By following a Facebook ad and for some unknown reason being offered a guided visualization, Crystal Harrell took a chance on chance which led to a spiritual awakening on the Island of Bali and the elimination of years of anxiety. On Bali she experienced thinking of a need and having that need met. Her journey from deep Alabama poverty to major scholarship help inspires many others. She is part of the young person cohort helping to transform the self-centered focus of much of humanity into recognition of our interconnectedness. She studies Spiritual Consciousness at Yale. Crystal Harrell is a best-selling author, motivational speaker, Academic Success Coach, and Ph.D. candidate at Yale University. After growing up in public housing apartments with nine siblings and losing a parent to a chronic disease, Crystal saw education as her ticket out of poverty. Throughout her academic journey, she has been awarded over $670,000 in scholarships, including the prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship. Crystal’s story has graced the TEDx stage, and her popular education blog benefits thousands weekly. Her first best-selling book, Crystal Clear, inspires fellow non-traditional students to harness the power of personal growth and self-awareness to achieve their goals. Crystal's research emphasizes the interplay between psychology and spirituality, focusing on the enhancement of well-being through Spiritual Consciousness. https://crystaltharrell.com/books Our host Dr. Bernard Beitman is the first psychiatrist since Carl Jung to attempt to systematize the study of coincidences. He is the Founding Director of The Coincidence Project. His book, and his Psychology Today blog, are both titled Connecting with Coincidence. He has developed the first valid and reliable scale to measure coincidence sensitivity and has written and edited coincidence articles for Psychiatric Annals. He is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He attended Yale Medical School and completed a psychiatric residency at Stanford. Dr. Beitman has received two national awards for his psychotherapy training program and is internationally known for his research into the relationship between chest pain and panic disorder. Visit https://www.coincider.com to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research https://www.TheCoincidenceProject.net to share your own coincidence stories, and to learn from others' shared experiences. Here you can also sign up for the next Coincidence Cafe'-- every 3rd Saturday starting at 11am EST!

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