Healing Hearts and Homes Series Day 1
Jennifer is one of the nation’s leading parenting experts, Jennifer Kolari is a highly sought-after international speaker and the founder of Connected Parenting. A child and family therapist with a busy practice based in Toronto and San Diego, Kolari is also the author of Connected Parenting: How To Raise A Great Kid and You’re Ruining My Life! (But Not Really) Surviving the Teenage Years with Connected Parenting.
Kolari is a frequent guest on many national morning shows and her advice can be found in many Canadian and U.S. magazines.
Connect with Jennifer: @JenniferKolari
Loretta Breuning, PhD, is Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. She is the author of many personal development books, including Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels. As a teacher and a parent, she was not convinced by prevailing theories of human motivation. Then she learned about the brain chemistry we share with earlier mammals and everything made sense. She began creating resources that have helped thousands of people make peace with their inner mammal.
Dr. Breuning's work has been translated into sixteen languages and is cited in major media. Before teaching, she worked for the United Nations in Africa. Loretta gives zoo tours on animals behavior, after serving as a Docent at the Oakland Zoo. She is a graduate of Cornell University and Tufts. The Inner Mammal Institute offers videos, podcasts, books, blogs, multimedia, a training program, and a free five-day happy-chemical jumpstart. Details are available at InnerMammalInstitute.org.
Connect with Lorreta: @inner.mammal.inst
Sonali is a highly-sensitive mom, with three deeply-feeling and strong-willed kids. It took a whole lot of time to see that just because her kids didn't respond to parenting methods the way experts said they would, and just because her family didn't fit society's ideal of a "perfect family," she wasn't a bad mom and she wasn't raising spoiled, snowflake kids. In fact, now she knows for sure, that they rock! So she’s your sensitivity, needs and regulation go-to-gal.
She also happens to be legally blind and have albinism. When she finally realized she didn’t need to “fit in” to “belong”, it gave her permission to find her own way. And now she supports others in doing the same. Her work is dedicated to sharing with parents how it's possible to have fun with high needs kids and to raise them to be kind and compassionate. Because she gets it - both from being THAT kid, and from having THOSE kids.
Connect with Sonali: @raisingyourstrongwilledchild
Lisa is a dynamic Transformational and TEDx speaker, an international best-selling author, a Certified Positive Intelligence PQ Coach, and a wellness expert, helping leaders and organizations in healthcare create work/life balance to increase productivity, profitability, and well-being. With over 26 years of experience as a leader in the corporate retail industry, Lisa knows firsthand the toll that stress and burnout can take on individuals.
After a transformative health and wellness journey, where she lost 65 pounds, Lisa decided to dedicate her life to helping others achieve their health and wellness objectives. Lisa has positively impacted the lives of thousands of individuals, empowering them to make lasting changes. Her first book, From Burnout to Best Life. How to take charge of your health and happiness, reached best-seller status in 16 categories globally.
Connect with Lisa: @lisa.hammett
Aaron is the founder of “Parenting Teens that Struggle” and the host of the #1 Parenting Podcast “Beyond Risk and Back” which is in the top 3% GLOBALLY for parent podcasts. His new book, The 4 Prime Archetypes- Why we do what we do is out! It is personality profiling at its best! Get ready to point fingers at your loved ones, take a good long look in the mirror and understand WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO.
Aaron is an internationally known lecturer on archetypal imagery, body language, and martial arts and the Founder and President of Fire Mountain Programs, and since 2004 has run kids camps, teen camps, and family programming. In 2009, he and his wife Christine opened a residential Mental Health and Dependency recovery treatment center for teens ages 12-17 in Colorado.
Fire Mountain Residential Treatment Center was in 2019 named one of the Top 50 Healthcare Providers in the United States and in 2020 named one of the Top 100 Innovators in Healthcare. He was also recently (2022) inducted into the US Martial Arts Hall of Fame. 23 years in personal addiction recovery, Aaron is also VERY ADHD... and it is his superpower.
Connect with Aaron: @beyondriskandbackbeyondriskandback