Sarah Cartwas raised and educated in New York and New England, and wrote for multiple local publications while she and her husband, Ben, raised four sons in northeastern Ohio.
Upon becoming empty nesters, the two moved to the Florida Keys, but they returned every summer to the Pennsylvania Poconos, where each had lifelong family connections. Then came COVID-19. The pandemic, combined with Ben’s health issues, necessitated their sheltering in place in Florida for the entirety of 2020. In the wake of Ben’s undergoing miraculous lifesaving measures, they have been afforded the unanticipated gift of a future and, more than ever before, relish time spent with family and friends.
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So very blessed to have welcomed, Elizabeth Kipp, addiction recovery coach, ancestral clearing practitioner, yoga and meditation teacher specializing in chronic pain, stress management and trauma informed yoga teacher, and author, to share her healing insights. Please join us as we discuss:
Elizabeth’s insights on healing chronic pain
her personal story of triumph after living with chronic pain for decades
the practice of yoga and meditation as healing tools
her book The Way Through Chronic Pain: Tools to Reclaim Your Healing Power
Chronic is ANY pain – physical, emotional, or spiritual – that is felt for 15 days out of 30 for three months or more. Chronic pain can be healed without addictive pain medications.
She lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where she helps people find and build a stable recovery path. Along with her prolific writing, she practices and teaches Trauma-Informed Yoga and Ancestral Clearing.
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I am grateful for the opportunity to spend time with this gentle soul, Brian Hyman, author, and yoga and meditation teacher. Please join us as we discuss:
Brian’s insights on yoga and meditation as healing tools for addiction recovery
his personal story of addiction, grief, and triumph
the practice of yoga and meditation as a form of prayer
the release of his book Recovery with Yoga: Supportive Practices for Transcending Addiction
I am a yoga and meditation teacher in the Los Angeles area. I have been sober since November 2009. I have been teaching yoga at a prominent treatment center in Malibu, CA since 2012. I have worked with thousands of clients at every stage of recovery. I recently created/published the 30-day audio course “Recovery: Principles for a Purposeful Life” on the top-rated meditation app/site Insight Timer. Over 1,600 students around the world have enrolled since the course launched in March 2020.
I have been interviewed for my extensive work with yoga, spirituality, and recovery by LA Voyage, Life by Me, Sivana, Origin, Mindful Yoga Health, Neon Tommy, and Malibu Times. My writing about yoga, recovery, and wellness has been published by Mantra Wellness, Whole Life Times, Insight Timer, and Yoga Digest. I am also a contributing author for the upcoming book “Inside the Warrior,” which details practice methods of notable male yoga teachers around the world.
I have been a guest teacher, group facilitator, and featured speaker in and around Los Angeles at Cast Recovery, Riviera Recovery, The Canyon, 180 Center, Chabad, Sol Sanctuary, Soba Recovery, and Tarzana Treatment Center.
In addition to my 30-day course about recovery on Insight Timer, my 10-day audio courses on the app/site include “Cultivating a Heart of Gratitude” and “ Yogic Principles for Transformation.” My video course “Meditation for Everyone: Calm, Balance, and Peace” is available on Udemy.com; and my yoga, breath work, and guided meditation videos are available on Yoga30.com.
Please visit my website www.brianhymanyoga.com for more information. Ultimately, my goal with creating content and conversation around recovery and wellness is to help remove shame and stigma from addiction, depression, and anxiety, and to help people find wholeness in their lives.
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A captivating conversation with Warwick Fairfax, best-selling author, storyteller, host of Beyond the Crucible podcast, speaker, and ICF-certified coach. Please join us as we discuss:
Warwick’s insights on crucibles
his personal story of triumph
the utilization of forgiveness in moving beyond the trauma
Warwick Fairfax is the founder of Beyond the Crucible, a philosophical and practical breakthrough for turning business and personal failures into the fuel for igniting a life of significance. Forbes has hailed him as offering “compelling insights for anyone who would like to wake up feeling inspired by their work but doesn’t.”
Those insights are rooted not in a checklist of glib to-do’s but in his own experience at the epicenter of one of the most spectacular business failures in the history of his home nation of Australia, as well as scientifically valid data his company commissioned that found a staggering 72 percent of people have experienced an event so traumatic it fundamentally altered the course of their lives. Those are the “crucible experiences” he helps people move beyond.
Fairfax was only 26 when, as the fifth-generation heir to the media empire bearing his family name, he led — and lost — a multibillion-dollar public takeover bid. The result? The company founded by his great-great grandfather slipped from family control after 150 years, leaving him to examine not only his own shortcomings and losses, but also his life’s principles and the lessons he learned from family members who came before him and some of history’s greatest leaders. By sharing these insights as a leadership adviser, Fairfax enables others to learn from their own crucible experiences and emerge to lead lives rooted in their unique designs.
Beyond the Crucible’s quantitative data from more than 11,000 respondents shows great need for the hope and equipping Fairfax’s experience and perspective spotlight. That data additionally found that 42 percent of men and women who have suffered a crucible experience — including accomplished professionals and business leaders — admit to being held back from living the lives they truly want by those setbacks and failures.
Fairfax has also captured, on his podcast Beyond the Crucible, a collection of stories nearing 100 from a vast array of leaders who have leveraged their crucible moments to bounce forward into lives of fresh, fulfilling significance. He has identified the growth milestones and emotional beats all journeys from crucible to significance take — no matter how diverse or unique the stories and people behind them are.
He is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance (Mount Tabor Media, 2021). In the book, he discusses for the first time his thoughts and actions in launching the John Fairfax Ltd. takeover and explains what he learned about himself from that crushing failure — who he was and was not and what his unique design, purpose, passions and vision really were. He has come to regard the loss of the company, as painful as it was, as a gift that allows him to live a life on purpose dedicated to serving others.
Fairfax holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified executive coach and an Elder at Bay Area Community Church. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife, Gale. They have three adult children who are in the process of developing their own unique paths to lives of significance.
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