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Fountain of Truth: Proven Strategies for Reaching Three Digits and Thriving!
Dana Scarton, Acupuncturist and Journalist, The Zen Point
Do you worry about memory and mental focus? Do you notice more joint or muscle pain, or perhaps chronic headaches? It's never too late to adopt practices for improving your health and extending your life. But longevity without quality is not the goal. Rather, the goal is health span - the idea of living longer while retaining mental, physical, and emotional health. MORE >
In this presentation you'll learn:- About a handful of places around the world where people live into their 100's with both physical and mental vigor and why that matters.
- How taking on something physically or mentally challenging or pursuing a long-held dream can be the best thing you do for your health and longevity.
- Why regular quality time with family and friends is essential to aging well and avoiding early death. -
3 Keys to Lasting Weight Loss
Granetta Coleman, Certified Healthy Lifestyle Accountability Coach, Rooted Dish
3 Keys to Lasting Weight Loss covers: The 6 culprits that are preventing you from losing weight; What’s stalling your metabolism & keeping the weight on; The 3 keys to losing the weight & keeping it off; The foods that increase your cravings & cause you to hold onto weight; One simple strategy you can implement immediately to boost metabolism.
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Unlocking Healing: The Holistic Path to Whole-Body Pain Relief
Dana Scarton, Acupuncturist and Journalist, The Zen Point
Do you isolate yourself when you are in pain? Do you say no when family or friends ask you to go out to dinner and feel terrible about it or just feel depressed? Another common frustration of many struggling with pain is lack of sleep, because it can be hard to get comfortable. Chronic pain doesn’t only affect the body. It can impact our mood, our relationships, and our ability to work, think, relax, and play. MORE >
Often, conventional procedures and medications prescribed for pain are accompanied by annoying and even dangerous side- effects. Holistic medicine, such as acupuncture, offers safe and effective relief without bothersome side effects or drugs. Studies support the use of this modality for reducing various types of pain, including back pain, neck pain, carpal tunnel pain, joint pain, and arthritis. -
Health and Weight Gain Depression
Dr. Tia Corbin-Myers, CEO, Sweat N Me Boutique
Dr. Tia talks to teens and young adults about loving themselves and being comfortable in their own skin. Learning how to love yourself no matter what. Stop looking at social media and basing your life and weight on the men and women that actually are having plastic surgery to look the way they do. Finding ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle through fitness and eating right. Finding things to do in life to stay productive. Making a change in life by going to school and surrounding themselves with positive friends. MORE >
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Intro to Meditation
Martin Vendemia, BCH, MNLP, Hypnotist, Master NLP Practitioner, Inner Group Inc.
A enlightening speech that both teaches the basics of meditation but also the science behind it. Participants can even watch their own brain patterns on a portable EEG device to see feedback of what meditation looks like and compare it to what they think it might be. This type of class is often groundbreaking for individuals who are often doing meditation improperly and getting poor results for years. MORE >
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Wellness for the Busy Professional
Michelle Rhodes, Nurse Entrepreneur, Michelle Rhodes Media
Objectives: Learner will identify 6 types of wellness, Discuss how to improve it, Where to access resources.
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You and Birthday Cake Alone in a Room: The Unexpected Truth to Maximizing Diet Willpower
Laura Ellen, Nutritionist + Life Coach, Laura Ellen Coaching
The formula to health and weight loss seems pretty clear: Don’t eat sweets or junk food. Exercise. Reach your body goals. If it’s so clear, then why do so many people have to return to dieting year after year? And why do 93% of dieters put on more weight than they originally lost? And why can one inanimate cake cause us to act in exactly the opposite way of our goals? MORE >
Laura Ellen breaks down how the conventional weight loss and fitness industries’ approach to dieting sabotages willpower and is the cause of their terrible client success rates. She then teaches practical, science-proven methods to maximizing diet willpower and motivation that you’ve never heard from a health professional before. -
3 Big Secrets About Stress That Are Keeping Your Health Hostage
Dr. Anne Berkeley, Naturopathic Physician, Dr. Anne Berkeley PLLC
Never before have we experienced stress as we do today. With advances in technology and the increasing pace of modern life, stress levels are high. Our bodies are trying to help us out, but we are not meant to be under stress all the time. Although we cannot escape it completely, there are proactive steps that we can take to change the way our bodies respond. We’ll talk about how stress impacts many different aspects of our health and what the best strategies are to quickly help our bodies recover. You will learn simple techniques to help increase resilience, improve performance and manage stressful situations. Join us to talk with Dr. Anne Berkeley about an individualized and holistic approach for managing stress and what this could look like for you. MORE >
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I’ll Have What She’s Having
Robin Bourdeau, Weight Loss Coach, Robin Bourdeau Coaching
In this session, Robin shares her personal journey from 270 pounds back to being healthy and fit. She provides insight and guidance for understanding your current state, setting goals, building strength, energy, fitness, confidence and more.
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Stop Hiding Your Wrappers: How Food + Body Shame Keep Us from Our Healthiest Selves
Laura Ellen, Nutritionist + Life Coach, Laura Ellen Coaching
In her years as a nutrition student, wellness consultant, and now as a health coach, Laura Ellen has come to realize one very key trend: we’re all keeping the same secret, hoping nobody finds out our secret. And that secret is - we all feel crazy with food. MORE >
From doctors, to physique competitors, to weight loss clients, Laura has worked with person after person who is waiting to get they’re eating “under control” before they really show up in the world - professionally, personally, or otherwise. And it’s this waiting and hiding, not the eating itself, that keeps them stuck in the same habits.In this talk, Laura Ellen breaks down how shame perpetuates unwanted eating behaviors and keeps up from our health and diet goals rather than motivating us to success.