Get Balanced With Dr Marissa

Dr. Marissa helps Colleen reframe her hiatus from her singing career to take care of her parents so she sees the power of her choice and the love that is at the core of who she really is.Lisa learns how to meditate on the air and Chava has a new challenge for her next relationship on being the best that she can be and breaking old patterns to become a recovering drama queen.

Question of the week: How do you make your resolutions resolve and not dissolve? Dr. Lori shares Health tips from her time with the Nicoya people in Costa Rica's Blue Zone of Longevity, and how we as Americans have to start taking advantage of the 80 percent of our own health that is not predestined by our genetics, and up the scale of our current dismal Health ranking of 37th in the world. Choosing to act on our own behalf and actually fulfill our #1 resolution to Lose Weight using the Gospel according to Nike and then make emotional and spiritual choices to positively impact our bodies minds spirits and souls will ensure a VERY happy new year 88% of the time...what a perfect way to celebrate my 88th show on the air!

In the final session 8 of the special series Healing from Past Pain, Chris revisits his journey of healing over the past 8 months, the Balance tools that he has used to clean out the dark corners of the pain and suffering from being abused by an Episcopalian priest as a teen, how he has turned the shitake into fertilizer to blossom as an advocate against sexual abuse in the the church. His initial tears in Session 1 originating from infected pain, resentment, shame and blame have now turned to tears of gratitude and joy as he has learned that pain in life is sometimes mandatory, but suffering is not.

Holiday blues? This episode cheers you up with many personal messages of love from Dr. Marissa and her callers John, Esther, Ericka, and Jansenius, who use the opportunity to give a unique gift by reading a public Love Letter to their someone special. Dr. Marissa also gives a Life Balance Holiday Just Breathe exercise tool to keep the sadness from overtaking your Season of Joy. Happiest of Holidays to all and to all Holiday wishes for Prosperity, Abundance, Peace, Kindness, Generosity, Creativity, Wonder and Love. Peace In and Peace Out.

In a moving intimate interview, Ric shares the story of how he first had his heart set on working with dolphins, becoming the trainer on the movie Flipper, and the turning point when Cathy the lead dolphin committed suicide in his arms. Dr. Marissa recognizes Ric with her Beneficial Presence on the Planet Award, and validates his work as proof that one person can shed Light on the Dark pockets in our world and Make a Difference. Calling from the actual Cove upon which the Academy Award winning documentary was based, he continues his work trying to end the capture and slaughter of dolphins. Ric shares a Christmas love message to his wife and chinese daughter which Dr. Marissa translates to Mandarin. Supporting the Earth Island Institute, the Dolphin Project and not buying into anymore theme parks that keep the supply and demand cycle going are ways in which each one of us can join Ric in making a difference. And the beautiful Sharon Pierre-Louis shares Ric's message of hope using American Sign Language to include our Deaf community worldwide in a ground-breaking first radio episode of it's kind. Let's all end this barbaric practice of capturing and taking the freedom of these glorious creatures that share our Planet and give us so much joy.

Dr. Marissa works with Tina, Tamara from the Bay area, and Jan from Huntington Beach on Balancing their Life Tires including seeing money as the means to express our unique talent gifts and abilities, making friends with our inner critic, inheriting FEAR (false evidence appearing real) about moving, husbands and running out of money .. remembering that worry is not a payingDr. Marissa works with Tina, Tamara from the Bay area, and Jan from Huntington Beach on Balancing their Life Tires including seeing money as the means to express our unique talent gifts and abilities, making friends with our inner critic, inheriting FEAR (false evidence appearing real) about moving, husbands and running out of money .. remembering that worry is not a paying job, ..and letting go of the side of the pool to explore the 360° of life opportunities. Dr. Marissa prescribes Life Balance tools, gives Homework/Homeplay and performs successful Smog checks of crappy limiting beliefs that are keeping her callers from being happy 88% of the time

Question of the Week: What about death… And life? Well it wasn't the scheduled show with Jane Kean from the Honeymooners but her spirit of joy, love and a fountain of youth definitely came through with my cohost Dr. Soc, checking in from the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Maarten. A direct challenge for those who are alive but acting like they are dead...or only living on weekends vacations or retirement...to take a deep breath and wake up to the Gift of Life...the Present! Episode sponsored by DeyoGlines.com.

Vocal teacher of Quincy Jones, Pierce Brosnan, Tony Robbins and Emmitt Smith comes on Dr. Marissa's on the air stage and does a reading of who she is...as you can tell what a person is like from their voice ;) Arthur talks about the "knowing" voice within each and everyone of us that is about personal peace and personal power. The magic of breath and singing is demonstrated and the false premise that people are tone deaf is now "unheard of" with his compelling story of a deaf student who learned how to sing in perfect pitch.

Beaver takes Dr. Marissa on a tour of his life, from his start in the industry at age 2 up until present day...and how his family kept him in balance with his outlook on life. Jerry Mathers motivates listeners with his own experience with diabetes and corrects some false premises about the disease and sugar. Beaver shares the differences with TV standards then and now (Leave it to Beaver was actually banned at one point because it showed a bathroom on the air!) and leaves listeners with one wish for the planet...to be kind to one another, no matter what is going on on the news. Episode sponsored by Grace is Born author Lisa Cohen on Kickstarter.

So do you have an "I Miss You" relationship with money? Are you trapped in the Cinderella nightmare? Do you know how to take a vision and translate it into practical action to make it happen? Tina, Rikki and James get their Life Wheels Balanced and Aligned on matters of money, career and creativity. Dr. Marissa uses her business background and new thought foreground to encourage them to fully express their unique gifts talents and abilities and drop their limiting beliefs about money, control and fear. Warning...there's a lot of laughing in this one ;)

he Wisdom Project begins with octogenarian Joe Cosgrove, author of "Walt Dreamers Me". Joe entertains us with insider information about Ronald Reagan, Bob Hope, Jack Lalanne, and most of all, Walt Disney. Beauty secrets are shared on how to live a long and productive life. Show sponsored by Dr. Mary Helen Hensley. http://maryhelenhensleyauthor.wordpress.com/

In this intense 2-part heart session, Chris is asked to fully express his hopelessness, pain and anger around the Governor's veto of SB 131 before the break. To release, for the last time, the stories that keep him feeling bad about life. Dr. Marissa reminds him that he always has a choice on which way to look at life and what happens to him...after the break she takes him through a visualization exercise where he can smile in the knowing and remembering what is about to come.

What Now Jerry Brown Cow? Dr. Marissa breaks her rule about no politics and no religion on the showDr. Marissa brings experts from SNAP and IVAT and others impacted by SB 131 Child Abuse statute of limitations being vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown, to understand and strategize on how we can move forward to continue to rid our planet of darkness from sexual abuse within the church, and flood it with Light.

The child soldiers and child brides brutalized by the rebel Joseph Kony in Uganda have every right to seek revenge and to hate the man who made them suffer so as children. Jane shares her forgiveness defense and why it is important for all of us not to continue to be in even more pain after the original crime was committed. Rev. Wilkins continues the Forgiveness Peace talks and compares what the children have gone through with our own past pain and invites all the listeners to support Jane's work through a workshop and a film screening to come.

Dr. Marissa helps callers Chris and Joy balance, center and believe in themselves...and visualize the fun and fabulousness of their life vision. Dr. Marissa also shares practical Life Balance tools to help them get from here to there, including 15 minutes at a time, Gospel according to Nike, and planting seeds...The balance between sitting under a Bodai tree wishing for things to happen and trying to force or control things to make them happen...Neither of which make for an 88% happy life.