Get Balanced With Dr Marissa

Just in time for Blindness Awareness Month, my first show in October welcomes Erin O'Dowd, a blind champion rower who will be rowing in the 2016 Olympics for Ireland talks about how his blindness was all part of a plan to allow him to develop his 6th sense and be the best energy healer possible to help others. His support team, Dr. Mary Helen Hensley and Maireid Conlon talk about how they found this very gifted young man whose candid and clear spirit is inspirational. Quote of the Week that resonated with all in the studio...The Past is History, the Future is a Mystery and the Present is a gift so open it!

Session 6 in the special series Healing from Past Pain: Life Balance Coaching TM Process with Chris Shrader and new guest Charmaine Carnes. They talk about the amazing efforts that passed the SB131 Child Sex Abuse Statute of Limitations Bill, currently on the Governor's desk. Please contact Jerry Brown's office at 916-445-4341 to thank him for signing this bill now. Dr. Marissa also encourages Charmaine, who shares her own abuse by her gymnastics coach to remember that she is more than her own pain from the past. Chris admits he was wrong to want to check out, that he has a very important and unique purpose in this thing called his life.

Dr. Marissa takes an inside look at the intense 36 year life of Marilyn Monroe with the writer and producer of the play Marilyn Madness and Me. Frank Furino, who brought us Falcon Crest, Dallas and Dynasty takes a "bucket list" turn and produces a play that brings out the human side of Norma Jean Baker. Dr. Marissa asks if there is a solution to the way Hollywood churns people up and if there's a way to stop the endless cycle of promoting and then demoting "stars". The play that previews September 19 at the historic El Porto theater in North Hollywood promises to speak to the human-ness of a woman who had a myriad of challenges as a child and overcame them to become one of them most memorable stars in Hollywood. For 5$ off tickets, use PEI as a promo code.

Special guest Donzaleigh Abernathy, whose father co-founded the Civil Rights Movement with Dr. King and knew him as "Uncle Martin" gives us an intimate insider look at the man who not only taught but literally walked the walk of Non-Violence at home, AND Gerald Rivers, who embodies the words of Martin Luther King Jr., literally, as he gives a powerful and moving rendition of the "I Have a Dream" speech on the air. This episode was inspired by Dr. Marissa's visit to a school in Brazil Ile Aiye (The House of Life) where they credit Dr. King with inspiring the South American civil rights movement, and teach the children "after slavery" their roots in music, movement and song. It was Dr. King's dream for America that also gave the people in Bahia the courage to rise up in non-violence and reconnect with their culture that was lost when they were brutally brought into slavery. Part 2 of this episode will continue in January to finish the conversation inspired by Dr. Marissa's reaction to the movie The Butler for the Question of the Week: We've come a long way baby...or have we?

Question of the week: Who is John of God?/Do you believe in miracles? Dr. Marissa talks about her healing visit to John of God in Brazil with 3 of her fellow travelers from Agape; Karimu Shaw Trina Watton and Stacy Ratliff, who share their own experiences of miracles after their spiritual operation and out of body phenomena. The special episode includes an interview with Tania Malvar in Brazil, a John of God volunteer who explains the energy of love and the role of faith at the Casa, and the role of the spiritual entities who work through the Medium João Teixeira de Faria, known also as João de Deus, to heal people like Dr. Wayne Dyer of leukemia and my past guest Edwene Gaines of an aneurysm. Dr. Marissa also puts the moose on the table and balances the unbelievable, the skeptic, and the question of faith. A must hear for anyone who has been unsuccessful with traditional medical approaches in the west.

So you can't change the past, so don't talk about it. In theory it makes sense, but in reality, what you don't deal with will come around and deal with you! As a Life Balance Coach I am called every day by someone who has made it through about half of their life sitting on past pain and then something releases and the question becomes, "Why am I not Happy?!" My client Chris was one a 'someone' and he wanted to share his journey of healing from sexual abuse by a priest on the air, so that anyone else who is in the same situation, marinating in the dark and feeling lost and hopeless can identify and heal along with him. And the beauty is, people have come forward and are not suffering alone or in shame anymore because of Chris' courage. In Session 5 we turn some significant corners on how he sees himself and the people in his world. Chris also reaches out for help in turning SB 131 legislation around...because as Martin Luther King Jr. says, 'Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only Light can do that.' In order to rid our planet of abuse, we have to shed Light on Abuse and Heal together.

SNAP Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests helps Dr. Marissa answer the Question of the Week: How do we heal the Planet from Abuse? Continuing to help put a wide camera angle lens onto Chris' healing from his past pain (abused by a priest in his teens) using the Life Balance Coaching TM process on the air, Outreach Director Barbara Dorris and Esther Hatfield Miller talk about the shame and blame that keeps victims in the dark, and how people can help encourage those suffering to bring Healing Light in. Dr. Marissa also puts the "Moose on the Table" about monetary awards and the balance between silence and marinating in pain.

IVAT Institute for Violence Abuse and Trauma helps Dr. Marissa answer the Question of the Week: How do we heal the Planet from Abuse? Taking an 80 thousand foot look at what her client Chris has been dealing with as a victim of abuse, Dr. Bob Geffner and Sandi Capuana Co-Directors of IVAT housed at Alliant International University, talk about the various parameters that impact the individuals who are abused, the reasons why silence is not so golden and that no matter what, it is never the victim's fault. Also highlighted are the upcoming beneficial offerings of the 18th Annual Conference in San Diego September 8-11 www.IVATCenters.org, including Dr. Marissa's session teaching Balance Tai QiQong, a moving meditation that promotes inner peace, one breath at a time on the 9th

Question of the week: Why Forgive? Special guest Shawne Duperon, six-time Emmy award winner shares a a true story that inspired a global media effort to promote forgiveness. One of her friends killed another friend's family in a drunk driving accident and was able to get to through to the freedom of joy with the powerful Life Balance skill of forgiveness. She shares her own story of being able to forgive as an incest survivor and has a great agreement-fest with Dr. Marissa on the merits of being able to forgive. Her Project Forgive movie has just been endorsed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, visit www.ProjectForgive.com to share your own story of forgiveness.

In Session 4 Chris has a bad few weeks and his critic has a field day. Dr. Marissa goes on a Lie-Busting spree and Chris has a chance to reframe his loss of job and unemployment and admits that he is better off alive. Lie: Everything was Fine until i lost my job...Truth: i was in a lot of pain and needed time to heal, so Fred the critic who says "I am a failure" is wrong. Chris realizes he actually has a purpose AND a job, helping himself and others with SB 131 Child Sex Abuse Bill to right the wrong. Life Balance = Falling in love with the Good that is Me. Balance Tools: Find the Good; Labyrinth of Shitake; This Too Shall Pass; INTBOAD and Gratitude.

2011 CDC Statistics state that 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men in the US reported being raped at some time in their lives, over 20 million children have been exposed to abuse in their homes (US and Canada) and over 40 million worldwide. And we can all do more than just shake our heads with blame or shame. In this special series, my client Chris, who was sexually abused by a priest in his teens, shares his healing process on the air so that others could benefit from the journey from past pain into present Light. Using Dr. Marissa's Life Balance Coaching process TM, listeners can work right along with Chris if you or someone you know has also suffered in silence, but is now ready to clean out the heart infection that happens when one either ignores or marinates in past pain. You will hear what Chris is doing to not only help himself using Balance tools, but use his experience to change legislation right now that will enable others who have been abused and suffering in silence, to bring Light and Love to themselves and justice to others. Session 1: Going into the Black Pit

Chris takes a hard look at his internal critic, Fred, that takes him down with lies around his marriage, around fatherhood and his career. Dr. Marissa helps Chris excavate the pain to unearth the joy within building on the most powerful Life Balance tools introduced in session 1: Telling the Truth about the past, erasing the lies that have kept us in the dark, the Power of Choice, Remembering the good, and that tears are the disinfectant that keep your heart soft. Homework...finding the good in my past that is greater than the bad.

2011 CDC Statistics state that 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men in the US reported being raped at some time in their lives, over 20 million children have been exposed to abuse in their homes (US and Canada) and over 40 million worldwide. And we can all do more than just shake our heads with blame or shame. In this special series, my client Chris, who was sexually abused by a priest in his teens, shares his healing process on the air so that others could benefit from the journey from past pain into present Light. Using Dr. Marissa's Life Balance Coaching process TM, listeners can work right along with Chris if you or someone you know has also suffered in silence, but is now ready to clean out the heart infection that happens when one either ignores or marinates in past pain. You will hear what Chris is doing to not only help himself using Balance tools, but use his experience to change legislation right now that will enable others who have been abused and suffering in silence, to bring Light and Love to themselves and justice to others. Session 1: Going into the Black Pit

Question of the week: What if you done for me lately Dr. Marissa? A call-in episode where comedian Tom Ryan opens his unbalanced books and gets advice...that Dr. Marissa is not using herself ;) on career, health and relationships. And new assistant Nikki gets support for kicking her smoking habit with Balance tools that work on anything that isn't good for us...that we can't seem to stop hurting ourselves with.

UBN host Jenna Edwards joins Dr. Marissa to learn the rules for her 21 Day Fast from Complaining...July 1 2013 will start the 3rd year of what started with 40 people on Facebook and has blossomed to over 2700 people on the social media family tree. Callers Cyndi and Eva who have been on the fast share their experience on the air and Dr. Marissa give gratitude to listeners who continue to support her Peacework around the world, one breath and one less complaint at a time. And winners are drawn for her 52 Card Pick (Me) Ups: Stacking the Deck for Life Balance with Dr. Marissa...and Jenna picks a magic card!