Jackie Woods is the founder and CEO of Adawehi Healing Center, Institute and Press in Columbus, North Carolina and has more than 25 years of relationship counseling experience. Her work has been featured in publications such as Awareness Magazine, Spirit in the Smokies, and Natural Awakenings, and she has appeared on numerous national and regional radio and television programs. Woods is also the author of two previous books, Journey to Ultimate Spirituality and Spiritual Energy Cycles.

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Scott M. Shannon, MD, is a pediatric psychiatrist who is board-certified in general psychiatry, child/ adolescent psychiatry, and holistic medicine. A past president of the American Holistic Medical Association, he currently has a private practice in holistic child psychiatry and serves as medical director of four residential treatment centers for children and teens in northern Colorado. Dr. Shannon shares his vision for transforming the care of children with chronic illness of any nature via The Center for the Whole Child (www.forthewholechild.org). He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and two children.

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In addition to almost sixty years combined teaching experience, Drs. Barry and Janae Weinhold have served for over five decades as licensed mental health professionals. Barry is licensed as a psychologist and Janae is a professional counselor. Cofounders of the Carolina Institute for Conflict Resolution & Creative Leadership (CICRCL), they specialize in the areas of developmental psychology, trauma, violence prevention, conflict resolution, cosmologies, and consciousness studies. Barry is professor emeritus and former chair of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Counseling and Human Services Program. Janae is former adjunct professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. They live in North Carolina. Visit their website.

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]]> Intimate Relationships Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:54:00 GMT http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=311100# lhonoswebb@msn.com 00:27:07 codependency, intimate relationships, psychology, weinhold, lara honos-webb, sweet spot, psychjourney Dr. Lara Honos-Webb Clean http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=309190# Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Mr. Alfie Kohn, author of The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing published by Da Capo Lifelong Books.

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The latest of his eleven books are The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing (2006) and Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes (2005).

 Kohn has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores." His criticisms of competition and rewards have helped to shape the thinking of educators -- as well as parents and managers -- across the country and abroad. Kohn has been featured on hundreds of TV and radio programs, including the "Today" show and two appearances on "Oprah"; he has been profiled in the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, while his work has been described and debated in many other leading publications.

Kohn lectures widely at universities and to school faculties, parent groups, and corporations. In addition to speaking at staff development seminars and keynoting national education conferences on a regular basis, he conducts workshops for teachers and administrators on various topics. Among them: "Motivation from the Inside Out: Rethinking Rewards, Assessment, and Learning" and "Beyond Bribes and Threats: Realistic Alternatives to Controlling Students' Behavior." The latter corresponds to his book BEYOND DISCIPLINE: From Compliance to Community (ASCD, 1996), which he describes as "a modest attempt to overthrow the entire field of classroom management."   Visit his website.

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In addition to almost sixty years combined teaching experience, Drs. Barry and Janae Weinhold have served for over five decades as licensed mental health professionals. Barry is licensed as a psychologist and Janae is a professional counselor. Cofounders of the Carolina Institute for Conflict Resolution & Creative Leadership (CICRCL), they specialize in the areas of developmental psychology, trauma, violence prevention, conflict resolution, cosmologies, and consciousness studies. Barry is professor emeritus and former chair of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Counseling and Human Services Program. Janae is former adjunct professor at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. They live in North Carolina. Visit their website.

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]]> Intimate Relationships Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:34:00 GMT http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=303729# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:24:24 intimacy, intimate relationships, co-dependent, Barry and Janae Weinhold, dr lara honos-webb, the sweet spot, psychjourney Dr. Lara Honos-Webb Healing Your Relationship of Counter-dependence - The Other Side of Co-dependency Clean http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=302418# Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Stephanie Sarkis PhD NCC LMHC, author of 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD: How to Overcome Chronic Distraction & Accomplish Your Goals (2006) published by New Harbinger.

Stephanie Sarkis PhD NCC LMHC is the author of two books â 10 Simple Solutions to Adult ADD: How to Overcome Chronic Distraction & Accomplish Your Goals (2006) and Making the Grade with ADD: A Studentâs Guide to Succeeding in College with Attention Deficit Disorder (2008), both published by New Harbinger. 

Dr. Sarkis maintains a private practice in Gainesville, Florida and is the Director of Assessments and Evaluations for Sarkis Clinical Trials in Gainesville. She is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Counselor Education in Gainesville Florida.

She is also an adjunct assistant professor at St. Leo University in Lake City, Florida. She is a National Certified Counselor and also a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in the State of Florida. Dr. Sarkis received a 2001 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Psychiatric Association for her research on comorbid ADHD and brain function. She lectures and presents her research internationally. She can be contacted at www.stephaniesarkis.com or stephanie@stephaniesarkis.com.

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Her scholarly book Self-Theories:Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development was named Book of the Year by the World Education Fellowship.  Her work has been featured in such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and she has appeared on Today and 20/20. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto.  Visit Dr. Dweck's website.

Fr. Paul Coutinho, SJ is an internationally recognized Ignatian scholar and speaker who brings an Eastern influence to Western spirituality. A Jesuit from the Bombay province of India, he frequently leads retreats, gives spiritual direction, and trains people to lead the Spiritual Exercises. Fr. Coutinho holds masters degrees in both clinical psychology and religious studies, and he has a doctorate in historical theology from Saint Louis University. He currently divides his time between India and the United States. For more information, please visit www.loyolabooks.org

David Richo, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist, teacher, workshop leader, and writer who works in Santa Barbara and San Francisco California.  He combines Jungian, transpersonal, and mythic perspectives in his work.  Visit his website.

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Bill Gates calls her âsuper high bandwidth.â Bill Clinton has thanked her for âfostering American entrepreneurship.â Newsweek says âby reputation, Christine is the person you want to partner with.â

Christine Comaford-Lynch is CEO of Mighty Ventures, an innovation accelerator which helps businesses to massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value. She has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups (including Google) as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and hundreds of small businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market acceptance. Christineâs popular column on www.BusinessWeek.com/SmallBiz launched January 2007. Christine has led many lives: Buddhist monk, Microsoft engineer, geisha trainee, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Her triumphs and disasters are revealed in her best-selling business book: Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality.  Christine has appeared on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large. Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her and PBS has featured her in three specials (Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1, and Nerd TV ). CNET has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree. Christine believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy.  Visit her website.Visit Dr. Lara Honos-Webb's website and blog.

]]> Wealth Creation Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:55:00 GMT http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=279925# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:21:14 career, small business, business coach,Christine Comaford-Lynch, dr lara honos webb, sweet spot, psychjourney Dr. Lara Honos-Webb How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality Clean http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=279101# Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews Mr. Tom Antion about his CD-ROM Wake 'em Up! How to Use Humor & Other Professional Techniques to Create Alarmingly Good Business Presentations.

Tom Antion is an internationally acclaimed expert in Internet Marketing for small business. He is a full time professional speaker who has been featured on major news media worldwide including the Canadian Broadcast Network, The Australian Broadcast Network, Associated Press, The Tokyo Today Show and hundreds of radio, television and print outlets across the United States.

Tom has a very simple "Three Prong Attack" on Internet marketing, which is extremely simple and easy to understand. Tom is no "techie" . All he cares about is where to click to make money and he teaches his students the exact techniques he uses to pull in $75,000.00 to $220,000.00 in a month from his home office. These consistent high profit / low overhead Internet sales have made Tom an Internet Multi Millionaire in a very short period of time.

Since Tom consistently makes large sums of money while sitting in front of his computer this gave him the idea for his infamous "Butt Camp" Seminars where you learn to make more money sitting on your ârearâ than going out and working for a living.

Tom has students in his mentor program who are e-millionaires and many are making 5, 10, 15 or $20,000.00 US per month.

Tom has the largest Internet magazine in his industry with over 130,000 subscribers in 80 countries. Visit his website.

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]]> Public Speaking Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:53:00 GMT http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=279101# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:21:45 public speaking, business presentations, tom antion, dr lara honos webb, sweet spot, psychjourney, small business Dr. Lara Honos-Webb How to Use Humor & Other Professional Techniques to Create Alarmingly Good Business Presentations Clean http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=278837# Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews David M. Traversi, M.B.A., J.D. about his book The Source of Leadership: Eight Drivers of the High-impact Leader published by New Harbinger Publications.

David M. Traversi (48) is currently a Managing Director of 2020 Growth Partners, LLC. 2020 provides executive coaching, strategic advisory, and merchant banking services to private and public growth companies in a wide variety of industries across the U.S. He is also the author of The Source of Leadership: Eight Drivers of the High-Impact Leader (New Harbinger Publications, 2007). He is a frequent speaker on leadership.  

Previously, from 2000 to 2002, Mr. Traversi was the Co-founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of PRE Solutions, Inc., which founded and built the nationâs largest electronic processor of prepaid telecom products.

Prior to PRE Solutions, from 1997 to 1999, Mr. Traversi was President of Sirrom Capital Corporation, an NYSE-listed financial services and investment firm.

Prior to Sirrom, from 1989 to 1996, he was a General Partner and Managing Director in the Corporate Finance Department of Montgomery Securities (now Banc of America Securities LLC), the nationâs premier investment bank serving growth businesses in the 1990s.

Mr. Traversi is also a Co-founder, and previously served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Financial Officer, of Sensor Platforms, Inc., fabless semi-conductor company serving the sensor industry.

He has served on the boards of directors of a number of public and private companies, and has also practiced as a business lawyer. Mr. Traversi is also an accomplished painter of abstracts and writer. Mr. Traversi has a B.S. degree in Business Administration and Finance from California State University, Chico; an M.B.A. degree from Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; and a J.D. degree from University of California, Davis.  Visit his website.

]]> Work and Career Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:47:00 GMT http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=278837# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:22:35 leaders, leadership, dr lara honos webb, David M. Traversi, sweet spot, psychjourney, coaching Dr. Lara Honos-Webb Clean http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=277480# Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews Ms. Sandra Blakeslee, co-author with her son, Matthew Blakeslee of The  Body Has A Mind Of Its Own: How Mind Maps  In Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better published by Random House.

Sandra Blakeslee  is a regular contributor to The New York Times who specializes in the brain sciences. She has co-written many books, On Intelligence with Jeff Hawkins, and Second Chances: Men, Women, and Children a Decade After Divorce with Judith S. Wallersein. She is the third generation in a family of science writers.

Matthew Blakeslee is a freelance science writer in Los Angeles. He represents the fourth generation of Blakeslee science writers. This is his first book.

Visit Sandra Blakeslee's website and Matthew Blakeslee's website.

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With over 2 million audio programs in print, Kelly Howell is highly acclaimed for her pioneering work in healing and mind expansion. Sheâs been actively involved in personal development and consciousness research for more than two decades and is recognized as a thought-leader in the field of personal transformation.

Over the years, sheâs worked in cooperation with eminent scientists, medical professionals, brain researchers and spiritual teachers to develop her groundbreaking transformational audio techniques. Her clinically proven Brain Wave Therapy CDs are embraced by both individual users and by medical professionals.  Visit her website and podcast.

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]]> Meditation Tue, 6 Nov 2007 20:45:00 GMT http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=275348# deborah@psychjourney.com 00:27:40 meditation, visualization, kelly howell, dr lara honos webb, sweet spot, psychjourney Dr. Lara Honos-Webb An interview with Kelly Howell Clean http://sweetspot.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=270266# Dr. Lara Honos-Webb interviews Dr. David Ricco, author of The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know published by Shambhala.

David Richo, Ph.D., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist, teacher, workshop leader, and writer who works in Santa Barbara and San Francisco California.  He combines Jungian, transpersonal, and mythic perspectives in his work.  Visit his website.

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Bud Harris began learning about Jungian psychology when he joined a Centerpoint group during the early 1970s. In the pursuit of his path, he and a number of others founded the C.G. Jung Society of Atlanta. Later, he went to Zurich, where he trained as a Jungian analyst. Since 1989, he has been in private practice in Asheville, North Carolina. He is the author of Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance and The Father Quest: Rediscovering an Elemental Psychic Force, as well as the coauthor of Like Gold Through Fire: Understanding the Transforming Power of Suffering. Visit Dr. Harris's website.

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Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., has served for more than 30 years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and bodymind therapies. Along with his wife, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, Gay is the author of many bestsellers, including Conscious Loving, Spirit-Centered Relationships, and The Corporate Mystic. Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford in 1974. After a twenty-one-year career as a professor at University Colorado, he founded The Hendricks Institute, which offers seminars in North America, Asia and Europe.

In recent years he has also been active in creating new forms of conscious entertainment. In 2003, along with movie producer Stephen Simon, Dr. Hendricks founded The Spiritual Cinema Circle, which distributes inspirational movies to subscribers in 70+ countries around the world, www.spiritualcinemacircle.com. He has appeared on more than 500 radio and television shows, including OPRAH, CNN, CNBC, 48 HOURS and others.  Visit The Hendricks Institute website and the 5 Wishes website. Visit Dr. Lara Honos-Webb's website and blog.

Mr. Damon Harper is a  physical trainer and life coach who does most of his training on the beach and also in the water. He describes his physical activity and connection to nature as part of his therapy for ADD and how he helps his clients. His passion and purpose reveal the gift of ecological  consciousness in ADD.  Visit his website.

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Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., is one of the leading experts on stress, spirituality, and the mind/body connection. She has a doctorate in medical sciences from Harvard Medical School, is a licensed clinical psychologist, and is the co-founder and former director of the Mind/body Clinical Programs at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School.  Visit her website.

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Barbara Abercrombie has published two novels for adults, plus books for children, including the award winning picture book, Charlie Anderson. Her novels have been optioned for films and published in six languages. Her essays, articles and poems have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor and United Airlines Hemisphere magazine.

She teaches in the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension where she won the outstanding teacher award in 1994. She also conducts workshops for The Wellness Community, a nationwide organization for people with cancer. Her book, Writing Out the Storm, Reading and Writing Your Way Through Serious Illness or Injury, published by St. Martin's Press in October 2002, is part memoir, part writing guide, and based on her Wellness Community workshops. Recently she and her daughter, Brooke Abercrombie, started a website/blog featuring weekly posts for writers.

Barbara lives in Santa Monica, California and Twin Bridges, Montana with her husband. She has two grown daughters and three grandchildren. Visit her website.

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Lisa Sarasohn is a veteran yoga instructor and bodywork therapist. Her favorite professional designation is Belly Queen. "These are words," she says, "for a woman who owns herself." Having gained and lost more than 2,000 pounds during twenty years of dieting and bingeing, she's discovered how to move beyond this misery into a fulfilling sense of personal power and purpose. In The Woman's Belly Book, she shares this life-affirming information and these life-saving skills with you. Visit her website.

Dr. Lawrence H. Diller M.D. is a behavioral/developmental pediatrician in Walnut Creek, CA and on the clinical faculty of the University of California, San Francisco. 

Dr. Diller is the author of many professional articles and the books,  Should I Medicate My Child? Sane Solutions for Troubled Kids with and without Psychiatric Drugs and Running on Ritalian: A Physician Reflects on Children , Society and Performance in a Pill.

He has offered testimony to a House Congressional Subcommittee and was an expert witness to the President's Council on Bioethics.  Dr. Diller has appeared on every major talk show several times and is called reguarly to speak on TV and radio whenever children's psychiatric medication is in the news. Visit his website.

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb

The Sweet Spot

Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved

Harville Hendrix is a clinical pastoral counselor who holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and Theology from the University of Chicago and is a former professor at Southern Methodist University. He is known internationally as the co-founder of Imago Relationship Therapy, a coupleâs therapy which he co-developed with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. With her and other Imago therapists, he co-founded Imago Relationships International, an international non-profit organization that offers training, support and promotion of the work of 2,000 Imago therapists in 28 countries.

Harville is the author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples and Keeping the Love You Find: a Personal Guide, both New York Times best sellers. With Helen he co-authored Giving the Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents, also a best seller, and Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved plus three meditation books, two study guides and a video for couples seen on more than 300 public television stations. Their books are published in more than 57 languages.

He has appeared on many national television shows including 16 guest appearances on the Oprah Winfrey show. One of his appearances won her an Emmy award for the âmost socially redemptiveâ daytime talk show and was included by Ms. Winfrey in her top twenty shows.

In addition to many radio and television shows, his work has been written about in numerous newspapers and magazines internationally. He is a member of the Redbook Marriage Institute, serving on the magazineâs team of marriage experts. Harville has received an honorary doctorate and two distinguished service awards.

Harville lives with Helen in New Jersey and New Mexico; they have six children and three grandchildren. For more information, visit www.imagorelationships.org or www.harvillehendrix.net

Harville Hendrix is a clinical pastoral counselor who holds a Ph.D. in Psychology and Theology from the University of Chicago and is a former professor at Southern Methodist University. He is known internationally as the co-founder of Imago Relationship Therapy, a coupleâs therapy which he co-developed with his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. With her and other Imago therapists, he co-founded Imago Relationships International, an international non-profit organization that offers training, support and promotion of the work of 2,000 Imago therapists in 28 countries.

Harville is the author of Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples and Keeping the Love You Find: a Personal Guide, both New York Times best sellers. With Helen he co-authored Giving the Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents, also a best seller, and Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved plus three meditation books, two study guides and a video for couples seen on more than 300 public television stations. Their books are published in more than 57 languages.

He has appeared on many national television shows including 16 guest appearances on the Oprah Winfrey show. One of his appearances won her an Emmy award for the âmost socially redemptiveâ daytime talk show and was included by Ms. Winfrey in her top twenty shows.

In addition to many radio and television shows, his work has been written about in numerous newspapers and magazines internationally. He is a member of the Redbook Marriage Institute, serving on the magazineâs team of marriage experts. Harville has received an honorary doctorate and two distinguished service awards.

Harville lives with Helen in New Jersey and New Mexico; they have six children and three grandchildren. For more information, visit www.imagorelationships.org or www.harvillehendrix.net

Dr. Wilson specializes in the treatment of psychological trauma, addiction and compulsion, grief, depression, and family and couple's issues. Over the years, Dr. Wilson has worked with thousands of people who have been victimized by crime, victimized by childhood abuse, become addicted to alcohol and substances, are battling depression and grief, are grappling with intimacy and sexual issues, or are just struggling to stay together as a person, a couple, or a family.  Visit his website.

Jennifer Louden is the best-selling author of The Woman's Comfort Book, The Couple's Comfort Book, The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Book, The Woman's Retreat Book, Comfort Secrets for Busy Women, and the newly released The Life Organizer: A Women's Guide to a Mindful Year. She is both a personal coach and social commentator, who has taken the concept of "comfort" and self-care, and made these essential concepts irresistible and essential to women around the world. Jennifer is a cultural visionary, harnessing her extraordinary ability to recognize women's comfort as both a fundamental need and an innate desire.

Jennifer's name has become synonymous with comfort and the multi-minding woman. Recognizing the genuineness of Jennifer's vision and the depth at which people have bonded with her message, major forward-thinking companies - from Procter & Gamble to Martha Stewart's Omnimedia - have seen the value of utilizing Jennifer as spokesperson, editor, or purveyor of truth, and always as an embodiment of authenticity.

Jennifer lives on an island in Puget Sound with her husband, cinematographer Christopher Mosio, and their daughter, Lillian.  Visit her website.

Dr. Lara Honos-Webb, host of The Sweet Spot Podcasts, interviews Dr. Ted Zeff, author of The Highly Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: Essential Skills for Living Well in an Overstimulating World published by New Harbinger Publications.

Ted Zeff, Ph.D., received his doctorate in psychology in 1981 from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA. He currently teaches workshops on coping techniques for highly sensitive people. He has taught stress reduction and insommnia management for over fifteen years at various hospitals and medical groups.  Visit his website.

As director of parentchildhelp.com, Mary provides training nationally and internationally for families and professionals, including medical personnel, educators, and social service providers who serve families. Licensed as a parent educator and early childhood teacher, she has pioneered efforts to bring topics such as temperament, neurobiology, the importance of sleep, and emotion coaching into homes, schools, medical practices, and businesses. She is as comfortable as a keynote speaker for major professional conferences as she is working one on one with families in their homes or teachers in their classrooms.

Known for her real-life examples, Mary links research-based information with typical challenging behaviors and provides practical solutions that really work. Her presentations have helped hundreds of thousands of parents and professionals to understand children better, and themselves as well.

Maryâs work has been featured in The New York Times, Parenting magazine, Good Housekeeping, Parent Magazine, Working Mother, First for Women, and Speaker Magazine and on Good Morning America, National Public Radio, Good Morning Canada, Fox Nine News Good Day, and many other national and local television, radio, magazine, and newspaper venues.

She has also presented at the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, National Conference.

A former director of one of Minnesota's largest Early Childhood Family Education programs, Mary is the founder of the Spirited Child and Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles workshops. She also provides individual parent consultations for families and professionals.

Mary graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota with a master's degree in Family Social Science and from Iowa State University with a Bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education.

Born on a third-generation dairy farm, Mary lives with her husband in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the proud mother of one son and one daughter â now adults with whom she loves to spend time.

Lara Honos-Webb, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist in private
practice in Walnut Creek, CA. She is author of The Gift of ADHD, The Gift of ADHD Activity Book: 101 Ways to Turn Your Child's Problems into Strengths and Listening to Depression: How Understanding Your Pain Can Heal Your Life, and more than twenty-five scholarly articles. Her work has been featured in Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Publisher's Weekly as well as newspapers across the country and local and national radio and television.

She specializes in the treatment of ADHD and depression and the psychology of pregnancy and motherhood; she speaks regularly on her areas of expertise. Honos-Webb completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at University of California, San Francisco, and was, until recently, an assistant professor teaching graduate students. She offers telephone therapy to residents a