Monthly Archives: April 2010

Coach Betty LIVE! #76 - Music to reconnect with our inner vibration

  By Admin | April 28, 2010 - 12:00 pm | ,
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My delightful guest, healer and teacher Carol Allison, is back to talk about music created to help us awaken 9 spiritual centers in our bodies. Carol explains how and why this music helps us activate and access these centers giving us access to more of our spirit. You will find the story of how the music was created fascinating, and truly a body experience. This music and Carol’s teachings help you live in the real time experience of the world.

To find out about how this special music can help you tune into nature, listen in…

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Carol Allison

Carol Allison is one of thirty New Equations teachers worldwide, and has been active in the student and development community since 2001. This has transformed her life and become an integral part of her longtime practice as a massage therapist, yoga teacher and wellness coach. She is thrilled that most of her time is now focused on offering workshops and programs that make the amazing discoveries and practices of New Equations accessible to people all over the world.

To learn about this fascinating body of work and order the 2 hour CD of music, go to NewEquations.com and NewEquationsNews.com.

Coach Betty LIVE! #75 - An Earth Day Bow to Organic Lawn Care

  By Admin | April 22, 2010 - 12:00 pm | ,
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“Don’t freak out if you have a little clover in your lawn,” says Annie Spiegelman, the author of “Talking Dirt.”

Annie shares her master gardening wisdom with us promoting brown and the new green in summer lawns of California. She outlines why those beautiful green lawns are not only lots to care for, but create havoc with our productive pests and take a tremendous amount of water. This does not make good planet sense in places like droughty California.

In classic Dirt Diva style, she says “we all need to get off the sauce,” meaning stop chemicals and start using organic compost. Her book and this podcast are full of tips to be safe and have a beautiful lawn.

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Annie Spiegelman

Annie’s upbeat, down-to-earth wit and wisdom create the perfect primer for anyone with a passion for homegrown vegetables or fresh-cut flowers, no matter what your skill level, location, or resources. As your horticultural host, this Dirt Diva dishes out useful information, fun facts, and handy tips that any gardening novice, geek or seasoned pro will be thrilled have at her fingertips in “Talking Dirt.”

Visit her website at www.DirtDiva.com (where critics will be composted).

Are your ready to save money and clean up the planet?

Green Think #74 - Talking School Gardens with the Dirt Diva

  By Admin | April 12, 2010 - 12:00 pm | ,
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It is exciting to learn that school gardens are a growing trend. How about marketing organic gardening to our children instead of junk food?

Annie Spiegelman, a Master gardener and author of “Talking Dirt,” has a passion for teaching children where real food comes from, how a seed can feed, and how to garden without using any chemicals. You will love her sense of humor and garden wisdom.

Listen in…

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Annie Spiegelman

Annie is a garden columnist for the San Francisco Bay Area Pacific Sun newspaper, where she writes the “Dirt Diva” organic gardening column. She is also a frequent contributor to Organic Style Magazine, New York Spirit, the Marin Independent Journal, Creative Home, Learn2Grow.com, UrbanSustainableLiving.com, and the Huffington Post.

Visit her website and buy her book “Talking Dirt” at DirtDiva.com (where critics will be composted).

Green Think #73 - Dr. Louann Brizendine and “The Male Brain”

  By Admin | April 9, 2010 - 12:00 pm | ,
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How might our relationships change if we acknowledged and understood that the male brain has an area for sexual pursuit 2.5 times larger than the female brain? Louann Brizendine is the author of recently released “The Male Brain: A Breakthrough Understanding of How Men and Boys Think.” This book is a follow up to her groundbreaking book “The Female Brain.”

She wants women to know that the way men feel love has a lot to do with their sexual center in the brain. She says, “The male brain can fall in love just as hard and fast as the female brain, maybe more so.” Her thoughts for men to better understand women’s needs provides a proven practical tip that works.

Listen in to this 18 minute podcast for an enlightened discussion on a topic that could help mend our misunderstandings in relationships…

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Dr. Louann Brizendine

Louann Brizendine, MD, a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and the National Board of Medical Examiners, is an endowed clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. She is founder and director of the Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic.

After receiving her degree in neurobiology at University of California, Berkeley, and her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, she completed an internship and residency in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has served as faculty at both Harvard and UCSF.

Learn more about her and her books at LouannBrizendine.com.

You can also join in a discussion with her on Facebook.

What assumptions are you making about the opposite sex? Read Dr. Brizendine’s books to find out!

Green Think #72 - A Suitcase Full of Healing

  By Admin | April 2, 2010 - 12:00 pm | ,
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Hoy Kersh, author of “Suitcase Full of Dreams” is my special guest on this podcast. She shares her courageous story of growing up in the Jim Crow South in the 1940s and early 50s just prior to the Civil Rights Movement. Her book talks of the horrors as well as the joys of her childhood. She had a deep connection with nature and trees finding the healing aspects of nature at an early age. Nature was the entertainment in her humble beginnings. Her mother was an herbalist preparing and selling tinctures from the wild herbs she and her siblings collected.

Listen to this fascinating woman share her story and insights of how to stay healthy naturally…

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Hoy Kersh

Hoy Kersh, author of Suitcase Full of Dreams, is a songwriter and Reggae music performer who lives part-time in Jamaica where she had an organic farm and taught reading and writing to adults at the local night school. Now living in the woods of Northern California, Kersh works with students at a rural Pacific Northwest school on a video documentary about logging and the regional water crisis, issues close to her heart. A lifelong antiwar activist and environmentalist, Kersh is active in local and regional peace movements. She continues to write and promote music and is at work on her second book and is the mother of three grown children.

To order Hoy’s book, go to Amazon.com.

What do you remember about your relationship with nature as a child?