— The longest relationship you will have in your life is the one with yourself! You want to feel Simply Self-Wonderful, perhaps not all the time but at least most of the time and to know ways to get back to being Simply Self-Wonderful so you can live the life you want and create for yourself.

The Simply Self-Wonderful Card Deck and The Simply Self-Wonderful Inner Workout Book came out of that yearning in Judy. Wanting to feel loved, accepted, and worthy of love. And try as she might, something always blocked her – herself! That’s why the Self word is repeated in every attribute (card). And that’s why there is a hyphen between the attribute and the Self. They are connected and inseparable if you want to truly love yourself and flourish in life. Self-love isn’t always easy. There’s no Self-Love destination. It’s an ongoing journey you take with yourself. And self-love doesn’t demand perfection either. Just trying to take one step at a time is more than enough. You’ve got this!

Valeria interviews Judy Slater — She is a transformational leader, spiritual guide, and creative visionary committed to integrating spirituality, healing, and the arts.

An ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA) with over 40 years of experience, Judy blends her expertise in Co-Active leadership, adaptive change, and energy healing to help individuals and organizations navigate an evolving world. She holds certifications in Intuition Medicine®, Trauma Wellness Techniques, and Spirituality, Health, and Medicine, equipping her to guide clients through growth, resilience, and self-discovery.

Judy is passionate about reimagining leadership, helping individuals embrace innovation while staying grounded in purpose. Whether coaching individuals or leading group training, she empowers leaders to cultivate clarity, courage, and transformation. A lifelong learner and adventurer, she finds inspiration in art, travel, and nature. Through her work, Judy invites others to embrace their own leadership journey, ignite their purpose and impact and flourish in life.

To learn more about Judy Slater and her work, please visit: https://innerludecoach.com/

— Many people draw on spiritual beliefs, practices, and communities as sources of meaning, resilience, and connection. Mental health care increasingly recognizes that spirituality — understood broadly as how people find purpose, belonging, and transcendence — can interact with psychological well‑being. When integrated respectfully and ethically, attention to spiritual life can enhance assessment, deepen treatment, and help people unlock personal potential. This interview introduces key ideas, evidence, practical approaches, and cautions for clinicians, caregivers, and anyone curious about the intersection of mental health and spirituality.

Valeria interviews Keith Kurlander, MA, LPC — He is the Co-Founder of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute, specializing in integrative mental health and psychedelic therapy education.

He also co-hosts the Higher Practice Podcast for Optimal Mental Health and co-founded the Integrative Psychiatry Centers, a clinic transforming mental healthcare with innovative treatments. With over 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist and coach, Keith’s mental health journey began after a near-suicide at 19 following a psilocybin experience. Now a successful entrepreneur, he’s dedicated to teaching methods that help eradicate mental illness and unlock potential.

To learn more about Keith Kurlander and his work, please visit: https://psychiatryinstitute.com/

— There was a time when you just knew.
Who you were. What you loved. Why you were here.

Before the world became noisy—
Before expectations, doubts, and responsibilities crept in—
There was a version of you who remembered your purpose.

Who saw magic in the everyday.
Who felt connected to something greater.

That part of you isn’t gone.
It’s simply been waiting for you to come back.

Your Path, Your Pace — But You’re Not Alone

When you’re ready to transcend your spiritual plateau, Dr. Kelly Edmonds offers a container that meets your deepest longing and helps you rise.

Valeria interviews Dr. Kelly Edmonds — She is a spiritual mentor and intuitive healer who guides people through the early stages of spiritual awakening, when things often feel confusing, overwhelming, or uncertain.

With over three decades of experience, she helps people clear energetic blocks, reconnect with their inner truth, and begin living in alignment with their Soul’s purpose.

Her work blends intuitive guidance, sacred energy practices, and deep ancestral healing, all with a grounded, non-performative approach that resonates with people who want something real, not performative or fast-tracked.

To learn more about Dr. Kelly Edmonds and her work, please visit: https://www.kellyedmonds.com/

— Today we’re diving deep into betrayal, infidelity, and the emotional aftermath. Why do people cheat—even when they love their partner? What drives repeated cheating or secret behavior? And most importantly, how can couples heal after trust is broken?

Valeria interviews Nicola Beer, a relationship and trauma therapist with over 20 years of experience helping couples and individuals navigate infidelity recovery. Nicola believes that cheating is often a coping mechanism—sometimes even an addiction—and that full recovery is absolutely possible when both people are committed. Today she’ll walk us through what really happens emotionally, psychologically, and relationally after betrayal—and how to heal from it.

Nicola Beer is also a psychedelic retreat facilitator. She blends sacred plant medicine (primarily Huachuma/San Pedro), somatic therapy, and conscious relationship work to help individuals and couples heal emotional wounds, release stored pain, and reconnect to their inner truth. Nicola runs private healing retreats in Southeast Asia and hosts two podcast shows: Healing with Psychedelics and Relationship Revival. Her work focuses on turning trauma into transformation—physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Podcast Healing with Psychedelics.

To learn more about Nicola Beer and her work, please visit: https://nicolabeer.com/ and https://plantmedicinepower.com/

Also, check out Nicola’s amazing offerings:

— Affair recovery masterclass https://click.nicolabeer.com/trainingnicolabeercomaffair-recovery-coaching

— Affair recovery pack https://training.nicolabeer.com/clarity

— All bodily sensations, including those visceral feelings from your chest and stomach, are relayed back to the brain through the pathways via the spinal cord. Your already anxious and highly alert brain then processes these signals at both conscious and unconscious levels.

The insula is a part of the brain specifically involved in conscious awareness of your emotions, pain and bodily sensations. The prefrontal cortex also engages in self-awareness, especially by labeling and naming these physical sensations, like feeling tightness or pain in your stomach, and attributing cognitive value to them, like “this is fine and will go away” or “this is terrible, and I am dying.” These physical sensations can sometimes create a loop of increasing anxiety as they make the brain feel more scared of the situation because of the turmoil it senses in the body.

Although the feelings of fear and anxiety start in your brain, you also feel them in your body because your brain alters your bodily functions. Emotions take place in both your body and your brain, but you become aware of their existence with your brain. — by Arash Javanbakht, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University

Valeria interviews Dr. Megan Plotkowski on the topic of The Neuroscience Of Anxiety — Dr. Megan is an EMDR-trained Associate Marriage and Family Therapist who brings a rare fusion of scientific precision, emotional depth, and intuitive clarity to her clinical work.

She holds a PhD in molecular biology and biochemistry with an emphasis in neuroscience, as well as a master’s degree in clinical psychology—bridging the world of hard science with the complexities of human experience.

Megan currently works in both private practice and community mental health, specializing in clients who feel overwhelmed, emotionally stuck, or disconnected—particularly those navigating anger, anxiety, addiction, trauma, or complex family dynamics.

Before entering the field of psychotherapy, Megan worked as a research scientist at Amgen and UCLA, contributing to groundbreaking studies in molecular genetics and neural protein structure and function. She also taught at UCLA. Her academic background continues to inform a therapy style rooted in evidence-based practice, intellectual rigor, and deep compassion.

In recent years, Megan has also come to recognize and trust a deep intuitive knowing that emerges both in her personal life and in the therapy room. This awareness led her to develop a dual-wisdom model of therapy that honors both the analytical and the unseen—a framework that bridges neuroscience and symbolism, logic and lived experience, insight and mystery.

Whether drawing from hard science, depth psychology, or intuition, Megan’s work is grounded in the belief that healing often begins where the visible ends—and that true transformation happens when the unspoken is finally brought into the light.

To learn more about Megan Plotkowski and her work, please visit: https://www.thescientisttherapist.com/

— The Art of Living Your Best Life Through the Codes of Creation: The seen and the unseen worlds can be a fascinating journey in living your best life. The world seen is perceptible through the five senses, while the unseen world can’t be experienced by our senses because it transcends the 3D world.

The Balinese believe the seen world (Sekala) and the unseen world (Niskala) are interconnected and that everything in the physical world is because of its counterpart in the unseen world.

Everything is energy and therefore has frequencies and wave patterns. Just because you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not there. The 3D world of matter consists of wider, slower frequency waves visible to the human eye. We receive and perceive this information through our sensory body. If we take a slow frequency wave and shift it to the speed of light, we move from the 3D world of matter to the fourth and fifth dimensions of higher frequency. Essentially, life exists at varying frequencies, with higher frequencies being superior. Angels and light workers operate in higher frequency fields. To be seen, they must lower their frequency pattern.

We can learn to work with frequency patterns in everyday life, so they automatically resonate with our environment, body, mind, and spirit, promoting healing, harmony and balance. This is the art of living your best life and deepening your connection with the universe.

Valeria interviews Mary-Jane Kasliner — She is the author of “Mother Nature, A Bridge to Conscious Living.”

Mary Jane Kasliner has dedicated her life to helping others improve their health and well- being. She started her professional life as a Respiratory Therapist and Dental Hygienist before she shifted her path into Metaphysics in 2002.

For the past 23 years, Mary Jane has helped people improve their lives through various techniques, including yoga, pranayama, astrology, feng shui, and her signature program, The Art of Living Your Best Life Through Codes of Creation. Her approach is simple: to unify and amplify energy frequency patterns of the three-tier temples we all have. The Law of Resonance is a major player in the amplification process.

Utilizing sacred form in movement, quantum-level mindset models, meditations, the power of nature’s bit language, signs, and symbols has profound implications on how we experience life. Mary Jane knows this firsthand when she turned her life around after a divorce that left her with her home in foreclosure and a two-year-old child to raise.

Mary Jane is the author of nine books, two online coaching programs, and DIY Power of Attraction in Design. She has been a guest speaker on the Steve Adubato TV show and Lasting Lifestyles.

Mary Jane’s soul’s mission is to help others live life from their highest self, which creates a holographic effect that impacts the world.

To learn more about Mary-Jane Kasliner and her work, please visit: https://www.mjkasliner.com/ and https://www.mjkasliner.com/trainings

— You can create an amazing life! Do you have an incessant urge to become more of who you truly are? to start a new chapter of life? Are you getting, a quiet nudge to fulfill a dream? Now is the time, no matter your age or stage!

Linda wrote the book “Envision Your Extraordinary Life: Living Happy, Joyous and Free” with the purpose to take you on a journey to create an extraordinary life worth living.

Her firm conviction is that we all have the power to create an amazing life. Whatever your age or stage of life, Linda’s hope is that you will envision, realize, and enjoy a life that is beyond your wildest expectations; a vision that will move you on your life path to be happy, joyous, and free. You deserve it! Her book will guide you step by step with tools, guided imageries, inspiring stories, and action steps to help you create your unique and extraordinary life.

Valeria interviews Linda Hogan — She is the author of “Envision Your Extraordinary Life: Living Happy, Joyous And Free.”

Linda Hogan is a visionary coach, organizational change leader, business improvement expert, and author dedicated to empowering individuals and Fortune 100 companies to achieve breakthrough results.

Holding an M.S. in Management & Organizational Development and recognized as a Certified Performance Technologist, Linda leverages her expertise and a proven transformation process to help you create the life you envision—whether through visionary planning, executive leadership growth, or high-performance team building.

Linda’s expertise spans:

• Visionary planning to craft a compelling future

• High-performance team building for outstanding organizational results

• Executive leadership programs to accelerate your professional growth

• Business improvement strategies for lasting impact

• Women’s group coaching for connection, support, and transformation

As the author of "Envision Your Extraordinary Life," Linda inspires clients to tap into their full potential and live with clarity, passion, and purpose. If you’re ready to take action and design the extraordinary life you deserve, Linda Hogan will guide you every step of the way.

Outside of her professional life, Linda finds joy in traveling the world with her amazing husband, Bill, sharing laughter with her daughters, Sarah and Anna, and friends, attending the theater, and keeping active through running. She is deeply grateful for her life exactly as it is.

To learn more about Linda Hogan and her work, please visit: https://www.envisionyourlife.coach/

— Over the past 7 years or so, Sheryl Roessler has seen a huge uptick in students with anxiety (sometimes mixed with depression). She has always had clients who deal with anxiety, but our world has changed dramatically. Sheryl first saw indications of this with the broad use of cell phones and social media –TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and in the past, Facebook. It began with feelings of missing out or seeing people who looked a certain way and wanting to be like them.

As the outside world has become closer to us, and news travels faster, events that would not have been known are now binging on their cellphones all hours of the day. The teens and young adults have lived through school shootings, lockdown drills, a pandemic, climate change issues, hearing people spouting hateful ideas and thoughts such as racism, anti-Semitism, anti-LGBTQ trans rhetoric, and now, a war in Ukraine. The pandemic only heightened student’s fears and anxiety on top of losing a normal part of their school life during lockdown.

They basically lost 14 months academically, socially, and emotionally. It is most important that students are given a safe place to land. Hopefully, that is at home, but as academics have been impacted, home sometimes becomes a place where an emphasis is on schoolwork and test taking and everything else takes second place.

Valeria interviews Sheryl Roessler, M.A. — She is an educational therapist who started North Shore Educational Therapy to bridge the gap between tutoring and therapy.

Sheryl earned her undergraduate degree in Special Education and earned a master’s degree in counseling. With decades of experience as a special education teacher and counselor in Chicago’s North Shore, Sheryl has developed educational and therapeutic resources for students with issues that impact self-confidence and academic success. With her unique approach, Sheryl is equipped with the tools to help struggling students succeed in their academic endeavors. Sheryl bases her services in Chicago’s North Shore suburbs, but sees clients virtually all over the country, and often internationally.

Sheryl works with the student to become more accountable and self-confident, while also giving guidance and support to the parents. Not everyone gets to live their dream. Sheryl is living hers by helping her clients achieve theirs. This is where her heart lies.

To learn more about Sheryl Roessler and her work, please visit: https://northshoreeducationaltherapy.com/