Mind Body Spirit Living Podcast

This Week's Show Archives - Mind Body Spirit Living The last time you intended to clean out a closet, get back in the gym, or reach out to an old friend but did not get it done, what was the reason you told yourself about why this wasn’t the right time to do it?  Often we find that we use or even create big and small distractions that keep us from doing the things that we really intended to do.  We can call it procrastination or a lack of motivation, but either way, it keeps us from realizing our goals and vision for ourselves.  How can we finally bridge the gap between our intentions and our actions, and get motivated to act?  Join us this week as our guest provides insight on habits that we should consider replacing in our daily routine to help us overcome the internal and external obstacles to achieving our dreams. Markus Kasunich is a frequent guest on the Mind Body Spirit Living show, sharing his breadth of knowledge about achieving personal potential with our audience.  He has been studying

This Week's Show Archives - Mind Body Spirit Living It is one of the few things we ALL do…..age!  Since we only have the chance to do it once, it’s not always easy to know which habits are key to aging well and enjoying the later years of a vibrant life.  Rather than learning in the moment, there are things you can think about NOW that can prepare you to transition smoothly through the aging process.  This week our guest shares her insights from her years of work as a psychologist focused on what being older looks and feels like.  She’ll share what she thinks is key to enjoying the journey of aging well. Deborah Heiser, PhD is the Founder and CEO of I.M.AGE Institute. The I.M.AGE Institute works to redefine the image of age through inspiring profiles of meaning, mentoring and making a difference. Deborah holds a degree in Applied Developmental Psychology from Fordham University, with a specialty in redefining what being older looks and feels like.  She has a 20 year track record of award-winning

This Week's Show Archives - Mind Body Spirit Living There are many dimensions to being “healthy”, and committing to prioritizing aspects of our health is often part of the beginning of a  new year. Though each individual plan will differ, there are some universal habits that, when incorporated into a regular routine, can contribute to overall health.  What are these habits that we should be claiming as part of our “habit refresh”?  Our guest this week is a Chiropractor who takes a holistic view of the health of his patients, and focuses on all the ways to help them make small changes that can bring more focus to their health and wellness. Tune in as we get inspired to bring new habits into our lives in the new year! Dr. Scott Sheriff was born and raised in Racine, Wisconsin. After living for a time in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and Chicago, he returned to Racine to be closer to his family. On sunny afternoons, you might find him running the paths along the lakefront, walking his dog, local parks or h

Centering Habits for Mind and Body with Jessika Mikol - 2-4-17 - Mind Body Spirit Living Remember the way you felt as you wrapped up your most recent relaxing vacation? Don’t you wish the feelings of fulfillment, peace and calm could last forever? Though the stress and pace of everyday life can often keep us from experiencing those levels of relaxation all the time, it IS possible to dip into that calming energy with a shift in habits. What can we do each day that can bring us to a more centered place, in our minds and bodies? Join us this week for a discussion with a yoga teacher and Ayurvedic chef who incorporates many of these habits and practices into her daily life and shares her advice on how you too can slowly shift toward balance. Jessika Mikol loves practicing and sharing the philosophy and habits of Yoga and Ayurveda with people of all ages. She is certified in Hatha Yoga and Aerial Yoga with Yoga Alliance and has a Masters in Living Ayurveda from yogahealer.com. Jessika has been teaching

This Week's Show Archives - Mind Body Spirit Living We begin a new series of discussions this week, focusing on refreshing our perspective on some of the habits that are a part of our daily life that might be getting in the way of the overall health of our mind, body and spirit.  Once we bring awareness to some of those habits, we have the opportunity to make a change and replace those habits with new ones that can lead us to more balance and joy. Join us as we dig deep into 2017 as our guests highlight their recommendations for what habits we should look at rejecting in our lives, and what we should instead look to embrace in order to lead a happier, healthier life. As we look closer at habits that might benefit from a refresh, our communication habits are a great place to start.  Is your written communications style current, and will it represent you in a way that enhances your reputation? Or are there details you might have become less diligent about, that are worth adding to your refreshed hab

Stories of War and Peace with David Sanchez - 1-21-17 - Mind Body Spirit Living As we head into the new year of 2017, we face the challenge of a country divided by contentious elections on the local, state and national level.  Though the United States has faced times of internal challenge throughout its history, each generation faces it with belief in the hope for unity.  For guidance, we can look to other countries that have come through times of national conflict and even war, with a plan for resolution and peace that respects the voices of all those deeply invested in the conflict. What can we learn from how other countries have come through times of war, to create an environment of peace and respect?  This week we speak with a guest who has traveled the world speaking with some of the key voices of peacemaking in war-torn countries like Bosnia, Israel, and Africa.  How can we have a mindset of cooperation and a perspective of peace as we work to heal the country for all? David Sanchez graduated

In Pursuit of Stories with Ted Perry - 1-14-17 - Mind Body Spirit Living Stories are often a topic on the Mind Body Spirit Living show……the stories we tell ourselves and remarkable stories of well-known and everyday people who inspire us.  This week we speak with a journalist who has had the opportunity to share stories of breaking news, unique events, and inspiring individuals.  He’ll share what fuels his passion for seeking out authentic and compelling stories, and what makes a story worth telling. Ted Perry was born and raised in Wilmette, Illinois before moving to Baraboo, Wisconsin.  He showed an interest in journalism early in his life, starting his high school newspaper, and continuing to write for the college newspaper while studying journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ted joined FOX6 when it was the Milwaukee CBS affiliate in 1993. He has worked every news shift, and now anchors FOX6 News at 5 and FOX6 News at 10. Ted also writes a daily opinion piece called “Ted’s Take”, a

Don't Feed the Stories with Markus Kasunich - 1-7-17 - Mind Body Spirit Living In our exploration of “The Stories We Tell Ourselves”, we have heard our guests emphasize that often we can make a situation more complicated or dramatic through our stories.  As we wrap up our discussions on this topic, we turn to frequent guest Markus Kasunich to look closer at why we have a tendency to “feed” these stories that we know are either untrue, or tend to fuel our emotions.  Just as it says outside the exhibits at the zoo, we need to all learn to “not feed the stories”. Markus Kasunich is Holistic Life & Consciousness Coach, Spiritual teacher, Healer, and Professional Speaker whose key focus is helping clients reveal the unlimited potential of their True Self. He offers private sessions, online coaching, and facilitates retreats, events and classes. Markus was born in Canada and studied psychology and alternative healing at York University in Toronto and Natural Health Consultants in Montreal, Quebec. He

The Energy Your Stories Steal with Linda Bell - 12-31-16 - Mind Body Spirit Living Creating stories about the people and events around us takes a lot of creativity, time and energy……energy that can take our attention away from our work, our family, and our free time.  When our lives are so busy already, how can we be more mindful of the time that we might be spending creating and telling ourselves stories about the circumstances around us?  This week we speak with a licensed therapist who shares her insights on how we can refocus our energy. Linda Bell is a licensed independent clinical social worker and a member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree at St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, and her Masters in Social Work at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Linda specializes in many areas of therapy including:  marriage, couples, families, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, stress management, post traumatic stress disorder, abuse (sexual, physical, e

Rethinking Family Stories with Barry Krost - 12-24-16 - Mind Body Spirit Living We all grow up hearing and telling the stories of our family’s history and traditions.  Those stories can carry on legacies that can be helpful to future generations, but also can perpetuate stories based in pain and misunderstanding. Often the stories leave out the deeper truths about what happened allowing old patterns to be repeated in each generation.  Siblings raised in the same household can have very different experiences of the same events, creating confusion and distortion that can fuel challenging emotions as the stories get repeated over and over. Siblings often get entangled in their parent’s marriage, creating conflicts that do not belong to them. How do we live with and reconcile the stories we hear from and about our family, how do we find our proper place in the narrative, so that we can be rooted in the tradition in a healthy way? Barry Krost has been exploring body, mind and spirit as a Bodywork &

This Week's Show Archives - Mind Body Spirit Living The relationships with those we are most intimately linked can have some of the powerful highs and lows of emotions.  When we experience these strong feelings, it can lead us to create stories that we think can explain, justify, or rationalize another’s thoughts or behaviors.  But these stories we tell ourselves can also exaggerate untruths about another, and only make challenging circumstances and mis-communications worse!  How can we learn to be more aware of our tendency to create untrue or misleading stories that harm our relationships? Our guest this week shares her best advice from her many years as a licensed marriage and family therapist. Mary Steege is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a certified Internal Family Systems therapist, and a pastor in the Presbyterian Church, USA. Currently in private practice at the Therapy House in Racine, WI, she has also served as a parish pastor and a hospital and hospice chaplain. Mary is a mem

Staying Present and Faithful with Kristie Zahn - 12-10-16 - Mind Body Spirit Living In times of stress, chaos and crisis, our minds can create stories that feed our fear, and pull us away from our need to be focused in the moment.  We can ask ourselves “Why did this happen?”, “What does the future hold?”, and build narratives that feed what can become an overwhelming wave of emotion.   How can we work to avoid creating stories in these moments, so that we can use our energy toward finding some peace, resolve or resolution?  This week we speak with a guest who works side by side with people who are at difficult and challenging times in their life who will share her thoughts on how she guides people in those sacred moments. Kristie Zahn spent over 20 years as a Human Resources Executive in non-profit, academic, and profit-based companies.  A car accident 17 years ago led to a long road to recovery and a life reassessment.  In 2012 she made a decision to leave her corporate life to pursue a new career

How to Be Alone But Not Lonely with Markus Kasunich - 12-3-16 - Mind Body Spirit Living We all have times when we find ourselves without anyone else around, and it is our perception that determines if at those times we feel grateful and fulfilled, or lonely.  Some time alone can provide a wonderful opportunity for self-reflection and deepening self-insight, but it can be uncomfortable if that silence and quiet is perceived as loneliness or as rejection by others.  How can we cultivate an appreciation for our time alone, and change the story we tell ourselves, seeing it instead as a time for our own personal growth and exploration?  This week we turn to frequent guest, holistic life coach Markus Kasunich, for his perspective on embracing our alone time. Markus Kasunich is Holistic Life & Consciousness Coach, Spiritual teacher, Healer, and Professional Speaker whose key focus is helping clients reveal the unlimited potential of their True Self. He offers private sessions, online coaching, and fac

This Week’s Show | Mind Body Spirit Living We can define success in many ways, including based on our finances, power and influence, personal relationships, and health. How do you define success? We often are hard on ourselves about the level of “success” that we feel we have achieved in our lives, and it can lead us to tell ourselves stories about what we perceive as our success and achievements, and to compare ourselves to others. How can we focus on our own definition of success, and look past outside pressures and perceptions that might lead us to feel less fulfilled? This week’s guest has personally experienced significant professional success, and done her own reflection on her priorities that has led her to her own re-branding over the course of her career. Dana Zurbuchen is known by many titles including Chief Transformationist, Certified Professional Coach and Marketing Guru at her company, DZ+Associates, LLC. Dana’s straightforward style helps companies elevate their brands, create more

Your Stories and Your Identity with Professor Ed de St. Aubin – 11-19-16 | Mind Body Spirit Living The stories about our life experiences become a key part of who we identify ourselves to be.  They help us to understand our relationship to ourselves and others, and how we feel about events that happen in our life.  Who or what would we be without our stories?  This week we will look closer at how our stories become the narrative of our life, and what that means for our daily interaction in our world.  Our guest is a Professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee who has researched and studied our relationship to our stories. Professor Ed de St. Aubin received his Ph.D. at Northwestern University and has been at Marquette since 1999.  Ed has taught a wide variety of courses (e.g., Personality, Child and Adolescent Development, Human Sexuality, The Narrative Self, Adult Development and Aging, Psychology and Culture, Personal Meaning in a Complex World). Other specific interests include psychobiograp

You Are Infinitely Creative with Denise Zingg – 11-12-16 | Mind Body Spirit Living As human beings we are the essence of creativity, with each moment of each day holding the potential for a poem, a song, or a fascinating doodle to spring forth.  Too often we misunderstand the true depth of our creativity, and tell ourselves a story that we are not capable of being creative, in our thinking or in any art form.  This story can keep us from trying new forms of expression, and really exploring the unique thought patterns within us.  We’ve limited ourselves and what we have to bring to the world by denying our creativity. This week we speak with an artist and musician who teaches others how to embrace their creativity without fear, and to quiet that limiting story we tell ourselves.  Tune in for her insights on how to find joy in our infinitely creative selves. Our guest this week is artist Denise Zingg.   In 1980 Denise founded the Spectrum Gallery in Racine, WI, and today serves as the director of th

Many times we find ourselves affected by the behavior of people around us…they irritate or annoy us and we find it hard to ignore these feelings.  In order to justify or rationalize our discomfort in these situations, we create stories about them and the individual’s motivations and intentions.  These stories that we tell ourselves about others actually say more about us than them.  By projecting these stories onto others, we avoid looking at the parts of ourselves that we might be trying to avoid. This week we are joined by a Jungian psychoanalyst who will help us understand all the ways that we project parts of ourselves onto others through stories, and how this keeps us from owning our own feelings. Amy Champeau, MSMFT, LMFT, is a Jungian psychoanalyst, licensed marriage and family therapist and somatic psychotherapist located in Tucson, Arizona. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, The Family Institute of Chicago, and the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Her work is informed by her life journey;

It’s OK to Not Be OK with Markus Kasunich – 10-29-16 | Mind Body Spirit Living How many times have you asked someone “Are you OK?”.  We’ve all done it. We want to know the person is doing well, and has life under control.  Most of us respond to that question with an automatic “Yes, I’m OK”.  We’ve told ourselves a story that our goal should be to be OK, comfortable, and satisfied in our life. But it’s not always possible to say that things are “OK”.  Events and circumstances can put us in situations where we are not “OK”, and where we are challenged to navigate emotions and discomfort that is unfamiliar.  There is growth available to us in these moments if we can learn to be “OK with not being OK”, and to avoid telling ourselves that this is not the way the story should look. This week guest Markus Kasunich will share his perspective on the opportunities that arise in the moments when we are not OK, and when we are not comfortable.  He will help us to see that “not being OK” is actually a normal an

You DO Deserve a Wonderful Life with Sammy Rangel – 10-22-16 | Mind Body Spirit Living When you were young, what did you imagine your life would be like when you grew older?  You might have had images and expectations of a family, a home, a fulfilling career, or many of the other trappings of what most would consider a rich, wonderful life.  But sometimes perceived wrongdoings  in our past, or a low sense of self worth can make us believe a story that we don’t deserve to have a rich, wonderful life.  Or maybe those around us have led us to believe that we are not qualified or worthy to fulfill our dreams.  This story that we tell ourselves about what we “deserve” in life can be a roadblock to achieving our own potential and keep us from seeing our life unfold in ways that would fill us with joy and satisfaction.  How can we change the story in our heads so that we truly believe we deserve to live a wonderful life? Joining us this week is one of our most popular guests, who has overcome his own cha

How Emotions Drive Our Decisions with Dr. Sharon Livingston – 10-15-16 | Mind Body Spirit Living We all want to believe that the choices we make are based in logic, fact and rational thinking.  It makes us feel smart, and solely focused on the outcomes of our decisions. We believe that “I make my decisions based on an analysis of the facts.”  But is this a story we are telling ourselves? Emotions play a bigger role in our decision-making than we sometimes realize, and this week we’ll look closer at how much of a role our head and heart play in our choices.  Joining us is a guest who has extensive experience understanding how people make decisions, both as a market researcher and business coach. Dr. Sharon Livingston is Co-Founder of The International Coach Certification Alliance and a Master Business Coach and Coach Trainer.  She has appeared on TV and radio numerous times and published in many periodicals including CBS Radio, New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, NY Daily News, Wall Street J