CoreBrain Journal

Combat Stress - Misunderstood & Mistreated

Of the 2.4 million U.S. troops, who have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, 30% return home with post-traumatic stress due to combat related stress and more than 320,000 suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI). Many more are misdiagnosed or are not diagnosed at all. Troops who are exposed to PTSD in the form of high levels of stress and anxiety during combat are more likely to withdraw, engage in substance abuse, show signs of depression, or even commit suicide after returning home. Twenty-two veterans commit suicide every day. Simply drugging our troops is not the solution.

~ Bart Billings

Combat Stress Complexity - Detailed By Dr. Bart Billings

In this interesting interview, Dr. Billings tells explicit details about his profoundly informed and moving experience regarding the evaluation and treatment of combat stress, as based upon years of dealing with the complexity of wounded warriors, returning vets. From direct frontline experience as a clinical psychologist in charge of significant PTSD and TBI programs, both on active duty and following as a civilian to the present day, Dr. Billings is one of the singular most knowledgeable medical professionals in the country - and he's opinionated.

He has repeatedly witnessed the added traumatic effects of imprecise medical care for vets - it's a serious problem nationally. 

His mission: Combat Stress includes a variety of issues, a complexity overlooked with many identifiable contributions, each with specific treatment protocols. In this interview and his book, Invisible Scars, he clearly outlines necessary treatment improvements for returning vets - indeed stress-arrest at any level. 

Ed Note: It's a new year, and this topic is as urgent for our nation as it was when first published two years ago. Dr. Billings is one of the worlds leading authorities on Combats Stress and recovery - and as you will see if this is your first connection with him - quite opinionated about necessary next steps.

Buckle Up 

From his beginnings with a Jesuit College philosophy of serving others, he entered a career helping others as a Clinical Psychologist with 34 years of active military service. In 1975 he became aware of the poor services provided for veterans in mental health, and for the past 41 years, he dedicated his life's work to help these deserving vets. Dr. Billings' best-selling book, Invisible Scars, How To Treat Combat Stress And PTSD Without Medication, is linked here and below.

Invisible Scars will add to any therapist's understanding of trauma treatment throughout one's lifetime.

Listen Here To His First Experience - [spp-timestamp time="4:08"]

Special Note: 23 years ago Dr. Billings founded the International Military & Civilian Combat Stress Conference, the largest most powerful conference designed to evolve more comprehensive diagnostic and treatment strategies for vets.

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Must Check Out Our Full CBJ Combat Stress Episode List

Here: http://corebrainjournal.com/vets

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Personal Note

This guy pulls no punches with the same ineffective diagnosis and inadequate treatment I've also witnessed with second opinions at our

ASD Mastery: Learning Resources for Developmental Delay

Angie Angie Mahoney, M.Ed., is currently a special education case manager at Rogers Park Middle School in Danbury, Connecticut. Angie has worked on ASD mastery with students of all ages in a variety of settings for the past thirteen years. Her career includes tenure at a private school where she worked with over seventy-five middle school and high school-aged students on a weekly basis, running an inclusion-based elementary program for students with autism, as well as co-teaching core academic classes as part of a team comprised of fellow middle school educators.

Angie's Evolution

"When I began teaching in 2001, I had just graduated college with a degree in Intensive Needs Special Education from Lesley University. I was truly excited to begin my teaching career and thrilled to accept my first teaching job as a Pre Vocational Teacher at Cotting School, a private, nonprofit school in Lexington, Massachusetts. I knew that Cotting School offered a unique opportunity for growth and knowledge, all the more so given the exceptional group of students and staff with whom I would work.

I could not wait to begin.

I led a program through which I would see ten different groups of students, ranging from ten to twenty-one years of age, two times a week, for class periods of forty-five minutes each. My role, regarding their objectives for ASD mastery, was to teach them prevocational skills in the classroom setting. When the first month of school began, I quickly realized that in order for each and every one of my students to succeed vocationally, I needed to problem solve and plan a strong program to meet the many needs of the students.

The program in place at the Cotting School offered a small range of prevocational activities with little organization of materials, few modifications, and limited tracking of student progress. I struggled to connect the existing prevocational activities (such as sorting colored rubber bands) to real-world job environments and sought to make each activity meaningful versus the "routine" of mere task completion."

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She Made Changes

"I found myself wondering, how I could make each and every student feel both challenged and successful while learning crucial skills for their future? I began to look around my new classroom and truly explore the possibilities. I spied an array of materials one would find in an office setting: pencils, staplers, paper, paperclips, etc. That got me really thinking not just about the current age of my students but also more towards the time they would graduate.

What jobs would they apply for? Where would they hope to volunteer? I literally pictured the stores and job opportunities in the surrounding town, and it all started to connect. As I wrote out my list of places of employment (e.g., offices, grocery stores, florists, farms, retail stores), I started to see a pattern that then transformed into the I Can Work! modules: Clerical, Retail, Food Service, and Grocery. Creating a range of modules allowed me to focus on each vocational area one at a time and determine which jobs fell under each category."

Her Mission for ASD Mastery

"I wanted to know for certain that every student, with his or her individual challenges, would have access to each area of specialization and all that it had to offer for prevocational learning. I began breaking each unit into time frames and allowing each activity to connect and build on one another, as a slow progression geared specifically for each...

Biofilm and Candida Create Treatment Failure

Dr. Rachel Fresco, L. Ac. Ph. D. is the founder and chief formulator for Bio-Botanical Research. In 1989 Dr. Fresco began looking for ways to improve GI health and address systemic infections. One of the results of this research is her development of Biocidin®, a broad spectrum botanical formulation. This formula is recognized by many major diagnostic labs, clinicians, and authors as one of the most useful products for addressing difficult and resistant biofilm-relevant clinical presentations, such as candida. Women know candida as that vaginal yeast infection, and knowledgeable practitioners know it as the overlooked fungus that creates brain fog, depression, exhaustion, and "ADHD."

Dr. Fresco presents lectures internationally at medical conferences and shares her research on the topics of biofilms, the link between GI dysbiosis and systemic inflammation, and the use of plant-based medicines in clinical practice. Her remarks on the clinical challenges with biofilm will change your perspective on several clinical mysteries.

Ed Note: This is a replay, published earlier and republished here because it was so well received previously. Dr. Fresco is making a difference and she tells you how you can begin to understand the importance of Candida on the brain and biomedical dysfunction. At CorePsych Treatment Systems we use this product regularly, and always experience more improvements than when previously missing the relevance of biofilm and used treatments with only conventional antifungals.

Biocidin isn't the only candida product out there. However, many who dig deeper for clinical answers for treatment failure repeatedly praise it - for the reasons we discuss in this interview.

My Favorite Clinical Question: #2

If you follow our discussions with guests here at CBJ you've heard me address this issue repeatedly - "How many times a day do you go #2?" No, I'm not trying to become a gastroenterologist. My end target is the mind, not the gut. Sorry to sound so defensive, but I can assure you there is a reason - many reasons - as other territorial docs don't consider the significance of these medically relevant connections - and I am a psychiatrist, so you can imagine how that chatter goes.

It is necessary to remind folks: I'm a brain function professional looking for answers that cripple brain function, feelings and thinking. Cognition and affect just-don't-work-right with destructive #2 problems¹ - brain functions do become unpredictable in spite of psychotherapy and meds. And, even more importantly, medication treatments become almost impossible when bowel and downstream liver compromises pollute the traditional psychiatric medical care process. Meds must first pass through the body to arrive in the brain. [Transit Time Tool for cost-effective home evaluation of bowel function - Mayo Clinic at Pub Med Transit Time Reference - PDF Here]

Candida and its protective biofilm change gut function, contribute to malabsorption and directly affect brain function.

Biofilm Downstream From Candida Creates Treatment Failure

Candida is one of the most prominent challenges that traditional medical folk think is quackery. They believe that it's quackery for one simple reason: they limit their targets to only bowel function, life-and-death acuity, not chronic brain...

Neurohacker Insights For Brain Systems

Complex and whole systems science, combined with exponentially increasing computational power, is about to pour light over our previously resigned expectations of just feeling "OK." The silver bullet mentality is a broken mentality in every area.

- Daniel Schmachtenberger

Beyond Reductionistic Thinking - Into Systems Complexity

This interview with Daniel Schmachtenberger, my friends, of more than 80 Episodes now, is directly targeted, in critical concordance, with our overall philosophy and mission objectives here at CBJ. If you're new here, you'll love him and his Neurohacker insights. If you're an old timer [!] with us since launching last April, you will love it. If you remain perplexed about the interface between neuroscience and street utility, be prepared for inclusive, actionable thinking. Daniel is amazing, with articulate insights on the evolution of mind science.

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a consummate polymath with a background in systems science and human behavior and is the founder of the Emergence Project. He is the anchor of the scientific team at Neurohacker and provides sustained vision and informed for the larger Neurohacking movement.

Ed Note: This is a replay, published earlier and republished here because it was so well received previously. Daniel makes a difference - and he tells you how you can connect on a deeply nutrient level with these outstanding protocols for brain health and cognitive improvements.

Complexity, Reality & Neurohacker Insights

After accumulating comprehensive inventories on behavioral influence, coupled with an already widespread literacy of complex systems and whole systems science, he then founded The Emergence Project to begin working with a host of luminaries to tackle global-scale problems with global-scale solutions. Concurrently, he researched the epistemological frontier of neuroscience, delving deeply into integrative medicine as well as emergent neurotech tools and psychological techniques to optimize solutions on both sides of the mind/brain interface.

Mind science evolution provides a metaphor for the evolution of humankind.

Neurohacker Ideas are Timely - Daniel's Overview:

"In many ways, our contemporary technical prowess works against us. Yes, we have access to a level of information that would have seemed like pure magic to folks even a few centuries ago. But this doesn’t come for free – our always-on, connected-info lifestyle immerses us in a barrage of demands on our attention and processing power. Even at their best, our poor hominid brains are overwhelmed by the pings and buzzes of social media.

And we are not positioning ourselves to be at our best. Consider, for example, real nutrition. For hundreds of thousands of years, our tool using hunter-gatherer ancestors had access to food that provided a vast diversity of nutrients from topsoil that was robust and healthy and part of a whole, complex biologic system, without actually any toxicity in the environment. These days most of our food is produced, processed and transported in a complex soup of chemistry that we don’t come close to fully understanding.

Neurohacker Insights Beyond Nutrition

And even if we eat the healthiest food, which most of us don’t even come close to, even the very healthiest food grows in minerally-depleted soil that leaves our needs unmet.

Or consider pollution and our toxic environment. We spend much of our time indoors, not getting enough vitamin D and breathing in a host of volatile organic...

Read, Lead and Succeed - Imperative Family Notes

Dr. Danny Brassell - Affectionately known as “Jim Carrey with a Ph.D.,” Dr. Danny Brassell (www.DannyBrassell.com) has held numerous titles and worked with leaders from a variety of fields and disciplines, but he has always considered himself first and foremost a teacher.

He is a best-selling author of 15 books, including The Reading Makeover, based on his popular TEDx talk. Thousands, from school districts to businesses to association conferences, have enjoyed his energetic, interactive and informative presentations on how to read and lead.

He Loves To Teach How To Read & Lead

He has spoken to over 2,000 different audiences worldwide and is the co-founder of the world’s top reading engagement system for struggling and reluctant readers, www.ReadBetterin67Steps.com.

Ed Note: This is a replay, published earlier and republished here because it was so well received previously. Danny is making a big difference, and he tells you how you can learn more about the lifetime value of his outstanding reading protocols.

For CoreBrain Journal Listeners: Read & Lead

Check This Out! - "As a thank you for letting me appear as your guest, and as an add-on for your listeners, I’d like to supply everyone with a complimentary e-copy of my book Read, Lead & Succeed, available at www.ReadLeadandSucceed.com. - I’m on a mission to help people succeed by building their love of reading. - Let me know how I can further serve your audience."

Own This Interview

I'll tell you straight up - I love this guy. Read and lead is for your home, your family, and you - must listen.

Dr. Brassell provides remarkably useful reading development tips and presents details in such an interesting way. Now I'm trying to read to my grandchildren long distance! Take Dr. Brassell up on this offer, his insights are researched, useful and exceedingly interesting. Then forward this link to everyone you know http://corebrainjournal.com/253

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Links

• The Reading Makeover - Brassell, Professional Resources - Global Amazon Link
• http://www.DannyBrassell.com/
• http://ReadLeadandSucceed.com/ 
• http://www.readbetterin67steps.com/

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Dr. Brassell On TEDx

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Multiple Additional CBJ Experts on Life Mastery

• These Mindset Experts: http://corebrainjournal.com/mindset
• Family & Teen Experts: http://corebrainjournal.com/teen
• Relationship Experts: http://corebrainjournal.com/relationships
• Life Mapping for Improved Travels -

Brain Healing - You Can Fix Your Brain

Dr. Tom O'Bryan DC, CNN, DACBN Internationally acclaimed expert on the mind-gut connection, brain healing, and a previous guest at CBJ/005 on Specific Non-Celiac Gluten Markers, at CBJ/061 on his book, the AutoImmune Fix,  and is, for this CBJ Episode, the author of You Can Fix Your Brain: Just 1 Hour a Week to the Best Memory, Productivity, and Sleep You've Ever Had - 2018. 

Regarding brain healing Tom is always a must listen, on the cutting edge of mind exploration, a remarkable teacher, unpretentious - and just a delightful guy. Listen up and own this one. 

Ed Note: This is a replay, published earlier and republished here because it was so well received previously. These brain insights make a difference and Dr. O'Bryan tells you how you can connect for more training at his website.

Tom Relentlessly Teaches On Mind, Gut, Immunity, Brain Healing & Brain Health

He organized the popular Gluten Summit in November 2013 that has changed the diagnostic game regarding Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity. Dr. O'Bryan has more than 30 years of experience as a functional medicine practitioner and is adjunct faculty at the Institute for Functional Medicine.

He's the host of The Autoimmune Summit, his video training series on how to identify and correct autoimmunity.

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Dr. O'Bryan's Book & Websites 

• You Can Fix Your Brain: Just 1 Hour a Week to the Best Memory, Productivity, and Sleep You've Ever Had - 2018 - O'Bryan
• The Autoimmune Summit Free 7 Part Series - 85 Experts With Video Explanations - This link complimentary link, a gift from Dr. O'Bryan to turn chronic illness around.
• http://thedr.com
• YouTube Channel
• Become a Certified Gluten Practitioner

More:

• CBJ Experts on Biomedical Testing: http://corebrainjournal.com/testing
• CBJ Experts on Mindset For Your Journey: http://corebrainjournal.com/mindset
• Cognition, Longevity & The Rainbow Diet: http://corebrainjournal.com/213
• CBJ: The Varieties of Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity: 

ART: Accelerated Resolution Therapy & PTSD

Kelly Breeding is a clinical social worker with extensive experience in building community partnerships, non-profit leadership, fundraising, and program development. Ms. Breeding’s clinical practice has afforded her the opportunity to provide Accelerated Resolution Therapy Resouces with diverse populations - with a specialization in trauma and life transitions as well as providing community outreach for at-risk individuals and families.

Ed Note: This is a replay, published earlier at CBJ/205 and republished here because it was so well received previously. These folks are making a difference and Kelly tells you how you can connect on a training or therapy level with these outstanding protocols for a more speedy resolution of traumatic arrest.

Ms. Breeding earned her B.A. in Communications and Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of South Florida and has been trained in mindfulness-based therapies and applied behavior analysis. Ms. Breeding maintains a strong conviction for working with individuals involved in systems of care that face challenges throughout the context of their lives.

Her Role In Accelerated Resolution Therapy International

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In February 2016, Ms. Breeding was selected to be the Executive Director of ART International Training and Research, Inc. where she oversees all policies and procedures and strategic and operational responsibility for ART International’s programs, expansion, and execution of its mission.

Kelly's interesting reportage here at CBJ amplifies on the already interesting and comprehensive ART overview rendered by Dr. Kevin Kip at CBJ/201 and both conversations are strongly recommended for both clients and those wishing to take more advanced training.

Kelly's observations are, in a word, inspirational. Must listen!

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Ed Note: Kelly discusses the multiple national training and resource centers for ART training and treatment services. If you would like to access either treatment or training, she discusses how and why for their remarkably predictive results at ART International - for those stuck alone, out on the road of life, with no pathway home.

Further, this posting is a republication of her earlier commentary as we here at CBJ know that ART is an important step forward for trauma survivors at every level - from combat to unbalanced relationships. Listen up as Kelly points out easy next steps.

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References & Website - Of special note here: "Brief" appears effective.

1. Website: https://artherapyinternational.org/
2. Kip KE, Elk CA, Sullivan KL, Kadel R, Lengacher CA, Long CJ, Rosenzweig L, Shuman A, Hernandez DF, Street JD, Girling SA, Diamond DM. Brief treatment of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by use of Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART). Behavioral Sciences 2012; 2(2): 115-134. PMID: 23482431
3. Kip KE, Sullivan KL, Lengacher CA, Rosenzweig L, Hernandez DF, Kadel R, Kozel FA, Shuman A, Girling SA, Hardwick MJ, Diamond DM. Brief treatment of co-occurring...

Advanced Life Design For Healthcare Evolution

Kyra Bobinet, MD MPH. CEO & Founder, engagedIN - "My goal is to serve the health of whole populations of people, and challenge them and myself to live healthy fulfilling lives; physically, mentally, and spiritually...to be engaged in healthcare evolution."

Expertise: Behavior Neuroscience, Design Thinking, Mindfulness, Behavior Change, Patient Engagement, Population health management, Healthcare Innovation/ Technology-based Medicine, Workplace Well-being/Culture, Human development (multi-cultural), Product Design, Brand personality design, Neuroscience-based market research, and Clinical study design.

Take a moment to consider her outstanding qualifications. 'Maven' is an understatement. She's on it.

When it comes to healthcare evolution and engagement, Dr. Bobinet has five words of advice: be caring, authentic, and useful. As the CEO-founder of engagedIN, Kyra devotes her life to helping people crack the code of how, what, and primarily, WHY we engage.

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Neuroscience Directs Her Larger Mission

Kyra has founded several healthcare start-ups, spanning behavior health, population health, and mobile health. She has designed behavior change programs, big data algorithms, billion-dollar products, mobile health apps, and evidence-based studies in mind-body and metabolic medicine. All of her designs, whether for at-risk teens or seniors, are rooted in the belief that true caring is our most significant value.

Dr. Bobinet teaches at Stanford School of Medicine on patient engagement and empowerment, and health design with Dr. Larry Chu, founder of MedicineX. She has studied in Dr. BJ Fogg’s Persuasive Tech Lab at Stanford, whom she credits as the founder of “behavior design”.

NB: You will love her honest, insightful remarks about the evolving coalescence of neuroscience and patient care.

The Websites, Books, And Connections

• Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science & Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy, & Purposeful Life - 2015 - Bobinet
• drkyrabobinet.com |  www.engagedin.com
• Podcast: InspireNation
• Twitter: @DrKyraBobinet
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engagedindesign/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/engagedindesign/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyrabobinet/

Additional CBJ Expert Connections

• CBJ Experts on Mindset - http://corebrainjournal.com/mindset
• CBJ Experts on Children & Family - http://corebrainjournal.com/family
• CBJ Experts on Autism & Family - http://corebrainjournal.com/autism
• Wellness From Vision To Reality -...

Growing Happy, Emotionally Healthy Kids

Maureen Healy, Ph.D. is an international speaker, award-winning author, and an expert in the field of growing emotionally healthy kids. Her first book, Growing Happy Kids, won the Nautilus and Reader's Favorite Book Awards in 2014. She also writes a popular blog for Psychology Today, which has reached millions of parents and teachers worldwide. Tal Ben-Shahar, a former Harvard University lecturer, said, "Read this book, and read it again, and - more importantly - apply it" regarding Maureen's new book, The Emotionally Healthy Child.

Special Skills

Unique about Maureen is her in-depth training in child development, and the how of happiness, which has combined to provide her a unique perspective. Maureen understands children from the inside out and is uniquely skilled at guiding them -- and the adults who care for them -- on the how of becoming emotionally healthy and ultimately, happier.

National Authority

Sharing her expertise, Maureen's work has appeared across all media outlets including: PBS, Scholastic, Highlights, Forbes, YPO, Huffington Post, CW's San Diego Living, ABC's View from the Bay, Chicago Tribune, Southampton Press, Martha Stewart Living Radio Network, NYU's "About Our Children" and more worldwide outlets (UK, Ireland, Australia, China, for example).

Beyond A Drill: Growing Happy, Emotionally Healthy Kids

Based in Santa Barbara, California, Maureen continues to work with clients directly, while also traveling to speaking engagements worldwide. Along with 15+ years of experience, Maureen grounds her insight with traditional credentials including a BA and MBA from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts along with completing her Ph.D. coursework in Child Clinical Psychology from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara. As an avid learner and teacher, Maureen seeks to grow from every person she meets and experience she has. "Life is never boring," she says. The Emotionally Healthy Child by Maureen Healy - Pub date: October 9, 2018

It's Show Time For These Challenges

While growing up has never been easy, today's world undeniably presents kids and their parents with unprecedented challenges - and with the National Institute of Mental Health reporting that 25 percent of children experience anxiety and 14 percent have a mood disorder. National Public Radio recently shared that as many as five million public school students have mental-emotional issues such as depression and anxiety, the release of her new book The Emotionally Healthy Child: Helping Your Child Calm, Center, and Make Smarter Choices (2018) is timely indeed.

Healy Heals With A Plan

In The Emotionally Healthy Child, Healy explains that emotional health is the ability to make better choices, even when feeling anger or another big emotion. She describes that the ability to — Stop, Calm, and Make a Smarter Choice — is key to expressing emotions constructively. While not always easy, these steps are powerful, and Healy shows readers exactly how to implement them so they can help children find equilibrium at the moment and build emotional well-being over the long-term.

Game On: Healy Loves Both Healthy Solutions & Practice

We review these self-management issues in our discussion, and timed the topic perfectly for the Holidays!

Healy gives adults the ideas and real-life strategies they need to raise emotionally healthy children. Her book delves deeply into what children need to know, what children need to do, and what speeds up the process of emotional health. It also includes a toolbox full of mindfulness tools designed to help readers...

Dualistic Thinking, Relationships, and Nondual Wisdom

 Lynn Marie Lumiere, MFT is a seasoned psychotherapist, author, and teacher with a focus on transforming issues at their source by using principles of nondual wisdom to dissolve the belief in separation that creates and sustains arguable differences. She is dedicated to awakening consciousness and meeting life’s challenges as doorways to greater freedom. Her work is sourced in over 40 years of dedicated spiritual and psychological exploration as well as almost 30 years of marriage and practicing psychotherapy.

Ed. Note: My favorite word for this type of connected perceptions/thinking is synesthetic - and different from perceptions more diacritic. [Discussed in more detail in my first book Deep Recovery - 1992.]

Nondual Wisdom

She is a contributing author to The Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy (2003; co-author (with John Lumiere-Wins) of The Awakening West: Evidence of a Spreading Enlightenment (2000) and author of Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationship. She lives in Grass Valley, California.

You will love how her interesting, deeper insights connect with every day relationship issues.

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Website, Books, And Connections:

• Awakened Relating: A Guide to Embodying Undivided Love in Intimate Relationships - Lumiere - 2018
• The Awakening West - Conversations With Todays New Western Spiritual Leaders - Lumiere & Lumiere-Winns - 2003
• https://www.lynnmarielumiere.com
• https://www.facebook.com/AwakenedRelating/
• The Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy - Lumiere a Contributing Author - 2000
• Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yoganananda - Reprint 1998 - Selected as "One of the 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century", Autobiography of a Yogi has been translated into more than 30 languages and is regarded worldwide as a classic of religious literature. Several million copies have been sold, and it continues to appear on best-seller lists after more than sixty consecutive years in print. [I read Yogananda's Autobiography around 1966 -"Interesting" doesn't cover his experience.]

Additional CBJ Connections

• CBJ Experts on Mindset -