In today’s episode, our co-hosts Dave and Susan Kenney welcomes the founder and CEO of Polnareff Consulting and media-based business, Dr. Diane Hamilton. She talks about curiosity, how to find it, how to keep it, why it can break the status quo and how to turn it into one of life’s key factors to success. The impact of curiosity is also connected to one’s perception, which she teases a bit about in the book she is writing now. Curiosity comes naturally to all of us in our younger years. As we grow old, it becomes inhibited by what she calls FATE and when it is unlocked once more, it will lead a person to knowing their real life purpose. She also links curiosity as a factor behind successful companies and businesses as it makes lives a lot less boring, making the workers or employees more interactive and productive. Curiosity fuels the will to move onwards in everyone. Rise above and know more about curiosity by listening to the full show and discover that curious side of you!

Part 2 of our excellent interview with Dr. Kolari ---- Jennifer Kolari is one of the nation's leading and sought after Child and Family Therapists and co-founder of “Connected Parenting”. 

The role of a parent today is to be their children's substitute frontal lobe and you have to know as a parent, how and when to back out. This world has changed. With pre life crisis, teenagers being oriented to each other rather than their parents and an entire generation growing up with screens not having neurological hardware to handle trouble. Parenting has changed, kids have changed.

Learn how connection turns into resilience in children. Good adversaries make them better persons but hyper-parenting causes them to become over dependent. Furthermore, it will be explained where parenting instincts are located in the brain and where emergency responses in children are. Jennifer also found out that connection can solve addiction just from a mouse experiment. 

“Connect before you correct”

We can use the mirroring technique, a therapy technique about building, regulating a child's mood, increasing trust and compliance, improving brain function and building a greater immune system. Rise above with this superpower!

Jennifer Kolari is one of the nation's leading and sought after Child and Family Therapists and co-founder of “Connected Parenting”.  The role of a parent today is to be their children's substitute frontal lobe and you have to know as a parent, how and when to back out. This world has changed. With pre life crisis, teenagers being oriented to each other rather than their parents and an entire generation growing up with screens not having neurological hardware to handle trouble. Parenting has changed, kids have changed. Learn how connection turns into resilience in children. Good adversaries make them better persons but hyper-parenting causes them to become over dependent. Furthermore, it will be explained where parenting instincts are located in the brain and where emergency responses in children are. Jennifer also found out that connection can solve addiction just from a mouse experiment.  “Connect before you correct” We can use the mirroring technique, a therapy technique about building, regulating a child's mood, increasing trust and compliance, improving brain function and building a greater immune system. Rise above with this superpower!

We are proud and excited to announce our new program, our online Virtual Retreat! We get to take all of our knowledge, all of our expertise and helping people, online. And now our reach is limitless! This is for people who are serious about change, they don't know what direction to take. They've tried a lot of other different things. Nothing is sticking. And this is going to work. This is going to work because this is inside out change, and not outside in.

Isolating oneself can be a bigger factor of health and mortality risk versus smoking, alcohol consumption, even poor diet! The way our brain is programmed, we want to keep things the same because same equals safe. However, transformations are easily, beautifully facilitated when you have other people who are going through a similar situation -- thresholds are stretched and we push through the other side a much more whole, healthy individual. You can't cultivate true health transformation without people. “When the other’s story is so similar to yours, but they've transformed that and turn it into their power, that instantaneously gives you permission to do the same” Learn that the connections with others create that trust and create that foundation for true, lasting change to happen. Rise above when you harness the impact of the community and the empowering wonders it does to ones health.

Erika talks about Wellcoaches and how their intense coaching course touches on a lot of the human behavior, physical and emotional aspects. “Coaches are the best listeners. They are the best at open-ended inquiry. The best at reflecting what someone has just said so that that client or patient feels heard. The best just being there in the moment without an agenda to push, force, prod someone along into the result that they think that client should be moving toward. And we have unconditional positive regard because of our deep belief that everyone has strengths, and everyone has had some kind of success or best experience that can be learned from. We hold hope.” Learn what coaching is, who coaching is not a good fit for, the difference between coaching and counseling and therapy, a “strengths based” process, the power of the question, VIA, “win or lose” vs. “win/learn” etc. “People are not resistant to change. People are resistant to being changed.” Hosts Susan and Dave Kenney discover how coaching is a continuing education for experienced professionals. Rise above by getting a glimpse of how coaches are coached. 

Why do your resolutions or promises fail? Why can’t your loved one stop smoking/drinking/gambling, etc.? Why is ‘change’ so hard? Evidenced-based research shows us that “people do not resist change; people resist being changed.” A great book on the science of creating change, or a fresh start in your life, is Atomic Habits, by James Clear. The number one strategy is understanding that tiny steps equate to massive growth. The second thing that he talks about in the book is the plateau of latent potentiality. In money, this is compounding interest. Number three is, and this is the crux of creating powerful change – identity. Become the best version of yourself. Create your identity. And you get to choose. Who do you want to be? When you make that decision, acting on it becomes natural. Maslow's hierarchy, he talks about plus one or minus one. Each day when you wake up, you get to choose each action, and each action is going to create a plus one or a minus one in terms of positive change. Co-hosts Susan Kenney and Dave Kenney have a powerful discussion into the newest evidenced-based research exploring how you can create a fresh start in your life. By implementing these proven strategies, you can rise above. 

Learn how a paleo, brain-first lifestyle has been shown to help prevent and overcome depression and anxiety and other brain-related concerns. “Depression in teens is up a staggering 52% in less than a decade. Rates of suicide and self-harm have also spiked among undergraduate students in 2017/18” (Psychology Today, The Best Antidepressants, Feb 2020 issue). Hear our co-hosts Susan Kenney and Dave Kenney as they explore how the food we eat – and the macro and micro-nutrients they deliver – guard us against mental health disorders by enhancing optimal brain function. Paleolithic lifestyle focuses on pre-agricultural age — the importance of movement, sleep, and nutrition. This is not a fad diet. If you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, sleep issues (insomnia), skin rashes, substance abuse, chronic inflammation, brain fog, weight issues, and more, implementing a Paleo lifestyle is your first step to lasting health and wellness. Learn practical steps anyone can embrace and feel the life-changing impact a Paleo lifestyle can have for you and your family. Rise above with a brain-first approach to your wellness with a Paleo lifestyle.