Coming Back to Life with Debbie O'Keefe

In this week's episode, we're going to be talking with Amy B. Scher. Amy is the bestselling and award-winning author of four books about human’ing and healing, which have been translated into 20 languages and endorsed by notable authors such as Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray Love); Vikas Swarup (Slumdog Millionaire); and Sanjiv Chopra, MD, Harvard Medical School and (Brotherhood with Deepak Chopra).

With over a decade’s experience in marketing and publishing (Harley-Davidson, State Farm, Scripps Howard News, Thrillist)—Amy has created a diverse career by seamlessly combining her skills in multiple mediums. She writes and teaches on the topics of healing, human-ing, writing, and creativity. Her groundbreaking work in mind-body healing is internationally recognized and endorsed by prominent physicians and used in medical organizations and programs nationwide. Through her books, classes, and programs, she’s helped thousands of people become their happiest, healthiest, and most expressive selves.

Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Thrillist, CBS, CNN, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Daily News, Good Morning America, National Geographic, Cosmo, Oprah Daily, and more. Amy has presented at New York Presbyterian Hospital, The New School, The Open Center in New York, 1440 Multiversity, and more. She’s proud to serve on the associate board for Literacy Partners and be a mentor for teen girls through the Girls Write Now program.

YOU'LL LEARN:

• The signs, signals, messages and gifts our symptoms offer and what they're trying to communicate to and with us.
• The balance between conventional medicine and alternative healing methods.
• Finding the balance along the way of a healing journey and slowing down the "pendulum" swinging of personal growth, healing and development.
• The power of pause and the value that comes from doing nothing.
• How "less truly is more" and the subtle and valuable differences little changes can make in your life.
• Addressing the "all or nothing" mindset and traps around healing.

GO DEEPER:

• Learn more about Amy B. Scher at https://amybscher.com/
• Work with Amy's teachings and healing techniques through her works, How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can https://amzn.to/44pwWHQ , This is How I Save My Life https://amzn.to/3AKfAYe , How to Heal Yourself from Depression When No One Else Can https://amzn.to/42gxf5L , How to Heal Yourself from Anxiety When No One Else Can https://amzn.to/3Vwu0oI

• If you’d like to learn more about me and how live a life you love and love yourself while doing it, visit me at www.debraokeefe.com to for more amazing ways we can learn and grow together.

Please join me and help me continue to make Coming Back to Life a part of your life and this world! Become a supporter by clicking on this link ⁠Coming Back to Life with Debbie O'Keefe • A podcast on Anchor⁠ to make a donation of your choice. Your donation will help me continue to bring exciting new guest and help spread their inspiring messages across the globe.  You can also show your support and help me grow this podcast by sharing your feedback, reaching out about future topics and by SHARING this podcast with others. With your help and support, we can bring our voices and energy together to create the change we want to see in the world.

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In this week's episode, we're going to be talking with Amy B. Scher. Amy is the bestselling and award-winning author of four books about human’ing and healing, which have been translated into 20 languages and endorsed by notable authors such as Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray Love); Vikas Swarup (Slumdog Millionaire); and Sanjiv Chopra, MD, Harvard Medical School and (Brotherhood with Deepak Chopra). With over a decade’s experience in marketing and publishing (Harley-Davidson, State Farm, Scripps Howard News, Thrillist)—Amy has created a diverse career by seamlessly combining her skills in multiple mediums. She writes and teaches on the topics of healing, human-ing, writing, and creativity. Her groundbreaking work in mind-body healing is internationally recognized and endorsed by prominent physicians and used in medical organizations and programs nationwide. Through her books, classes, and programs, she’s helped thousands of people become their happiest, healthiest, and most expressive selves. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Thrillist, CBS, CNN, Los Angeles Review of Books, New York Daily News, Good Morning America, National Geographic, Cosmo, Oprah Daily, and more. Amy has presented at New York Presbyterian Hospital, The New School, The Open Center in New York, 1440 Multiversity, and more. She’s proud to serve on the associate board for Literacy Partners and be a mentor for teen girls through the Girls Write Now program. YOU'LL LEARN: The signs, signals, messages and gifts our symptoms offer and what they're trying to communicate to and with us. The balance between conventional medicine and alternative healing methods. Finding the balance along the way of a healing journey and slowing down the "pendulum" swinging of personal growth, healing and development. The power of pause and the value that comes from doing nothing. How "less truly is more" and the subtle and valuable differences little changes can make in your life. Addressing the "all or nothing" mindset and traps around healing. GO DEEPER: Learn more about Amy B. Scher at https://amybscher.com/ Work with Amy's teachings and healing techniques through her works, How to Heal Yourself When No One Else Can https://amzn.to/44pwWHQ , This is How I Save My Life https://amzn.to/3AKfAYe , How to Heal Yourself from Depression When No One Else Can https://amzn.to/42gxf5L , How to Heal Yourself from Anxiety When No One Else Can https://amzn.to/3Vwu0oI If you’d like to learn more about me and how live a life you love and love yourself while doing it, visit me at www.debraokeefe.com to for more amazing ways we can learn and grow together. Please join me and help me continue to make Coming Back to Life a part of your life and this world! Become a supporter by clicking on this link ⁠Coming Back to Life with Debbie O'Keefe • A podcast on Anchor⁠ to make a donation of your choice. Your donation will help me continue to bring exciting new guest and help spread their inspiring messages across the globe.  You can also show your support and help me grow this podcast by sharing your feedback, reaching out about future topics and by SHARING this podcast with others. With your help and support, we can bring our voices and energy together to create the change we want to see in the world. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/debbie-okeefe/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/debbie-okeefe/support

Please join me and help me continue to make Coming Back to Life a part of your life and this world! Become a supporter by clicking on this link Coming Back to Life with Debbie O'Keefe • A podcast on Anchor to make a donation of your choice. Your donation will help me continue to bring exciting new guest and help spread their inspiring messages across the globe.  You can also show your support and help me grow this podcast by sharing your feedback, reaching out about future topics and by SHARING this podcast with others. With your help and support, we can bring our voices and energy together to create the change we want to see in the world.

In this week's episode, we're going to be talking with Meegan Winters. Meegan Winters is the Co-Founder of Able Eyes and AbleVu. Her experience as a special education teacher teaching students on the Autism Spectrum paired with her real-life experience of having a best friend who was a wheelchair user (now an angel) sparked the idea behind what is now a worldwide business helping people of all abilities access the community and travel with confidence and comfort through the use of virtual tours, pictures and text information in one easy-to-access free platform.

YOU'LL LEARN:

• Signs and signals that can indicate that your life is out of alignment and Meegan’s experiences with her “double life.”
• How the pressures we experience are often self-imposed and what motivates us to create and maintain these standards? 
• The authority that “the powers that be” have over our decisions and how we can be literally ripped out the places, roles, relationships and circumstances, that are keeping us from what we’re meant for.
• The value and importance of overcoming the fear of the unknown to take the risks that are necessary for us to create the lives we are meant to live and to fulfill our true purpose.

GO DEEPER:

• Learn more about Meegan Winters at https://ablevu.com and https://www.ableeyes.org/
• Lean into the support of your soul sisters and join us in the Rising Together Women's Community where you will experience the genuine connection and sense of belonging you've always wanted and need to live your best life as everything you are meant to be!  ENROLLMENT OPEN NOW! Sign up here: Rising Together Women's Community 
• If you’d like to learn more about me and how live a life you love and love yourself while doing it, visit me at www.debraokeefe.com to for more amazing ways we can learn and grow together.

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Please join me and help me continue to make Coming Back to Life a part of your life and this world! Become a supporter by clicking on this link Coming Back to Life with Debbie O'Keefe • A podcast on Anchor to make a donation of your choice. Your donation will help me continue to bring exciting new guest and help spread their inspiring messages across the globe.  You can also show your support and help me grow this podcast by sharing your feedback, reaching out about future topics and by SHARING this podcast with others. With your help and support, we can bring our voices and energy together to create the change we want to see in the world.

In this week's episode, we're going to be talking with Casey Lightbody. Casey is a business growth strategist and marketing mentor for intuitive, conscious, impact-driven women. As a seasoned entrepreneur who has scaled multi six figure companies over the last 10 years, Casey knows first-hand what it takes to create sustainable yet exponential success. After making the hard decision to close her first business, she went on to build her second in a way that feels abundant, aligned and authentic and is now dedicated to helping women embody their quiet power and scale their businesses, 100% on their terms.

YOU'LL LEARN:

• How breaking the mold and going against the status quo can help us create and live a fully aligned and authentic life?
• The risks Casey took and how "throwing it all away" helped her live a life where she could have it all.
• The incredible power introverts have to rise up and become the "quiet leaders" this world needs

GO DEEPER:

• Learn more about Casey Lightbody at Home - The Quiet Collective
• Lean into the support of your soul sisters and join us in the Rising Together Women's Community where you will experience the genuine connection and sense of belonging you've always wanted and need to live your best life as everything you are meant to be!  ENROLLMENT OPEN NOW! Sign up here: Rising Together Women's Community 
• If you’d like to learn more about me and how live a life you love and love yourself while doing it, visit me at www.debraokeefe.com to for more amazing ways we can learn and grow together.

--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/debbie-okeefe/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/debbie-okeefe/support

Please join me and help me continue to make Coming Back to Life a part of your life and this world! Become a supporter by clicking on this link Coming Back to Life with Debbie O'Keefe • A podcast on Anchor to make a donation of your choice. Your donation will help me continue to bring exciting new guest and help spread their inspiring messages across the globe.  You can also show your support and help me grow this podcast by sharing your feedback, reaching out about future topics and by SHARING this podcast with others. With your help and support, we can bring our voices and energy together to create the change we want to see in the world.

In this week's episode, we're going to be talking with Casey Lightbody. Casey is a business growth strategist and marketing mentor for intuitive, conscious, impact-driven women. As a seasoned entrepreneur who has scaled multi six figure companies over the last 10 years, Casey knows first-hand what it takes to create sustainable yet exponential success. After making the hard decision to close her first business, she went on to build her second in a way that feels abundant, aligned and authentic and is now dedicated to helping women embody their quiet power and scale their businesses, 100% on their terms.

YOU'LL LEARN:

• How breaking the mold and going against the status quo can help us create and live a fully aligned and authentic life?
• The risks Casey took and how "throwing it all away" helped her live a life where she could have it all.
• The incredible power introverts have to rise up and become the "quiet leaders" this world needs

GO DEEPER:

• Learn more about Casey Lightbody at Home - The Quiet Collective
• Lean into the support of your soul sisters and join us in the Rising Together Women's Community where you will experience the genuine connection and sense of belonging you've always wanted and need to live your best life as everything you are meant to be!  ENROLLMENT OPEN NOW! Sign up here: Rising Together Women's Community 
• If you’d like to learn more about me and how live a life you love and love yourself while doing it, visit me at www.debraokeefe.com to for more amazing ways we can learn and grow together.

--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/debbie-okeefe/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/debbie-okeefe/support

Please join me and help me continue to make Coming Back to Life a part of your life and this world! Become a supporter by clicking on this link Coming Back to Life with Debbie O'Keefe • A podcast on Anchor to make a donation of your choice. Your donation will help me continue to bring exciting new guest and help spread their inspiring messages across the globe.  You can also show your support and help me grow this podcast by sharing your feedback, reaching out about future topics and by SHARING this podcast with others. With your help and support, we can bring our voices and energy together to create the change we want to see in the world.

In this week's episode, we're going to be talking with Stephanie Scalise. As a special educator, Stephanie has always been one to help others a teacher, volunteer or neighbor. Once she was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in July of 2015, the tables turned, and her life changed forever as she found herself face-to-face with the unknown and on the receiving end of help from others. 

YOU'LL LEARN:

• How an experience such as disease or illness can bring us back to our true selves and on the path to life as we were created and intended to live it?
• Adjusting to the transition and radical transformation of being the helper to the one being helped. The necessity and power of receiving and accepting love, help and support from others.
• The cost of over giving to the point of burn-out and exhaustion, signs and signals and how we can find the balance.
• Life after diagnosis and the many changes and choices that have dramatically changed life for the better for so many.
• The power and peace that comes from giving yourself permission to say “no,” to be your own advocate, to go against “should” and to do what is best and right for you.

GO DEEPER:

• Learn more about Stephanie and how you can support others at stridesforsurvivors.org
• Order her daughter Emily's book, My Mommy Has Cancer but She's Still My Mommy here: https://amzn.to/3W68hm0
• Lean into the support of your soul sisters and join us in the Rising Together Women's Community where you will experience the genuine connection and sense of belonging you've always wanted and need to live your best life as everything you are meant to be!  ENROLLMENT OPEN NOW! Sign up here: Rising Together Women's Community 
• If you’d like to learn more about me and how live a life you love and love yourself while doing it, visit me at www.debraokeefe.com to for more amazing ways we can learn and grow together.

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Please join me and help me continue to make Coming Back to Life a part of your life and this world! Become a supporter by clicking on this link Coming Back to Life with Debbie O'Keefe • A podcast on Anchor to make a donation of your choice. Your donation will help me continue to bring exciting new guest and help spread their inspiring messages across the globe.  You can also show your support and help me grow this podcast by sharing your feedback, reaching out about future topics and by SHARING this podcast with others. With your help and support, we can bring our voices and energy together to create the change we want to see in the world.

Today, we're talking with Suzy Wood, an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach who works with women to get control of their lives, especially after a major life stressor such as divorce.  

YOU'LL LEARN:

• How your lifestyle and choices play a role in your healing and how essential it is to get your life in balance in order to heal and achieve overall continual wellness.
• How divorce or any sort of major or stressful or traumatic life-altering experience can be a blessing in disguise and help you start the life you are meant life, not end your life.
• How the power of choice and your desire for your overall wellness is absolutely essential to have the life you want most.
• What true wellness within truly means and how true wellness within yourself will determine your experience in any relationship?

GO DEEPER:

• Learn more about Suzy at www.TrueWellnessWithin.com, Divorce Detox with True Wellness Within | Facebook Instagram: truewellnesswithin, Suzanne (Siber) Wood | LinkedIn.
• Lean into the support of your soul sisters and join us in the Rising Together Women's Community where you will experience the genuine connection and sense of belonging you've always wanted and need to live your best life as everything you are meant to be!  ENROLLMENT OPEN NOW! Sign up here: Rising Together Women's Community 
• If you’d like to learn more about me and how live a life you love and love yourself while doing it, visit me at www.debraokeefe.com to for more amazing ways we can learn and grow together.

--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/debbie-okeefe/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/debbie-okeefe/support

Please join me and help me continue to make Coming Back to Life a part of your life and this world! Become a supporter by clicking on this link Coming Back to Life with Debbie O'Keefe • A podcast on Anchor to make a donation of your choice. Your donation will help me continue to bring exciting new guest and help spread their inspiring messages across the globe.  You can also show your support and help me grow this podcast by sharing your feedback, reaching out about future topics and by SHARING this podcast with others. With your help and support, we can bring our voices and energy together to create the change we want to see in the world.

In this week's episode, we're going to be talking with Starlyn Haneman. Starlyn is a wife, and mother of two daughters, living in Fort Collins, Colorado. Three years ago while suffering with anxiety, overwhelm and burnout, she quit drinking and got my life back. She is now a Wellness Coach that helps other moms do the same.

YOU'LL LEARN:

• The similarities in our journeys and speaking to the hearts and minds of any and every woman who is in any way resonating or mirror any similar experience with chronic illness, pain, depression, anxiety and addiction.
• Pain points of the women and mom shaming and how
• The turning point when Starlyn knew that what she was doing and how she was living wasn't working. Most importantly, when she realized she was responsible for her choices and to make the changes she wanted and needed in her life.
• Some of the most important things that Starlyn keeps in her focus to keep her sober and connected in her life and what can help you.

GO DEEPER:

• Learn more about Starlyn at www.wholesomerebelwellness.com
• Lean into the support of your soul sisters and join us in the Rising Together Women's Community where you will experience the genuine connection and sense of belonging you've always wanted and need to live your best life as everything you are meant to be!  ENROLLMENT OPEN NOW! Sign up here: Rising Together Women's Community 
• If you’d like to learn more about me and how live a life you love and love yourself while doing it, visit me at www.debraokeefe.com to for more amazing ways we can learn and grow together.

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Please join me and help me continue to make Coming Back to Life a part of your life and this world! Become a supporter by clicking on this link Coming Back to Life with Debbie O'Keefe • A podcast on Anchor to make a donation of your choice. Your donation will help me continue to bring exciting new guest and help spread their inspiring messages across the globe.

In this week's episode, we're going to be talking with Daniel Jackson. Daniel is an intuitive reader who uses his gifts to retrieve answers for people who feel they have lost their way spiritually and emotionally. He is also the author of The New Beginning My Awakening as a Spirit Medium.

YOU'LL LEARN:

• A new perspective and definition of intuition and the different ways we receive guidance.
• The power of intuition and how to recognize the signs and guidance that is within us.
• What truly living means and what "worth" truly means for us?
• Find clarity in the confusion about what life is meant for and where we are meant to find the answers we are seeking.

You can also show your support and help me grow this podcast by sharing your feedback, reaching out about future topics and by SHARING this podcast with others. With your help and support, we can bring our voices and energy together to create the change we want to see in the world.

GO DEEPER:

• Learn more about Daniel at https://spiritmediumdaniel.com/ and in his book, The New Beginning My Awakening as a Spirit Medium available for purchase here: https://amzn.to/3WdYdbm
• Lean into the support of your soul sisters and join us in the Rising Together Women's Community where you will experience the genuine connection and sense of belonging you've always wanted and need to live your best life as everything you are meant to be!  ENROLLMENT OPEN NOW! Sign up here: Rising Together Women's Community 
• If you’d like to learn more about me and how live a life you love and love yourself while doing it, visit me at www.debraokeefe.com to for more amazing ways we can learn and grow together.

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In this week's episode, we're going to be talking with my dear friend and soul sister, Rev. Nicole Hanley. Rev. Nicole originally hails from Syracuse, New York. She attended Cornell University where she graduated with a B.A. in History in 2001 with a focus on the intersections between modern European history and post-modern religious thought. For the past 20 years, she made her home in the Bronx working in her first career as a marketing professional in academic publishing. After discerning a call to the priesthood, Rev. Nicole attended the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary in New York City where she concentrated in Anglican Studies. She graduated with her M.Div. in May 2022 where she was granted two awards for future work in parish ministry.  Rev. Nicole was ordained to the diaconate in March 2022 and was ordained to the priesthood in September 2022 in the Diocese of New York. Rev. Nicole is grateful to be serving the communities of St. Andrew's and St. Francis of Assisi in Walden and Montgomery, NY.

YOU'LL LEARN:

• What it TRULY means to live authentically and to have a genuine spiritual connection with a higher source?
• How some of the many myths and misconceptions created by organized religion has created spiritual disconnect in our lives?
• The most important thing we all need to know in order to live a fully aligned life with integrity and genuine love.

Would you like to be a part of helping Coming Back to Life continue to grow? Become a supporter by clicking on this link Coming Back to Life with Debbie O'Keefe • A podcast on Anchor to make a donation of your choice. Your donation will help me continue to bring exciting new guest and help spread their inspiring messages across the globe?

You can also show your support and help me grow this podcast by sharing your feedback, reaching out about future topics and by SHARING this podcast with others. With your help and support, we can bring our voices and energy together to create the change we want to see in the world.

GO DEEPER:

• Lean into the support of your soul sisters and join us in the Rising Together Women's Community where you will experience the genuine connection and sense of belonging you've always wanted and need to live your best life as everything you are meant to be!  ENROLLMENT OPEN NOW! Sign up here: Rising Together Women's Community 
• If you’d like to learn more about me and how live a life you love and love yourself while doing it, visit me at www.debraokeefe.com to for more amazing ways we can learn and grow together.

--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/debbie-okeefe/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/debbie-okeefe/support