Get Balanced With Dr Marissa

Question of the Week: What about Peace? My guest Bro. Ishmael Tetteh, Founder of the Ethereal Mission in Ghana West Africa illuminates us with the lessons from Wisdom of Nature that shows us the Peace that is already contained within us...so that we can start living Heaven on Earth and not have to wait ;). Song of the Week Rayshon Martin Celebrate.

Question the week: What about Yoga with guest Dharma Shakti... What isyoga and what are the benefits besides the "sexy ass side benefit"?Learn the differences between three energy types out of the practiceof Ayurveda... Are you a Vata Pitta or Kapha? And how can you useyoga to find more balance in your life. Song of the week by Polo,Dharma's soulmate called Love Makin by Jah Fellowship.

Question of the Week: What is a Perfect Relationship? How do you know a relationship is at an end? My guest Mary Richardson, a relationship therapist, beautiful friend and co-facilitator of Dr. Marissa's Balance Retreats in Sedona, who practices what she teaches...coaches Dr. Marissa on the 8 Steps to a Healthy Relationship and the host shares her own learning from her last chapter in her Book of Romance that just ended. Balance Bottom Line...Expectations are a sure way to ruin an intimate relationship...and there's an invisible line between not enough work and too much work in making romantic relationships work...my job is not to put my nose so close to the line that I miss the wonder of the 88 percent of the time that it is working".

Edwene Gaines, author of The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity and the woman who inspired me to start the 21 Day Fast from Complaining online joins Dr. Marissa to share her formula for Prosperity in all facets of life, healthy bodies, wealthy pocketbooks, joyful relationships and work that you love...and what a delightful sense of humor and love she has...as she quotes from the Gospel of Nike. Quote of the Week from His Holiness the Dalai Lama..."If there's a problem and there's a solution, there's nothing to worry about...and if there's a problem and NO solution, there's STILL nothing to worry about :)"

Todd Creager, Sex and Marriage therapist, author of "The Long Hot Marriage" and formerly known as my own couples therapist, returns to Dr. Marissa's studio to answer listeners' questions about sex-less marriages and how to best communicate between partners without putting your foot in your mouth. Quote of the Week: I stepped in a pile of Balance and got Peace all over me ;)

The bestselling author of "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus" which has been called the relationship book of the decade comes to help Dr. Marissa sort through the complexity of romantic relationships...including her own :)

Best-selling author Dr. Terry Cole-Whittaker of "What You Think of Me is None of My Business" helps answer the Question of the Week: Who Cares? How we can stop letting ourselves be twisted with the worry and concern about what others are thinking about us is a skill that will make us all happier 88 percent of the time.

Sex and marriage therapist Todd Creager, formerly known as my own couples therapist, helps me bring a Balanced perspective on divorce and bedroom Olympics...answering questions like "when to hold and when to fold" and how to have "A Long Hot Marriage: the title of his 'Non-fiction' haha book...Song of the Week by Ray Davis. Quote of the Week "Love is Grand...Divorce is a hundred grand ;p

My birthday episode brings my 2 beautiful daughters to the studio along with friend Jessica Collaco and her 2 girls to celebrate motherhood and her children's book Mommy What are Feelings? an interactive book about the taste touch sight and sound of feelings illustrated by her 2 daughters Chloe Mei and Sarah Wei when they were only 3 and 5 years of age, a decade ago. The best part of the book is that it has been helping autistic children express their feelings with pictures that they draw on each feeling page. Chloe and Sarah talk candidly about the best and worst parts of growing up with Dr. Marissa as mom.

An up close and personal interview with Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center, aka as my 'big brother', teacher from the bestselling movie/book "The Secret" and guest on Oprah and Larry King Live helps Dr. Marissa answer the Question of the Week: What about God? For those of us who want an alternative to the way we grew up with a rigid religion, Dr. Michael shares a life-affirming way to look at God, and life, and a friendly Universe. Dr. Beckwith covers the topics of life, love, happiness and how his way of using forgiveness as a life tool helped Dr. Marissa find a radically new joyous way to live. Scheduled in July purposefully to coincide with our country's freedom month to celebrate my own freedom from past pain.

Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith answers QoW: What about God?

If it's not one thing...it's your mother! Question of the Week: What lessons about mothering did you learn from your mother? My friend Reirani and I look at both the positive and negative lessons we learned and how we can make peace with the past. Balance Parenting Tools included in this episode. Song of the Week by Reirani :)

Bestselling author of Codependent No More which has helped millions of men and women find their balance in relationships helps Dr. Marissa answer the Question of the Week: What is a recovering codependent? How do you find the balance between being a steamroller and a doormat (or wall to wall carpet ;)? My friend Melody talks about the power of gratitude in helping us recover from codependent behaviors. Song of the Week is The Serenity Prayer sung by Dr. Marissa...bestselling a capella (alcapulco ;) song on ITunes.

Paul returns to the studio to talk to Dr. Marissa about what it has been like for his family in the aftermath, for his 3 children and granddaughter...coping and trying to comfort them, and having answers where there are none. Paul's lawyer joins in to talk about Christy's Law, a legislation that will reduce the risk of someone having firearms during a bitter custody dispute so they can't do the same kind of damage that the Seal Beach Salon shooter did on October 12, 2011

QoW: Why do bad things happen to good people? Dr. Marissa talks to Paul Wilson who lost his wife Christy in what is being called the worst massacre in Orange County history, the damage that the shooter did in a reaction to a bitter child custody battle...and how he is transmuting his pain and working on Christy's Law, a new legislation that would help reduce the chances of something like this happening again. The pain of loss can break open one's heart to even more love, as tears are the disinfectant that keep our hearts soft.