghanistan.  He spent a total of 39 months deployed to war zones.  During his first deployment, he sustained his first traumatic brain injury (TBI).  During the rest of his deployments, he took many direct hits by IED’s (improvised explosive devices).  It wasn’t until he returned home after his first deployment that his wife starting seeing some signs that he was having trouble doing certain tasks.  However, being the dedicated soldier that he was, he hid his problems as best as he could, even as he served a second and third tour overseas.  Upon his final return home to the United States, things had gotten so bad that he couldn’t remember how to get home at times, and his work in Army began to suffer because of his TBI and PTSD.  He retired from the Army and despite his conditions, he is now able to serve as an eligibility specialist with Operation TBI Freedom (OTF), which is a program of Craig Hospital in Colorado that provides support for veterans and active duty military personnel with traumatic brain injuries.

OTF is privately funded and assists veterans and service members who have served on or after September 11, 2001, reside in Colorado, have clinical evidence or history of TBI event(s), and whose TBI occurred after the start of his/her military service.  The TBI does not need to be combat related and OTF will take referrals for any type of military discharge status.  Each veteran or service member is assigned a case manager (Military Support Specialist) who is a veteran and a Certified Brain Injury Specialist.  The MSS begins with a comprehensive analysis of the veteran’s needs/concerns, creating an individually tailored life plan.  Services provided or coordinated by OTF include the following:  crisis management, mentoring, emergency financial assistance, employment training, psychosocial education, mental health/medical referrals, assistance navigating complicated benefit processes, and much more.

Referrals to OTF can be made by the individual veteran, a community partner, a clinician, etc.  If there is concern about cognitive dysfunction/impairment, yet no medical diagnosis of TBI, please refer the individual to OTF to be screened by our trained staff.

Guest Category: Health & Lifestyle, Medicine, Military, News, Psychology, Science, Self Help
Guest Occupation: Journalist, author
Guest Biography:
Tony Ortega is a journalist who was formerly the editor of The Village Voice. He's written about Scientology since 1995, and in May 2015 released a book about Scientology's harassment of Paulette Cooper titled 'The Unbreakable Miss Lovely.' He continues to monitor breaking developments in the Scientology world from an undisclosed location in an underground bunker he shares with four cats and one of them wrinkly Shar Pei dogs. Despite his super-secret security protections, you can still reach him  by sending him a message at tonyo94 AT gmail
Guest Category: History, News, Politics & Government, Religion, Self Help, Society and Culture, Theory & Conspiracy, TV & Film
Guest Occupation: business development strategist, relationship expert, international keynote speaker, seminar presenter
Guest Biography:

Double Your Success

Meet Vickie Helm

Discover how you can double your success by meeting Vickie Helm! She is the acclaimed bestselling author of Ultimate Freedom: Unlock the Secrets to a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Prosperity.

She has a unique combination as a recognized business-development strategist and relationship expert. Vickie shows people in business and other partnerships how to double their success and maximize their potential by working together and creating mutually beneficial partnerships. The media has called on Vickie to answer questions regarding business development and how to grow a successful business. She is an international Keynote speaker and seminar presenter.

Discover what you need to know to succeed in today’s fast-paced business world. Vickie offers invaluable tips and tools to help business owners become successful, creating more money, more influence, and more success.

Vickie shares from her own business experience and how she accidently opened her first business at ten years old, not even realizing she had developed a business.

Guest Category: Business, Education, Courses & Training, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Personal Development, Self Help, Inspirational, Motivational
Guest Occupation: Modern Day Medicine Woman and Soul MidWife
Guest Biography:

Elaine Lopez-Bogard is a Modern Day Medicine Woman that helps women get pregnant, heal their womb and finally bring their baby into this world.  Elaine considers herself a "Soul Midwife" and helps create a beautiful soul connection between the mother and spirit baby. Elaine's unique gifts and abilities allow her to help women heal through the physical, emotional and spiritual layers. 

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Medicine
Guest Occupation: Co-Founder Mom's Pump Here LLC
Guest Biography:

"It’s easy to see why people love Priya. She’s adventurous, bright, engaging and personable." Priya Nembhard is a serial entrepreneur with a flare for gab and loves talking about topics she’s passionate about. She once applied to be an astronaut with NASA, ran a couple of marathons, broke a state dead lift record when she was 17 and her life goal is to save the planet. She is DRIVEN.

Priya is the Co-Founder of Moms Pump Here, LLC and Co-creator of the Moms Pump Here Nursing Room Locator App helping moms find places to breastfeed and breast pump around the world; Co-owner of BlueBox Media; and Founder of the EDGE Charitable Foundation in Miami. She has also hosted YouTube vlogs, podcasts and radio. Priya is an alumna of Syracuse University and New School University. She loves science, is married and has three children.

Guest Category: Education, Kids & Family
Guest Occupation: Content Creator and Business Development Gal
Guest Biography:

MICHELLE ANN OWENS is an audio/video host, voiceover talent, vocalist and
songwriter. She has stamped her business, creative & actual voice across multiple
industries, including corporate business development and marketing, composing music for television, commercial advertising, and the world of podcasting. Michelle is the owner of Ladyfox Entertainment, LLC and is currently the hostess and producer of
Nothing Off Limits (NOL) on iTunes.

Guest Category: Love & Relationships
Guest Occupation: Metaphysician, certified Reiki master, healer, color/sound practitioner, spiritual medium, psychologist.
Guest Biography:

Rev. Dr. Linda is a metaphysician, certified Reiki master teacher, spiritual healer, color/sound practitioner and spiritual medium. Dr. Nickolas is a licensed psychologist, social worker & certified school psychologist who has worked in clinical, university, public school and private practice settings as a therapist, diagnostician, educator and consultant for 30 years.

Guest Category: Business, Entertainment, Health & Lifestyle, Paranormal, Philosophy, Physics & Metaphysics, Psychology, Self Help, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Secretary of NC Dept of Military & Veterans Affairs
Guest Biography:

At the start of 2017, Larry D. Hall was appointed by the Governor of North Carolina to serve as the Secretary for the North Carolina Department of Military & Veterans Affairs.  Prior to that appointment, Secretary Hall represented Durham County, North Carolina’s 29th District in the state House of Representatives, since 2006, and he led House Democrats from 2012 through 2016.   Secretary Hall earned a B.S. with Honors in Political Science and Business from Johnson C. Smith University and a Juris Doctor degree from the School of Law at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Upon undergrad graduation, he was commissioned as an Officer in the United States Marine Corps.  Secretary Hall served 16 years in the United States Marines and Marine Corps Reserves and served in the support of the Operations in the Middle East in Lebanon and Iran.  He served as a Rifle Platoon Commander, Weapons Company Executive Officer, Training Officer, Battalion Area Security Officer, Staff Judge Advocate, Communications Security Officer and Logistics Officer. Secretary Hall also served as Legal Officer and was formerly Commandant for the Marine Corps League Detachment, which assists Marines transitioning from active duty to civilian life in locating employment, housing and educational opportunities for their families.

Secretary Hall’s other service to his nation, state and community has been very extensive.  He has served as an Executive Committee Member and Economic Committee Chairman of the Durham Branch of the NAACP, as Secretary and Chairman of the Durham Business and Professional Chain, and served on the Durham Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. 

He has also served as Executive Officer of the Young Marines Program, Board Chairman of the Durham Companions Mentor Program, and as an instructor and training officer teaching youth leadership, discipline, custom, courtesies, and traditions of the Marine Corps.

As House Democratic Leader, Secretary Hall served on the state’s Economic Development Board, the state’s Innovation Council, The North Carolina Courts Commission as Chairman, The Duke Medical Center Advisory Board, the Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee as Chairman, and has been inducted as a Toll Fellow by the National Conference of State Governments.

Guest Category: History, Military, News, Politics & Government
Guest Occupation: Radio Talk Show Host
Guest Biography:

RADIO HOST MALIK SHAKUR 

TALKS ABOUT LEGENDARY COUSIN TUPAC

AND KNOWS WHO MURDERED

MICHAEL JACKSON,PRINCE AND WHITNEY HOUSTON

Malik Shakur is the host of THE KNOWLEDGE SHOW a very Unique, Controversial, Educational, and Entertaining Talk Show that broadcasts live. Malik Shakur is the cousin of the late Tupac Shakur and has earned several trophies, awards, and accolades for the show and the live conversations on the show. Malik Shakur asks the real questions and gets the real answers to keep it 100 and deliver the truth, but some can't handle the truth. If you are one of the few that can, then this is the show for you. We cover conspiracy theories, current events, controversial discussions and topics, and talk about subjects that no one else is talking about, but the community needs to know about by any means necessary.

'The Knowledge Show'

airs every Sat & Sun at 6:30 pm ET

 to listen in.

Tupac Shakur was a sensitive, precociously talented yet troubled soul who came to embrace the 1990s gangsta-rap aesthetic and paid the ultimate price — he was gunned down in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996 and died six days later. His murder has never been solved. He began his music career as a rebel with a cause — to articulate the travails and injustices endured by many African-Americans, often from a male point of view. His skill in doing so made him a spokesperson not just for his own generation, but for subsequent ones who continue to face the same struggle for equality. In death he became an icon symbolizing noble struggle, though in life his biggest battle was sometimes with himself. As fate drove him towards the nihilism of gangsta rap, and into the arms of the controversial Death Row Records impresario Suge Knight, the boundaries between Shakur's art and his life became increasingly blurred — with tragic consequences. Hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur was embroiled in a feud between East Coast and West Coast rappers and was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1996, leaving behind an influential musical legacy at the age of 25. Tupac sold over 75 million records worldwide.

Guest Category: Entertainment, Music, News, Theory & Conspiracy
Guest Occupation: Broadcaster Author
Guest Biography:

LARRY E. BUCK HUNTER is a BROADCASTER & AUTHOR. For over 30 years he worked in the marketing and communications field. Larry specializes in executive coaching, professional speaking, radio & television broadcasting and, most importantly, has real-life, in-the- trenches mass-media marketing experience. He has established a solid reputation as a top-notch publicist, event producer and entertainment communications professional with expertise in the publishing markets. Larry has a knack for bringing out the best in people and is known for his savvy style and exhilarating personality! He is the author of the book “7 Days in Hell! I was there”

Guest Category: Spiritual
Guest Occupation: Songstress Author Motivational Speaker
Guest Biography:

Cheryl Melody Baskin is the author of the popular Amazon motivational self-help book, “Shift of Heart: Paths to Healing and Love.”  This inspirational book is jam packed with personal and professional life experiences, and offers the reader a huge dose of unconditional love, encouragement, reflections. meditations, learning to listen to the whispers and signs of life, ways to open creativity, acknowledge moments of serendipity, inspirational stories of shifting our heart, as well as inner growth tools that she uses to balance herself in the midst of life’s challenges.  Cheryl Melody is also a performing artist, singer and sound healer, composer and an independent recording artist of 10 albums.  Some of her albums are for children, and some for adults.

Her healing albums for adults are entitled: “Voice of the Angels: A Healing Journey”  “Lullabies of Love: Nurturing the Heart of the Inner Child” and “Celebrate Peace.” 

All of her albums are under the name “Cheryl Melody,” and all are available on iTunes, CD Baby, http://cherylmelody.com and http://shiftofheart.com/.

Exciting news is that she is about to release a new album… with content from her inner growth workshops and concerts,  filled with motivational chants and songs, reflective meditations and positive affirmations, and the name of the album is LISTEN TO THE WHISPERS. It will soon be released on CD Baby and on iTunes, and to pre-order, please e-mail her for an advanced copy at  melody@shiftofheart.com.

Melody’s focus has always been her use of consciously-written words in every song and book, no matter what age the song or book is for:  Words that uplift the spirit, help people feel less alone and more loved, and words that advocate for self-esteem, inner and outer peace, healing, inclusion, respect, unity, kindness, compassion and  forgiveness.

From the time that she was young, "Melody" has been a creative dreamer, quietly listening to life's whispers and signs to help guide her next steps.  She believes in a balance of quiet contemplation, meaningful social interaction, and the healing power of nature, reflective open listening, positive words, music and creativity. Most of all, she is passionate that peace is possible, one loving person at a time, and that we are all connected.

She proclaims herself “a work in process,” believing that the answers to our questions in life are inside each of us if we are silent and willing to listen. Most of all, Melody feels that every small moment of personal healing, compassion, love and forgiveness helps to create positive resonance that actively vibrates love into our beautiful planet.

Guest Category: Performing Arts, Literature, Self Help, Inspirational, Motivational
Guest Occupation: Transformational Life Coach
Guest Biography:

Wes Pinkston is an Award-Winning Transformational Life Coach. Prior to venturing into personal development, however, you may recognize Wes from his many appearances on the hit Bravo television show Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles. After Wes earned his business degree from Chapman University and earned a spot in the College Football Hall of Fame, he became a well-respected real estate agent in Beverly Hills. His digital marketing prowess led to the co creation of “The Broke Agent” which was one of the top blogs in the industry; attracting more than 200,000 social media followers; and eventually won him the Swanepoel Top 20 Real Estate Influencer in the World award. In 2016 Wes chose to turn his focus towards assisting clients 1-on-1 via personal coaching full time, where he supports his clients in developing a self-sustaining guidance and growth mechanism. Today, Wes has his own private practice in Encinitas, CA.

Guest Category: Psychology, Personal Development, Self Help, Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual
Guest Occupation: science teacher, attorney, editor, author
Guest Biography:

Kent Heckenlively is a science teacher, an attorney, and a founding editor of Age of Autism.  

Kent is also a member of the Compass Group, a consortium of autism parents, leading scientists, and philanthropists in Silicon Valley looking for answers to neuro-immune diseases.

Author of the book:  Inoculated: How Science Lost Its Soul in Autism.

Kent Heckenlively will join us during the show's second hour

Guest Category: Literature, Legal, Education, Health & Lifestyle, Kids & Family, Medicine, Society and Culture
Guest Occupation: Market Partner, Monat Global, Cancer Survivor
Guest Biography:

Liz Anderson is originally from the U.K. and Spain. She has lived in SWFL for over 30 years where her Entrepreneurial spirit has soared. Her diagnosis of Stage 3 breast cancer in 2009 helped her see and appreciate life in ways she never imagined. It taught her the importance of the mind body connection as well as an enhanced awareness of what to put in the body and on the body leading her to partner with a company offering naturally based hair products which improve thinning hair and boost hair growth called MONAT Global. 

Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Medicine
Guest Occupation: Author, Speaker, Registered Dietician
Guest Biography:

Marilyn Joyce, PhD, RD is a Registered Dietitian, with a doctorate in Psychology and Nutrition. With her beginnings in Biochemistry and Human Nutrition, as well as Yoga and whole person (Mind-Body-Spirit) wellness, Dr Joyce approaches nutrition and lifestyle practices from both, a scientific, and a holistic, perspective. As the Director of Nutrition for the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in the mid-nineties, she helped cancer patients, from around the world, make major positive shifts in their health through changes in their eating and lifestyle habits.

Dr Marilyn is is an author, educator and internationally renowned speaker with more than thirty years of experience at the forefront of nutrition, health and education. Her thriving private practice spans the globe.

In her globally acclaimed best selling book, 5 Minutes to Health, she comprehensively addressed what we eat, why we eat, how we eat, where we buy it, how we store it, how we prepare it, and how we think and feel about what we eat. The book was a step-by-step guide, setting out how to buy, store and prepare food, and was full of easy-to-follow healthy and delicious recipes.

Well, we have great news for all of you who are looking for all of that – and much, much more – in one source. In her newest book, INSTANT E.N.E.R.G.Y.™: The 5 Keys to Unlimited Energy & Vitality, Dr Joyce has pulled out all of the stops! In this the one-stop guide to whole person wellness, she has uncovered and revealed all of the strategies she uses with her patients and clients – strategies that many people globally have willingly paid handsome fees to learn about. And she clearly and compassionately presents all of this information in a unique and memorable formula, for all aspects of healthy living. And you’ll love the fact that all of what she teaches is simple, quick, easy and FUN! And it makes complete sense.

Known for many, many years as both The Vitality Doctor™, and the Master of 5-minute healthy strategies and systems, Dr Joyce has developed INSTANT E.N.E.R.G.Y.™ strategies and recommendations that can be done in 5 minutes or less by anyone, anywhere, anytime.

And Dr Marilyn doesn’t just come by her enthusiasm for nutrition and healthy living through training or inclination; she is also a cancer survivor. Here is her story.

“In 1985, when I was at the peak of my career and feeling like I had achieved much success in my life, I was diagnosed with melanoma. I had no idea what a serious illness that was, but as if that wasn’t enough, a week after I got out of the hospital for melanoma I was rushed right back into hospital, this time with uterine cancer, stage four.

I was only thirty-five years old, so it was a real shock, because in all of my experience I had been told that this was an older woman’s illness. Of course I plunged into all the reactions everybody else has. I went into denial and anger and felt like a complete victim. Then I tried everything I could find in search of a ‘magic bullet’ cure.

Finally, in 1989, it looked like the end of the road. I was in a wheelchair, weighing eighty-eight pounds, with just weeks to live. At that point the miracles began.

I had come to the point where I could only suck on ice chips… no solid food for months. A young man with a Vita Mix machine introduced me to Cantaloupe ice (seeds and all!). I was eventually able to start eating again; first fruits, then vegetables, then soy and whole grains. I continued a diet of whole foods in whole food forms, back-to-basics nutrition. A year later I had recovered, and the challenge I had set for myself was to run an uninterrupted mile. And I did – in thirty minutes… not the fastest mile, but I knew I had achieved a major degree of health again, that I had not experienced for several years!

What I’ve found is that most people live on expensive foods – they go out and buy all kinds of processed, packaged foods, as well as consuming questionable restaurant meals. And, believe me, these foods are expensive in every aspect of the word. Not only for your pocket book, but also challenging (expensive) for your body’s digestive system. Absorption and assimilation are compromised, due to the questionable nature of the foods consumed, making it difficult for your body to derive the necessary nutrition and life force elements to function optimally.

Add to that, the sedentary lifestyle most of us embrace, and the long-term potentially detrimental effects of such a lifestyle, and it becomes apparent that the results can be extremely challenging to our wallets in healthcare costs, alone! For most of us, these negative lifestyle factors are a way of life, so it amazes me when people wonder why they are tired, and why they get sick.

The answer is simple! We, as a population, need to rediscover back-to-basics eating – whole food nutrition – eating food that looks the way it does as it grows out of the ground or on the tree. If it is fish or meat it needs to be free range, with no antibiotics or hormones. And then add to that, whole body living – consistent exercise, relaxation, spiritual time, family and community involvement, healthy optimistic self-talk and an attitude of internal gratitude for all of the good things in life!

When I started putting INSTANT E.N.E.R.G.Y.™ together for my patients and clients, and the public in general, I realized that the difference between what most people do, and what I and my clients do, is that most people actually do eat packaged, processed foods. Even though many of those packaged foods are often organically based, they are still packaged, processed foods! And these same folks would come home from work and grab that infernal clicker (You know what I am talking about? The couch potato’s God!) for hours into every evening, never moving a bone of their tired worn-out bodies. Ironically, even just 5 minutes of the right exercise – you have to read the Chapter on Fit in Fitness, to get the answer to what that exercise is! – would have shifted their bodies from fatigued and worn-out to energized and full of life!

I have also noticed that people talk about how expensive it is to eat really healthy food, and to live a healthy lifestyle. I can show you that the opposite is true.

Let me demonstrate with the #1 objection – “healthy food is expensive!” One day I met a nutritionist-friend of mine as we were both waiting in line to check out at the grocery store. She had two bags of groceries compared to my eight bags. My groceries cost less, and were all organically grown fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. She had packaged, processed foods such as chips and cookies – admittedly for her overnight guests, not the norm for her family. We talked, and over time she realized what I had discovered – whole food nutrition costs less and will keep you well. Processed foods cost more to begin with, and will keep you sick and tired – which in turn, costs more – in health care costs!

You can’t think straight if you are not getting the right kind of food into your body. And the right kind of movement with, and care of, your body! You won’t be able to exercise if you’re not getting the right foods (fuel) to burn. It is critical to eat vibrant foods that are nutrient-dense, loaded with antioxidants, phytonutrients and bioflavanoids. They fuel every metabolic function in your body, and are essential in the prevention and healing of many degenerative illnesses, including cancer, fibromyalgia, MS, lupus, arthritis, heart disease and many more.

And of course, we can’t forget the care and feeding of our emotional and spiritual wellbeing. We are multi-dimensional beings that require a multi-dimensional approach to our personal care. If any one aspect of our whole being is out of balance, we are setting ourselves up for illness. And let’s face it, the very nature of being human, seems to be fraught with the challenge of staying balanced. So, we all need every tool, strategy, idea, tip and system that we can get hold of to consistently create, re-create, and maintain balance.

It is important to emphasize here that, when it comes to illness, there are no ‘magic bullets’. There is no one thing that will be the answer for everyone. But a simple, high quality diet and overall lifestyle regime will at least give you a fighting chance. Add to that a more individualized program designed especially for you, and you will have the power in your hands again to create renewal in your health, renewal in your life.”

Dr Marilyn Joyce is the author of several unique, inspiring, and comprehensive books, including her best selling books,5 Minutes to Health, and, I Can’t Believe it’s Tofu! She is a regular contributor to Healthy and Natural Magazine, Health Editor and feature writer for New Perspectives magazine, was the official Registered Dietitian for the Original Hollywood Celebrity Diet, and is now the official Registered Dietitian, who developed and supervised the introduction of America’s reformulated version of the SoyPal Cookie Diet Weight Loss and Maintenance program, based on Japan’s #1 diet product.

Dr Marilyn conducts seminars and trainings for organizations. Some of her clients include:

  • Xerox
  • FBI
  • Ortho Bio Tech
  • NSA/Juice Plus
  • UCLA Medical Center
  • American Cancer Society
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of America

Over the past few years, Dr Marilyn is has appeared as a guest on many radio and television programs, including:

  • Leeza
  • Jenny Jones
  • Montel Williams
  • Maury Pavitch
  • Doctor to Doctor
Guest Category: Education, Health & Lifestyle, Medicine