"Change now, while you still can. Change now because you can, change now because it is the right thing to do. Change now because there is no right, no left, no time left, no space left. Only you. Change"

- Richard Bartlett

"Health coaches should be a part of every public clinic, medical office and hospital wellness center and should be reimbursed by insurance companies & corporate wellness programs."

~ Dr Mehmet Oz on Larry King Live

 

~ Paulo Coelho.

Dr. Carol Francis and I talk about how to stay well naturally on BlogTalkRadio:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dr-carol-francis/2011/09/19/natural-health-through-natural-interventions-w-edie-summers

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thewellnesscoach/2012/02/05/the-law-of-attraction-attracting-what-you-truly-want

Sharon Lorraine Boon is a Certified Life Coach, Reiki Master and intuitive. She is also a writer and motivational speaker. Sharon is the creator of Passage To Yourself, a company which specializes in helping people find and achieve their dreams and goals.

She is also an avid student of the healing arts and is an advocate for the mind body connection. As an intuitive medium Sharon helps people connect to their departed loved ones. She is also a teacher of the Law of Attraction and meditation. Her goal is to help people remove blocks that stop them from creating the life they want and to inspire them to go for their dreams.

She specializes in helping people find and achieve their dreams and goals.  She is a teacher of the Law of Attraction and meditation.  Her goal is to help people remove blocks that stop them from creating the life they want and to inspire them to go for their dreams. With the help of Reiki and other forms of healing, Sharon was able to reduce asthma medication, reduce stress and lose weight. 

Email: sboon@passagetoyourself.com

www.passagetoyourself.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Passage-To-Yourself/102810899766812

"Let go, let go of feeling helpless, let go of worry. Healing is a spiritual practice, an exercise in confidence, strength, and love."

~ Unknown

☮♥Peace♥☮

ONE FREE MONTH OF GROUP WELLNESS COACHING!  Learn new skills, make new friends, and change your health habits for good!   Take as many classes as you like!

Group wellness coaching teleclasses & webinars are designed to focus on YOU.  Callers will be able to "raise their hands" to ask questions.    I will then spend one-on-one time with you.   You can also listen to other people being coached and type in your questions.

What qualifies me to coach you?  I have over 15 years experience as a wellness professional, and I am a certified wellness coach.   I was trained as a coach by the Mars Venus Institute.   I am currently receiving advanced wellness coaching training through WellCoaches, connected with the Institute of Coaching, affiliated with Harvard Medical School.   I am also studying pre-med for naturopathic school.

You will be able to benefit not only from one-on-one time, but by hearing what other people are going through as well with their health goals and challenges.   You can also participate via the web and type in your questions.    People change and heal best in the presence of others.   Join the conversation and Change for Good.

Every Thursday @ 1pm PST, I offer a FREE TELECLASS (also available as a WEBINAR) on STRESS & ENERGY MANAGEMENT. Not only will you gain valuable skills about how to manage your stress and energy levels, but you will also see how group wellness coaching teleclasses operate.  You will be able to participate via the phone or the web.

Anyway, I have been focusing these last few days on all good things.  I realize that I have many blessings, whether I can see them or not.  If I can't see them, then if I maintain awareness, perhaps I can feel them.  Just walking with the wind in my hair is a blessing.  Or looking across the valley at the blue-toned peaks is a blessing.

Everyday I am grateful for my family and friends.  The warmness that I feel for the people I love is balm on my soul.  I am one blessed woman.

May you all, on our Connektwell community, feel the blessings that surround you and rejoice in them.

Almost half of us don't detoxify properly which can lead to chronic conditions such as CFS, autoimmune conditions, autism, asthma, diabetes, Parkinson's, liver conditions, Alzheimer's, cancer, kidney pain, etc.*

Glutathione is the master detoxifier. It is a major component of your immune system, key in controlling inflammation, and one of the major preventers of aging. If you are not as vital as you'd like to be, you may be low in glutathione.

Many of us do not produce enough of it, especially people with chronic conditions who may be impaired in genes involved in glutathione metabolism. How do you know if you are low in it? Get a genetic test.

Without glutathione, or without enough of it, your body cannot rid itself of environmental toxins, processed foods, etc. There are now close to 100,000 synthetic chemicals in our world, with only a fraction of them having been tested (about 7%). For vulnerable populations, the inability to detoxify properly leads to a breakdown and state in the body called oxidative stress. This state is where chronic illness begins.

How can you protect yourself? Eat more raw foods and more superfoods like wheat grass and spirulina. They naturally contain high levels of glutathione. Eat more peanut butter and sweet potatoes. Take a milk thistle formula. Exercise naturally increases glutathione levels and detoxifies your liver.

The time is now to start down a new path toward health...




be well,

The Wellness Coach
www.PortlandWellnessCoach.com


*"Glutathione: The Mother of All Antioxidants" by Mark Hyman, M.D.

I recently lost my cat.   She was the love of my life.  She has green eyes, grey fur in more shades than you can imagine, a white belly, and the most beautiful soul I've ever known.  When I first met her, it was winter time, and she used to scramble up my stairs to eat the food I had put out for her, and then scramble back down the stairs again.   She would sit on the fence across from me and silently meow at me.   She was adorable and funny from the beginning.  She was and will always be my dream cat, my soul match.
Later, she worked up the courage to come inside, tail shaking and all, and walked over to me and rubbed up against my leg.  I fell in love immediately with her warmth and grace and sweet, wild spirit.  Another time I had been out of town for almost two weeks, and when I returned, she ran across the room and leaped into my arms.    She was allergic to fleas and had the cutest sneeze ever.  She loved catnip,  two of her toy mouses, and lots of hugs.

It has been three weeks now and I don't know if she's alive or not.   Some neighbors mentioned coyotes.   I just moved into my neighborhood.  If I had know they were here, I would have never moved.   Nothing is more precious than life or your relationships with other sentient beings.  In trying to make sense out of it or make peace with it, I ran across another blog on here I wrote a few years ago:  "Gifts from the Sea."  I talk about how if you truly appreciate and enjoy the moments you have, then it doesn't matter how long they last:

"...(s)he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise."

Blake's quote finds me again, and with it peace.   My cat was my best friend.  I cannot even put into words how close our bond was and how beautiful her body and spirit were to me.   She was my angel.   She had a beautiful, wild, wise, silly spirit, and loved to be outdoors exploring or enjoying the sun.  One time she fell asleep on the top of the porch and fell off of it.

Another time, she shimmied down the tree near the porch, and sprained her leg.  She came back around to my front door, crying to be let in.  She is on another journey now.   Whether that's here or somewhere else, I don't know.   I had four blissful years with her, and I savored every moment of them.  We shared deep soul gazing, mouse chasing, and dream surfing.  The feel of her falling asleep in my arms with her soft fur bringing me untold peace, is with me forever.  Even for only a few moments of divine grace, the memory will last me a lifetime.  Shaida, you are in my heart forever...

Posted by The Wellness Coach at 1:48 PM

The pieces selected by the conductor were Requiem by John Rutter, Rejoice in the Lamb by Benjamin Breitten, and Five Mystical Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams.  I knew nothing about any of these composers, nor had I ever heard the music before.  I learned that Rutter completed his Requiem in 1985.  It has the most gorgeous Kyrie Eleison section that still haunts me many days after our performance. A soprano soloist from our local Opera Company sang the Pie Jesu, with a quiet choral commentary accompanying her.  The whole work is burned into my brain and I find that just humming sections of it causes my shoulders to go down and my breathing to slow.  I quote from John Bawden's notes: "Though it necessarily has its dark moments, Rutter's Requiem is unmistakably optimistic in its message of hope and comfort, expressed through the beauty of the chosen texts and Rutter's uplifting music.  It is not entirely surprising that after the tragic events of 9/11 it was this setting of the Requiem that was the preferred choice of music at the many memorial services which followed across the USA." 

Our second selection was Rejoice in the Lamb by Benjamin Britten.  I was prepared not to like this difficult piece, but I grew to love it.  The words are crazy.  They are taken from a lengthy poem by Christopher Smart, who happened to be in an asylum at the time he wrote the poem.  Here's what I learned.  Each creation on earth, in its own way, has the ability to appreciate blessings and beauty, and to be a blessing, and to be beautiful.  Smart talks about his cat, Jeoffry, who winds his body seven times around with elegant quickness, worshipping God and there is nothing sweeter than Joeffry's peace when at rest.  Then Smart goes on to the mouse, the flowers, and the many instruments.  Once I got the hang of this piece, I loved it.  Plus it caused me to think deeply about all creation and to rest in the knowledge that I am blessed and I can bless others in turn in many ways.

The Five Mystical Songs were written between 1906 and 1911.  The work sets to music four poems by George Herbert, from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems.  Herbert was a Welsh born English poet and Anglican priest.  I didn't get as much out of these pieces as the first two works, but they were still beautiful.  However, as our conductor, Russell McKinney, wrote "The final song "Antiphon" is a triumphant hymn of priase, repeating as its antiphon "Let all the world in every corner sing, My God and King."  It was a moving climax to the entire concert.

We had forty choir persons, five soloists from our local Opera Company, and seven instrumentalists including persons playing flute, oboe, cello, harp, glockenspiel, timpani, and organ.  Wow!  Approximately 150 people turned out for the concert.

I am deeply grateful that my neighbor knocked on  my door that night and invited me to "fill in" as a second alto.  Yes, it was worth the time to practice.  I gained so much peace of mine and shere enjoyment of the music from the experience.  I also find myself filled with hope for the future.  As a little side-bar, memorizing all of those words, especially the really fast sections in Britten about Nimrod, et al, improved my memory, I'm sure!

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Check It Out Here:

http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/270232-the-memory-of-health?chapter=346299

In short, a wellness coach helps you to achieve your health goals.  

A lot of us have health goals we are having trouble following through on.

Wellness Coaching:

Helps You Get "Unstuck"
Serves As A Source of Accountability
Helps You Achieve Your Health Goals
Gives You New Skills to Break Old Habits
Empowers, Inspires, Encourages, & Motivates You
Helps You To Stay on Track Even When You Want to Give Up
Helps You To Maximize Your Real Energy & Minimize Your Stress

A wellness coach helps you to follow through - accountability - and also helps you to break down old habits that are in your way and break through to the next level of health.

A wellness coach also helps people who are working with a healthcare practitioner to follow through on what their practitioner has recommended they do in order to get well.

A wellness coach helps you to bridge the gap between your wish or dream for yourself and the final result.

Assist

Listen

Guide

Coach

Inspire

Facilitate

Empower

~Maya Angelou

Come and meet me at The Portland Women's Show!  I'll be at The Holistic Coach-Wellness Coaching Table: T2

http://www.portlandwomenshow.com/