Get Balanced With Dr Marissa

Question of the Week: Are we Human Beings or Human Doings? Part 2 investigates the question from a Business perspective. JDMessinger, former CEO of Ernst & Young, nuclear submarine officer, and Exxon executive who helped supervise the Valdez oil spill cleanup, broke his neck and began a journey of illumination to the true meaning of life. Using the power of the Energy that is available to all, JD, lauded by Dr. Marissa, give a balanced positive perspective of Midlife crises that changes lead to gold. He also generously gives his books away to this week's sponsor, and to listeners...use DRMARISSA Promo code at JDMessinger.com for 50% off.

Sujon, Great grandnephew of Parmahansa Yogananda, the best-selling author of Autobiography of a Yogi, founder of SRF and the man credited with bringing Yoga to the West talks about the importance of being Still and connected with our Breath and the Divine, versus running around in the pursuit of people places and things...from South Coast Plaza ;) Sujon shares the wisdom from his lineage, and getting away from the I in Illness to the WE in WEllness, and confirms the Balance in finding the good in both the Eastern and Western paths to Joy. Quote of the Week: I've got a Peace of Joy stuck on the bottom of my Soul

The Question of the Week: Why Remember? Actors Hal Linden and Christian Dante White from the dramatic musical The Scottsboro Boys now playing at the Ahmanson Theater, and nominated for 12 Tony Awards, come and talk about the unbelievable events in 1931 where 9 African American boys aged 13 to 19 are falsely accused convicted and sentenced to death by electric chair. Kander and Ebb's (creators of Chicago) have masterfully constructed one of the sparks of our American Civil Movement and pivotal point in our American history into a show that stimulates an important conversation...How is it possible that a group of innocent boys could be destroyed by a single lie??? And finally, just this past April 2013, comes the official pardon from the Governor of Alabama. Why remember? so we are not doomed to repeat what we do not learn...And then Ben and Alex from the UBN family come and share their fundraising project The Journey Home with Dr. Marissa...raising cancer awareness for Ben's grandfather.

Question of the Week: Can Mothers really find Work-Life Balance? Founder of Million Mamas Movement Wendy Silvers and Motherhood Evolution, Suzi Lula share Life Tools that help moms find balance in the midst of overachieving tendencies...focusing more on our Human Being rather than Human Doing. Celebrating the original intent of Mother's Day (June 2nd) to unite mothers in promoting peace on the planet, my guests share what we can all do with this beautiful thing called motherhood in raising children who know they are more than what they accomplish...that they are worthy and enough, exactly as they are. We can teach what we didn't learn ourselves, and bring about the shift that the planet is now ready for.

Question of the Week: What about On-Line Dating? Is it for losers? or is it the best thing to happen to the modern world of romance? Join Damona Hoffman, author of Spin your Web: How to Brand Yourself for Successful Online Dating and dating expert to Match.com as she helps Dr. Marissa avoid being "cat-fished" again...and helps women be smarter around scammers who want to squeeze their heart and their pocketbook.

16-time Emmy Award-winning FOX TV anchor Christine Devine returns to Dr. Marissa's show with a Wednesday's Child beautiful original song, Faith in Truth, and more inspirational real-life stories of how one's past can be the alchemy to make your life a beautiful work of art...Life is like Photography, we get to develop from the negatives. Special guests Lotis and Nexus share their message of wisdom from experience. They will be performing at the CASA OC Benefit this weekend and fulfilling, along with Christine, Emerson's famous words...to know that you have made one person breathe easier because you have lived....that is success.

If anyone has a reason not to forgive, it would be an 11-year old child who was kidnapped by Joseph Kony, forced to kill her parents, made to fight on the front lines of a war, given to a commander as a "soldier bride", raped, impregnated, escaped, returned to her home only to be ostracized by her community for carrying the enemy's baby. And I have trouble forgiving someone who insulted me last year?! This "One Year On The Air" episode of Get Balanced with Dr. Marissa celebrates with the Question of Week: Why Forgive? and the incredible work that my guest and new friend Jane Ekayu is doing in Uganda, teaching the rescued and escaped child soldiers how to live love and laugh again, using the powerful Life Balance tool of Forgiveness...and Bryan Single, the director of award-winning film Children of War https://vimeo.com/28646053 describes how he had to capture this tremendous example of 'Hope in the midst of horror' on film. "Take My Advice, I'm Not Using It: Get Balanced with Dr. Marissa" is grateful for all of my listeners around the planet for supporting a show about Hope and Happiness, 88 percent of the time...and her lifework of shedding Light on the empty pockets of darkness so there is Peace In, and Peace Out.

Actress and comedienne Alison Arngrim joins Dr. Marissa in the studio for her One Year On the Air Anniversary Part 1 Show to highlight how we can heal from painful pasts, the importance of forgiveness and the benefits of volunteering. In the middle of a few laughs, Alison shares her own journey from victimhood to advocate and how we still need to change legislation that protect abusers to PROTECT.org children instead in 22 states and making our lives more about helping than hoarding, one breath and one less complaint at a time.

A call-in episode that starts with a Life Balance Test...assessing your own state of mind and body with respect to Balance and Happiness. Callers Terry and Priscilla get a mini-Tune-up and Self-Care alignment...and special in-studio guest Roxanne Lawrence, one of the producers of the pilot TV show Dr. Marissa is the host of "Transformations: What's Next?".

Relationship therapist and pioneer in the codependence recovery movement rejoins Dr. Marissa in the studio to answer the question of the Week: What are deal-breakers in romantic relationships? What is the role of the 'butterfly effect' in the beginning, and how important is physical chemistry, similar beliefs and priorities in healthy romantic relationships? How long does it take to see if a relationship is going to work or not and other real questions that can make romance a sleek oceanliner or a sinking relation-Ship. Caller Alan starts the show by following up with his Balance tune-up from last week's show.

Question of the Week: What's Next? Callers Stephanie and Alan find out where they can find more balance in their lives...in health, in relationships, in mind and career. Balance Tools include the 3 Circle question, and Have I done the best that I can with the time that I have and the resources I have been given? If yes, then we are golden. Breathe.

16 Emmy award winner Christine Devine shares her insight on adoption from her 15 year journey reporting on hard to place children in the system and the forever families that have found happiness together. She also talks about her personal pain around her adopted brother and joy around her adopted sister and her man...and tops it off with some dating advice for Dr. Marissa.

Dr. Don Miguel Ruiz, bestselling author of The Four Agreements, which has already sold over 4 million copies, talks to Dr. Marissa about happiness, and how it's as simple as a choice between happy and stupid...that suffering has become a national addiction, and that the way to world peace joy and love is to be happy, in and of and through yourself. There are 7 billion ways to be happy...find your own and be.

Callers share their pain around the horrific messages that their families gave them...and Dr. Marissa offers Balance Tools to release the past pain and affirm the beauty and goodness that is in everyone. Childhood abuse is something that we are told not to talk about, but past pain is something that can rob us of present joy...this episode takes away some of power that painful memories can still hold us hostage in.

Dr. Marissa takes questions from callers on how to deal with Cynthia's Critical Mom "If it's not one thing, it's your mother ;)", on dating again after a divorce with John, and finding more work life balance with Dionne. Balance tools include a new morning Balance ritual, reframing moms, choosing Best Case Scenarios and seeing yourself as good enough and worthy exactly as you are.