Jarnell Stokes is a world-class athlete, wellness advocate, and current professional basketball player. Jarnell was ranked #3 in the nation during his basketball career, drafted 35th overall, 2x Gold medalist, and has played professionally since 2014. Dedicating his life off the court to educating and inspiring ALL to question all assumptions and turn the tables on mental health & wellness, Jarnell sees his community as extending members of his team.
Knowledge is power. When we face the unknown head on with real time data we reduce our stress and anxiety.
If you are elderly or having physical health challenges and you live in Manhattan Beach,CA call 310 802-5010 for meal delivery and/or prescription delivery. Also “Meal To Go MB” to find out what local businesses you can support. Also daily updates can be found here.
Thank you to all local and federal governments for a team effort on flattening the curve!
Make sure you contact your local city and find out what your resources are~ you are not alone.
Manhattan Beach mayor Richard Montgomery lets us know what our local government is doing on today’s show.
Are you or your loved ones feeling overwhelmed, especially during the pandemic? Dr. Denise and Jennifer Shaffer host a video zoom meeting loaded with tips, tools and more during this unimaginable time.
Isabelle was playing overseas basketball in Italy when she realized it was time to come home for her health and safety to be with her family. She is self quarantining in Dallas and gets real about the unnerving departure from Italy and is now facing her own autoimmune challenges in the face of Covid-19 pandemic.
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You can follow Isabelle Harrison at @omg_itsizzyb on Instagram and Twitter!
Jennifer Shaffer is a world-renowned Psychic Medium. Her cases have been profiled on 20/20, Buzzfeed, Dr. Phil, and Oxygen. Jennifer donates her time to law enforcement and families of victims, by assisting with criminal cases and helping find answers. She is the Co- Founder, VP & Law Enforcement Case Expert for Impartial Witness, a strategic artificial intelligence software platform designing partnerships between law enforcement and the intuitive network. Jennifer founded the JS Intuitive Investigations Academy and also teaches an intuitive investigations development course for various skill levels. She is the subject of two bestselling books by Richard Martini “Backstage Pass to the Flipside” and has a private practice in Manhattan Beach.
Dr. Beth Frates and I get together to discuss how WE all can keep calm in the midst of chaos. Remember WE are in this together. By keeping a healthy mind and body we can thrive during the most unimaginable times. Social distancing and compassion for one another is key to not only slow down COVID-19 but to come together as ONE HUMANITY.
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Beth Frates, MD, is trained as a physiatrist and a health and wellness coach. Her expertise is in lifestyle medicine, and she works to empower patients to reach their optimal level of wellness by adopting healthy habits. Elected to the Board of Directors of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) in 2016, Dr. Frates is helping to shape the scope of this new specialty. She is an award-winning teacher at Harvard Medical School and developed and taught a college lifestyle medicine curriculum at the Harvard Extension School, which is one of the most popular courses offered at the school. As the Director of Wellness Programming at the Stroke Institute for Research and Recovery at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Dr. Frates has created and implemented a twelve-month wellness program for stroke survivors and their caregivers. She is co-author of the book, Life After Stroke: TheGuide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Strokeand co-author of three chapters on behavior change in different medical textbooks, and multiple journal articles on lifestyle medicine topics including exercise prescription, connection prescription, lifestyle medicine case series, and walking meeting for sustained weight loss. She shared a lifestyle medicine syllabus, which can be downloaded through the ACLM website, in hopes that her work can serve as a template for other instructors and professors hoping to teach a course in lifestyle medicine. Dr. Frates is the co-author of the Lifestyle Medicine Handbook: An Introduction to the Power of Healthy Habits.For the past 9 years, Dr. Frates has been the faculty advisor for the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group at Harvard Medical School, and she works with the Professionals In Training (PiT) group at ACLM to help create more LMIGs in medical schools and other health care professional training schools. Dr. Frates is passionate about developing programs focused on lifestyle medicine and wellness.
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Want to increase your sense of well-being in this chaotic time? Please join Dr. Frates for an online 6 week workshop. Starts March 30. Email SRHStrokeInstitute@partners.org or call 617 952-6149. You can join from anywhere in the Earth globe europe-africa by Zoom Meeting. Financial aid is available.
It was an absolute honor to collaborate and present “Your Best Self” at the WE Lead Malibu conference in January! I was inspired by the ambitious women that attended as well as the creators of WE Lead! ~Dr. Denise
WE Lead
written by Lisa Jane Vargas and Christi Cessna
Yes, we do! WE Lead is a leadership forum that offers a fresh perspective for growth and elevation for ambitious leaders in the healthcare field.
For the last 15 years, co-founders, Lisa Jane Vargas and Christi Cessna, have worked together in multiple roles in behavioral and mental health. They experienced mergers, acquisitions, sales, marketing, and leadership roles and the many changes our field has lived through. All the while, ruminating on the seed of curiosity to what it would be like to help develop leaders in ways that will support their ambitions and dreams in an authentic and ethical way.
In the summer of 2019, the concept and development of We Lead was created. LJ and Christi decided to host the first workshop in Scottsdale, AZ in July! Yes, hot July for a two-day experience. The focus was on ambitious women.
“I had noticed that while most behavioral health conferences were comprised of women, we were still under represented in leadership positions in many organizations. So, after much discussion, it seemed very natural to focus our workshop initially on women”, says Cessna.
Women from all over the country came for the inaugural workshop and left refreshed, renewed and questioning where they are now and ways they could stretch professionally and personally.
This brand of women’s leadership development was created to focus on giving women the opportunity for personal discovery to heighten her self-awareness through:
tools to understand her behavior and communication style
concepts, tools and planning to manage her brand
holistic strategies to optimize her physical health
discovery of her beliefs and values with money and how to honor her value
This workshop is about a collective in collaboration, helping one another, hence the “we” in WE Lead was an essential meaningful component of its creation.
In addition, each presenter is selected because of their wealth of experience. The venue is selected to be a comfortable, relaxed environment to allow the safety and honesty to flow in each session. All while empowering participants to connect, talk, share, feel and express what they need to in order to flourish. Incorporating a mindfulness yoga practice and encouraging participants to dress comfortably, yoga attire is welcomed!
“The space we choose means a lot to us so that we can give ourselves permission to be who we are today and feel comfortable in this time of illumination”, says Vargas.
The second WE Lead workshop was held in Malibu at the Calamigos Ranch which offered an incredibly beautiful backdrop providing a calm, natural element for all of the senses.
Among the sponsors were J. Flowers Health Institute, Integrative Life Center, Assured Strategy, Milestones Ranch Malibu, Discovery Behavioral Health, Origins Behavioral Healthcare, Meadows Behavioral Healthcare, Avalon Malibu,Viewpoint Dual Recovery, and The Bridge to Recovery.
“It’s such an honor to collaborate with these esteemed programs to help so many leaders”, says Vargas.
The incredible women delivering the messages in their presentations elevated this event to bring value and thought leadership for each women’s contemplation. It was an honor to have Denise McDermott, MD, Debra Kaplan, MA, LPC, LISAC, CMAT, CSAT-S, and Keyne Petkovic, MS co-present with us.
Some of the highlights we experienced include an exercise like the trauma egg but around our relationship to money and how that may relate to our personal and professional behavior today with finances and our perceived worth related to it. We dove in to creating our personal mission statement and how that shed like on to how we brand ourselves in our various roles in life. The DISC assessment tool was completed prior to arriving for the workshop. The results were discussed in our table talk where we shared ways to communicate better with our teams and others. We ended our time together with a bang in conversation with Dr. Denise exploring the expansive opportunities we have to serve and still take care of ourselves with a holistic approach.
There were many special and memorable moments in between and nuggets of take-aways for each participant to plant and implement into their professional and personal lives.
For more information about the WE Lead workshops, please email weleadevents@gmail.com.
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