We make agreements all the time—informal arrangements, understandings, plans, and negotiations. The quality of our agreements has a ripple effect on the quality of our lives. But assumptions and unmet expectations can lead to high stress, conflict and broken relationships. Research shows that stress causes or exacerbates more than 90% of all illness. Join Neha Sangwan, M.D., as she empowers you with practical tools to make clear agreements, not only in your personal and professional life, but also with your physician.

This summit will help parents learn tools to help a child who has ADHD. Unfortunately children are overmedicated in this country and medication has become a "quick fix" for ADHD. The reality is there are many other options to explore to help children be successful and happy, and Dr. Hammond will share tips from her new book ADHD Explained: What Every Parent Needs to Know. Dr. Hammond has over a decade of experience working in the field of psychology. She has also been featured in various TV, radio, and magazines throughout the country, and she is the TV host of Parenting Explained with Dr. Hammond.

Medical astrology is the use of astrology to inform medical practice. As a practitioner of Chinese medicine with two doctorates, Dr. Morris uses astrology to expand the idea of the sign.

Medicine depends upon the use of signs and symptoms as the core of clinical practice. The symptom is what the client reports and the sign is what the practitioner observes. Before the age of enlightenment, the use of astrology in medical practices was common.

Explore the evidence contained within medical research that supports the core cyclical influences in astrology: the day, lunar month and year. Learn how medical astrology is used to inform and enhance practice.

As a backdrop to this discussion, the themes of scientism, belief and the nature of scientific inquiry will be addressed.

A female doctor's journey to regain her health and sight even when the experts said there was no HOPE Finding YES beyond any NO. Berkson has been in practice in functional medicine, with an emphasis on nutrition, hormones, intimacy, and digestion, for decades. She is considered one of the early thought leaders of natural medicine, training many doctors, like MDs and pharmacists, in the science behind natural answers. She formulated Metagenics first professional female line. She was a scholar at a hormone think tank at Tulane and has published original research with the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. She is a research fellow with Health Sciences Collegium and a professor for higher board certification programs for functional medicine programs for medical professionals. Dr. Berkson wrote the first gut, mind, nutrition published by Wiley (Healthy Digestion the Natural Way) and one of the first books on hormone altering chemicals (Hormone Deception, Mc-Graw-Hill). Her newest book SEXY BRAIN shows how human connection and the human brain is under attack and how to protect ourselves and children.

Michelle and Keith Norris were on the flight home from the Ancestral Health Symposium, an annual academic conference. They came away inspired but lamenting the disconnect between the worlds of ancestral health theory and practice. Their daily work with clients taught them that there is a pressing need for a conference that helps people understand how to apply the insights of the ancestral health perspective. And so Paleo f(x)™ was born.

Paleo f(x)™ is a true holistic lifestyle immersion event, encompassing health and wellness, nutrition, fitness, sustainability, self-improvement, and everything in between. Suited for everyone from the novice to the expert, it is the largest paleo health event—and one of the largest holistic health events—in the world.

Cleaning your emotional house has a lot to do with symptoms and reaction fed by Ancestral dynamics. Much of what plagues us is called unresolved systemic grief. There is a way out! There are easy practical steps to create boundaries form out PAST in the Present for a great FUTURE now! Gary Stuart, Master Constellation Facilitator, Author, Speaker has been documenting his healing experiences over the past several decades. His first book on Constellations Many Hearts, One Soul set the stage for his latest book Master Your Universe: How to Direct & Star in Your Own Life. He Speaks and leads healing workshops and trainings nationally and internationally. Facilitating Distance, Family or Organizational Constellations are his Constellation specialty!

Medical astrology is the use of astrology to inform medical practice. As a practitioner of Chinese medicine with two doctorates, Dr. Morris uses astrology to expand the idea of the sign. Medicine depends upon the use of signs and symptoms as the core of clinical practice. The symptom is what the client reports and the sign is what the practitioner observes. Before the age of enlightenment, the use of astrology in medical practices was common. Explore the evidence contained within medical research that supports the core cyclical influences in astrology: the day, lunar month and year. Learn how medical astrology is used to inform and enhance practice. As a backdrop to this discussion, the themes of scientism, belief and the nature of scientific inquiry will be addressed.

You may have heard "we are what we eat," but we are also what we digest. 90% of your serotonin (your feel good brain chemicals) is produced in your gut AND you have more brain neurons in your gut than any other peripheral nervous system in your body. In this talk, we'll discuss how food and your gut health influences your mood, and how to heal the brain naturally from anxiety, stress, depression, eating disorders, Autism, ADHD, mood disorders and everything in between. Dr. Lauryn Lax is a Doctor of Occupational Therapy, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Functional Medicine Practitioner, author and speaker, with over 20 years of clinical and personal experience specializing in gut health, intuitive eating, disordered eating, anxiety, hormone balance and women's health. She is a published journalist and speaker, and her work has been featured in Oxygen Magazine, Women's Health, Paleo Magazine, Breaking Muscle, CrossFit Inc, USA Today, ABC and CBS News.

After waking from a coma, Cavin woke in a dense brain fog and began his journey to regain his abilities, autonomy, and his mind. In 2011 Cavin Balaster sustained a severe traumatic brain injury that left him comatose with less than a 10% chance of ever regaining consciousness beyond a persistent vegetative state. For over 6 years, he has devoted his life to studying metabolism, neurometabolism, mechanisms of neuroplasticity, neuroscience, and nutrition, while reaching out to doctors, researchers, practitioners, and neuroscientists, to learn everything he can to optimize his brain function and to maximize his recovery. He has recently published his first book, How to Feed a Brain, which is the culmination of the nutritional tools he has learned through this journey. Cavin wrote this book to share with others the nutritional information that has helped him to regain his brain function.

Catastrophic-stroke survivor, inspirational keynote speaker, university lecturer, and CEO of The Heart of Living Vibrantly, Center for Mindfulness and Self-Mastery, Valerie Sheppard uses the principles in her #1 Amazon best-seller, Living Happy to Be ME!©, to guide young people and adults, executives and entrepreneurs to happiness, success and fulfillment. It’s the centerpiece of her transformational practice, and her partnership with the University of California, Irvine where she's piloting her Consciousness-raising content in a ​curriculum called Living 101: Being Happy and Whole. She’s been featured on the cover of Eydis Magazine, published in 11:11™ Magazine, and is a featured Luminary on InspireMeToday.com™. She has also been featured contributor to numerous leadership and heart-centered living radio shows, podcasts and tele-summits.

One of the skills that keeps us healthy is compassion. This is also an important skill needed to recover from health. Before any change occurs, acceptance of what is currently present and manifested is vital. Not wanting to take medication is in basic human nature. Often times having to take medication for illness comes with an inherent guilt which can be reinforced by our society and our premorbid attitudes. To deal with this guilt is a vital skill to learn using compassion.

Whether it's anxiety, depression, panic attacks, sleep problems, irritability, anger, mood swings , or problems focusing and concentrating, mental health related issues can hugely impact your life. In this interview, we'll discuss a few things you can do NOW to take the edge off of the struggle. This bit of wiggle room might be what you need to assess your next life steps. There are a thousand things in life that make things hard and uncomfortable. Learn what you can do NOW to reduce the load of the struggle, upset, and stress.

My story is one of chronic pain, injuries, surgeries, medications, side effects, some bad luck, poor diet, depression, ending with the unlikely but timely realization that I don’t know how to give up. In my experience most people spend more than enough, mental, physical and emotional energy to heal themselves, they just lack the experience and expertise to make the most of their efforts. I want to educate those with chronic pain; mental, emotional and physical. I have a unique background as a chiropractor, yoga instructor, tennis instructor, and personal trainer. That coupled with my life experiences has given me a unique set of tools to help everyone get a better handle on how to be healthy in this technological/pharmaceutical age. Healing with movement, nutrition, and intention, let’s learn from my mistakes, and continue to heal together.

See if this sounds like you or someone know: You go to a doctor or healthcare professional without a plan. Let’s say you have headaches everyday. A traditional doctor may recommend you take Advil for the pain. The fact is most folks that go to a traditional doctor don’t ask questions. This segment of the summit is all about asking questions and questions and more questions. Why? Because you want to know what causes the headaches! Traditional doctors typically mask the symptoms of problems, rather than finding the root cause of the problem. This is the basic difference between allopathic medicine and alternative modalities. When dealing with any healthcare practitioner - chiropractor to surgeon - energy healer to guru of your choice, you need to ask questions, get answers that make sense to you and make a decision on what you should do. Remember, this is your body, your life and your health. You are responsible for taking care of it.

A human life that’s happy is not a trivial matter of being lucky, of getting what we want; pleasant pastimes or the absence of responsibilities or pain. A human life that’s happy is an accomplishment -- a triumphant, sometimes even heroic creation. Sometimes we have to overcome tremendous physical or psychological hardships. Sometimes we have to resist strong short term temptations or struggle to make sense of our path. As with any big, long-term project, a happy life takes work; it’s complicated and time consuming -- more like a great symphony of harmony and counterpoint than a simple, catchy jingle. To create a life that’s truly happy over time takes discipline, passion, and courage.

Sheila Janan, founder of HealthTipGirl.com shares her top secrets for living stress-free. Having overcome two life-threatening illness herself and suffering almost unbearable physical pain, she’s a walking testimony to using skills not pills to heal.

In this segment, she'll reveal simple tools and skills any person can apply to get quality results in a short amount of time. Most all illness or dis-ease is stress related. Once you learn these skills and adopt them into your everyday practice, healthy living becomes a new way of living!

Learn what the world’s most productive and creative minds already know—that the key to success is working smarter, not harder. You'll discover:

The brain hacks that super successful leaders use to stay focused, creative, and productive all day

The mind-blowing science proving that working smarter--not harder--is the key to productivity and creativity

The power of pause--and why you should schedule breaks to superchare your workflow

The best way to structure your workday to avoid burnout and sail through even the toughest projects

The science behind daydreaming—and how it can be the key to unleashing world-changing ideas

The habits and routines that world-famous artists and creatives use to keep their ideas flowing

Too many therapies or programs, whether energetic, spiritual, or conventional, focus on solving one specific issue. You might work diligently on a program without success, leaving you wondering if you’re defective. Recognize you are a whole being, not a series of parts. Energetically, if it’s in one cell, it’s in all of them. A lack in one important area in your life can energetically transfer to somewhere else, disguising the real cause of the condition you are suffering. Improving this critical factor in your life, a seemingly unrelated cause, can correct health quickly. These factors, based on research from medical schools at top universities, have been correlated with longevity, well-being and health. It might surprise you of the eight factors that have been deemed as primary factors in your health, how you take care of your physical body ranks 8th. In fact, your relationships are at the top of the list with career and creative expression next. Discover what the rest are and how you can find out what you need to do next.

One in 4 American middle aged women take pharmaceuticals for depression in any given year. Though stigma still exists, it wasn’t long ago when mental illness was not talked about at all. Today we talk about how easy it is to fix anxiety and depression with a pill. But pills are not a cure; they only mask the symptoms, intending to make life more bearable. Everyone says they want their life to be different but nobody wants to change. And for good reason! Your brain is built to keep you safe and change is an unknown to the brain. In this talk I will show you how the brain and the subconscious mind are stopping you from making the necessary changes to get unstuck, and I will give you the key steps that, when taken, will supercharge your ability to make those changes and take back your life today.

Loss, adversity, challenge are universal themes of life. Nobody gets by unscathed. And so the key is How we can live well, and yes, even thrive, beyond our painful situations. It's an inside job and we all have the inner resources and strengths to build upon. During this talk, we will focus on concepts such as mindset, resilience, choice, attitude and purpose that have been exemplified by the many interviewees in Harriet's recently published book, Living Well Despite Adversity. Harriet is a social worker and positive psychology coach. She has appeared on ABC and Fox News as a parenting coach and is one of the guest experts on WOR radio show, Change Your Attitude, Change Your Life.

What if you could feel completely comfortable and in control speaking to anyone, anytime? Sharon Sayler, MBA, PCC shares her COURAGE communications techniques that immediately bring out your best and to inspire and influence the best in others. During this powerhouse chat you will discover how your nonverbal communication is affecting you and others. We will learn how to build safety and trust with others without saying a word and create messages that speak to listeners hearts and minds using proven techniques of gesture, posture, voice to increase their influence and confidence. You will leave this interview knowing how to develop strong relationships based on respectful communication.

Driving down a deserted highway something caught Jacquie’s eye. Witnessing a natural phenomenon in the night sky, she experienced an epiphany that burst her beliefs about mental health. Until then, she was living in the shadow of her mother’s mental illness. Without skills to cope as a child, it impacted early development and overall health and wellbeing throughout life. ‘Hitting the wall’ at forty her MD prescribed medication giving her brain fog, compromised her immune system and physical health to the point she could barely climb a flight of stairs. Refusing to be labeled, she began a journey of self-discovery. Intuitively she searched for holistic skills to heal mind and body together, as ‘one system’. In 2008, she found those skills in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). Jacquie's Holistic Self-Coaching™ program teaches skills to be autonomous, stay positive and healthy.

Discover how to discover and engage the "Habits of Hope" that both free your from daily downturns and lift you out of depression and keep you from going back. Jeff Caliguire has experience the darkness of depression and now speaks, coaches and teaches how to harness the power of hope and positivity in business and life. He is the author of the best-selling book, "The Habits of Hope: Self-Leadership Strategies to Unleash Your Bigger Purpose." Jeff works with those seeking to unlock their purpose and build purpose-focused businesses, teams and lives. He does this as the president of Convergence Point and Convergence Point Wealth Advisors.

Are you suffering from exhaustion, fatigue and chronic frustration? Do you have digestive distress? Is chronic illness, aches and pains part of your everyday life? You’re not alone.

Many women struggle most of their adult life with these chronic issues. You may have many recommendations to find relief, to no avail. Perhaps you checked with your doctor, read various books and articles, but nothing worked.

During this presentation, you’ll learn one of the fastest, most effective ways to boost your energy and improve your health, with things you probably have in your kitchen…and a few you probably don’t.

The family story is our story – in every way it lives on in us. The emerging science of epigenetics helps to explain why we may think – “this is just my life, full of struggle or financial hardship.” We may say to ourselves – “I’ve always been let down in my relationships, I guess this is how it will always be.” The challenges we face in life are not ours alone, they are shared across multiple generations.

Johanna facilities transformative work that solves the emotional patterns that we all inherit from our families, and will share some of her wisdom with us during this interview to help illuminate the family patterns influencing YOUR life, and help you understand how to change it!

Standing in your power when life throws something major at you, like a life limiting diagnosis, is never easy. This type of situation often awakens self-doubt, uncertainty and a willingness to do whatever the experts tell you to do. When the person being diagnosed is your child, the desire to just do as you're told is even stronger. Debbie Pokornik helps parents stay connected to their inner wisdom so that they can live the vibrant and powerful life they have come here to live no matter what is going on in life. Tune in to learn tips and tools you can use to stay confident, discern what's truly best for you (or your child) and live life fully regardless of your circumstances.

When it comes to how we feel about our body the...body-shame, food-guilt, self-judgement, and never ending diet-cycle kills our energy and self-confidence.

What if feeling good in your own skin didn't require restriction, rules or deprivation? What might your life be like if your energy wasn't tied up in feeling shame or guilt about your food or body? Would you have more energy? Feel more sensual? Feel more confident? Would you have more access to your inner wisdom and passion in life?

Nina Manolson will talk about the real path to feeling at home in your body. And it's NOT a diet. Nina Manolson MA, NBC-HWC, helps women over 40 end their war with food and make peace with their body. As a Psychology of Eating and Holistic Health Coach she is a relationship counselor for women and their bodies.

If you haven't experienced a traumatic event in your life, then you are very lucky. However, I bet you have. You have probably experienced something that rocked your world, shook you up and made you question everything. When a trauma hits it leaves us seeking answers, relief and questioning everything. Sometimes we turn towards 'experts' that do their best to give you sound advice, however, more often than not, their answers don't work for you. Other times we cover it up, and manage trauma's affects with pills or over working, doing, and compensating. Until, finally, when all these methods cease to help you feel like yourself again you try something else. Antiqua Lisha is here with that next step, the something else, you need to transform your trauma and feel like yourself again.

The Mind and Brain are the keys to our ultimate fulfillment, creativity and SUCCESS in life. The ability to get out of our comfort zone to pursue new adventures, professions, and entrepreneurial heights is 90% MINDSET and the rest is LEARNING new skills, Taking ACTION, and being Held ACCOUNTABLE.

Mother nature speaks to us in many ways. Our only challenge is to quiet our minds so we can hear the wisdom. Unexpectedly in 2005 I began observational flower photography. Little did I know that I would begin channeling messages from flowers and receive simple truths to every day life. Living in Bali, an island with an active volcano, has provided additional insights into the power of mother-nature and the energy matrix that we live in. This natural force is always present within and being reflected in nature. It simply requires we apply our intention for the magic to unfold before our eyes.

When it comes to how we feel about our body the...body-shame, food-guilt, self-judgement, and never ending diet-cycle kills our energy and self-confidence.

What if feeling good in your own skin didn't require restriction, rules or deprivation? What might your life be like if your energy wasn't tied up in feeling shame or guilt about your food or body? Would you have more energy? Feel more sensual? Feel more confident? Would you have more access to your inner wisdom and passion in life?

Nina Manolson will talk about the real path to feeling at home in your body. And it's NOT a diet. Nina Manolson MA, NBC-HWC, helps women over 40 end their war with food and make peace with their body. As a Psychology of Eating and Holistic Health Coach she is a relationship counselor for women and their bodies.

If you haven't experienced a traumatic event in your life, then you are very lucky. However, I bet you have. You have probably experienced something that rocked your world, shook you up and made you question everything. When a trauma hits it leaves us seeking answers, relief and questioning everything. Sometimes we turn towards 'experts' that do their best to give you sound advice, however, more often than not, their answers don't work for you. Other times we cover it up, and manage trauma's affects with pills or over working, doing, and compensating. Until, finally, when all these methods cease to help you feel like yourself again you try something else. Antiqua Lisha is here with that next step, the something else, you need to transform your trauma and feel like yourself again.