Affirmative Prayer

Juliet Vorster carried around a lot of stress stemming from her inner critic core beliefs and her background, which seemed to support those bad beliefs about herself. After 9/11 (and a nervous breakdown), Juliet learned how to unpick the old stories and create some new ones that were much more rewarding. Trained as a (Louise Hay) "Heal Your Life" teacher, Juliet later became a Centers for Spiritual Living practitioner in the U.K. Coincidently (not really!) she also has a radio show called "Saying Yes to LIFE!"

You'll want to read The Holy Universe from cover to cover. Author David Christopher talks about how he created this book as a narrative that transforms the scientific facts of the Universe into a soulful story of creation. Using the lessons from his Seeker and Sage characters, we learn how to look at catastrophe and crisis from a different perspective. David Christopher has gained the reputation of a modern day Kahlil Gibran and you will find out why when you listen.

What's going on with young people these days? Some are learning how to be good stewards of life at The Launching Pad, a unique young adult church and center in Berkeley, California, now opening centers in Utah, Ashland, Oregon, and another in California. Meet Rev. Linda Reppond and Religious Science Practitioner Elisha Christoper Hayden, both with Centers for Spiritual Living, as they describe what it's like to be in the presence of forward-thinking and enlightened youth.

Dr. Stan Tatkin has been a couples therapist for more than 15 years, specializing in "A Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy." He describes why it is possible to stay "in the foxhole" together, especially when we accept each others' flaws and irritations. He also offers advice for anyone seeking a relationship who doesn't have one now. He is the author of Wired for Love, Your Brain on Love, and Love and War in Intimate Relationships.

Is everything "okay" in your life? Or do you have the "blahs"? Lu Ann Cahn tells how she shifted her life one day at a time in I Dare Me: How I Rebooted and Recharged My Life by Doing Something New Every Day. From taking the Polar Bear Plunge to talking with a stranger in the park, Lu Ann's life took on new meaning, and yours can too. What a fun way to Activate the Power of Yes!

What is it like as the ninth child of a single mom, abused by an adoptive family, and then thrown into a foster home with gang members? Or to be born from a lineage of mother and grandmother in foster care, wrenched away from an abusive environment, put in a foster home, and age out with a life-threatening health issues to deal with on your own? The good news is that guests Eric Tyler Anderson and Davina Merritt successfully aged out of the foster care system and have ways for others to do the same. Visit www.erictyleranderson/bev.html to download free Eric's book on overcoming the odds. Go to Davina's organization at www.fosteringhopeforamerica.org for Fostering Super Stars and how you can be a sponsor.

This is the most magnificent radio show yet! Centers for Spiritual Living Rev. Barbara Leger moved to Ukraine on September 11, 2001. These many years later, her beloved second country, Ukraine, is in the midst of turmoil. How do we focus on love and peace when fear and fighting appear? Joining Barbara are several of her practitioners and students from Temenos Center, Skyping in from Ukraine, as well as Anastasia, a Ukrainian practitioner Skyping in from Israel. These young women have a peace that passes understanding, knowing that something greater is about to be born out of this. For more information on Temenos, go to www.scienceofmind.org.ua/.

Author Francis Weller says that we all have grief-for our lost selves, our loved ones, our community, the environment, and the world-and that grief unexpressed "hardens and becomes solid like a stone."' This unprocessed grief is often diagnosed as depression. There are rituals we can do, together or by ourselves, that can help us contain our grief and then release it. What a wonderful way to Activate the Power of Yes. Visit www.wisdombridge.net.

Katie Ray Jones, president of the National Domestic Violence Hotline, says the number is for anyone who wants to find out if they are in an abusive relationship (or knows they are). Call 800-799-7233 to talk about anything you want. Gail Patin, Hubbard House in Jacksonville, Florida, and Susan McGee, Humboldt County, California, domestic violence authority and author of Why She Stays: A Guide for Helping the Battered Woman and Survivors of All Genders, share how to stay safe, stop making excuses for the one who is abusing, and make steps to leave once and for all. We also talk about what friends can do to provide support for the person being abused. The Florida hotline number is 800-500-1119. Susan McGee is at 707-601-6042.

Dr. Rick Hanson describes how we can take steps in our everyday lives to change the makeup of our brain so that happiness is eventually built in. We can Have a positive experience, Enrich it by having more like it, Absorb how wonderful it is, and Link it to other positive experiences. This HEAL response soon becomes so strong that it begins to replace the negative experiences we thought would be there forever. We are installing, hardwiring happiness. You can do this too! Visit www.rickhanson.com for more info about his new book, Hardwiring Happiness, and more.

Iris Bolton, a leader in suicide prevention, offers excellent insight and suggestions, but if you are hurting or know someone who is, go directly to the free 24-hour Suicide Hotline at 1-800-273-8255 (TALK). For information on counseling and other resources in your area, go to the American Association of Suicidology, 202-237-2280 or The Link National Resource Center at 404 256-2919. Signs to look for: not/too much eating or sleeping, giving things away, talk about not being here in the future. Talk and take action to get professional help.

Dianne Collins paints a beautiful picture of how we are on the "edge of our knowledge" and that "just as we are witnessing a revolution in technology, society itself is also undergoing a far more profound, collective transformation." Quantum thinking is a moment-to-moment proposition that puts us right into an ever-expanding multidimensional universe. Sounds complicated, but Dianne makes it simple for us to absorb and apply. Her book asks, "Do You Quantum Think?" and soon you'll be saying Yes!

Dr. Jim Withers is Activating the Power of Yes with a population that has been feared or ignored by so many of us-the homeless. In Pittsburgh alone, 10,000 homeless individuals, with more than 68,000 visits where they live along riverbanks, in alleyways, or beneath highway overpasses, have been helped, and 900 now have a safe place to call home. Now the movement has gone global-with nine International Street Medicine Symposiums and organizations in five continents. Dr. Jim describes why it is important to "meet people in their own reality." Visit www.operationsafetynet.net and www.StreetMedicine.org for more information.

Centers for Spiritual Living, the international organization, has gone through a lot of changes and so has its president, Rev. Dr. John Waterhouse. His spiritual journey has included Christianity, Buddhism, and Native American practices, culminating as a Science of Mind minister over the past 25-plus years. Since CSL is inclusive, it makes sense that other spiritual experiences can be a part of one's journey, and since CSL is expansive, it has moved into nearly every continent. Towards the end of the show, Dr. John says a Spiritual Mind Treatment, or Affirmative Prayer, for love, vision, and possibility all over the globe. This is not to be missed.

Patrise Perkins-Hooker and Doug Hooker are a well-educated African-American power couple in Atlanta, Georgia, the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr. As the Civil Rights Movement unfolded (1955–1968), Patrise and Doug were growing up; as they went out into the workplace they were usually the "first" ... first African American to be hired, head a committee, lead a department, serve on a board, be in charge. What was it like being first and how does it look for the second, third, and fourth generations of African Americans who are benefitting from the Civil Rights Movement?