November 17th, 2016
You Mean I’m Not “Right Brain” or “Left Brain”? Opening Remarks: Oh, no! Another perfectly good belief that has allowed us to understand and work with ourselves for many years needs to be tossed! Instead, we apparently maintain our brains like a well-working two-party legislative system: We collaborate “across the aisle” between the two hemispheres! Find out how…
September 9th, 2016
Were you with us, a few years back, when I talked with Michael Brown about his “Presence Process,” a step-by-step approach to making deep personal change? He calls intimacy “into-me-and-see.” Were you with us, later, when I talked with Michael Brown about “The Radiance of Intimacy,” in which he asserted our work with intimacy as…
February 20th, 2016
Some dogs possess the remarkable ability to sniff out early stage cancerous tumors, “diagnosing” the illness in someone they love. Dogs also suffer many of the same cancers we humans suffer, such as breast cancer and lymphoma. Dogs, then, may possess some very important keys in helping us all detect, and heal cancer—in themselves and…
February 13th, 2016
Do You Communicate With The Animals You Know? We once adopted Alice, a beautiful Maine Coon cat who had grown up in one place, but got booted out at the age of 12, because one of the children in the home became deathly allergic. After sequestering Alice for three weeks, we gradually allowed her access to the out of…
November 5th, 2015
According to the AAVA, Americans owned more than 157 million pets in 2012. Americans LOVE their pets! A big problem with pets, however, is that their lives are shorter than human lives. We love them, and lose them far too soon for us. How do we deal with losing them? What do we need to…
September 26th, 2015
As a psychotherapist, I have often advised people who are depressed or otherwise upset in their life to do “Selfless Service.” “Selfless Service” involves doing for others, without concern for what we might get out of it. Zach Skow set about doing for others—dogs who have been deserted, maimed, tortured, lost or otherwise traumatized. He…
May 28th, 2015
Life often throws us a curve, especially when we least suspect it. Wildlife biologist Stacey Couch went off to work with a captive breeding program for foxes, and ended up being guided by hawks in what appeared to be an “accidental vision quest” provoked by her isolation. Until she later works with a gifted shamanic…
January 15th, 2015
January 22, Bill Crain: The Emotional Lives of Animals and Children Most pet owners will tell you, hands down, that animals have and experience emotion. Many scientists still don’t accept it, however. We’ve been discussing this question here on Full Power Living, this week bringing you Child Psychology Professor Bill Crain (who is married to a pediatrician). He…
October 9th, 2014
Our scheduled guest, Pam Oslie, is unable to join us because her voice is not working! We apologize for the change. In her place, we bring you a favorite program of Ilene’s. Our delightful little Fox Terrier-Corgi mix dog, Bella, died 4 days after Christmas in 2012. She was 12, and like most animals had…
March 13th, 2014
Zoobiquity: What Other Animals Have to Teach Us About Health Our scheduled guest for today, Stan Tatkin has been rescheduled for a later date, due to travel problems. Ilene has chosen, instead to host a “command performance” of one of her favorite shows “Zoobiquity”, featuring Kathryn Bowers and Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz today on Full Power…
We have a gift for you, a list of 7 common emotions, the “signal” they provide to us, and suggestions on how to use that signal. It is my honor to share this vital information with you. Please click below.
