Marcus Wells | Body Thermodynamics
August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Dr. Marcus Wells’ book revolutionizes ways on how to energize the body without radically changing your lifestyle. Thermogenix reveals “hidden” cellular potentials that restore, rejuvenate and rebalance your life. In a growing aging society, how we’re to maintain a balanced metabolism will be more important, but also will become more problematic. Dr. Wells’ incredible idea blends both a strong scientific basis towards understanding energy with a natural pursuit of it. This demonstrates so many ways that have been overlooked or misunderstood that we can now achieve what is often call the “super burn” effect of metabolism. This method helps you recapture “latent potentions of energy” necessary to live a more productive happier and healthier life. Dr. Wells was educated and trained in western medicine in the U.S.A. Upon receving his Doctorate of Medicine (MD), he continued his medical education at the world’s premiere bio-medical researchcenter, the National Institute of Health (NIH) where he trained with the nation’s most notable scientist in the areas of heart, lung, blood, and metabolic diseases.
Georgia Weithe | Facing Death
August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Georgia Weithe has found her muse in the word reflection and it has informed all of her professional and personal choices. Reflection, with its dual distinct meanings: meditative—the inner and spiritual journey she takes with her clients. And as in the world of physics: light striking back against a surface—her personal quest for the source of the light that illuminates her path through this life.Georgia’s work shows her commitment to healing, both in the field of education and in her private practice. She is a certified teacher, and since founding the Reflections Educational Consulting Firm in 1988, she has appeared as a guest speaker presenting workshops on a variety of topics to professionals in the fields of education and health care. Most recently she has enjoyed a ten-year affiliation with the Center for Courage and Renewal’s Courage to Teach Program, created by the Fetzer Institute.Georgia is a certified Well-Springs Facilitator, and has a private practice in which she incorporates the Well-Springs massage, Reiki and Healing Touch.She could not have foreseen that all of her professional experiences would have a common theme: guiding people back to themselves. Her courage in exploring her own inner landscape has made her, for others in her life, a pilgrim spirit—a colleague and friend who journeys into the unknown and beckons others to travel with her. It is this quality of spirit that led her to write her book, Shining Moments—Finding Hope in Facing Death.In all of her life’s work, Georgia offers up a remarkable degree of reflection about things that matter. Not surprisingly, having accompanied her father on his final journey to his death, she uncovered some rare observations about the art of living.When not otherwise engaged, Georgia creates her own line of Reflections Jewelry. She has been married for more than 30 years and has two grown children.
Gayle Greene | Sleep Starved
June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Gayle Greene has published dozens of articles in scholarly journals such as Signs, Contemporary Literature, and Renaissance Drama, many of which have been reprinted in anthologies (e.g., Blackwell¹s Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1945-2000,2004)
Jeanie Ransom | When Parents Aren’t Home
June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Jeanie Ransom is a children’s author and licenced professional counselor who writes funny books or self-help books for kids. She started writing at age 17 and since then she has continued to write for magazines and newspapers, worked as a radio station copywriter, a public relations writer, an editor and writer at a bed-and-breakfa
Dr. Julia Hallisy | Empowered Patient
June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
The Empowered Patient, has produced a readable, comprehensive, and above all, a usable guide to the modern healthcare maze. It is crucial to know what to do when seeking healthcare in our complicated and multi-faceted system, and this valuable resource will draw a clear path for the reader. www.TheEmpowere
James Carlson | Diet & Doctors
May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Dr. James E. Carlson holds a B.S. in biochemistry and cellular physiology from Cornell University, a medical degree from the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, an M.B.A. from Regis University with an emphasis on healthcare economics/physi
Beth Feldman | Mommy Books
May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Yvette Manessis Corporon and Beth Feldman are the creators of Role Mommy, www.rolemommy.c
Tim Kellis | Relationships & Wall Street
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We spoke with Tim Kellis today about marriages and why they break up so often in this country. Kellis analyzes the break ups from a Wall Street perspective.More information from Tim Kellis’ website:
Why is knowledge of mathematics important to understanding relationships?
Almost without exception, observed the great 20th Century philosopher Bertrand Russell in his exhaustive study of the history of Western philosophy, modern Platonists “are ignorant of mathematics, in spite of the immense importance Plato attached to arithmetic and geometry, and the immense influence that they had on his philosophy.
Russell aptly sums up why modern psychology has been remarkably unable to grapple with the very human struggle of modern relationships. Tim Kellis calls today’s relationship gurus Freudian failures as one out of every two marriages are dissolving in divorce. The approach by Dr. Phil and others is merely psychological and intuitive, when what’s required is a more analytical and scientific evaluation of the philosophy in human relationships we call happiness.
According to Kellis, mathematics is the very basis for science as well as a prerequisite for understanding logic and philosophy. A student of mathematics and engineering, as well as a brilliant Wall Street analyst, he tells his clients: “Happiness is a philosophy not a psychology.” The ability to comprehend the causes of relationship struggles requires the skill to analyze, comprehend and then write, he says. His mathematically derived analytical skills provide the foundation for his ability to find the relationship solution that can save marriages.
For Kellis, writing this book has been a life experience involving his professional and personal life, as well as his imposing intellectual and emotional development, that has led him to understand how to make a relationship work.
“Too often I’ve heard ‘I’d rather be happy and single, than unhappy and married.’ Yet my parents taught me that divorce was not an option in life, something they taught me not by what they said, but by how they lived. They had a very unhappy relationship for a very long time, but they stayed married. The only reason I was able to come to understand how to make a relationship successful is because I was able to overcome my own childhood shortcomings, forgive my parents and see them for who they really were–my parents.
Ambition and a strong aptitude for math helped lead Kellis to discover how to make relationships work. His math skills led directly to an engineering degree, nine years in the telecommunications industry, an MBA in finance, and finally on to Wall Street, where he became the very first semiconductor analyst to focus on the communications market.As an analyst you are required to be an expert in your field. The research completed before writing Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage was pursued in the same fashion as that required before becoming an analyst. The search for the truth requires a critical mind.
After publishing a 300-page initiation piece entitled Initiating Coverage of the Semiconductor Industry: Riding the Bandwidth Wave, Kellis became a leading semiconductor analyst at one of the biggest firms on Wall Street. As an analyst, he was in constant contact with investors, honing his presentation skills to the point that he became an expert presenter, a skill he believes is essential in his new role as relationship advisor. The experience he gained as a Wall Street analyst provided an excellent backdrop for researching and writing a book on relationships. As an analyst he had to deal with many egos, some healthy, some not. During this time, he learned why corporations and systems functioned at their best or worst and today applies much of what he learned to smaller, more intimate systems embodied in relationships.
What is the thread common to all corporations? Regardless of industry, almost every company starts out initially with the sole purpose of providing a product or service that makes its customers happy. The exception here is relationship therapists who have simply rationalized unhappiness. Competition exists to keep every corporation on its toes. Try to think of a product that makes customers unhappy or a television commercial where the actors are portrayed being unhappy using a specific company’s product or service. There aren’t any.
According to Kellis, “working with so many people who loved their jobs on Wall Street exposed me to many happy relationships. Their happiness was not simply a result of how much money they made, many of the happy relationships were with people who were not making a lot of money, but because they found working on Street incredibly intense and exciting. The common notion within mainstream psychology that relationships without arguments are impossible is simply a fallacy.
Susan Hetrick Transcript
April 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Dr. Kent Gustavson: Welcome back to “Sound Authors”. Today is the 40th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination. Something that was very important to him was his family. Of course, they’ve carried his legacy down through the years.My next guest is Susan Hetrick. She has a book called “Advice from the Blender: What to Know Before You Blend So Nobody Gets Creamed”. It’s an amusing title, it’s been successful for her, clearly, and it’s a book about how to live with families, how to live with step-families, something that we’re seeing in the world all the time now.Welcome to the show, Susan Hetrick!
Susan Hetrick: All right! Kent, how are you?
Kent: Good! Tell me a little bit about what inspired you to write this book, “Advice from the Blender”.
Susan: Oh, about four years ago, I got married for the second time and he brought two children and a cat and I brought two children and two dogs and a hamster. And we had to figure out how to live together without killing one another. And at the same time, I was in graduate school, pursuing a Master of Divinity degree and one of my classes was a marriage counseling class.We were looking through resources and I could not find very much out there about what to expect when you blend two families. The few books that were available most were over 10 years old. Some were written by people who weren’t even in stepfamilies.And so, I decided that there was a real need out there for a book that actually told it like it was and gave people a better idea, a realistic idea, of what to expect when they enter into a stepfamily situation.
Kent: And what was it like for you? You said you had a hamster?
Susan: [laughs]
Kent: Two dogs… That’s a concern to me more than the kids.
Susan: [laughs]
Kent: What happened with the cat and the hamster? Were they friends?
Susan: Actually, they ignored one another. We ended up having one of the dogs ate the hamster, so…
Kent: Oh no!
Susan: Oh, yeah. [laughs]
Kent: Well, tell us about your book. What does it help people to do, “Advice from the Blender”?
Susan: Well, it’s a short, easy to read book and it’s about eight chapters long. And what I talk about is various things like having realistic expectations. It’s not going to be like the Brady Bunch. Sad, but true.And one of the things that people need to know is they need to focus on making their marriage strong. That is the number one thing that people forget to do. They get so involved with the kids and life and things like that, that they turn around and wake up one day and go, “Oh, who are you?” So, they need to focus on their marriage.They also need to be a united parenting team. Just because someone is the stepparent doesn’t mean they’re not also raising these kids.
Kent: Give us a couple little tips. Your book is constructed of some quotes, some bullet points with tips. Even at the end, you go into some bible verses and things like that. Give us some tips.
Susan: OK. One would be, for example, with the children. You’re dealing with two sets of kids, both who’ve been through, probably, a divorce with their parents. They’re thrown into this situation of suddenly they have a new stepparent, they have new stepsiblings. And one of the keys is to be united on discipline.One of the great things you could do would be to sit down together. As the parents, sit down together, preferably, before you get married, but if you’re already married, that’s OK. Sit down together and decide what are the behavior expectations for the children in the house and what are the consequences for breaking those rules and then present those to the kids as your house rules.This is really helpful because one, your kids can’t argue with the house. But two, I also brings to mind that yeah, the rules maybe different in Dad’s house as opposed to Mom’s house, but that’s OK. Just because they are different rules doesn’t mean that you can ignore them.
Kent: So, rules setting is really important. And there’s a whole bunch of other tips, very practically, to work through this problem.You advertise the book as being Christian and again, there are Bible verses at the end. How does that play into it for you? You have a Masters of Divinity.
Susan: Right. I have a Masters of Divinity in Counseling and Family Ministry. Obviously, faith is a big, big part of my life. However, even if you’re not a Christian, there’s very practical tips in this book for how to deal with a blending family, from everything to the kids to the ex-spouse to the in-laws and the out-laws.
Kent: So, tell me what is the best thing that two people could do when they say, “OK, let’s get married” and they’re thinking about two children, say they each have two children. What’s the first step for them? Should they write down some lists? Should they talk to the children? Should they meet them slowly? How does that work?
Susan: The key, I think, is time, is give it a lot of time and be very, very patient. Kids really don’t deal with their emotions, strong emotions, all at once. So, you can tell your kids, “Hey, I’m dating this person. He’s very, very special to me and we’re thinking about getting married. I want you to meet him and meet his family and get to know one another.”But then, give it time. I mean, I heard of a family just this last year, his third marriage, her third marriage. They met each other in September and decided to get married on New Year’s Eve. This is four months. They introduced their kids the day before the wedding and said, “Hey, guess what? We’re getting married tomorrow!” My advice is don’t go that route. You’re just setting yourself up for a disaster.So, time is of the essence and so is communication. That is vital. You’ve got to talk about all kinds of things like boundaries in your family. Everything from whether or not you like to sleep with your bedroom door shut or open to who’s allowed in your bedroom at any time of the day. Everything from that to discipline to who takes out the garbage and who cleans the house. All of these things have to be renegotiated.
Kent: Well, we can go to your website at advicefromtheblender.com. You’ve got a blog, free articles and more information about the book.
Susan: Absolutely.
Kent: It’s been a real pleasure chatting with you. I can definitely say if I ever get in the unfortunate circumstance of getting divorced and then remarried, I will certainly consult your book and your website. Thank you so much for being on the show.[music]
Susan: Thanks, Kent.
Kent: ”Advice from the Blender” by Susan Hetrick. You can get it online at advicefromtheblender.com.My next guest is Emmy Award winning legendary, wonderful composer, Jeff Beal. Come on back, you can’t miss it.
Susan Hetrick | Family Blender
April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Today we spoke with Susan Hetrick, about her “Blender” concept for families, and her new book. Here is more from her website:
Tales from the Blender is a collection of stories, suggestions and guidance garnered from the real-life experiences of Christian couples living in blended families all over the United States. These families generously shared the good, the bad and the ugly about blending: what to look forward to, what to watch out for, what challenges they faced and, most importantly, what has worked for them. Susan Hetrick gives you real-life illustrations on how to deal with: • We’ll-live-happily-ever-after-Syndrome • Choosing to love children who wish you were dead • Bonding as a family without using duct tape • Holidays with ex-spouses • The “Ex-tended” family experience – fruits and nuts aren’t just for breakfast anymore • Talking yourself out of that urge to run away to Timbuktu With fundamental discussion questions for the entire family, a succinct synopsis at the end of each chapter, and a unique House Blend Recipe, Susan Hetrick whips up an honest, challenging, inspiring and funny serving of the house blend, with a Christian twist.
Kate Maloy | Vermont Storyteller
March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Kate Maloy spoke to us today about her novel Every Last Cuckoo, about a 75 year old native Vermonter. We talked about Maloy’s Quaker faith, and about her success with this new book, now in its 3rd printing in the last few months.More reviews about Kate Maloy’s book Every Last Cuckoo from her website http://www.katemaloy.com:
Boston Globe
. . . After losing the beloved husband who shared her nest for many years, Sarah finds herself providing a home for a variety of “cuckoos”–family, friends, and strangers in need. The life she had anticipated as a solitary widow is replaced by new pleasures and frustrations. . . Maloy nicely portrays the long, imperfect, but still lusty marriage of Sarah and husband Charles, moves gracefully through the shock of loss, and charts the steps back into community. But what feels most original and moving is Maloy’s sense of how Sarah sees herself connected to other generations: “How many girls and women she had been–she carried a multitude inside who shared only memory and character traits.” Boston Globe, Sunday, January 20, 2008.
MSNBC.com
In grief, many people withdraw. That may have been Sarah Lucas’ first instinct after the 75-year-old resident of rural Vermont lost her husband, Charles, because of an injury during a tough winter. Instead, Sarah recalled her days growing up during the Depression, when her parents took in boarders and shared what they had. Sarah decides to do the same with a strange collection of misfits in “Every Last Cuckoo,” the debut novel by Kate Maloy. Sarah’s choice to fill up her empty house brings with it some unexpected developments, each making her life richer in some way. Maloy wrote a well-received memoir called “A Stone Bridge North” about her Quaker faith and life in Vermont. “Every Last Cuckoo” is an impressive step in a new literary direction.MSNBC, Sunday, January 20, 2008.
Times-Picayune
Maloy’s novel grabs the reader by the heart — it is rare indeed to find such assured fiction about love that endures over time. As her nest expands to include the cuckoos who have sought refuge, Sarah Lucas grows in wisdom and love, and her heart heals. In this portrait of a long and loving marriage, Maloy gives us a real human family, with all its love and conflict and change, as well as a look at the richness that can come with age. [New Orleans] Times-Picayune, January 23, 2008.
More Magazine
A “Don’t Miss Book,” More Magazine, February, 2008
The Oregonian
In an American fictional tradition that rarely addresses the elderly on any significant level, Oregon writer Kate Maloy’s debut novel stands out with a 75-year-old woman as its centerpiece. . . “Every Last Cuckoo” is mostly a riveting read. Its tenderly wrought portrayal of elderly life has an unexpectedly powerful effect, revealing fictional possibilities we’d either forgotten about or never considered at all. The Oregonian, February 3, 2008.
The Roanoke Times
This heartwarming tale is an excellent read and offers a multitude of illustrations of the power that simple human grace can provide to others.
People
The appeal of Maloy’s debut . . . is not in its subtlety but in its conviction. People, February 4, 2008.
Ashley Marriott & Dr. Marc Paulsen | Dump Your Trainer
March 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Ashley Marriott and Dr. Marc Paulsen have some very convincing arguments why we should all dump our trainers and read their brand new book, Dump Your Trainer! We had a great conversation about personal training, motivation, and much more.More information from their website: www.dumpyourtrainer.com
“Ashley is the quintessential people person… She understands why you fail and gives you what you need to succeed.” - Marc L. Paulsen, M.D.
“Nobody, absolutely nobody inspires like Ashley.” - Joe Salazar, clientAshley helped me to reach my goals by always being encouraging and making the workouts varied, fun and interesting.” - Noel Olken, Cliet“Ashley’s the best! She’s helped hundreds of people transform their lives, motivating them to get healthy and fit.” - Kerri Kasem, Radio/TV Host“You’re gonna’ see celebrities and their trainers in a whole new light.”
Lisa Genova | Alzheimer’s & Fiction
March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We had a great conversation with Lisa Genova about her new novel Still Alice. She has her PhD from Harvard, but has devoted her life to writing, and has seen a good amount of success from her debut book. It sheds a new light on Alzheimer’s disease in middle-aged people, and at the same time, tells a touching story of one woman’s life.More about Lisa Genova from her amazon.com:
“Powerful, insightful, tragic, inspirational.and all too true.” Alireza Atri, Massachusetts General Hospital Neurologist
“Readers.are artfully and realistically led through.a window into what to expect, highlighting the importance of allowing the person with the disease to remain a vibrant and contributing member of the community.” Peter Reed, PhD, Director of Programs, National Alzheimer’s Association“With grace and compassion, Lisa Genova writes about the enormous white emptiness created by Alzheimer’s in the mind of the still-too-young and active Alice. A kind of ominous suspense attends her gathering forgetfulness, and Genova puts us, sympathetically, right inside her plight. Somehow, too, she portrays the family’s response as a loving one, and hints at the other hopeful, helpful response that science will eventually provide.” Mopsy Kennedy, Improper Bostonian“An intensely intimate portrait of Alzheimer’s seasoned with highly accurate and useful information about this insidious and devastating disease.” Dr. Rudolph E. Tanzi, co-author, Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease“Her (Alice’s) thought patterns are so eerily like my own…amazing. It was like being in my own head and like being in hers.” James Smith, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, age 45“…something for the world to read.” Jeanne Lee, author of Just Love Me: My Life Turned Upside-Down By Alzheimer’s“A laser-precise light into the lives of people with dementia and the people who love them.” Carole Mulliken, Co-Founder of DementiaUSA“A work of pure genius. This is the book that I and many of my colleagues have anxiously awaited. The reader will journey down Dementia Road in a way that only those of us with Dementia have experienced. Until now.” Charley Schneider, author of Don’t Bury Me, It Ain’t Over YetAbout the AuthorLisa Genova graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology and has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Harvard University. She is a member of the Dementia Advocacy and Support Network International and DementiaUSA and is an online columnist for the National Alzheimer’s Association. She is currently writing her second book, Left Neglected.www.StillAlice.com
Gary Gach | Buddhism & Capitalism
March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
We had a great chat with Gary Gach, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Buddhism, and he enlightened us with tales of Buddhism and authordom. He talked about being both Jewish and Buddhist, and about the similarities between Buddhism and Capitalism, among many other things! For more about Gary Gach, visit his website: http://levity.com/interbeing/ Gary Gach also has a great Wikipedia biography. The following is from Wikipedia:
Gary G. Gach (b. November 30, 1947) is a Californian author, editor, teacher, and occasional actor.
LifeGach was born in Los Angeles. He was student body president of John Burroughs Junior High School, about whose milieu James Ellroy has written in Let’s Twist Again [published in Crime Wave].Following graduation from Fairfax High, he spent a summer in New York City, during which time he shared a desk with poet Ted Berrigan at ESP Disk‘.Following his return to California, he moved to San Francisco, where he’s been based ever since.He facilitates mindfulness meditation at The Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples (America’s first interracial, interfaith church) and serves on the International Advisory Panel of The Buddhist Channel (the world’s first global Buddhist media).
Periodicals+175 appearances, including: Alcatraz, American Cinematographer, American Poetry Review, AsianWeek, Beatitude, Big Bridge, Brick, BuddhaDharma, Calque, CommonGround, Evergreen Review, Drunken Boat, European Judaism, Grist, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Hambone, Heaven Bone, Invisible City, Lilipoh – The Spirit in Life, Manōa, Mantis, Mindfulness Bell, The Nation, New American Writing, New Asia Review, The New Yorker, Rif/t, San Francisco Chronicle, Shambhala Sun, Telephone, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Two Lines, Turning Wheel, Urthona, Wch Way, Whole Earth Review, World Literature Today, Yoga Journal, andZyzzyva.
AnthologiesA Book of Luminous Things (Czeslaw Milosz, editor); A Brotherhood in Song (Stephen Soong, editor); Code of Signals (Michael Palmer, editor); Exiled in the Word (Jerome Rothenberg, editor); Language for a New Century; Poems for the Millennium (Jerome Rothenberg, editor); Sparks of Fire: Blake in a New Age (James Bogan, editor); Technicians of the Sacred (Jerome Rothenberg, editor); Translations (Jan Greenberg, editor); Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace (Maxine Hong Kingston, editor); Visions (National Geographic, editor); World Poetry (Clifton Fadiman, editor); and others.[edit]BooksPreparing the Ground : Poems 1960-1970 (Heirs, International; San Francisco)The Pocket Guide to the Internet (Pocket Books; New York)Writers.net: Every Writer’s Essential Guide to Online Resources and Opportunities (Prima Publishing; Rocklin, NY)[as editor] What Book!? : Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop [Editor] (Parallax Press; Albany, CA) Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Buddhism [second edition] (Alpha Books, NY)[as co-translator] Ten Thousand Lives by Ko Un (introduction by Robert Hass) (Green Integer: Los Angeles)[as co-translator] Flowers of a Moment 185 brief poems by Ko Un (BOA Editions, Ltd.; Rochester, NY)[as co-translator] Songs for Tomorrow: A Collection of Poems 1960-2001 by Ko Un (Green Integer; Los Angeles)
AwardsHe is a recipient of a Shirle E. Robbins Award and an American Book Award (for What Book!?). He is recipient of a Northern California Book Award in translation (2007) for his work on Flowers of a Moment and shortlisted by them (2006) for Ten Thousand Lives, both by Ko Un. He is an honorary member of The Academy of American Poets. He is recipient of translation grants from the Korea Literary Translation Institute and the Lannan Foundation. Poets & Writers, Inc. has readings of his through their funding initiative.
David Gruder Transcript
March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Kent Gustavson: Welcome back to Sound Authors. Its Leap Day, and my next guess is Dr. David Gruder. He’s the author of “The New IQ” and TheNewIQ.com. Welcome to the show.
David Gruder: It’s a pleasure to be here with you, Kent.
Kent Gustavson: Can you give me a little sound clip about your book and your movement?
David Gruder: Integrity is the topic of the book. The subtitle is “How Integrity Intelligence Serves You, your Relationships and your World.” The book is essentially about helping people come to grips with how integrity is a very, very crucial self-serving thing to develop some real intelligence about. Its really not possible to experienece the fulfillment of each peak unless we really have excellent integrity.
Kent Gustavson: So, the IQ is an antiquated forum? Is that part of it?
David Gruder: Well, yes. In some ways its antiquated, traditional IQ is intellectual intelligence. There’s certainly value in intellectual intelligence to an extent. We’ve seen that get kind of updated through the emotional intelligence movement, which has been very, very helpful as well. The new IQ is integrity intelligence, which, I think, is really the solution to the vast majority of the problems we have individually, in our relationships, and as a society today.
Kent Gustavson: Is it something that people have to struggle with, integrity? Or is it something you’re born with?
David Gruder: That’s a really good question that you’re asking. I don’t know that its something that we’re necessarily born with, I think what we’re born with is the roots of integrity. Which are three core drives that all people have, as far as I’ve been able to discern as a psychologist. One is a drive for authenticity, to be who we truly are. The second is a drive for connection with others, and the third is a drive to have positive impact in the world.We can see all three of these core drives in infants and very, very young children. These core drives seem to be innate, if you will, as your asking about. A practical way of understanding integrity, that moves us beyond the philosophical, vague, abstract concepts is to tie integrity to being aligned with all three of our core drives. For authenticity, connection, and impact.
Kent Gustavson: I know that you do something called “energy psychology”. Can you tell me a little bit about that?
David Gruder: Yes; actually, I was the founding president of a nonprofit organization called “The Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology”. What that field is, is a newly emerging field within psychology that has adapted standard of care approached in other health care disciplines like chiropractic and acupuncture and a number of others; the nursing field as well.To help with a whole range of psychological concerns from removing old blockages and baggage to embedding and embodying desired states and desired beliefs. Through explicitly and deliberately re-balancing a person’s energy field, aspects of their electromagnetic system.
Kent Gustavson: For the doubters, what is it about an energy field that’s scientific?
David Gruder: Well, we can certainly determine that easily enough because the National Institutes of Health has recognized acupuncture as a legitimate and effective healing method. What acupuncture does is that it re-balances an aspect of the human vibrational matrix or energy system called the meridians; the pathways that chi, or energy, flows through the body.A large segment of the energy psychology family of methods do the same thing without needles through acupressure, or the equivalent of acupressure; which is just as effective as needles, it turns out. So we’ve got a strong scientific basis from the acupuncture research literature.
Kent Gustavson: How do we go about finding you and then reading the book and changing the way that we exist, in terms of integrity?
David Gruder: My website is TheNewIQ.com. T-H-E-N-E-W-I-Q all together, .com. On that website you’ll find information about The New IQ book, its accompanying workbook, and the energy psychology methods as well.