Overwhelmed by a heartbreaking series of personal tragedies that defined his early life, Scott Stabile seemed destined for hardship and misfortune. Instead, he found the transformative power of love and the courage to walk away, which he detailed in his beloved collection of essays Big Love: The Power of Living with a Wide-Open Heart. In Enough as You Are, Stabile delivers more of these liberating truths with a heart-expanding collection of poetry and short prose rooted in the belief that each of us is beautiful, whole, and enough — just as we are. In the same wise, humorous, and unembellished voice that has garnered him hundreds of thousands of followers online, Stabile assures us that our worth is inherent, our authenticity bridges the path to freedom, and with willingness and commitment, deep self-love is possible for each of us. Like all of his work, Enough as You Are reminds us that love is our greatest healer and invites us to consider the positive transformations that occur with love as the foundation from which we move through the world. In Enough as You Are, Stabile delivers a heart-expanding collection of poetry and short prose rooted in the belief that each of us is beautiful, whole, and enough — just as we are. In the same wise, humorous, and unembellished voice that has garnered him hundreds of thousands of followers online, Stabile assures us that our worth is inherent, our authenticity bridges the path to freedom, and with willingness and commitment, deep self-love is possible for each of us. Like all of his work, Enough as You Are reminds us that love is our greatest healer and invites us to consider the positive transformations that occur with love as the foundation from which we move through the world. Scott Stabile’s inspirational posts and videos have attracted a huge and devoted social media following, including more than 350,000 Facebook fans. Stabile has survived the murder of his parents, the heroin overdose of his brother, and thirteen years in a cult. Through writing and speaking, he relates these profound experiences as well as everyday struggles and triumphs in ways that are universally applicable, uplifting, and laugh-out-loud funny. Visit him online at www.ScottStabile.com

We’re all going to die! Yet a powerful death taboo prevents us from masterfully meeting this part of our life’s journey. It perpetuates fear and avoidance as our primary responses to death. As a result, too many of the 2.8 million Americans dying each year, and those who love and care for them, suffer through the experience emotionally isolated, frightened, ignorant of their options, and unprepared spiritually and practically. Many of us are coming away from a poignant experience around the death of a loved one believing that there must be a better way to approach death. In his 1973 Pulitzer Prize winning book The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker first spoke of the American Death Taboo, calling it the vital lie ?? our refusal to acknowledge our own morality. The Death Taboo is at the core of the dualistic perspective through which we view birth as good and death as bad. Until we awaken from this collective delusion, how can we make peace with our mortality? Our culture fails to embrace the full depth and breadth of the human experience, leaving us ill- Equipped for living and dying with profound authenticity and competence. Making Peace with Death and Dying, A Practical Guide to Liberating Ourselves From the Death Taboo teaches readers to: ? appreciate death as a natural last event in life, as well as a life-long companion ? be of greater service to the dying ? allow mortality to embolden them to live with greater purpose and passion ? be more peaceful in the presence of death ? approach death on one’s own terms with wisdom and competency Judith Johnson is an educator whose mission is to help others master the art of being true to themselves. For over forty years, she has been studying and teaching the dynamics of how our beliefs inform our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as individuals and in our relationships, social order, culture, and institutions. Johnson’s work draws upon her own life lessons, wisdom teachings from around the world, doctoral degrees in social psychology and spiritual science, and her experience mentoring others. Ordained as an interfaith minster in 1985, she serves as a chaplain at her local hospital and counsels the grieving. Johnson is the author of Writing Meaningful Wedding Vows and live in New York’s Hudson Valley. Find out more about here at www.JudithJohnson.com

Children’s book author and noted clinical psychologist Amy L. Stark, Ph.D. is announcing her newest title “You Are More Than: A Primer for Finding Light in Your Heart”. The illustrated story, written for children ages 5-12, explains with clear examples you are more than what you see on the outside. In a broader context, Dr. Stark writes about the connection to each other, our planet and finding purpose in taking care of the planet and being of service. “It’s a book of hope for children,” said Dr. Stark. “Giving hope to kids so they know they can reach out to others for help and be of service when someone around them needs help. It’s an exploration into this life-affirming connection that gives a person purpose.” The illustrator is Moran Reudor, whose enchanting watercolor illustrations bring the story to life. In the words of a reader who reviewed You Are More Than, “The text is uplifting, inspirational and comforting. The illustrations are beautiful and joyful!” While we say this book is for children, it’s actually for all ages, as many adults find it to be uplifting and inspirational,” said Dr. Stark. This is the seventh children’s book written by Amy L. Stark, Ph.D. She wrote the popular 3-book Whole Heart series helping kids with self-esteem: Whole Heart for Girls, Whole Heart for Young Women, and Whole Heart for Boys. Plus, a 3-book illustrated Fairy Godmother book series: The Fairy Godmother Next Door, The Fairy Godmother Babysits, and The Fairy Godmother Helps the Monarchs. The monarch story is a top seller and includes a section on how to build your own butterfly garden. Dr. Amy Stark is a clinical psychologist based in Santa Ana, California. She received her doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego and is best known for her work with children in high-conflict divorce situations. Dr. Stark is the author of seven books including three about self-esteem: Whole Heart for Girls, Whole Heart for Young Women, and Whole Heart for Boys, helping children feel good about themselves. She facilitates Whole Heart for Girls self-esteem workshops for Girl Scouts of Orange County and other groups. Dr. Stark has been interviewed by Oprah and published by Readers Digest. Find out more about Dr. Amy Stark at https://dramystark.com/

This week Greg Hammer, MD, Stanford University Professor, Physician, Best-Selling Author, and mindfulness expert, discusses the importance of Gratitude on your journey to Health and Happiness. The constant onslaught of traumatic events displayed in the media and on the news has generated an overarching feeling of despair that has become the new norm. In this era of social, political, and economic unrest, it’s easy to be fearful, depressed or overwhelmed as we try to navigate the hardships of our day-to-day lives. But what if one small step, like expressing gratitude, could change the stress of all of that? Well, it can, and Gratitude is available every moment of every day. Gratitude can also be one of the most powerful tools for staying healthy and centered as it takes you on the superhighway to happiness.   Intensive care physician, pediatric anesthesiologist, mindfulness expert, and the author of GAIN without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals (May 15, 2020).   A member of the Stanford WellMD initiative, Dr. Hammer is the former Chair of the Physician Wellness Task Force for the California Society of Anesthesiologists. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer on wellness at institutions worldwide and teaches GAIN to medical students, residents, and fellows at Stanford.  Dr. Hammer’s clinical focus is in pediatric cardiac anesthesia and pediatric critical care medicine. His research is in developmental pharmacology and immunology, and he has an active laboratory with multiple ongoing studies in these areas. He has published widely on topics related to pharmacology and perioperative care of children undergoing cardiac and thoracic procedures as well as organ transplantation. Dr. Hammer is a health enthusiast and meditator, utilizing a non-duality and mindfulness-based approach, including the GAIN method.   Website: www.GregHammerMD.com

Christopher Macklin is a global spiritual messenger and extraordinary sage who shares his insights in the fields of spirituality, health and wellness, angels, divination, divine sovereignty and the paranormal. Christopher has been assisting UFO abductees for over 11 years and has discovered the majority of abductions are being carried out by the Grey race, which is a negative race that has been present on the planet and more prevalent in the US since the 1950s. A former business in England, Christopher’s life challenges set him on a completely different path and led him in a very different journey. He embraced what he felt was his purpose and passion and surrendered his life completely to the Divine. From that point forward, his life shifted. He was guided to spend hours a day in meditation, opening his consciousness and understanding of how to use his natural energetic healing abilities to serve humanity. Dr. Christopher Macklin is a powerful channeling medium and healer from England who utilizes Divine Healing techniques cultivated through Divine Knowledge from God and the spirit world to help people recover form all types of illness. Christopher is able to heal many people simultaneously with the help of God’s Angelic Light Beings who work with Christopher to re-balance the body’s energy field by clearing chakra points and cleansing the body’s meridian field by removing blockages and negative energies. As an energy worker and medical intuitive, Dr. Macklin’s work focuses on how divine healing works to create positive outcomes and solutions especially during this challenging times. He utilizes the power of vibration, frequency, and divine sovereignty in helping to maintain physical, mental and emotional health. He has developed his protocol for successfully treating viruses, Lyme Disease, HIV/AIDs, Morgellons and other difficult to treat illnesses. Dr. Macklin’s specialty focuses on detoxing the body from vaccine toxicity and he has an Inuit understanding of how vaccines breaks down the body’s immune system and leads to catastrophic consequences. Christopher treats Emotional Disorders, including Addictions, Chronic Depression, Schizophrenia and Bi-polar disorder. The whole person and their whole life are treated, therefore relationships of families and loved ones can also be repaired and restored. As an author, his books include “History, Truth & Healing: Manufactured Diseases: HIV/AIDs, Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome, Morgellons and Lyme Disease” and “Centering the Mind Healing of Chronic Stress, Anxiety, Depression, ADD, OCD & PTSD in Children, Adolescents and Adults”. Working out of his Global Enlightenment Center in Branson, Missouri, Christopher serves an international client base, helping thousands of people rebalance and heal from various physical, mental and emotional issues. His client’s testimonials serve as ample proof in understanding the life changing experiences he is able to facilitate. Dr. Macklin is an Interfaith Minister with the Esoteric Church and has a PhD in Metaphysics and Philosophy. For more information:  www.globalenlightenmentproject.com

This week will be the fourth in a series of six shows with Cate Montana and Robin Duda. Join us for a lively discussion about "Moving from Concept to Reality." Are you stuck in conceptualized ideas regarding love, spirit, wisdom, truth, etc. or have you gone deeper into the embodiment and expression of these ideas? Cate Montana is a dauntless explorer of the inner and outer worlds, has a Master’s degree in Humanistic Psychology, and 37 years of intense meditation and inner work under her belt. She is a journalist for over 30 years, and the author of several books, including “Cracking the Matrix: 14 Keys to Individual & Global Freedom", which explores the nature and presence of evil on this planet, how to see the anti-life force, understands its agenda, and learn how to break free of its controlling influence. Find out more about Cate at https://www.catemontana.com/ Robin Duda is a Minister of Soul Alchemy™ and the co-founder and Spiritual Director of the Sustainable Love Transformation & Training Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After attaining a Master's Degree in Social Work and a Master's Degree in Dance Therapy, Robin’s natural gifts were dramatically enhanced in 1990 by a powerful near-death experience. This event awakened her to the vital importance of reintegrating lost or overshadowed soul parts—which is part of the healing process called Soul Alchemy™ that Robin has been developing for the past 35 years, working with individuals from all around the world, helping them reintegrate after experiencing trauma, sexual abuse, ritual and satanic abuse, and more.   Find out more at https://www.sustainablelove.com/practitioners

Peter Benson uses his advanced technology and quantum physics knowledge to bridge the gap between science and consciousness. In every product, Peter taps into the energy frequencies of potent healing to help you remove existing patterns that stand in the way of achieving optimum health, happiness, and financial freedom. These tools are designed with mathematical and quantum principles to harness profound angelic energy, helping you improve your life and reimagine your reality — just by wearing his jewelry. Each piece is beautiful to look at, and the wearer can feel its healing and calming ability immediately. Find out more about Peter Benson here:  https://www.energiesofservice.com/

HOLY LOVE... Elisa Romeo, MFT, and Adam Foley are my guests this week on The Original Loretta Brown Show. During these challenging times, divorce rates have skyrocketed globally. Elisa Romeo and Adam Foley are authors of Holy Love: The Essential Guide to Soul-Fulfilling Relationships and co-hosts of the Holy & Human Podcast. Holy Love combines Elisa's background as a marriage and family therapist with Adam's yoga training in somatics and mindfulness to bring us a book that addresses questions such as "How can we find a soul mate if we can't see and feel our own Soul?" Adam and Elisa write, "When we align with a Soul-level love, our relationship shifts from a series of compromises and misunderstandings to a place of nourishment, rejuvenation, and profound truth." Elisa and Adam draw from their personal spiritual experiences, their work with thousands of couples, and as married parents of two. Find out more about Elisa and Adam at https://www.holyandhuman.com/

Thinking Allowed host Jeffrey Mishlove is a licensed clinical psychologist, an accomplished radio and television interviewer, and one of the most erudite and articulate personalities on television. He is the author of an encyclopedic volume of consciousness studies, The Roots of Consciousness. In November of 2021 Jeffrey was the first-place winner of the Bigelow Institute in Las Vegas essay competition winning $500,000. The title of his essay was “Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death.” Jeffrey hopes this award will stimulate more academic research and academic study of the paranormal. Dr. Mishlove is a past director of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, and has served as President of the Intuition Network. Jeffrey holds the only doctoral diploma in parapsychology to be awarded by an accredited American university (University of California, Berkeley). A revision of his doctoral dissertation, Psi Development Systems, was released in 1988 as a Ballantine paperback. This book evaluates methods purported to train psychic abilities. He is also author of The PK Man. Jeffrey teaches parapsychology to ministers in training with the Centers for Spiritual Living (formerly the Church of Religious Science) through their Holmes Institute. His avocations include financial forecasting (see his occasional Forecasting Systems newsletters), hiking in the Mojave desert and karaoke. Find out more at https://www.youtube.com/c/NewThinkingAllowed

Kate Eckman, author of The Full Spirit Workout: A Ten-Step System to Shed Your Self-Doubt, Strengthen Your Spiritual Core, and Create a Fun and Fulfilling Life, is a Columbia University–certified executive leadership coach, a QVC Beauty host, and a former television reporter and body positive model. Her infectious enthusiasm is like a breath of fresh air…and the work she is doing to help individuals build inner strength and transform their lives from the inside out couldn’t be more timely. A lot of people are tired of living a life based on comparison, competition, lack, and fear. They want to feel better, but don’t know how. Kate Eckman, accomplished entrepreneur, elite athlete, mindfulness expert, and Columbia University-certified executive coach, used to be like a lot of people. On the surface, she was successful, high-level performer. But deep down, her life was full of less-tangible roadblocks — excess mental and emotional weight, deep-seated insecurity, self-judgment, and overwhelming stress and anxiety. In her upcoming new book The Full Spirit Workout: A Ten-Step System to Shed Your Self-Doubt, Strengthen Your Spiritual Core, and Create a Fun and Fulfilling Life, Kate shares the inner fitness regimen she used in her own life to generate a sense of self-worth and contentment from within. Rooted in neuroscience, positive psychology, and whole-person coaching techniques, her results-driven plan focuses on building spiritual and emotional muscles to feel confident and complete — regardless of others’ expectations, approval, or criticism. The spiritual fitness principles and daily exercises that Kate offers in The Full Spirit Workout are the same ones she uses in her coaching practice with business leaders and professional athletes. Based on rigorous research and multifaceted training, her regimen demands a genuine commitment to change. But it’s far from grueling, since Kate blends in creativity, flexibility, and delight so that each “rep” feels less like work and more like play. Kate’s work is rooted in neuroscience, positive psychology, and whole-person coaching techniques. Passionate about mindfulness practices for both brain and body health, Kate is a meditation teacher and course creator for Insight Timer, the world’s number-one ranked free meditation app. Visit her online at http://www.kateeckman.tv